NDLS vs. GENK, MRNO, FLL, STKS, THCH, LVO, CNTY, FAT, FATBB, and ARKR
Should you be buying Noodles & Company stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Noodles & Company include GEN Restaurant Group (GENK), Murano Global Investments (MRNO), Full House Resorts (FLL), ONE Group Hospitality (STKS), TH International (THCH), LiveOne (LVO), Century Casinos (CNTY), FAT Brands (FAT), FAT Brands (FATBB), and Ark Restaurants (ARKR). These companies are all part of the "restaurants, hotels, motels" industry.
Noodles & Company vs. Its Competitors
Noodles & Company (NASDAQ:NDLS) and GEN Restaurant Group (NASDAQ:GENK) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, valuation, media sentiment, dividends, analyst recommendations, risk, earnings, profitability and institutional ownership.
GEN Restaurant Group has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Noodles & Company. GEN Restaurant Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Noodles & Company, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Noodles & Company has a beta of 1.69, suggesting that its stock price is 69% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, GEN Restaurant Group has a beta of 1.24, suggesting that its stock price is 24% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Noodles & Company presently has a consensus price target of $3.00, suggesting a potential upside of 274.49%. GEN Restaurant Group has a consensus price target of $10.00, suggesting a potential upside of 145.10%. Given Noodles & Company's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Noodles & Company is more favorable than GEN Restaurant Group.
GEN Restaurant Group has a net margin of 0.39% compared to Noodles & Company's net margin of -6.59%. GEN Restaurant Group's return on equity of 1.83% beat Noodles & Company's return on equity.
65.7% of Noodles & Company shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 10.2% of GEN Restaurant Group shares are held by institutional investors. 2.7% of Noodles & Company shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 59.1% of GEN Restaurant Group shares are held by 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.
In the previous week, Noodles & Company had 1 more articles in the media than GEN Restaurant Group. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Noodles & Company and 5 mentions for GEN Restaurant Group. Noodles & Company's average media sentiment score of 0.72 beat GEN Restaurant Group's score of -0.42 indicating that Noodles & Company is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Noodles & Company received 371 more outperform votes than GEN Restaurant Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 88.89% of users gave GEN Restaurant Group an outperform vote while only 55.29% of users gave Noodles & Company an outperform vote.
Summary
GEN Restaurant Group beats Noodles & Company on 9 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:NDLS) was last updated on 6/12/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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