TACO vs. SG, ARCO, PZZA, HDL, CBRL, BJRI, FWRG, PTLO, KRUS, and PLAY
Should you be buying Del Taco Restaurants stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Del Taco Restaurants include Sweetgreen (SG), Arcos Dorados (ARCO), Papa Johns International (PZZA), Super Hi International (HDL), Cracker Barrel Old Country Store (CBRL), BJ's Restaurants (BJRI), First Watch Restaurant Group (FWRG), Portillo's (PTLO), Kura Sushi USA (KRUS), and Dave & Buster's Entertainment (PLAY). These companies are all part of the "retail/wholesale" sector.
Del Taco Restaurants vs.
Del Taco Restaurants (NASDAQ:TACO) and Sweetgreen (NYSE:SG) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, valuation, dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability, media sentiment, community ranking and earnings.
Del Taco Restaurants has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Sweetgreen. Sweetgreen is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Del Taco Restaurants, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Sweetgreen has a consensus price target of $29.08, suggesting a potential upside of 114.72%. Given Sweetgreen's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Sweetgreen is more favorable than Del Taco Restaurants.
Del Taco Restaurants has a beta of 2.06, meaning that its share price is 106% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Sweetgreen has a beta of 2.06, meaning that its share price is 106% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Del Taco Restaurants has a net margin of 3.83% compared to Sweetgreen's net margin of -13.27%. Del Taco Restaurants' return on equity of 9.43% beat Sweetgreen's return on equity.
83.3% of Del Taco Restaurants shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 95.8% of Sweetgreen shares are owned by institutional investors. 13.2% of Del Taco Restaurants shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 21.5% of Sweetgreen shares are owned by company 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.
In the previous week, Sweetgreen had 10 more articles in the media than Del Taco Restaurants. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for Sweetgreen and 3 mentions for Del Taco Restaurants. Del Taco Restaurants' average media sentiment score of 0.37 beat Sweetgreen's score of 0.18 indicating that Del Taco Restaurants is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Del Taco Restaurants received 354 more outperform votes than Sweetgreen when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 54.92% of users gave Del Taco Restaurants an outperform vote while only 50.60% of users gave Sweetgreen an outperform vote.
Summary
Del Taco Restaurants beats Sweetgreen on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:TACO) was last updated on 6/10/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
