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$3.79 +0.14 (+3.84%)
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DENN vs. BJRI, BLMN, JACK, BH, NATH, RICK, DIN, RRGB, MCD, and SBUX

Should you be buying Denny's stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Denny's include BJ's Restaurants (BJRI), Bloomin' Brands (BLMN), Jack in the Box (JACK), Biglari (BH), Nathan's Famous (NATH), RCI Hospitality (RICK), Dine Brands Global (DIN), Red Robin Gourmet Burgers (RRGB), McDonald's (MCD), and Starbucks (SBUX). These companies are all part of the "restaurants" industry.

Denny's vs.

Denny's (NASDAQ:DENN) and BJ's Restaurants (NASDAQ:BJRI) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, community ranking, earnings, valuation, profitability, dividends, media sentiment and institutional ownership.

Denny's presently has a consensus price target of $7.46, indicating a potential upside of 96.79%. BJ's Restaurants has a consensus price target of $37.20, indicating a potential downside of 10.36%. Given Denny's' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Denny's is more favorable than BJ's Restaurants.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Denny's
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
5 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.83
BJ's Restaurants
2 Sell rating(s)
4 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
1.86

Denny's has a beta of 1.63, suggesting that its stock price is 63% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, BJ's Restaurants has a beta of 1.47, suggesting that its stock price is 47% more volatile than the S&P 500.

BJ's Restaurants received 143 more outperform votes than Denny's when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 61.91% of users gave Denny's an outperform vote while only 54.35% of users gave BJ's Restaurants an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Denny'sOutperform Votes
369
61.91%
Underperform Votes
227
38.09%
BJ's RestaurantsOutperform Votes
512
54.35%
Underperform Votes
430
45.65%

Denny's has higher earnings, but lower revenue than BJ's Restaurants. Denny's 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.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Denny's$454.00M0.43$21.57M$0.3311.48
BJ's Restaurants$1.37B0.67$16.69M$0.9444.15

Denny's has a net margin of 4.77% compared to BJ's Restaurants' net margin of 1.23%. BJ's Restaurants' return on equity of 8.76% beat Denny's' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Denny's4.77% -50.01% 5.92%
BJ's Restaurants 1.23%8.76%3.17%

85.1% of Denny's shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 99.9% of BJ's Restaurants shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.2% of Denny's shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 4.9% of BJ's Restaurants shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

In the previous week, BJ's Restaurants had 8 more articles in the media than Denny's. MarketBeat recorded 21 mentions for BJ's Restaurants and 13 mentions for Denny's. BJ's Restaurants' average media sentiment score of 0.57 beat Denny's' score of 0.40 indicating that BJ's Restaurants is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Denny's
3 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
7 Neutral mention(s)
2 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral
BJ's Restaurants
10 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
5 Neutral mention(s)
1 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Summary

BJ's Restaurants beats Denny's on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.

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DENN vs. The Competition

MetricDenny'sEating places IndustryRetail SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$194.24M$9.02B$25.22B$8.39B
Dividend YieldN/A3.80%169.81%4.11%
P/E Ratio9.2427.2024.6019.71
Price / Sales0.431.873.97120.53
Price / Cash5.6619.1719.4134.62
Price / Book-3.215.586.104.50
Net Income$21.57M$318.00M$784.05M$248.22M
7 Day Performance-13.07%-3.64%-1.01%0.56%
1 Month Performance12.80%4.58%10.25%13.17%
1 Year Performance-47.94%-8.15%8.11%7.30%

Denny's Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
DENN
Denny's
3.2784 of 5 stars
$3.79
+3.8%
$7.46
+96.8%
-47.9%$194.24M$454.00M9.243,700Trending News
BJRI
BJ's Restaurants
2.7539 of 5 stars
$41.55
+6.3%
$37.20
-10.5%
+18.3%$918.92M$1.37B61.1022,200Positive News
Gap Up
BLMN
Bloomin' Brands
3.83 of 5 stars
$8.81
+20.7%
$13.75
+56.1%
-64.4%$748.24M$3.93B-80.0887,000Positive News
High Trading Volume
JACK
Jack in the Box
4.7241 of 5 stars
$28.80
+7.0%
$44.00
+52.8%
-62.5%$543.11M$1.57B-14.7712,100Analyst Downgrade
BH
Biglari
1.7023 of 5 stars
$235.80
-1.6%
N/A+24.9%$536.67M$362.11M1.342,560
NATH
Nathan's Famous
2.3364 of 5 stars
$103.09
+4.1%
N/A+48.9%$421.54M$146.39M17.77130News Coverage
Positive News
Gap Up
RICK
RCI Hospitality
3.1713 of 5 stars
$43.39
+3.2%
$98.00
+125.9%
-15.8%$384.74M$293.18M77.483,613
DIN
Dine Brands Global
3.3033 of 5 stars
$24.27
+8.2%
$26.29
+8.3%
-44.6%$379.24M$820.85M4.043,520Positive News
RRGB
Red Robin Gourmet Burgers
3.2767 of 5 stars
$3.07
+10.4%
$13.38
+335.7%
-55.3%$54.10M$1.25B-0.9324,300News Coverage
Positive News
Upcoming Earnings
Gap Up
MCD
McDonald's
4.3211 of 5 stars
$311.97
-0.5%
$325.91
+4.5%
+18.3%$223.08B$25.71B27.39150,000Trending News
Dividend Announcement
Analyst Revision
SBUX
Starbucks
4.7324 of 5 stars
$85.67
+6.7%
$98.72
+15.2%
+4.0%$97.36B$36.35B27.64402,000Analyst Downgrade
Analyst Revision

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This page (NASDAQ:DENN) was last updated on 5/23/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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