DIN vs. CAKE, BLMN, PZZA, JACK, CBRL, BJRI, CHUY, BH, RICK, and DENN
Should you be buying Dine Brands Global stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Dine Brands Global include Cheesecake Factory (CAKE), 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), Biglari (BH), RCI Hospitality (RICK), and Denny's (DENN). These companies are all part of the "restaurants" industry.
Cheesecake Factory (NASDAQ:CAKE) and Dine Brands Global (NYSE:DIN) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, valuation, risk, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings, community ranking, profitability and media sentiment.
Dine Brands Global received 98 more outperform votes than Cheesecake Factory when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.29% of users gave Dine Brands Global an outperform vote while only 52.17% of users gave Cheesecake Factory an outperform vote.
Cheesecake Factory currently has a consensus target price of $39.58, indicating a potential upside of 5.89%. Dine Brands Global has a consensus target price of $56.86, indicating a potential upside of 64.95%. Given Cheesecake Factory's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Dine Brands Global is more favorable than Cheesecake Factory.
94.5% of Cheesecake Factory shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.8% of Dine Brands Global shares are owned by institutional investors. 8.1% of Cheesecake Factory shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.0% of Dine Brands Global shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Cheesecake Factory had 3 more articles in the media than Dine Brands Global. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Cheesecake Factory and 5 mentions for Dine Brands Global. Dine Brands Global's average media sentiment score of 0.61 beat Cheesecake Factory's score of 0.13 indicating that Cheesecake Factory is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Cheesecake Factory pays an annual dividend of $1.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.9%. Dine Brands Global pays an annual dividend of $2.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.9%. Cheesecake Factory pays out 49.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Dine Brands Global pays out 36.3% 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. Dine Brands Global is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Dine Brands Global has a net margin of 10.59% compared to Dine Brands Global's net margin of 3.07%. Dine Brands Global's return on equity of 42.15% beat Cheesecake Factory's return on equity.
Cheesecake Factory has a beta of 1.51, indicating that its share price is 51% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Dine Brands Global has a beta of 1.74, indicating that its share price is 74% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Cheesecake Factory has higher revenue and earnings than Dine Brands Global. Dine Brands Global is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Cheesecake Factory, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Dine Brands Global beats Cheesecake Factory on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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