DRI vs. TXRH, YUM, YUMC, QSR, WING, CAVA, WSM, EXPE, ULTA, and DPZ
Should you be buying Darden Restaurants stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Darden Restaurants include Texas Roadhouse (TXRH), Yum! Brands (YUM), Yum China (YUMC), Restaurant Brands International (QSR), Wingstop (WING), CAVA Group (CAVA), Williams-Sonoma (WSM), Expedia Group (EXPE), Ulta Beauty (ULTA), and Domino's Pizza (DPZ). These companies are all part of the "retail/wholesale" sector.
Texas Roadhouse (NASDAQ:TXRH) and Darden Restaurants (NYSE:DRI) are both large-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, community ranking, analyst recommendations, valuation, dividends, risk, profitability, earnings and media sentiment.
Darden Restaurants has higher revenue and earnings than Texas Roadhouse. Darden Restaurants is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Texas Roadhouse, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Texas Roadhouse currently has a consensus target price of $138.76, indicating a potential downside of 11.48%. Darden Restaurants has a consensus target price of $178.85, indicating a potential upside of 14.20%. Given Texas Roadhouse's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Darden Restaurants is more favorable than Texas Roadhouse.
In the previous week, Darden Restaurants had 4 more articles in the media than Texas Roadhouse. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for Darden Restaurants and 11 mentions for Texas Roadhouse. Texas Roadhouse's average media sentiment score of 1.07 beat Darden Restaurants' score of 0.86 indicating that Darden Restaurants is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Darden Restaurants received 558 more outperform votes than Texas Roadhouse when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.55% of users gave Darden Restaurants an outperform vote while only 53.70% of users gave Texas Roadhouse an outperform vote.
Texas Roadhouse has a beta of 0.99, meaning that its stock price is 1% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Darden Restaurants has a beta of 1.25, meaning that its stock price is 25% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Darden Restaurants has a net margin of 9.24% compared to Darden Restaurants' net margin of 6.58%. Texas Roadhouse's return on equity of 49.94% beat Darden Restaurants' return on equity.
94.8% of Texas Roadhouse shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 93.6% of Darden Restaurants shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.5% of Texas Roadhouse shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of Darden Restaurants shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Texas Roadhouse pays an annual dividend of $2.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. Darden Restaurants pays an annual dividend of $5.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.3%. Texas Roadhouse pays out 53.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Darden Restaurants pays out 61.4% 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. Texas Roadhouse has increased its dividend for 5 consecutive years and Darden Restaurants has increased its dividend for 3 consecutive years.
Summary
Darden Restaurants beats Texas Roadhouse on 15 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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