TAST vs. CHUY, RICK, BH, DENN, DIN, BJRI, NATH, RRGB, NDLS, and JACK
Should you be buying Carrols Restaurant Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Carrols Restaurant Group include Chuy's (CHUY), RCI Hospitality (RICK), Biglari (BH), Denny's (DENN), Dine Brands Global (DIN), BJ's Restaurants (BJRI), Nathan's Famous (NATH), Red Robin Gourmet Burgers (RRGB), Noodles & Company (NDLS), and Jack in the Box (JACK). These companies are all part of the "eating places" industry.
Carrols Restaurant Group (NASDAQ:TAST) and Chuy's (NASDAQ:CHUY) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, valuation, dividends, profitability, risk and analyst recommendations.
In the previous week, Chuy's had 4 more articles in the media than Carrols Restaurant Group. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Chuy's and 4 mentions for Carrols Restaurant Group. Carrols Restaurant Group's average media sentiment score of 0.28 beat Chuy's' score of -0.01 indicating that Carrols Restaurant Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Carrols Restaurant Group has a beta of 2.5, indicating that its stock price is 150% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Chuy's has a beta of 1.63, indicating that its stock price is 63% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Carrols Restaurant Group has higher revenue and earnings than Chuy's. Chuy's is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Carrols Restaurant Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
86.8% of Carrols Restaurant Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 99.9% of Chuy's shares are held by institutional investors. 33.1% of Carrols Restaurant Group shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.3% of Chuy's shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Chuy's received 143 more outperform votes than Carrols Restaurant Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.24% of users gave Carrols Restaurant Group an outperform vote while only 58.41% of users gave Chuy's an outperform vote.
Carrols Restaurant Group presently has a consensus target price of $8.87, suggesting a potential downside of 6.86%. Chuy's has a consensus target price of $39.71, suggesting a potential upside of 31.03%. Given Chuy's' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Chuy's is more favorable than Carrols Restaurant Group.
Chuy's has a net margin of 6.83% compared to Carrols Restaurant Group's net margin of 1.80%. Carrols Restaurant Group's return on equity of 19.41% beat Chuy's' return on equity.
Summary
Chuy's beats Carrols Restaurant Group on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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