KRUS vs. DIN, PTLO, CHUY, BJRI, FWRG, DENN, BH, TAST, NATH, and PBPB
Should you be buying Kura Sushi USA stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Kura Sushi USA include Dine Brands Global (DIN), Portillo's (PTLO), Chuy's (CHUY), BJ's Restaurants (BJRI), First Watch Restaurant Group (FWRG), Denny's (DENN), Biglari (BH), Carrols Restaurant Group (TAST), Nathan's Famous (NATH), and Potbelly (PBPB). These companies are all part of the "eating places" industry.
Kura Sushi USA (NASDAQ:KRUS) and Dine Brands Global (NYSE:DIN) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, dividends, valuation, analyst recommendations, community ranking, media sentiment, earnings, risk and institutional ownership.
Kura Sushi USA has a beta of 1.94, indicating that its stock price is 94% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Dine Brands Global has a beta of 1.83, indicating that its stock price is 83% more volatile than the S&P 500.
62.9% of Kura Sushi USA shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.6% of Dine Brands Global shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.8% of Kura Sushi USA shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 3.0% of Dine Brands Global shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Dine Brands Global has higher revenue and earnings than Kura Sushi USA. Dine Brands Global is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Kura Sushi USA, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Kura Sushi USA had 2 more articles in the media than Dine Brands Global. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Kura Sushi USA and 2 mentions for Dine Brands Global. Dine Brands Global's average media sentiment score of 1.68 beat Kura Sushi USA's score of 0.91 indicating that Dine Brands Global is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Kura Sushi USA presently has a consensus target price of $86.75, suggesting a potential upside of 31.20%. Dine Brands Global has a consensus target price of $69.50, suggesting a potential upside of 40.55%. Given Dine Brands Global's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Dine Brands Global is more favorable than Kura Sushi USA.
Dine Brands Global received 540 more outperform votes than Kura Sushi USA when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.43% of users gave Dine Brands Global an outperform vote while only 63.72% of users gave Kura Sushi USA an outperform vote.
Dine Brands Global has a net margin of 9.03% compared to Kura Sushi USA's net margin of 0.28%. Kura Sushi USA's return on equity of 0.61% beat Dine Brands Global's return on equity.
Summary
Dine Brands Global beats Kura Sushi USA on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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