PLAY vs. CAKE, SG, ARCO, PZZA, HDL, CBRL, BJRI, FWRG, PTLO, and KRUS
Should you be buying Dave & Buster's Entertainment stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Dave & Buster's Entertainment include Cheesecake Factory (CAKE), Sweetgreen (SG), Arcos Dorados (ARCO), Papa Johns International (PZZA), Super Hi International (HDL), Cracker Barrel Old Country Store (CBRL), BJ's Restaurants (BJRI), First Watch Restaurant Group (FWRG), Portillo's (PTLO), and Kura Sushi USA (KRUS). These companies are all part of the "eating places" industry.
Dave & Buster's Entertainment vs.
Dave & Buster's Entertainment (NASDAQ:PLAY) and Cheesecake Factory (NASDAQ:CAKE) are both retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, risk, media sentiment, valuation, dividends, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, earnings and profitability.
Cheesecake Factory received 20 more outperform votes than Dave & Buster's Entertainment when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 67.26% of users gave Dave & Buster's Entertainment an outperform vote while only 51.73% of users gave Cheesecake Factory an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Dave & Buster's Entertainment had 1 more articles in the media than Cheesecake Factory. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for Dave & Buster's Entertainment and 16 mentions for Cheesecake Factory. Dave & Buster's Entertainment's average media sentiment score of 0.97 beat Cheesecake Factory's score of 0.35 indicating that Dave & Buster's Entertainment is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Dave & Buster's Entertainment has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Cheesecake Factory. Cheesecake Factory is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Dave & Buster's Entertainment, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
91.4% of Dave & Buster's Entertainment shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 94.5% of Cheesecake Factory shares are held by institutional investors. 2.0% of Dave & Buster's Entertainment shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 8.4% of Cheesecake Factory shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Dave & Buster's Entertainment currently has a consensus target price of $33.17, indicating a potential upside of 28.21%. Cheesecake Factory has a consensus target price of $54.00, indicating a potential downside of 5.81%. Given Dave & Buster's Entertainment's higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Dave & Buster's Entertainment is more favorable than Cheesecake Factory.
Dave & Buster's Entertainment pays an annual dividend of $0.64 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.5%. Cheesecake Factory pays an annual dividend of $1.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.9%. Dave & Buster's Entertainment pays out 46.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Cheesecake Factory pays out 33.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.
Cheesecake Factory has a net margin of 4.38% compared to Dave & Buster's Entertainment's net margin of 3.88%. Cheesecake Factory's return on equity of 45.89% beat Dave & Buster's Entertainment's return on equity.
Dave & Buster's Entertainment has a beta of 2, indicating that its stock price is 100% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cheesecake Factory has a beta of 1.14, indicating that its stock price is 14% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Cheesecake Factory beats Dave & Buster's Entertainment on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:PLAY) was last updated on 6/10/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
