Texas Roadhouse (TXRH) Competitors

BJ's Restaurants (NASDAQ:BJRI) and Texas Roadhouse (NASDAQ:TXRH) are both retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, valuation, risk, dividends, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership and media sentiment.

Do analysts prefer BJRI or TXRH?

BJ's Restaurants presently has a consensus target price of $39.67, suggesting a potential upside of 22.58%. Texas Roadhouse has a consensus target price of $197.35, suggesting a potential upside of 18.06%. Given BJ's Restaurants' higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe BJ's Restaurants is more favorable than Texas Roadhouse.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
BJ's Restaurants	2 Sell rating(s)	3 Hold rating(s)	2 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.00
Texas Roadhouse	0 Sell rating(s)	11 Hold rating(s)	10 Buy rating(s)	1 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.55

Which has more volatility and risk, BJRI or TXRH?

BJ's Restaurants has a beta of 1.37, indicating that its stock price is 37% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Texas Roadhouse has a beta of 0.84, indicating that its stock price is 16% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Do institutionals & insiders have more ownership in BJRI or TXRH?

99.9% of BJ's Restaurants shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 94.8% of Texas Roadhouse shares are held by institutional investors. 4.3% of BJ's Restaurants shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of Texas Roadhouse shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Is BJRI or TXRH a better dividend stock?

BJ's Restaurants pays an annual dividend of $0.52 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. Texas Roadhouse pays an annual dividend of $2.72 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. BJ's Restaurants pays out 43.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Texas Roadhouse pays out 41.5% 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. Texas Roadhouse has raised its dividend for 6 consecutive years. Texas Roadhouse is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.

Which has stronger earnings and valuation, BJRI or TXRH?

Texas Roadhouse has higher revenue and earnings than BJ's Restaurants. Texas Roadhouse is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than BJ's Restaurants, 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
BJ's Restaurants	$1.38B	0.52	$16.69M	$1.19	27.19
Texas Roadhouse	$5.67B	1.96	$433.59M	$6.55	25.52

Is BJRI or TXRH more profitable?

Texas Roadhouse has a net margin of 7.72% compared to BJ's Restaurants' net margin of 1.99%. Texas Roadhouse's return on equity of 31.52% beat BJ's Restaurants' return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
BJ's Restaurants	1.99%	11.73%	4.27%
Texas Roadhouse	7.72%	31.52%	13.96%

Does the media favor BJRI or TXRH?

In the previous week, Texas Roadhouse had 11 more articles in the media than BJ's Restaurants. MarketBeat recorded 21 mentions for Texas Roadhouse and 10 mentions for BJ's Restaurants. Texas Roadhouse's average media sentiment score of 1.37 beat BJ's Restaurants' score of 0.96 indicating that Texas Roadhouse is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
BJ's Restaurants	4 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	1 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
Texas Roadhouse	16 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	2 Neutral mention(s)	1 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Summary

Texas Roadhouse beats BJ's Restaurants on 15 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.