BH vs. BLMN, PZZA, JACK, CBRL, BJRI, CHUY, DIN, RICK, DENN, and NATH
Should you be buying Biglari stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Biglari include Bloomin' Brands (BLMN), Papa John's International (PZZA), Jack in the Box (JACK), Cracker Barrel Old Country Store (CBRL), BJ's Restaurants (BJRI), Chuy's (CHUY), Dine Brands Global (DIN), RCI Hospitality (RICK), Denny's (DENN), and Nathan's Famous (NATH). These companies are all part of the "restaurants" industry.
Biglari (NYSE:BH) and Bloomin' Brands (NASDAQ:BLMN) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, risk, community ranking, valuation, dividends, institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations and media sentiment.
Biglari has a net margin of 3.47% compared to Bloomin' Brands' net margin of 1.56%. Bloomin' Brands' return on equity of 65.73% beat Biglari's return on equity.
Bloomin' Brands received 321 more outperform votes than Biglari when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.49% of users gave Bloomin' Brands an outperform vote while only 62.22% of users gave Biglari an outperform vote.
74.3% of Biglari shares are held by institutional investors. 71.4% of Biglari shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 3.1% of Bloomin' Brands shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Bloomin' Brands has higher revenue and earnings than Biglari. Biglari is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Bloomin' Brands, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Bloomin' Brands had 8 more articles in the media than Biglari. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Bloomin' Brands and 2 mentions for Biglari. Bloomin' Brands' average media sentiment score of 0.21 beat Biglari's score of 0.00 indicating that Bloomin' Brands is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Bloomin' Brands has a consensus target price of $26.56, suggesting a potential upside of 33.24%. Given Bloomin' Brands' higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Bloomin' Brands is more favorable than Biglari.
Biglari has a beta of 0.74, suggesting that its share price is 26% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Bloomin' Brands has a beta of 2.04, suggesting that its share price is 104% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Bloomin' Brands beats Biglari on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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