PTLO vs. BJRI, JACK, DIN, KRUS, CBRL, FWRG, TAST, CHUY, BH, and DENN
Should you be buying Portillo's stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Portillo's include BJ's Restaurants (BJRI), Jack in the Box (JACK), Dine Brands Global (DIN), Kura Sushi USA (KRUS), Cracker Barrel Old Country Store (CBRL), First Watch Restaurant Group (FWRG), Carrols Restaurant Group (TAST), Chuy's (CHUY), Biglari (BH), and Denny's (DENN). These companies are all part of the "eating places" industry.
Portillo's (NASDAQ:PTLO) and BJ's Restaurants (NASDAQ:BJRI) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, risk, community ranking, valuation, dividends, institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations and media sentiment.
Portillo's has a net margin of 2.71% compared to BJ's Restaurants' net margin of 1.47%. BJ's Restaurants' return on equity of 5.45% beat Portillo's' return on equity.
Portillo's currently has a consensus target price of $22.43, suggesting a potential upside of 83.54%. BJ's Restaurants has a consensus target price of $37.30, suggesting a potential upside of 14.84%. Given Portillo's' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Portillo's is more favorable than BJ's Restaurants.
Portillo's has a beta of 1.85, suggesting that its share price is 85% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, BJ's Restaurants has a beta of 2.12, suggesting that its share price is 112% more volatile than the S&P 500.
BJ's Restaurants received 485 more outperform votes than Portillo's when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 54.66% of users gave BJ's Restaurants an outperform vote while only 44.19% of users gave Portillo's an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Portillo's had 1 more articles in the media than BJ's Restaurants. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Portillo's and 4 mentions for BJ's Restaurants. BJ's Restaurants' average media sentiment score of 0.64 beat Portillo's' score of 0.49 indicating that BJ's Restaurants is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
98.3% of Portillo's shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 100.0% of BJ's Restaurants shares are held by institutional investors. 7.2% of Portillo's shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 4.2% of BJ's Restaurants shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
BJ's Restaurants has higher revenue and earnings than Portillo's. BJ's Restaurants is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Portillo's, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
BJ's Restaurants beats Portillo's on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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