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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.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Potbelly
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
2 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.67
Arcos Dorados
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.00

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.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Potbelly9.24% 16.58% 3.44%
Arcos Dorados 3.00%26.70%4.39%

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.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Potbelly$462.60M0.82$40.29M$1.408.94
Arcos Dorados$4.47B0.37$148.76M$0.6512.02

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.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Potbelly
0 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Arcos Dorados
5 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
2 Neutral mention(s)
1 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Summary

Potbelly beats Arcos Dorados on 10 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

This chart shows the average media sentiment of NASDAQ and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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PBPB vs. The Competition

MetricPotbellyRETAIL IndustryRetail SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$376.25M$11.95B$26.58B$8.87B
Dividend YieldN/A3.72%175.55%4.10%
P/E Ratio8.9439.9229.7619.90
Price / Sales0.822.154.72113.66
Price / Cash16.9218.0345.9756.90
Price / Book6.4511.515.895.38
Net Income$40.29M$400.87M$872.48M$248.50M
7 Day Performance7.20%5.26%4.91%2.97%
1 Month Performance17.80%8.08%6.14%6.02%
1 Year Performance58.76%7.84%21.95%20.39%

Potbelly Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
PBPB
Potbelly
3.5105 of 5 stars
$12.51
+0.3%
$16.50
+31.9%
+59.3%$376.25M$462.60M8.945,000News Coverage
ARCO
Arcos Dorados
3.7306 of 5 stars
$7.91
+1.7%
$12.00
+51.7%
-11.5%$1.67B$4.47B12.1798,615News Coverage
Analyst Downgrade
SHCO
Soho House & Co Inc.
1.0029 of 5 stars
$7.35
flat
$7.25
-1.4%
+45.0%$1.43B$1.20B-12.258,038News Coverage
CNNE
Cannae
2.2336 of 5 stars
$20.84
+0.6%
$22.00
+5.6%
+16.9%$1.31B$452.50M-3.967,317
HDL
Super Hi International
N/A$19.52
+2.2%
N/A+11.0%$1.27B$778.31M32.5313,057Positive News
XHR
Xenia Hotels & Resorts
1.2493 of 5 stars
$12.57
-1.7%
$13.50
+7.4%
-6.6%$1.26B$1.06B57.1440News Coverage
Analyst Forecast
KRUS
Kura Sushi USA
1.7559 of 5 stars
$86.08
+5.3%
$79.10
-8.1%
+46.6%$1.04B$237.86M-95.643,300News Coverage
Upcoming Earnings
FWRG
First Watch Restaurant Group
3.4371 of 5 stars
$16.04
-0.4%
$21.36
+33.2%
+1.5%$978.28M$1.02B94.3515,000Positive News
PTLO
Portillo's
1.8653 of 5 stars
$11.67
+1.2%
$13.71
+17.5%
+27.3%$873.15M$710.55M27.147,450
MRNO
Murano Global BV
0.6659 of 5 stars
$10.55
+4.7%
N/A+3.3%$836.83M$40.07M0.001,088Positive News
Gap Down
High Trading Volume
TH
Target Hospitality
2.8805 of 5 stars
$7.12
-0.7%
$11.25
+58.0%
-15.2%$707.44M$386.27M16.56820

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This page (NASDAQ:PBPB) was last updated on 7/2/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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