SG vs. EAT, JACK, FWRG, CAKE, CBRL, PLAY, PTLO, DIN, KRUS, and CHUY
Should you be buying Sweetgreen stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Sweetgreen include Brinker International (EAT), Jack in the Box (JACK), First Watch Restaurant Group (FWRG), Cheesecake Factory (CAKE), Cracker Barrel Old Country Store (CBRL), Dave & Buster's Entertainment (PLAY), Portillo's (PTLO), Dine Brands Global (DIN), Kura Sushi USA (KRUS), and Chuy's (CHUY). These companies are all part of the "eating places" industry.
Sweetgreen vs.
Sweetgreen (NYSE:SG) and Brinker International (NYSE:EAT) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, valuation, dividends, community ranking, earnings, risk, media sentiment, analyst recommendations and institutional ownership.
79.2% of Sweetgreen shares are owned by institutional investors. 22.0% of Sweetgreen shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.4% of Brinker International shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Brinker International has higher revenue and earnings than Sweetgreen. Sweetgreen is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Brinker International, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Brinker International had 5 more articles in the media than Sweetgreen. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Brinker International and 3 mentions for Sweetgreen. Brinker International's average media sentiment score of 0.67 beat Sweetgreen's score of 0.32 indicating that Brinker International is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Brinker International received 679 more outperform votes than Sweetgreen when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.62% of users gave Brinker International an outperform vote while only 20.00% of users gave Sweetgreen an outperform vote.
Sweetgreen has a beta of 1.99, suggesting that its stock price is 99% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Brinker International has a beta of 2.38, suggesting that its stock price is 138% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Sweetgreen presently has a consensus target price of $14.00, indicating a potential upside of 21.90%. Brinker International has a consensus target price of $37.57, indicating a potential upside of 24.62%. Given Brinker International's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Brinker International is more favorable than Sweetgreen.
Brinker International has a net margin of 2.48% compared to Sweetgreen's net margin of -30.29%. Sweetgreen's return on equity of -26.30% beat Brinker International's return on equity.
Summary
Brinker International beats Sweetgreen on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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