ONE Group Hospitality (STKS) Competitors

FAT Brands (NASDAQ:FAT) and ONE Group Hospitality (NASDAQ:STKS) are both small-cap consumer cyclical companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, community ranking, institutional ownership, profitability, media sentiment, valuation, risk, dividends and analyst recommendations.

Do analysts recommend FAT or STKS?

FAT Brands currently has a consensus target price of $15.00, indicating a potential upside of 108.04%. ONE Group Hospitality has a consensus target price of $7.33, indicating a potential upside of 39.95%. Given ONE Group Hospitality's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe FAT Brands is more favorable than ONE Group Hospitality.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
FAT Brands	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	1 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	3.00
ONE Group Hospitality	0 Sell rating(s)	1 Hold rating(s)	2 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.67

Which has better earnings & valuation, FAT or STKS?

ONE Group Hospitality has lower revenue, but higher earnings than FAT Brands. FAT Brands is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than ONE Group 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
FAT Brands	$480.46M	0.24	-$90.11M	-$5.75	-1.25
ONE Group Hospitality	$332.77M	0.49	$4.72M	$0.15	34.67

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer FAT or STKS?

ONE Group Hospitality received 23 more outperform votes than FAT Brands when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 61.31% of users gave FAT Brands an outperform vote while only 54.89% of users gave ONE Group Hospitality an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
FAT Brands	Outperform Votes 168 61.31%	Underperform Votes 106 38.69%
ONE Group Hospitality	Outperform Votes 191 54.89%	Underperform Votes 157 45.11%

Do insiders & institutionals have more ownership in FAT or STKS?

6.9% of FAT Brands shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 29.1% of ONE Group Hospitality shares are held by institutional investors. 11.8% of FAT Brands shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 19.3% of ONE Group Hospitality shares are held 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.

Is FAT or STKS more profitable?

ONE Group Hospitality has a net margin of 1.42% compared to ONE Group Hospitality's net margin of -18.75%. FAT Brands' return on equity of 11.66% beat ONE Group Hospitality's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
FAT Brands	-18.75%	N/A	-6.38%
ONE Group Hospitality	1.42%	11.66%	2.62%

Which has more volatility & risk, FAT or STKS?

FAT Brands has a beta of 1.81, suggesting that its share price is 81% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ONE Group Hospitality has a beta of 2.46, suggesting that its share price is 146% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Does the media refer more to FAT or STKS?

In the previous week, FAT Brands had 2 more articles in the media than ONE Group Hospitality. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for FAT Brands and 3 mentions for ONE Group Hospitality. FAT Brands' average media sentiment score of 0.42 beat ONE Group Hospitality's score of 0.38 indicating that ONE Group Hospitality is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
FAT Brands	2 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	1 Neutral mention(s)	1 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Neutral
ONE Group Hospitality	0 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	3 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Neutral

Summary

ONE Group Hospitality beats FAT Brands on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.