LOCO vs. GENK, PBPB, NATH, DENN, BH, STKS, CHUY, RRGB, FAT, and TAST
Should you be buying El Pollo Loco stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of El Pollo Loco include GEN Restaurant Group (GENK), Potbelly (PBPB), Nathan's Famous (NATH), Denny's (DENN), Biglari (BH), ONE Group Hospitality (STKS), Chuy's (CHUY), Red Robin Gourmet Burgers (RRGB), FAT Brands (FAT), and Carrols Restaurant Group (TAST). These companies are all part of the "eating places" industry.
GEN Restaurant Group (NASDAQ:GENK) and El Pollo Loco (NASDAQ:LOCO) 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 risk, community ranking, institutional ownership, profitability, earnings, dividends, media sentiment, valuation and analyst recommendations.
GEN Restaurant Group currently has a consensus target price of $14.33, suggesting a potential upside of 26.17%. El Pollo Loco has a consensus target price of $12.00, suggesting a potential upside of 9.09%. Given El Pollo Loco's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe GEN Restaurant Group is more favorable than El Pollo Loco.
El Pollo Loco has higher revenue and earnings than GEN Restaurant Group.
El Pollo Loco has a net margin of 5.64% compared to El Pollo Loco's net margin of 2.46%. El Pollo Loco's return on equity of 20.27% beat GEN Restaurant Group's return on equity.
10.2% of GEN Restaurant Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 81.3% of El Pollo Loco shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.9% of El Pollo Loco shares are owned by 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.
El Pollo Loco received 343 more outperform votes than GEN Restaurant Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave GEN Restaurant Group an outperform vote while only 59.97% of users gave El Pollo Loco an outperform vote.
In the previous week, El Pollo Loco had 3 more articles in the media than GEN Restaurant Group. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for El Pollo Loco and 4 mentions for GEN Restaurant Group. El Pollo Loco's average media sentiment score of 0.62 beat GEN Restaurant Group's score of 0.30 indicating that GEN Restaurant Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
El Pollo Loco beats GEN Restaurant Group on 8 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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