EAT vs. DRI, DPZ, TXRH, CAKE, WEN, PZZA, CBRL, BJRI, BLMN, and JACK
Should you be buying Brinker International stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Brinker International include Darden Restaurants (DRI), Domino's Pizza (DPZ), Texas Roadhouse (TXRH), Cheesecake Factory (CAKE), Wendy's (WEN), Papa Johns International (PZZA), Cracker Barrel Old Country Store (CBRL), BJ's Restaurants (BJRI), Bloomin' Brands (BLMN), and Jack in the Box (JACK). These companies are all part of the "restaurants" industry.
Brinker International vs.
Brinker International (NYSE:EAT) and Darden Restaurants (NYSE:DRI) are both retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, profitability, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, media sentiment, community ranking, dividends, valuation and earnings.
Darden Restaurants has higher revenue and earnings than Brinker International. Brinker International is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Darden Restaurants, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Brinker International presently has a consensus price target of $141.14, suggesting a potential downside of 8.73%. Darden Restaurants has a consensus price target of $201.38, suggesting a potential downside of 1.36%. Given Darden Restaurants' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Darden Restaurants is more favorable than Brinker International.
Darden Restaurants has a net margin of 9.01% compared to Brinker International's net margin of 5.45%. Brinker International's return on equity of 879.47% beat Darden Restaurants' return on equity.
93.6% of Darden Restaurants shares are held by institutional investors. 1.7% of Brinker International shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of Darden Restaurants shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Brinker International has a beta of 1.66, indicating that its stock price is 66% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Darden Restaurants has a beta of 0.74, indicating that its stock price is 26% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Brinker International pays an annual dividend of $1.52 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.0%. Darden Restaurants pays an annual dividend of $5.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.7%. Brinker International pays out 21.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Darden Restaurants pays out 63.1% 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. Darden Restaurants has raised its dividend for 4 consecutive years. Darden Restaurants is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
In the previous week, Darden Restaurants had 2 more articles in the media than Brinker International. MarketBeat recorded 25 mentions for Darden Restaurants and 23 mentions for Brinker International. Darden Restaurants' average media sentiment score of 1.20 beat Brinker International's score of 1.14 indicating that Darden Restaurants is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Darden Restaurants received 469 more outperform votes than Brinker International when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.42% of users gave Darden Restaurants an outperform vote while only 57.61% of users gave Brinker International an outperform vote.
Summary
Darden Restaurants beats Brinker International on 15 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:EAT) was last updated on 5/23/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff