TXRH vs. YUM, DRI, DPZ, EAT, CAKE, WEN, PZZA, CBRL, BJRI, and BLMN
Should you be buying Texas Roadhouse stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Texas Roadhouse include Yum! Brands (YUM), Darden Restaurants (DRI), Domino's Pizza (DPZ), Brinker International (EAT), Cheesecake Factory (CAKE), Wendy's (WEN), Papa Johns International (PZZA), Cracker Barrel Old Country Store (CBRL), BJ's Restaurants (BJRI), and Bloomin' Brands (BLMN). These companies are all part of the "restaurants" industry.
Texas Roadhouse vs. Its Competitors
Yum! Brands (NYSE:YUM) and Texas Roadhouse (NASDAQ:TXRH) are both large-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings, valuation, profitability, risk, media sentiment, dividends and community ranking.
82.4% of Yum! Brands shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 94.8% of Texas Roadhouse shares are held by institutional investors. 0.3% of Yum! Brands 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 large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Yum! Brands has a net margin of 19.68% compared to Texas Roadhouse's net margin of 8.07%. Texas Roadhouse's return on equity of 34.02% beat Yum! Brands' return on equity.
Yum! Brands received 485 more outperform votes than Texas Roadhouse when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.37% of users gave Yum! Brands an outperform vote while only 53.42% of users gave Texas Roadhouse an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Yum! Brands had 5 more articles in the media than Texas Roadhouse. MarketBeat recorded 23 mentions for Yum! Brands and 18 mentions for Texas Roadhouse. Texas Roadhouse's average media sentiment score of 0.86 beat Yum! Brands' score of 0.82 indicating that Texas Roadhouse is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Yum! Brands has higher revenue and earnings than Texas Roadhouse. Texas Roadhouse is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Yum! Brands, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Yum! Brands presently has a consensus price target of $158.24, indicating a potential upside of 9.98%. Texas Roadhouse has a consensus price target of $191.71, indicating a potential upside of 5.17%. Given Yum! Brands' higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Yum! Brands is more favorable than Texas Roadhouse.
Yum! Brands has a beta of 0.74, meaning that its share price is 26% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Texas Roadhouse has a beta of 0.89, meaning that its share price is 11% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Yum! Brands pays an annual dividend of $2.84 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.0%. Texas Roadhouse pays an annual dividend of $2.72 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.5%. Yum! Brands pays out 56.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Texas Roadhouse pays out 42.0% 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. Yum! Brands has increased its dividend for 8 consecutive years and Texas Roadhouse has increased its dividend for 6 consecutive years. Yum! Brands is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Summary
Yum! Brands beats Texas Roadhouse on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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Media Sentiment Over Time
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This page (NASDAQ:TXRH) was last updated on 6/13/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
