BLMN vs. WEN, PZZA, CBRL, BJRI, BH, NATH, DIN, JACK, RICK, and DENN
Should you be buying Bloomin' Brands stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Bloomin' Brands include Wendy's (WEN), Papa Johns International (PZZA), Cracker Barrel Old Country Store (CBRL), BJ's Restaurants (BJRI), Biglari (BH), Nathan's Famous (NATH), Dine Brands Global (DIN), Jack in the Box (JACK), RCI Hospitality (RICK), and Denny's (DENN). These companies are all part of the "restaurants" industry.
Bloomin' Brands vs.
Wendy's (NASDAQ:WEN) and Bloomin' Brands (NASDAQ:BLMN) are both retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, valuation, risk, institutional ownership, dividends, analyst recommendations, community ranking and media sentiment.
Wendy's presently has a consensus target price of $16.34, indicating a potential upside of 43.48%. Bloomin' Brands has a consensus target price of $13.75, indicating a potential upside of 66.67%. Given Bloomin' Brands' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Bloomin' Brands is more favorable than Wendy's.
Bloomin' Brands has higher revenue and earnings than Wendy's. Bloomin' Brands is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Wendy's, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Wendy's has a beta of 0.34, meaning that its stock price is 66% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Bloomin' Brands has a beta of 1.29, meaning that its stock price is 29% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Wendy's pays an annual dividend of $0.56 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.9%. Bloomin' Brands pays an annual dividend of $0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.3%. Wendy's pays out 59.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Bloomin' Brands pays out -2,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Bloomin' Brands is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Wendy's received 170 more outperform votes than Bloomin' Brands when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.27% of users gave Wendy's an outperform vote while only 60.49% of users gave Bloomin' Brands an outperform vote.
86.0% of Wendy's shares are held by institutional investors. 17.0% of Wendy's shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.0% of Bloomin' Brands shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Wendy's has a net margin of 8.65% compared to Bloomin' Brands' net margin of -0.12%. Wendy's' return on equity of 75.56% beat Bloomin' Brands' return on equity.
In the previous week, Wendy's had 19 more articles in the media than Bloomin' Brands. MarketBeat recorded 25 mentions for Wendy's and 6 mentions for Bloomin' Brands. Bloomin' Brands' average media sentiment score of 0.87 beat Wendy's' score of 0.40 indicating that Bloomin' Brands is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Wendy's beats Bloomin' Brands on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:BLMN) was last updated on 6/10/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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