RCI Hospitality (RICK) Competitors

RCI Hospitality (NASDAQ:RICK) and Cracker Barrel Old Country Store (NASDAQ:CBRL) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, earnings, profitability, media sentiment, dividends, community ranking, analyst recommendations, risk and institutional ownership.

Which has higher earnings & valuation, RICK or CBRL?

Cracker Barrel Old Country Store has higher revenue and earnings than RCI Hospitality. Cracker Barrel Old Country Store is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than RCI Hospitality, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
RCI Hospitality	$286.77M	1.30	$3.01M	$0.84	50.55
Cracker Barrel Old Country Store	$3.51B	0.35	$40.93M	$2.58	21.57

Do analysts recommend RICK or CBRL?

RCI Hospitality currently has a consensus target price of $98.00, indicating a potential upside of 130.81%. Cracker Barrel Old Country Store has a consensus target price of $53.71, indicating a potential downside of 3.46%. Given RCI Hospitality's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe RCI Hospitality is more favorable than Cracker Barrel Old Country Store.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
RCI Hospitality	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	1 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	3.00
Cracker Barrel Old Country Store	2 Sell rating(s)	4 Hold rating(s)	2 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.00

Is RICK or CBRL more profitable?

RCI Hospitality has a net margin of 1.64% compared to Cracker Barrel Old Country Store's net margin of 1.15%. Cracker Barrel Old Country Store's return on equity of 18.61% beat RCI Hospitality's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
RCI Hospitality	1.64%	1.77%	0.81%
Cracker Barrel Old Country Store	1.15%	18.61%	3.79%

Do institutionals and insiders hold more shares of RICK or CBRL?

53.8% of RCI Hospitality shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 96.0% of Cracker Barrel Old Country Store shares are owned by institutional investors. 9.0% of RCI Hospitality shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.4% of Cracker Barrel Old Country Store shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Does the media prefer RICK or CBRL?

In the previous week, Cracker Barrel Old Country Store had 47 more articles in the media than RCI Hospitality. MarketBeat recorded 52 mentions for Cracker Barrel Old Country Store and 5 mentions for RCI Hospitality. RCI Hospitality's average media sentiment score of 1.32 beat Cracker Barrel Old Country Store's score of 0.58 indicating that RCI Hospitality is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
RCI Hospitality	2 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
Cracker Barrel Old Country Store	10 Very Positive mention(s)	8 Positive mention(s)	26 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in RICK or CBRL?

Cracker Barrel Old Country Store received 97 more outperform votes than RCI Hospitality when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 65.49% of users gave RCI Hospitality an outperform vote while only 47.66% of users gave Cracker Barrel Old Country Store an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
RCI Hospitality	Outperform Votes 279 65.49%	Underperform Votes 147 34.51%
Cracker Barrel Old Country Store	Outperform Votes 376 47.66%	Underperform Votes 413 52.34%

Which has more volatility and risk, RICK or CBRL?

RCI Hospitality has a beta of 1.36, meaning that its stock price is 36% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cracker Barrel Old Country Store has a beta of 1.45, meaning that its stock price is 45% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Is RICK or CBRL a better dividend stock?

RCI Hospitality pays an annual dividend of $0.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.7%. Cracker Barrel Old Country Store pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. RCI Hospitality pays out 33.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Cracker Barrel Old Country Store pays out 38.8% 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. RCI Hospitality has increased its dividend for 4 consecutive years.

Summary

Cracker Barrel Old Country Store beats RCI Hospitality on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.