ARKR vs. THCH, NDLS, GTIM, FATBB, RRGB, FAT, STKS, TGL, LVLU, and LL
Should you be buying Ark Restaurants stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ark Restaurants include TH International (THCH), Noodles & Company (NDLS), Good Times Restaurants (GTIM), FAT Brands (FATBB), Red Robin Gourmet Burgers (RRGB), FAT Brands (FAT), ONE Group Hospitality (STKS), Treasure Global (TGL), Lulu's Fashion Lounge (LVLU), and LL Flooring (LL). These companies are all part of the "retail/wholesale" sector.
TH International (NASDAQ:THCH) and Ark Restaurants (NASDAQ:ARKR) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking, analyst recommendations, dividends, valuation, earnings, media sentiment and risk.
TH International has a beta of 0.36, indicating that its share price is 64% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ark Restaurants has a beta of 0.99, indicating that its share price is 1% less volatile than the S&P 500.
91.9% of TH International shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 32.0% of Ark Restaurants shares are owned by institutional investors. 37.2% of Ark Restaurants shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Ark Restaurants has a net margin of -3.40% compared to Ark Restaurants' net margin of -55.72%. TH International's return on equity of 2.77% beat Ark Restaurants' return on equity.
Ark Restaurants received 214 more outperform votes than TH International when rated by MarketBeat users.
In the previous week, TH International had 29 more articles in the media than Ark Restaurants. MarketBeat recorded 37 mentions for TH International and 8 mentions for Ark Restaurants. TH International's average media sentiment score of 0.28 beat Ark Restaurants' score of 0.09 indicating that Ark Restaurants is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Ark Restaurants has lower revenue, but higher earnings than TH International. Ark Restaurants is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than TH International, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Ark Restaurants beats TH International on 9 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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