DENN vs. BH, CHUY, TAST, NATH, DIN, BJRI, NDLS, JACK, CBRL, and PBPB
Should you be buying Denny's stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Denny's include Biglari (BH), Chuy's (CHUY), Carrols Restaurant Group (TAST), Nathan's Famous (NATH), Dine Brands Global (DIN), BJ's Restaurants (BJRI), Noodles & Company (NDLS), Jack in the Box (JACK), Cracker Barrel Old Country Store (CBRL), and Potbelly (PBPB). These companies are all part of the "eating places" industry.
Denny's (NASDAQ:DENN) and Biglari (NYSE:BH) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, dividends, earnings, institutional ownership, risk, community ranking, profitability, valuation and analyst recommendations.
Denny's has a beta of 1.93, meaning that its stock price is 93% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Biglari has a beta of 0.81, meaning that its stock price is 19% less volatile than the S&P 500.
85.1% of Denny's shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 74.3% of Biglari shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.2% of Denny's shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 71.4% of Biglari shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Biglari has a net margin of 15.04% compared to Denny's' net margin of 4.30%. Biglari's return on equity of 9.18% beat Denny's' return on equity.
Denny's presently has a consensus price target of $11.75, indicating a potential upside of 45.60%. Given Denny's' higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Denny's is more favorable than Biglari.
Biglari has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Denny's. Biglari is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Denny's, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Denny's received 104 more outperform votes than Biglari when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 62.12% of users gave Biglari an outperform vote while only 61.51% of users gave Denny's an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Denny's had 21 more articles in the media than Biglari. MarketBeat recorded 26 mentions for Denny's and 5 mentions for Biglari. Denny's' average media sentiment score of 0.10 beat Biglari's score of -0.08 indicating that Denny's is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Denny's beats Biglari on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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