FAT vs. RRGB, NDLS, STKS, ARKR, THCH, GTIM, NATH, LOCO, PBPB, and GENK
Should you be buying FAT Brands stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of FAT Brands include Red Robin Gourmet Burgers (RRGB), Noodles & Company (NDLS), ONE Group Hospitality (STKS), Ark Restaurants (ARKR), TH International (THCH), Good Times Restaurants (GTIM), Nathan's Famous (NATH), El Pollo Loco (LOCO), Potbelly (PBPB), and GEN Restaurant Group (GENK). These companies are all part of the "eating places" industry.
Red Robin Gourmet Burgers (NASDAQ:RRGB) and FAT Brands (NASDAQ:FAT) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk, valuation, earnings, dividends, media sentiment, community ranking and profitability.
Red Robin Gourmet Burgers presently has a consensus target price of $15.75, suggesting a potential upside of 105.61%. FAT Brands has a consensus target price of $15.00, suggesting a potential upside of 98.68%. Given FAT Brands' higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Red Robin Gourmet Burgers is more favorable than FAT Brands.
Red Robin Gourmet Burgers has a beta of 2.79, suggesting that its share price is 179% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, FAT Brands has a beta of 1.82, suggesting that its share price is 82% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Red Robin Gourmet Burgers has a net margin of -1.61% compared to Red Robin Gourmet Burgers' net margin of -18.28%. Red Robin Gourmet Burgers' return on equity of 0.00% beat FAT Brands' return on equity.
84.0% of Red Robin Gourmet Burgers shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 6.9% of FAT Brands shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.2% of Red Robin Gourmet Burgers shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 11.8% of FAT Brands shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Red Robin Gourmet Burgers received 451 more outperform votes than FAT Brands when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.02% of users gave Red Robin Gourmet Burgers an outperform vote while only 61.31% of users gave FAT Brands an outperform vote.
Red Robin Gourmet Burgers has higher revenue and earnings than FAT Brands. Red Robin Gourmet Burgers is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than FAT Brands, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, FAT Brands had 6 more articles in the media than Red Robin Gourmet Burgers. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for FAT Brands and 2 mentions for Red Robin Gourmet Burgers. FAT Brands' average media sentiment score of 0.33 beat Red Robin Gourmet Burgers' score of -0.39 indicating that Red Robin Gourmet Burgers is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Red Robin Gourmet Burgers beats FAT Brands on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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