Denny's (DENN) Competitors

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.

Do analysts recommend DENN or BJRI?

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

Which has more volatility & risk, DENN or BJRI?

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.

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in DENN or BJRI?

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.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Denny's	Outperform Votes 369 61.91%	Underperform Votes 227 38.09%
BJ's Restaurants	Outperform Votes 512 54.35%	Underperform Votes 430 45.65%

Which has better earnings and valuation, DENN or BJRI?

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.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Denny's	$454.00M	0.43	$21.57M	$0.33	11.48
BJ's Restaurants	$1.37B	0.67	$16.69M	$0.94	44.15

Is DENN or BJRI more profitable?

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's	4.77%	-50.01%	5.92%
BJ's Restaurants	1.23%	8.76%	3.17%

Do insiders & institutionals believe in DENN or BJRI?

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.

Does the media prefer DENN or BJRI?

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.