Denny's (DENN) Competitors

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

Which has stronger earnings and valuation, HABT or DENN?

Denny's has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Habit Restaurants. Denny's is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Habit 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
Habit Restaurants	$466.06M	0.78	$2.78M	$0.17	82.24
Denny's	$463.92M	0.84	$19.94M	$0.43	17.33

Does the MarketBeat Community favor HABT or DENN?

Denny's received 21 more outperform votes than Habit Restaurants when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 68.60% of users gave Habit Restaurants an outperform vote while only 61.50% of users gave Denny's an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Habit Restaurants	Outperform Votes 332 68.60%	Underperform Votes 152 31.40%
Denny's	Outperform Votes 353 61.50%	Underperform Votes 221 38.50%

Do analysts rate HABT or DENN?

Denny's has a consensus price target of $10.70, suggesting a potential upside of 43.62%. Given Habit Restaurants' higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Denny's is more favorable than Habit Restaurants.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Habit Restaurants	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	N/A
Denny's	0 Sell rating(s)	2 Hold rating(s)	3 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.60

Do institutionals & insiders have more ownership in HABT or DENN?

64.3% of Habit Restaurants shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 85.1% of Denny's shares are owned by institutional investors. 16.0% of Habit Restaurants shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 4.2% of Denny's shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Does the media prefer HABT or DENN?

In the previous week, Denny's had 26 more articles in the media than Habit Restaurants. MarketBeat recorded 27 mentions for Denny's and 1 mentions for Habit Restaurants. Habit Restaurants' average media sentiment score of 0.39 beat Denny's' score of 0.00 indicating that Denny's is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Habit Restaurants	0 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	1 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Neutral
Denny's	8 Very Positive mention(s)	4 Positive mention(s)	10 Neutral mention(s)	2 Negative mention(s)	1 Very Negative mention(s)	Neutral

Is HABT or DENN more profitable?

Denny's has a net margin of 5.27% compared to Denny's' net margin of 0.75%. Denny's' return on equity of 2.37% beat Habit Restaurants' return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Habit Restaurants	0.75%	2.37%	0.79%
Denny's	5.27%	-63.27%	6.66%

Which has more volatility & risk, HABT or DENN?

Habit Restaurants has a beta of 0.96, meaning that its share price is 4% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Denny's has a beta of 2.01, meaning that its share price is 101% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Denny's beats Habit Restaurants on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.