DPZ vs. PLAY, PZZA, WING, MCD, QSR, UBER, YUM, CMG, DRI, and TXRH
Should you be buying Domino's Pizza stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Domino's Pizza include Dave & Buster's Entertainment (PLAY), Papa John's International (PZZA), Wingstop (WING), McDonald's (MCD), Restaurant Brands International (QSR), Uber Technologies (UBER), Yum! Brands (YUM), Chipotle Mexican Grill (CMG), Darden Restaurants (DRI), and Texas Roadhouse (TXRH).
Domino's Pizza vs. Its Competitors
Dave & Buster's Entertainment (NASDAQ:PLAY) and Domino's Pizza (NASDAQ:DPZ) are both retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, risk and earnings.
Dave & Buster's Entertainment currently has a consensus price target of $33.50, suggesting a potential upside of 39.58%. Domino's Pizza has a consensus price target of $490.78, suggesting a potential upside of 4.95%. Given Dave & Buster's Entertainment's higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Dave & Buster's Entertainment is more favorable than Domino's Pizza.
Dave & Buster's Entertainment pays an annual dividend of $0.64 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.7%. Domino's Pizza pays an annual dividend of $6.96 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.5%. Dave & Buster's Entertainment pays out 63.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Domino's Pizza pays out 40.4% 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. Domino's Pizza has increased its dividend for 12 consecutive years.
91.4% of Dave & Buster's Entertainment shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 94.6% of Domino's Pizza shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.0% of Dave & Buster's Entertainment shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.8% of Domino's Pizza shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Domino's Pizza had 9 more articles in the media than Dave & Buster's Entertainment. MarketBeat recorded 24 mentions for Domino's Pizza and 15 mentions for Dave & Buster's Entertainment. Domino's Pizza's average media sentiment score of 1.20 beat Dave & Buster's Entertainment's score of 1.17 indicating that Domino's Pizza is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Domino's Pizza has a net margin of 12.49% compared to Dave & Buster's Entertainment's net margin of 1.83%. Dave & Buster's Entertainment's return on equity of 40.67% beat Domino's Pizza's return on equity.
Domino's Pizza has higher revenue and earnings than Dave & Buster's Entertainment. Dave & Buster's Entertainment is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Domino's Pizza, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Dave & Buster's Entertainment has a beta of 2.04, meaning that its stock price is 104% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Domino's Pizza has a beta of 1.09, meaning that its stock price is 9% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Domino's Pizza beats Dave & Buster's Entertainment on 15 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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Media Sentiment Over Time
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This page (NASDAQ:DPZ) was last updated on 9/3/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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