RICK vs. TAST, PBPB, NATH, LVO, UTI, AMCX, VTRU, NRDY, JOUT, and FUBO
Should you be buying RCI Hospitality stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of RCI Hospitality include Carrols Restaurant Group (TAST), Potbelly (PBPB), Nathan's Famous (NATH), LiveOne (LVO), Universal Technical Institute (UTI), AMC Networks (AMCX), Vitru (VTRU), Nerdy (NRDY), Johnson Outdoors (JOUT), and fuboTV (FUBO).
RCI Hospitality (NASDAQ:RICK) and Carrols Restaurant Group (NASDAQ:TAST) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, media sentiment, institutional ownership, risk, valuation, dividends, community ranking and profitability.
RCI Hospitality has a beta of 1.69, suggesting that its share price is 69% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Carrols Restaurant Group has a beta of 2.48, suggesting that its share price is 148% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Carrols Restaurant Group received 28 more outperform votes than RCI Hospitality when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.71% of users gave RCI Hospitality an outperform vote while only 64.32% of users gave Carrols Restaurant Group an outperform vote.
RCI Hospitality pays an annual dividend of $0.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.5%. Carrols Restaurant Group pays an annual dividend of $0.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.8%. RCI Hospitality pays out 8.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Carrols Restaurant Group pays out 15.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.
53.8% of RCI Hospitality shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 86.8% of Carrols Restaurant Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 8.3% of RCI Hospitality shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 33.1% of Carrols Restaurant Group shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
RCI Hospitality has a net margin of 8.81% compared to Carrols Restaurant Group's net margin of 1.80%. Carrols Restaurant Group's return on equity of 19.41% beat RCI Hospitality's return on equity.
Carrols Restaurant Group has higher revenue and earnings than RCI Hospitality. RCI Hospitality is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Carrols Restaurant Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
RCI Hospitality presently has a consensus target price of $120.00, suggesting a potential upside of 137.20%. Carrols Restaurant Group has a consensus target price of $8.87, suggesting a potential downside of 6.76%. Given RCI Hospitality's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe RCI Hospitality is more favorable than Carrols Restaurant Group.
In the previous week, Carrols Restaurant Group had 5 more articles in the media than RCI Hospitality. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Carrols Restaurant Group and 0 mentions for RCI Hospitality. Carrols Restaurant Group's average media sentiment score of 0.84 beat RCI Hospitality's score of -1.00 indicating that Carrols Restaurant Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Carrols Restaurant Group beats RCI Hospitality on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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