GENK vs. BALY, PBPB, LOCO, CVEO, GHG, MRNO, FLL, STKS, THCH, and LVO
Should you be buying GEN Restaurant Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of GEN Restaurant Group include Bally's (BALY), Potbelly (PBPB), El Pollo Loco (LOCO), Civeo (CVEO), GreenTree Hospitality Group (GHG), Murano Global Investments (MRNO), Full House Resorts (FLL), ONE Group Hospitality (STKS), TH International (THCH), and LiveOne (LVO). These companies are all part of the "restaurants, hotels, motels" industry.
GEN Restaurant Group vs. Its Competitors
GEN Restaurant Group (NASDAQ:GENK) and Bally's (NYSE:BALY) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, community ranking, earnings, valuation, media sentiment, profitability, analyst recommendations and dividends.
GEN Restaurant Group currently has a consensus price target of $10.00, suggesting a potential upside of 148.14%. Bally's has a consensus price target of $16.96, suggesting a potential upside of 84.35%. Given GEN Restaurant Group's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe GEN Restaurant Group is more favorable than Bally's.
GEN Restaurant Group has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Bally's. GEN Restaurant Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Bally's, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Bally's had 1 more articles in the media than GEN Restaurant Group. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Bally's and 3 mentions for GEN Restaurant Group. Bally's' average media sentiment score of 0.24 beat GEN Restaurant Group's score of -0.46 indicating that Bally's is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Bally's received 8 more outperform votes than GEN Restaurant Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 88.89% of users gave GEN Restaurant Group an outperform vote while only 28.57% of users gave Bally's an outperform vote.
10.2% of GEN Restaurant Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 70.4% of Bally's shares are held by institutional investors. 59.1% of GEN Restaurant Group shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 74.9% of Bally's shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
GEN Restaurant Group has a beta of 1.24, suggesting that its stock price is 24% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Bally's has a beta of 1.86, suggesting that its stock price is 86% more volatile than the S&P 500.
GEN Restaurant Group has a net margin of 0.39% compared to Bally's' net margin of -30.04%. GEN Restaurant Group's return on equity of 1.83% beat Bally's' return on equity.
Summary
GEN Restaurant Group beats Bally's on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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Media Sentiment Over Time
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This page (NASDAQ:GENK) was last updated on 6/13/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
