CHUY vs. TAST, BH, DENN, DIN, BJRI, NATH, NDLS, JACK, CBRL, and CAKE
Should you be buying Chuy's stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Chuy's include Carrols Restaurant Group (TAST), Biglari (BH), Denny's (DENN), Dine Brands Global (DIN), BJ's Restaurants (BJRI), Nathan's Famous (NATH), Noodles & Company (NDLS), Jack in the Box (JACK), Cracker Barrel Old Country Store (CBRL), and Cheesecake Factory (CAKE). These companies are all part of the "eating places" industry.
Chuy's (NASDAQ:CHUY) and Carrols Restaurant Group (NASDAQ:TAST) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, earnings, risk, valuation, profitability, institutional ownership, dividends, community ranking and analyst recommendations.
Chuy's received 143 more outperform votes than Carrols Restaurant Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.24% of users gave Carrols Restaurant Group an outperform vote while only 58.41% of users gave Chuy's an outperform vote.
99.9% of Chuy's shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 86.8% of Carrols Restaurant Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.3% of Chuy's shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 33.1% of Carrols Restaurant Group shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Chuy's has a net margin of 6.83% compared to Carrols Restaurant Group's net margin of 1.80%. Carrols Restaurant Group's return on equity of 19.41% beat Chuy's' return on equity.
Chuy's presently has a consensus target price of $39.71, indicating a potential upside of 30.94%. Carrols Restaurant Group has a consensus target price of $8.87, indicating a potential downside of 6.76%. Given Chuy's' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Chuy's is more favorable than Carrols Restaurant Group.
In the previous week, Chuy's had 6 more articles in the media than Carrols Restaurant Group. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Chuy's and 5 mentions for Carrols Restaurant Group. Carrols Restaurant Group's average media sentiment score of 0.57 beat Chuy's' score of -0.01 indicating that Carrols Restaurant Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Chuy's has a beta of 1.63, meaning that its share price is 63% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Carrols Restaurant Group has a beta of 2.5, meaning that its share price is 150% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Carrols Restaurant Group has higher revenue and earnings than Chuy's. Chuy's is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Carrols Restaurant Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Chuy's beats Carrols Restaurant Group on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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