SHAK vs. WING, QSR, IHG, YUMC, ARMK, BROS, CAVA, HTHT, WH, and RRR
Should you be buying Shake Shack stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Shake Shack include Wingstop (WING), Restaurant Brands International (QSR), Intercontinental Hotels Group (IHG), Yum China (YUMC), Aramark (ARMK), Dutch Bros (BROS), CAVA Group (CAVA), H World Group (HTHT), Wyndham Hotels & Resorts (WH), and Red Rock Resorts (RRR). These companies are all part of the "restaurants, hotels, motels" industry.
Shake Shack vs. Its Competitors
Wingstop (NASDAQ:WING) and Shake Shack (NYSE:SHAK) are both mid-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, dividends, risk, institutional ownership, profitability and valuation.
86.1% of Shake Shack shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.7% of Wingstop shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 9.7% of Shake Shack shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Wingstop has a beta of 1.84, indicating that its stock price is 84% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Shake Shack has a beta of 1.77, indicating that its stock price is 77% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Wingstop presently has a consensus price target of $355.80, indicating a potential upside of 8.03%. Shake Shack has a consensus price target of $126.86, indicating a potential downside of 5.94%. Given Wingstop's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Wingstop is more favorable than Shake Shack.
Wingstop has a net margin of 26.45% compared to Shake Shack's net margin of 0.97%. Shake Shack's return on equity of 8.45% beat Wingstop's return on equity.
In the previous week, Shake Shack had 5 more articles in the media than Wingstop. MarketBeat recorded 32 mentions for Shake Shack and 27 mentions for Wingstop. Wingstop's average media sentiment score of 0.48 beat Shake Shack's score of 0.36 indicating that Wingstop is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Wingstop has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Shake Shack. Wingstop is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Shake Shack, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Wingstop beats Shake Shack on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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Media Sentiment Over Time
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This page (NYSE:SHAK) was last updated on 7/20/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
