RRGB vs. NDLS, FRGI, NATH, RICK, BH, MCD, SBUX, CMG, YUM, and DRI
Should you be buying Red Robin Gourmet Burgers stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Red Robin Gourmet Burgers include Noodles & Company (NDLS), Fiesta Restaurant Group (FRGI), Nathan's Famous (NATH), RCI Hospitality (RICK), Biglari (BH), McDonald's (MCD), Starbucks (SBUX), Chipotle Mexican Grill (CMG), Yum! Brands (YUM), and Darden Restaurants (DRI).
Red Robin Gourmet Burgers (NASDAQ:RRGB) and Noodles & Company (NASDAQ:NDLS) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, media sentiment, community ranking, risk, valuation, analyst recommendations, dividends, earnings and profitability.
Noodles & Company has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Red Robin Gourmet Burgers. Noodles & Company is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Red Robin Gourmet Burgers, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Red Robin Gourmet Burgers has a net margin of -2.15% compared to Noodles & Company's net margin of -2.58%. Red Robin Gourmet Burgers' return on equity of 0.00% beat Noodles & Company's return on equity.
84.0% of Red Robin Gourmet Burgers shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 65.7% of Noodles & Company shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.2% of Red Robin Gourmet Burgers shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.9% of Noodles & Company shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Red Robin Gourmet Burgers currently has a consensus price target of $16.00, suggesting a potential upside of 177.78%. Noodles & Company has a consensus price target of $3.67, suggesting a potential upside of 111.95%. Given Red Robin Gourmet Burgers' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Red Robin Gourmet Burgers is more favorable than Noodles & Company.
Red Robin Gourmet Burgers has a beta of 2.75, suggesting that its stock price is 175% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Noodles & Company has a beta of 1.78, suggesting that its stock price is 78% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Noodles & Company had 1 more articles in the media than Red Robin Gourmet Burgers. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Noodles & Company and 5 mentions for Red Robin Gourmet Burgers. Red Robin Gourmet Burgers' average media sentiment score of 0.96 beat Noodles & Company's score of 0.68 indicating that Red Robin Gourmet Burgers is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Red Robin Gourmet Burgers received 235 more outperform votes than Noodles & Company when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.06% of users gave Red Robin Gourmet Burgers an outperform vote while only 56.29% of users gave Noodles & Company an outperform vote.
Summary
Red Robin Gourmet Burgers beats Noodles & Company on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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