GENK vs. BALY, PBPB, LOCO, CVEO, GHG, FLL, THCH, STKS, LVO, and CNTY
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), Full House Resorts (FLL), TH International (THCH), ONE Group Hospitality (STKS), LiveOne (LVO), and Century Casinos (CNTY). These companies are all part of the "restaurants, hotels, motels" industry.
GEN Restaurant Group vs. Its Competitors
Bally's (NYSE:BALY) and GEN Restaurant Group (NASDAQ:GENK) are both small-cap restaurants, hotels, motels companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, dividends, earnings, media sentiment and institutional ownership.
70.4% of Bally's shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 10.2% of GEN Restaurant Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 74.9% of Bally's shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 59.1% of GEN Restaurant Group shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Bally's presently has a consensus target price of $11.00, suggesting a potential upside of 16.79%. GEN Restaurant Group has a consensus target price of $8.00, suggesting a potential upside of 135.29%. Given GEN Restaurant Group's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe GEN Restaurant Group is more favorable than Bally's.
GEN Restaurant Group has a net margin of -0.34% compared to Bally's' net margin of -23.55%. GEN Restaurant Group's return on equity of 0.78% beat Bally's' return on equity.
In the previous week, Bally's had 7 more articles in the media than GEN Restaurant Group. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for Bally's and 8 mentions for GEN Restaurant Group. GEN Restaurant Group's average media sentiment score of 0.35 beat Bally's' score of -0.06 indicating that GEN Restaurant Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Bally's has a beta of 1.86, meaning that its share price is 86% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, GEN Restaurant Group has a beta of 1.46, meaning that its share price is 46% more volatile than the S&P 500.
GEN Restaurant Group has lower revenue, but higher earnings 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.
Summary
GEN Restaurant Group beats Bally's on 10 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:GENK) was last updated on 8/14/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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