PBPB vs. ARCO, SHCO, CNNE, HDL, XHR, KRUS, FWRG, PTLO, MRNO, and TH
Should you be buying Potbelly stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Potbelly include Arcos Dorados (ARCO), Soho House & Co Inc. (SHCO), Cannae (CNNE), Super Hi International (HDL), Xenia Hotels & Resorts (XHR), Kura Sushi USA (KRUS), First Watch Restaurant Group (FWRG), Portillo's (PTLO), Murano Global BV (MRNO), and Target Hospitality (TH). These companies are all part of the "restaurants, hotels, motels" industry.
Potbelly vs. Its Competitors
Arcos Dorados (NYSE:ARCO) and Potbelly (NASDAQ:PBPB) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, risk, valuation, institutional ownership, earnings, analyst recommendations and profitability.
Arcos Dorados presently has a consensus price target of $8.80, suggesting a potential upside of 11.96%. Potbelly has a consensus price target of $16.50, suggesting a potential upside of 29.36%. Given Potbelly's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Potbelly is more favorable than Arcos Dorados.
Arcos Dorados has higher revenue and earnings than Potbelly. Potbelly is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Arcos Dorados, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
55.9% of Arcos Dorados shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 72.6% of Potbelly shares are held by institutional investors. 10.2% of Potbelly shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Potbelly has a net margin of 9.24% compared to Arcos Dorados' net margin of 3.00%. Arcos Dorados' return on equity of 26.70% beat Potbelly's return on equity.
Arcos Dorados has a beta of 0.63, suggesting that its stock price is 37% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Potbelly has a beta of 1.69, suggesting that its stock price is 69% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Arcos Dorados had 8 more articles in the media than Potbelly. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Arcos Dorados and 2 mentions for Potbelly. Arcos Dorados' average media sentiment score of 0.45 beat Potbelly's score of 0.00 indicating that Arcos Dorados is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Potbelly beats Arcos Dorados on 9 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:PBPB) was last updated on 7/4/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
