NATH vs. DENN, RRGB, BH, RICK, CHUY, TAST, DIN, BJRI, LOCO, and GENK
Should you be buying Nathan's Famous stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Nathan's Famous include Denny's (DENN), Red Robin Gourmet Burgers (RRGB), Biglari (BH), RCI Hospitality (RICK), Chuy's (CHUY), Carrols Restaurant Group (TAST), Dine Brands Global (DIN), BJ's Restaurants (BJRI), El Pollo Loco (LOCO), and GEN Restaurant Group (GENK). These companies are all part of the "eating places" industry.
Nathan's Famous (NASDAQ:NATH) and Denny's (NASDAQ:DENN) 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 media sentiment, institutional ownership, community ranking, dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability, earnings, valuation and risk.
Denny's has higher revenue and earnings than Nathan's Famous. Nathan's Famous is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Denny's, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Nathan's Famous has a net margin of 13.84% compared to Denny's' net margin of 4.30%. Nathan's Famous' return on equity of -49.23% beat Denny's' return on equity.
66.5% of Nathan's Famous shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 85.1% of Denny's shares are owned by institutional investors. 31.6% of Nathan's Famous shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.2% of Denny's shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Nathan's Famous has a beta of 0.24, suggesting that its stock price is 76% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Denny's has a beta of 1.93, suggesting that its stock price is 93% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Denny's had 10 more articles in the media than Nathan's Famous. MarketBeat recorded 23 mentions for Denny's and 13 mentions for Nathan's Famous. Nathan's Famous' average media sentiment score of 0.13 beat Denny's' score of 0.11 indicating that Nathan's Famous is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Denny's received 202 more outperform votes than Nathan's Famous when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.35% of users gave Nathan's Famous an outperform vote while only 61.62% of users gave Denny's an outperform vote.
Denny's has a consensus price target of $11.92, indicating a potential upside of 44.27%. Given Denny's' higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Denny's is more favorable than Nathan's Famous.
Summary
Denny's beats Nathan's Famous on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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