PBPB vs. GENK, NATH, LOCO, DENN, BH, STKS, RICK, FAT, CHUY, and RRGB
Should you be buying Potbelly stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Potbelly include GEN Restaurant Group (GENK), Nathan's Famous (NATH), El Pollo Loco (LOCO), Denny's (DENN), Biglari (BH), ONE Group Hospitality (STKS), RCI Hospitality (RICK), FAT Brands (FAT), Chuy's (CHUY), and Red Robin Gourmet Burgers (RRGB). These companies are all part of the "eating places" industry.
GEN Restaurant Group (NASDAQ:GENK) and Potbelly (NASDAQ:PBPB) 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 analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, media sentiment, dividends, earnings, institutional ownership, community ranking and risk.
GEN Restaurant Group has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Potbelly.
10.2% of GEN Restaurant Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 72.6% of Potbelly shares are owned by institutional investors. 9.1% of Potbelly shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
GEN Restaurant Group currently has a consensus target price of $14.33, suggesting a potential upside of 43.76%. Potbelly has a consensus target price of $13.67, suggesting a potential upside of 28.57%. Given Potbelly's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe GEN Restaurant Group is more favorable than Potbelly.
GEN Restaurant Group has a net margin of 2.46% compared to GEN Restaurant Group's net margin of 1.04%. GEN Restaurant Group's return on equity of 50.06% beat Potbelly's return on equity.
In the previous week, Potbelly had 8 more articles in the media than GEN Restaurant Group. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Potbelly and 1 mentions for GEN Restaurant Group. GEN Restaurant Group's average media sentiment score of 0.18 beat Potbelly's score of -1.00 indicating that Potbelly is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Potbelly received 328 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 64.19% of users gave Potbelly an outperform vote.
Summary
GEN Restaurant Group beats Potbelly on 8 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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