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
Potbelly (NASDAQ:PBPB) and Arcos Dorados (NYSE:ARCO) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, valuation, profitability, media sentiment, earnings and dividends.
Potbelly presently has a consensus target price of $16.50, suggesting a potential upside of 31.89%. Arcos Dorados has a consensus target price of $8.80, suggesting a potential upside of 12.68%. Given Potbelly's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Potbelly is more favorable than Arcos Dorados.
Potbelly has a beta of 1.69, suggesting that its share price is 69% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Arcos Dorados has a beta of 0.63, suggesting that its share price is 37% less volatile than the S&P 500.
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.
72.6% of Potbelly shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 55.9% of Arcos Dorados shares are owned by institutional investors. 10.2% of Potbelly shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
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.
In the previous week, Arcos Dorados had 8 more articles in the media than Potbelly. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Arcos Dorados and 1 mentions for Potbelly. Potbelly's average media sentiment score of 0.63 beat Arcos Dorados' score of 0.55 indicating that Potbelly is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Potbelly beats Arcos Dorados on 10 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:PBPB) was last updated on 7/2/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
