CHUY vs. RUTH, TAST, TACO, CAKE, BLMN, PZZA, JACK, CBRL, BJRI, and DIN
Should you be buying Chuy's stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Chuy's include Ruth's Hospitality Group (RUTH), Carrols Restaurant Group (TAST), Del Taco Restaurants (TACO), Cheesecake Factory (CAKE), Bloomin' Brands (BLMN), Papa John's International (PZZA), Jack in the Box (JACK), Cracker Barrel Old Country Store (CBRL), BJ's Restaurants (BJRI), and Dine Brands Global (DIN).
Chuy's (NASDAQ:CHUY) and Ruth's Hospitality Group (NASDAQ:RUTH) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, valuation, risk, dividends, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings and community ranking.
Ruth's Hospitality Group has higher revenue and earnings than Chuy's. Ruth's Hospitality Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Chuy's, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Chuy's had 6 more articles in the media than Ruth's Hospitality Group. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Chuy's and 6 mentions for Ruth's Hospitality Group. Chuy's' average media sentiment score of 0.30 beat Ruth's Hospitality Group's score of 0.08 indicating that Chuy's is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Chuy's presently has a consensus target price of $34.71, suggesting a potential downside of 6.08%. Given Chuy's' higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Chuy's is more favorable than Ruth's Hospitality Group.
Ruth's Hospitality Group has a net margin of 7.66% compared to Chuy's' net margin of 6.58%. Ruth's Hospitality Group's return on equity of 32.00% beat Chuy's' return on equity.
Chuy's received 40 more outperform votes than Ruth's Hospitality Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 65.41% of users gave Ruth's Hospitality Group an outperform vote while only 58.22% of users gave Chuy's an outperform vote.
Chuy's has a beta of 1.76, indicating that its share price is 76% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ruth's Hospitality Group has a beta of 1.82, indicating that its share price is 82% more volatile than the S&P 500.
99.9% of Chuy's shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.3% of Ruth's Hospitality Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.7% of Chuy's shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 6.0% of Ruth's Hospitality Group shares are owned 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.
Summary
Chuy's beats Ruth's Hospitality Group on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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