EAT vs. TXRH, WEN, CAKE, BLMN, PZZA, JACK, CBRL, BJRI, CHUY, and DIN
Should you be buying Brinker International stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Brinker International include Texas Roadhouse (TXRH), Wendy's (WEN), 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), and Dine Brands Global (DIN). These companies are all part of the "restaurants" industry.
Brinker International (NYSE:EAT) and Texas Roadhouse (NASDAQ:TXRH) are both retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, earnings, analyst recommendations, dividends, institutional ownership, valuation, risk and community ranking.
Brinker International currently has a consensus target price of $56.03, suggesting a potential downside of 12.59%. Texas Roadhouse has a consensus target price of $168.23, suggesting a potential downside of 0.68%. Given Texas Roadhouse's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Texas Roadhouse is more favorable than Brinker International.
Brinker International received 120 more outperform votes than Texas Roadhouse when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.17% of users gave Brinker International an outperform vote while only 53.70% of users gave Texas Roadhouse an outperform vote.
Brinker International has a beta of 2.51, indicating that its share price is 151% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Texas Roadhouse has a beta of 1.01, indicating that its share price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Texas Roadhouse had 34 more articles in the media than Brinker International. MarketBeat recorded 39 mentions for Texas Roadhouse and 5 mentions for Brinker International. Texas Roadhouse's average media sentiment score of 0.71 beat Brinker International's score of 0.58 indicating that Texas Roadhouse is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Texas Roadhouse has a net margin of 7.47% compared to Brinker International's net margin of 3.55%. Texas Roadhouse's return on equity of 31.68% beat Brinker International's return on equity.
94.8% of Texas Roadhouse shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.5% of Brinker International shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of Texas Roadhouse shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Texas Roadhouse has higher revenue and earnings than Brinker International. Brinker International is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Texas Roadhouse, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Texas Roadhouse beats Brinker International on 14 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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