PBPB vs. GENK, NATH, LOCO, DENN, BH, STKS, RICK, FAT, CHUY, and RRGB
Should you be buying Potbelly stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Potbelly include GEN Restaurant Group (GENK), Nathan's Famous (NATH), El Pollo Loco (LOCO), Denny's (DENN), Biglari (BH), ONE Group Hospitality (STKS), RCI Hospitality (RICK), FAT Brands (FAT), Chuy's (CHUY), and Red Robin Gourmet Burgers (RRGB). These companies are all part of the "eating places" industry.
GEN Restaurant Group (NASDAQ:GENK) and Potbelly (NASDAQ:PBPB) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, analyst recommendations, earnings, risk, valuation, profitability, community ranking, institutional ownership and dividends.
Potbelly received 328 more outperform votes than GEN Restaurant Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave GEN Restaurant Group an outperform vote while only 64.19% of users gave Potbelly an outperform vote.
GEN Restaurant Group has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Potbelly.
10.2% of GEN Restaurant Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 72.6% of Potbelly shares are owned by institutional investors. 9.1% of Potbelly shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
GEN Restaurant Group has a net margin of 2.46% compared to GEN Restaurant Group's net margin of 1.04%. GEN Restaurant Group's return on equity of 50.06% beat Potbelly's return on equity.
GEN Restaurant Group currently has a consensus price target of $14.33, indicating a potential upside of 55.80%. Potbelly has a consensus price target of $13.67, indicating a potential upside of 27.01%. Given Potbelly's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe GEN Restaurant Group is more favorable than Potbelly.
In the previous week, GEN Restaurant Group and GEN Restaurant Group both had 1 articles in the media. GEN Restaurant Group's average media sentiment score of 0.69 beat Potbelly's score of -1.00 indicating that Potbelly is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
GEN Restaurant Group beats Potbelly on 8 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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