GENK vs. PBPB, NATH, LOCO, STKS, DENN, BH, FAT, RRGB, CHUY, and TAST
Should you be buying GEN Restaurant Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of GEN Restaurant Group include Potbelly (PBPB), Nathan's Famous (NATH), El Pollo Loco (LOCO), ONE Group Hospitality (STKS), Denny's (DENN), Biglari (BH), FAT Brands (FAT), Red Robin Gourmet Burgers (RRGB), Chuy's (CHUY), and Carrols Restaurant Group (TAST). These companies are all part of the "eating places" industry.
GEN Restaurant Group (NASDAQ:GENK) and Potbelly (NASDAQ:PBPB) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, valuation, earnings, analyst recommendations, dividends, institutional ownership, community ranking and risk.
10.2% of GEN Restaurant Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 72.6% of Potbelly shares are owned by institutional investors. 9.1% of Potbelly shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
GEN Restaurant Group has a net margin of 2.46% compared to Potbelly's net margin of 1.04%. Potbelly's return on equity of 50.06% beat GEN Restaurant Group's return on equity.
Potbelly received 328 more outperform votes than GEN Restaurant Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave GEN Restaurant Group an outperform vote while only 64.19% of users gave Potbelly an outperform vote.
GEN Restaurant Group presently has a consensus price target of $14.33, indicating a potential upside of 43.76%. Potbelly has a consensus price target of $13.67, indicating a potential upside of 28.57%. Given GEN Restaurant Group's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe GEN Restaurant Group is more favorable than Potbelly.
GEN Restaurant Group has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Potbelly.
In the previous week, Potbelly had 8 more articles in the media than GEN Restaurant Group. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Potbelly and 1 mentions for GEN Restaurant Group. Potbelly's average media sentiment score of 0.18 beat GEN Restaurant Group's score of -1.00 indicating that Potbelly is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
GEN Restaurant Group beats Potbelly on 8 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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