PTLO vs. BJRI, DIN, TAST, CHUY, JACK, BH, DENN, CBRL, KRUS, and GENK
Should you be buying Portillo's stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Portillo's include BJ's Restaurants (BJRI), Dine Brands Global (DIN), Carrols Restaurant Group (TAST), Chuy's (CHUY), Jack in the Box (JACK), Biglari (BH), Denny's (DENN), Cracker Barrel Old Country Store (CBRL), Kura Sushi USA (KRUS), and GEN Restaurant Group (GENK). These companies are all part of the "eating places" industry.
Portillo's (NASDAQ:PTLO) and BJ's Restaurants (NASDAQ:BJRI) 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 risk, analyst recommendations, community ranking, institutional ownership, media sentiment, valuation, dividends, earnings and profitability.
Portillo's has a beta of 1.86, suggesting that its share price is 86% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, BJ's Restaurants has a beta of 2.12, suggesting that its share price is 112% more volatile than the S&P 500.
BJ's Restaurants received 485 more outperform votes than Portillo's when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 54.70% of users gave BJ's Restaurants an outperform vote while only 45.65% of users gave Portillo's an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Portillo's had 19 more articles in the media than BJ's Restaurants. MarketBeat recorded 28 mentions for Portillo's and 9 mentions for BJ's Restaurants. BJ's Restaurants' average media sentiment score of 0.73 beat Portillo's' score of 0.43 indicating that BJ's Restaurants is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
98.3% of Portillo's shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 100.0% of BJ's Restaurants shares are owned by institutional investors. 6.6% of Portillo's shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.9% of BJ's Restaurants shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Portillo's has a net margin of 2.71% compared to BJ's Restaurants' net margin of 1.80%. BJ's Restaurants' return on equity of 6.51% beat Portillo's' return on equity.
Portillo's currently has a consensus target price of $18.17, indicating a potential upside of 79.69%. BJ's Restaurants has a consensus target price of $38.30, indicating a potential upside of 13.48%. Given Portillo's' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Portillo's is more favorable than BJ's Restaurants.
BJ's Restaurants has higher revenue and earnings than Portillo's. Portillo's is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than BJ's Restaurants, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
BJ's Restaurants beats Portillo's on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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