Cracker Barrel Old Country Store (CBRL) Competitors

Cracker Barrel Old Country Store (NASDAQ:CBRL) and Bloomin' Brands (NASDAQ:BLMN) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, risk, dividends, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation, analyst recommendations and media sentiment.

Do institutionals & insiders have more ownership in CBRL or BLMN?

96.0% of Cracker Barrel Old Country Store shares are held by institutional investors. 1.4% of Cracker Barrel Old Country Store 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, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Do analysts recommend CBRL or BLMN?

Cracker Barrel Old Country Store currently has a consensus price target of $53.86, suggesting a potential downside of 19.95%. Bloomin' Brands has a consensus price target of $13.85, suggesting a potential upside of 38.09%. Given Bloomin' Brands' higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Bloomin' Brands is more favorable than Cracker Barrel Old Country Store.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Cracker Barrel Old Country Store	2 Sell rating(s)	4 Hold rating(s)	2 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.00
Bloomin' Brands	2 Sell rating(s)	9 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	1.82

Which has stronger valuation and earnings, CBRL or BLMN?

Cracker Barrel Old Country Store has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Bloomin' Brands. Bloomin' Brands 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.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Cracker Barrel Old Country Store	$3.47B	0.43	$40.93M	$2.58	26.08
Bloomin' Brands	$3.95B	0.22	-$128.02M	-$0.03	-334.33

Is CBRL or BLMN a better dividend stock?

Cracker Barrel Old Country Store pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.5%. Bloomin' Brands pays an annual dividend of $0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.0%. Cracker Barrel Old Country Store pays out 38.8% 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.

Is CBRL or BLMN more profitable?

Cracker Barrel Old Country Store has a net margin of 1.65% compared to Bloomin' Brands' net margin of -0.05%. Bloomin' Brands' return on equity of 55.08% beat Cracker Barrel Old Country Store's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Cracker Barrel Old Country Store	1.65%	16.83%	3.53%
Bloomin' Brands	-0.05%	55.08%	4.31%

Which has more risk and volatility, CBRL or BLMN?

Cracker Barrel Old Country Store has a beta of 1.45, meaning that its stock price is 45% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Bloomin' Brands has a beta of 1.32, meaning that its stock price is 32% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Does the media prefer CBRL or BLMN?

In the previous week, Cracker Barrel Old Country Store had 2 more articles in the media than Bloomin' Brands. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Cracker Barrel Old Country Store and 7 mentions for Bloomin' Brands. Bloomin' Brands' average media sentiment score of 1.09 beat Cracker Barrel Old Country Store's score of 0.33 indicating that Bloomin' Brands is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Cracker Barrel Old Country Store	1 Very Positive mention(s)	2 Positive mention(s)	4 Neutral mention(s)	1 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Neutral
Bloomin' Brands	3 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	3 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Summary

Cracker Barrel Old Country Store beats Bloomin' Brands on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.