BLMN vs. BJRI, CAKE, CBRL, PLAY, TXRH, ARCO, DIN, DRI, WEN, and PZZA
Should you be buying Bloomin' Brands stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Bloomin' Brands include BJ's Restaurants (BJRI), Cheesecake Factory (CAKE), Cracker Barrel Old Country Store (CBRL), Dave & Buster's Entertainment (PLAY), Texas Roadhouse (TXRH), Arcos Dorados (ARCO), Dine Brands Global (DIN), Darden Restaurants (DRI), Wendy's (WEN), and Papa John's International (PZZA). These companies are all part of the "retail - restrnts" industry.
Bloomin' Brands vs. Its Competitors
BJ's Restaurants (NASDAQ:BJRI) and Bloomin' Brands (NASDAQ:BLMN) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, valuation, dividends, media sentiment, profitability, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership and risk.
BJ's Restaurants currently has a consensus target price of $38.00, suggesting a potential downside of 5.37%. Bloomin' Brands has a consensus target price of $12.75, suggesting a potential upside of 34.45%. Given Bloomin' Brands' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Bloomin' Brands is more favorable than BJ's Restaurants.
BJ's Restaurants has a beta of 1.56, suggesting that its share price is 56% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Bloomin' Brands has a beta of 1.32, suggesting that its share price is 32% more volatile than the S&P 500.
100.0% of BJ's Restaurants shares are held by institutional investors. 4.9% of BJ's Restaurants 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 hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
BJ's Restaurants has a net margin of 1.64% compared to Bloomin' Brands' net margin of -0.05%. Bloomin' Brands' return on equity of 55.08% beat BJ's Restaurants' return on equity.
BJ's Restaurants has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Bloomin' Brands. Bloomin' Brands is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than BJ's Restaurants, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Bloomin' Brands had 3 more articles in the media than BJ's Restaurants. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Bloomin' Brands and 4 mentions for BJ's Restaurants. BJ's Restaurants' average media sentiment score of 0.73 beat Bloomin' Brands' score of 0.60 indicating that BJ's Restaurants is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
BJ's Restaurants beats Bloomin' Brands on 11 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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Media Sentiment Over Time
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This page (NASDAQ:BLMN) was last updated on 7/21/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
