SG vs. BLMN, ARCO, PLAY, PZZA, EAT, CAKE, FWRG, CBRL, KRUS, and JACK
Should you be buying Sweetgreen stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Sweetgreen include Bloomin' Brands (BLMN), Arcos Dorados (ARCO), Dave & Buster's Entertainment (PLAY), Papa John's International (PZZA), Brinker International (EAT), Cheesecake Factory (CAKE), First Watch Restaurant Group (FWRG), Cracker Barrel Old Country Store (CBRL), Kura Sushi USA (KRUS), and Jack in the Box (JACK). These companies are all part of the "eating places" industry.
Bloomin' Brands (NASDAQ:BLMN) and Sweetgreen (NYSE:SG) are both mid-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, dividends, risk, community ranking and institutional ownership.
Bloomin' Brands has a beta of 2, suggesting that its share price is 100% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Sweetgreen has a beta of 2.2, suggesting that its share price is 120% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Bloomin' Brands currently has a consensus price target of $27.90, indicating a potential upside of 3.37%. Sweetgreen has a consensus price target of $20.50, indicating a potential downside of 10.05%. Given Sweetgreen's higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Bloomin' Brands is more favorable than Sweetgreen.
Bloomin' Brands has higher revenue and earnings than Sweetgreen. Sweetgreen is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Bloomin' Brands, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Bloomin' Brands received 555 more outperform votes than Sweetgreen when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.72% of users gave Bloomin' Brands an outperform vote while only 38.71% of users gave Sweetgreen an outperform vote.
Bloomin' Brands has a net margin of 5.30% compared to Bloomin' Brands' net margin of -19.41%. Sweetgreen's return on equity of 73.67% beat Bloomin' Brands' return on equity.
95.8% of Sweetgreen shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.1% of Bloomin' Brands shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 22.0% of Sweetgreen shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Bloomin' Brands had 6 more articles in the media than Sweetgreen. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Bloomin' Brands and 3 mentions for Sweetgreen. Sweetgreen's average media sentiment score of 1.12 beat Bloomin' Brands' score of 1.09 indicating that Bloomin' Brands is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Bloomin' Brands beats Sweetgreen on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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