NDLS vs. GENK, HCHL, THCH, LVO, CNTY, FATBB, FAT, ARKR, SOND, and GTIM
Should you be buying Noodles & Company stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Noodles & Company include GEN Restaurant Group (GENK), Happy City (HCHL), TH International (THCH), LiveOne (LVO), Century Casinos (CNTY), FAT Brands (FATBB), FAT Brands (FAT), Ark Restaurants (ARKR), Sonder (SOND), and Good Times Restaurants (GTIM). These companies are all part of the "restaurants, hotels, motels" industry.
Noodles & Company vs. Its Competitors
GEN Restaurant Group (NASDAQ:GENK) and Noodles & Company (NASDAQ:NDLS) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, dividends, profitability, earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, valuation and media sentiment.
GEN Restaurant Group has higher earnings, but lower revenue 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.
GEN Restaurant Group presently has a consensus target price of $10.00, suggesting a potential upside of 165.96%. Noodles & Company has a consensus target price of $3.00, suggesting a potential upside of 233.33%. Given Noodles & Company's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Noodles & Company is more favorable than GEN Restaurant Group.
In the previous week, GEN Restaurant Group had 1 more articles in the media than Noodles & Company. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for GEN Restaurant Group and 1 mentions for Noodles & Company. Noodles & Company's average media sentiment score of 1.87 beat GEN Restaurant Group's score of 0.93 indicating that Noodles & Company is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
GEN Restaurant Group has a beta of 1.44, meaning that its stock price is 44% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Noodles & Company has a beta of 1.65, meaning that its stock price is 65% more volatile than the S&P 500.
10.2% of GEN Restaurant Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 65.7% of Noodles & Company shares are owned by institutional investors. 59.1% of GEN Restaurant Group shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.7% of Noodles & Company shares are owned 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.
GEN Restaurant Group has a net margin of -0.09% compared to Noodles & Company's net margin of -7.89%. GEN Restaurant Group's return on equity of 0.95% beat Noodles & Company's return on equity.
Summary
GEN Restaurant Group beats Noodles & Company on 8 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:NDLS) was last updated on 7/12/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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