DENN vs. RUTH, BJRI, CHUY, BH, DIN, NATH, TAST, FRGI, RRGB, and CAKE
Should you be buying Denny's stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Denny's include Ruth's Hospitality Group (RUTH), BJ's Restaurants (BJRI), Chuy's (CHUY), Biglari (BH), Dine Brands Global (DIN), Nathan's Famous (NATH), Carrols Restaurant Group (TAST), Fiesta Restaurant Group (FRGI), Red Robin Gourmet Burgers (RRGB), and Cheesecake Factory (CAKE). These companies are all part of the "restaurants" industry.
Denny's vs.
Ruth's Hospitality Group (NASDAQ:RUTH) and Denny's (NASDAQ:DENN) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, risk, community ranking, dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability, earnings and valuation.
Denny's has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Ruth's Hospitality Group. Denny's is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ruth's Hospitality Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Ruth's Hospitality Group received 6 more outperform votes than Denny's when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.30% of users gave Ruth's Hospitality Group an outperform vote while only 62.11% of users gave Denny's an outperform vote.
Ruth's Hospitality Group has a beta of 1.82, suggesting that its stock price is 82% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Denny's has a beta of 1.7, suggesting that its stock price is 70% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Ruth's Hospitality Group presently has a consensus price target of $22.50, suggesting a potential upside of 4.75%. Denny's has a consensus price target of $13.70, suggesting a potential upside of 18.82%. Given Denny's' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Denny's is more favorable than Ruth's Hospitality Group.
87.3% of Ruth's Hospitality Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.7% of Denny's shares are held by institutional investors. 5.6% of Ruth's Hospitality Group shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 5.5% of Denny's shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Denny's has a net margin of 11.35% compared to Ruth's Hospitality Group's net margin of 7.66%. Ruth's Hospitality Group's return on equity of 32.00% beat Denny's' return on equity.
In the previous week, Denny's had 17 more articles in the media than Ruth's Hospitality Group. MarketBeat recorded 23 mentions for Denny's and 6 mentions for Ruth's Hospitality Group. Ruth's Hospitality Group's average media sentiment score of 1.03 beat Denny's' score of 0.24 indicating that Ruth's Hospitality Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Ruth's Hospitality Group beats Denny's on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding DENN and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
Media Sentiment Over Time
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NASDAQ and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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