DRI vs. TXRH, YUM, YUMC, QSR, WING, CAVA, EXPE, DPZ, ULTA, and CVNA
Should you be buying Darden Restaurants stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Darden Restaurants include Texas Roadhouse (TXRH), Yum! Brands (YUM), Yum China (YUMC), Restaurant Brands International (QSR), Wingstop (WING), CAVA Group (CAVA), Expedia Group (EXPE), Domino's Pizza (DPZ), Ulta Beauty (ULTA), and Carvana (CVNA). These companies are all part of the "retail/wholesale" sector.
Darden Restaurants (NYSE:DRI) and Texas Roadhouse (NASDAQ:TXRH) are both large-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, valuation, dividends, community ranking, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk, profitability and earnings.
Darden Restaurants currently has a consensus price target of $178.85, suggesting a potential upside of 16.58%. Texas Roadhouse has a consensus price target of $138.76, suggesting a potential downside of 13.69%. Given Darden Restaurants' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Darden Restaurants is more favorable than Texas Roadhouse.
93.6% of Darden Restaurants shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 94.8% of Texas Roadhouse shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.9% of Darden Restaurants shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of Texas Roadhouse shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Darden Restaurants pays an annual dividend of $5.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.4%. Texas Roadhouse pays an annual dividend of $2.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.5%. Darden Restaurants pays out 61.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Texas Roadhouse pays out 53.9% 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.
Darden Restaurants has a net margin of 9.24% compared to Texas Roadhouse's net margin of 6.58%. Darden Restaurants' return on equity of 49.94% beat Texas Roadhouse's return on equity.
Darden Restaurants received 558 more outperform votes than Texas Roadhouse when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.55% of users gave Darden Restaurants an outperform vote while only 53.70% of users gave Texas Roadhouse an outperform vote.
Darden Restaurants has a beta of 1.25, indicating that its share price is 25% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Texas Roadhouse has a beta of 0.99, indicating that its share price is 1% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Texas Roadhouse had 3 more articles in the media than Darden Restaurants. MarketBeat recorded 16 mentions for Texas Roadhouse and 13 mentions for Darden Restaurants. Darden Restaurants' average media sentiment score of 0.96 beat Texas Roadhouse's score of 0.61 indicating that Darden Restaurants is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Darden Restaurants has higher revenue and earnings than Texas Roadhouse. Darden Restaurants is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Texas Roadhouse, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Darden Restaurants beats Texas Roadhouse on 14 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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