PLAY vs. ARCO, PZZA, BLMN, EAT, SG, CAKE, FWRG, CBRL, KRUS, and JACK
Should you be buying Dave & Buster's Entertainment stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Dave & Buster's Entertainment include Arcos Dorados (ARCO), Papa John's International (PZZA), Bloomin' Brands (BLMN), Brinker International (EAT), Sweetgreen (SG), Cheesecake Factory (CAKE), First Watch Restaurant Group (FWRG), Cracker Barrel Old Country Store (CBRL), Kura Sushi USA (KRUS), and Jack in the Box (JACK). These companies are all part of the "eating places" industry.
Arcos Dorados (NYSE:ARCO) and Dave & Buster's Entertainment (NASDAQ:PLAY) are both mid-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, institutional ownership, risk, earnings, profitability, community ranking, analyst recommendations and valuation.
Dave & Buster's Entertainment has a net margin of 5.76% compared to Dave & Buster's Entertainment's net margin of 4.18%. Arcos Dorados' return on equity of 53.96% beat Dave & Buster's Entertainment's return on equity.
Arcos Dorados currently has a consensus price target of $13.38, indicating a potential upside of 24.42%. Dave & Buster's Entertainment has a consensus price target of $69.21, indicating a potential upside of 29.42%. Given Arcos Dorados' higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Dave & Buster's Entertainment is more favorable than Arcos Dorados.
Arcos Dorados has a beta of 1.26, indicating that its stock price is 26% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Dave & Buster's Entertainment has a beta of 2.08, indicating that its stock price is 108% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Dave & Buster's Entertainment had 13 more articles in the media than Arcos Dorados. MarketBeat recorded 21 mentions for Dave & Buster's Entertainment and 8 mentions for Arcos Dorados. Dave & Buster's Entertainment's average media sentiment score of 0.78 beat Arcos Dorados' score of 0.47 indicating that Arcos Dorados is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Arcos Dorados has higher revenue and earnings than Dave & Buster's Entertainment. Arcos Dorados 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.
55.9% of Arcos Dorados shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.5% of Dave & Buster's Entertainment shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.6% of Dave & Buster's Entertainment shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Dave & Buster's Entertainment received 246 more outperform votes than Arcos Dorados when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.58% of users gave Dave & Buster's Entertainment an outperform vote while only 55.26% of users gave Arcos Dorados an outperform vote.
Summary
Dave & Buster's Entertainment beats Arcos Dorados on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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