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Cracker Barrel Old Country Store (CBRL) Competitors

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$42.70 +0.74 (+1.76%)
As of 04/30/2025 04:00 PM Eastern

CBRL vs. WEN, CAKE, PZZA, BJRI, BLMN, BH, JACK, NATH, RICK, and DIN

Should you be buying Cracker Barrel Old Country Store stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Cracker Barrel Old Country Store include Wendy's (WEN), Cheesecake Factory (CAKE), Papa Johns International (PZZA), BJ's Restaurants (BJRI), Bloomin' Brands (BLMN), Biglari (BH), Jack in the Box (JACK), Nathan's Famous (NATH), RCI Hospitality (RICK), and Dine Brands Global (DIN). These companies are all part of the "restaurants" industry.

Cracker Barrel Old Country Store vs.

Wendy's (NASDAQ:WEN) and Cracker Barrel Old Country Store (NASDAQ:CBRL) are both retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, media sentiment, profitability, community ranking, dividends, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings and risk.

Wendy's currently has a consensus target price of $17.58, suggesting a potential upside of 40.67%. Cracker Barrel Old Country Store has a consensus target price of $57.13, suggesting a potential upside of 33.78%. Given Wendy's' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Wendy's is more favorable than Cracker Barrel Old Country Store.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Wendy's
2 Sell rating(s)
12 Hold rating(s)
4 Buy rating(s)
2 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.30
Cracker Barrel Old Country Store
2 Sell rating(s)
5 Hold rating(s)
2 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.00

86.0% of Wendy's shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 96.0% of Cracker Barrel Old Country Store shares are owned by institutional investors. 17.0% of Wendy's shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.4% of Cracker Barrel Old Country Store shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Wendy's has a beta of 0.61, indicating that its share price is 39% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cracker Barrel Old Country Store has a beta of 1.39, indicating that its share price is 39% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Wendy's pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.0%. Cracker Barrel Old Country Store pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.3%. Wendy's pays out 105.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Cracker Barrel Old Country Store pays out 62.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.

Wendy's has a net margin of 8.65% compared to Cracker Barrel Old Country Store's net margin of 1.15%. Wendy's' return on equity of 75.56% beat Cracker Barrel Old Country Store's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Wendy's8.65% 75.56% 4.03%
Cracker Barrel Old Country Store 1.15%18.61%3.79%

In the previous week, Wendy's had 17 more articles in the media than Cracker Barrel Old Country Store. MarketBeat recorded 29 mentions for Wendy's and 12 mentions for Cracker Barrel Old Country Store. Cracker Barrel Old Country Store's average media sentiment score of 1.46 beat Wendy's' score of 0.34 indicating that Cracker Barrel Old Country Store is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Wendy's
6 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
13 Neutral mention(s)
5 Negative mention(s)
1 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral
Cracker Barrel Old Country Store
6 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Wendy's has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Cracker Barrel Old Country Store. Wendy's is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Cracker Barrel Old Country Store, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Wendy's$2.25B1.09$194.36M$0.9513.16
Cracker Barrel Old Country Store$3.51B0.27$40.93M$1.6126.52

Wendy's received 363 more outperform votes than Cracker Barrel Old Country Store when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.54% of users gave Wendy's an outperform vote while only 47.89% of users gave Cracker Barrel Old Country Store an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Wendy'sOutperform Votes
738
62.54%
Underperform Votes
442
37.46%
Cracker Barrel Old Country StoreOutperform Votes
375
47.89%
Underperform Votes
408
52.11%

Summary

Wendy's beats Cracker Barrel Old Country Store on 14 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.

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CBRL vs. The Competition

MetricCracker Barrel Old Country StoreEating places IndustryRetail SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$950.63M$9.00B$23.73B$7.83B
Dividend Yield2.31%4.46%170.04%4.22%
P/E Ratio23.5926.6122.3618.48
Price / Sales0.271.894.24103.59
Price / Cash5.1219.1719.4134.62
Price / Book2.155.345.754.25
Net Income$40.93M$318.00M$781.29M$248.23M
7 Day Performance-1.25%2.63%0.57%0.89%
1 Month Performance4.12%-4.84%-2.10%3.53%
1 Year Performance-24.24%-7.71%2.65%5.08%

Cracker Barrel Old Country Store Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
CBRL
Cracker Barrel Old Country Store
4.6434 of 5 stars
$42.70
+1.8%
$57.13
+33.8%
-26.6%$950.63M$3.51B23.5973,000Insider Trade
Short Interest ↓
Gap Down
WEN
Wendy's
4.6723 of 5 stars
$12.59
-0.7%
$17.97
+42.7%
-37.5%$2.47B$2.25B13.2514,500Upcoming Earnings
Analyst Forecast
Short Interest ↑
CAKE
Cheesecake Factory
3.6946 of 5 stars
$48.86
+2.1%
$52.75
+8.0%
+45.9%$2.42B$3.58B15.2747,500Earnings Report
PZZA
Papa Johns International
4.0927 of 5 stars
$30.88
-0.9%
$53.00
+71.6%
-44.0%$1.01B$2.06B10.7612,000
BJRI
BJ's Restaurants
2.9204 of 5 stars
$32.80
+1.2%
$40.40
+23.2%
+2.1%$745.15M$1.36B48.2422,200High Trading Volume
BLMN
Bloomin' Brands
3.2494 of 5 stars
$8.40
+5.7%
$14.50
+72.6%
-68.9%$713.42M$3.95B-76.3687,000Upcoming Earnings
News Coverage
Positive News
Gap Down
BH
Biglari
2.7941 of 5 stars
$217.36
-1.2%
N/A+18.0%$494.71M$362.11M1.232,560News Coverage
Positive News
JACK
Jack in the Box
4.1735 of 5 stars
$24.81
+6.8%
$47.82
+92.8%
-54.4%$467.87M$1.57B-12.7212,100Analyst Forecast
Short Interest ↑
NATH
Nathan's Famous
3.0388 of 5 stars
$93.78
-0.2%
N/A+51.3%$383.47M$146.39M16.17130Positive News
RICK
RCI Hospitality
3.4364 of 5 stars
$37.65
+0.4%
$98.00
+160.3%
-21.8%$333.84M$293.18M67.233,613News Coverage
Positive News
DIN
Dine Brands Global
3.882 of 5 stars
$20.43
+1.0%
$29.00
+41.9%
-54.9%$319.44M$812.31M3.403,520Upcoming Earnings
News Coverage

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