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NATH vs. PZZA, CBRL, BJRI, BLMN, BH, JACK, DIN, RICK, DENN, and RRGB

Should you be buying Nathan's Famous stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Nathan's Famous include Papa John's International (PZZA), Cracker Barrel Old Country Store (CBRL), BJ's Restaurants (BJRI), Bloomin' Brands (BLMN), Biglari (BH), Janus Henderson Sustainable & Impact Core Bond ETF (JACK), Dine Brands Global (DIN), RCI Hospitality (RICK), Denny's (DENN), and Red Robin Gourmet Burgers (RRGB). These companies are all part of the "restaurants" industry.

Nathan's Famous vs. Its Competitors

Nathan's Famous (NASDAQ:NATH) and Papa John's International (NASDAQ:PZZA) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, dividends, earnings, institutional ownership, risk, profitability, valuation and analyst recommendations.

Nathan's Famous has a beta of 0.35, meaning that its stock price is 65% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Papa John's International has a beta of 1.19, meaning that its stock price is 19% more volatile than the S&P 500.

In the previous week, Papa John's International had 10 more articles in the media than Nathan's Famous. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Papa John's International and 1 mentions for Nathan's Famous. Nathan's Famous' average media sentiment score of 1.87 beat Papa John's International's score of 1.60 indicating that Nathan's Famous is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Nathan's Famous Very Positive
Papa John's International Very Positive

Papa John's International has a consensus target price of $51.25, indicating a potential upside of 16.64%. Given Papa John's International's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Papa John's International is more favorable than Nathan's Famous.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Nathan's Famous
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
0.00
Papa John's International
0 Sell rating(s)
7 Hold rating(s)
6 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.46

Nathan's Famous pays an annual dividend of $2.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.1%. Papa John's International pays an annual dividend of $1.84 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.2%. Nathan's Famous pays out 34.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Papa John's International pays out 78.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Papa John's International has raised its dividend for 4 consecutive years. Papa John's International is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.

Papa John's International has higher revenue and earnings than Nathan's Famous. Nathan's Famous is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Papa John's International, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Nathan's Famous$148.18M2.64$24.03M$5.8716.30
Papa John's International$2.06B0.70$83.49M$2.3518.70

66.5% of Nathan's Famous shares are owned by institutional investors. 30.7% of Nathan's Famous shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.3% of Papa John's International shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Nathan's Famous has a net margin of 16.21% compared to Papa John's International's net margin of 3.77%. Papa John's International's return on equity of -15.72% beat Nathan's Famous' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Nathan's Famous16.21% -116.79% 44.00%
Papa John's International 3.77%-15.72%7.63%

Summary

Papa John's International beats Nathan's Famous on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

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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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NATH vs. The Competition

MetricNathan's FamousRETAIL IndustryRetail SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$386.34M$11.51B$26.98B$9.51B
Dividend Yield2.12%3.70%177.04%4.01%
P/E Ratio16.3034.5528.7820.14
Price / Sales2.642.116.50104.37
Price / Cash15.3717.4352.3158.56
Price / Book-23.6810.325.695.87
Net Income$24.03M$400.87M$880.44M$258.55M
7 Day Performance-2.74%1.94%2.35%2.23%
1 Month Performance-12.92%3.19%7.94%12.76%
1 Year Performance31.45%7.04%29.65%19.36%

Nathan's Famous Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
NATH
Nathan's Famous
2.9447 of 5 stars
$95.68
+1.3%
N/A+30.6%$386.34M$148.18M16.30130Positive News
PZZA
Papa John's International
3.4369 of 5 stars
$46.90
-0.3%
$51.25
+9.3%
+7.2%$1.54B$2.06B19.9611,400
CBRL
Cracker Barrel Old Country Store
4.0125 of 5 stars
$64.41
-4.3%
$55.14
-14.4%
+61.5%$1.43B$3.47B24.9777,600
BJRI
BJ's Restaurants
2.4371 of 5 stars
$41.00
-1.6%
$37.20
-9.3%
+9.1%$906.76M$1.37B43.6221,000News Coverage
Upcoming Earnings
Analyst Revision
BLMN
Bloomin' Brands
3.3953 of 5 stars
$9.80
-2.3%
$12.65
+29.1%
-46.9%$832.32M$3.93B-326.5681,000
BH
Biglari
0.7572 of 5 stars
$294.61
-0.7%
N/A+60.6%$671.71M$362.11M-1.342,535
JACK
Janus Henderson Sustainable & Impact Core Bond ETF
4.501 of 5 stars
$21.23
-6.7%
$36.63
+72.5%
-57.4%$400.82M$1.57B-1.958,168
DIN
Dine Brands Global
2.2415 of 5 stars
$24.17
-3.2%
$26.29
+8.7%
-27.1%$377.70M$820.85M6.703,520
RICK
RCI Hospitality
3.4189 of 5 stars
$40.01
0.0%
$98.00
+144.9%
-17.5%$350.49M$295.60M47.633,613
DENN
Denny's
3.0002 of 5 stars
$3.98
-4.3%
$7.46
+87.4%
-40.2%$203.98M$452.33M12.063,800Upcoming Earnings
RRGB
Red Robin Gourmet Burgers
3.7511 of 5 stars
$5.63
-5.5%
$13.38
+137.6%
+23.1%$99.85M$1.25B-1.3321,443

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This page (NASDAQ:NATH) was last updated on 7/25/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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