BJRI vs. DIN, TAST, CHUY, JACK, BH, DENN, CBRL, NATH, CAKE, and PZZA
Should you be buying BJ's Restaurants stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of BJ's Restaurants include 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), Nathan's Famous (NATH), Cheesecake Factory (CAKE), and Papa John's International (PZZA). These companies are all part of the "restaurants" industry.
Dine Brands Global (NYSE:DIN) and BJ's Restaurants (NASDAQ:BJRI) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, dividends, profitability, community ranking, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, media sentiment, risk and valuation.
92.8% of Dine Brands Global shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 100.0% of BJ's Restaurants shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.8% of Dine Brands Global shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 4.9% of BJ's Restaurants shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Dine Brands Global has a net margin of 10.59% compared to Dine Brands Global's net margin of 1.80%. Dine Brands Global's return on equity of 6.51% beat BJ's Restaurants' return on equity.
Dine Brands Global has a beta of 1.68, indicating that its share price is 68% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, BJ's Restaurants has a beta of 2.12, indicating that its share price is 112% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Dine Brands Global received 120 more outperform votes than BJ's Restaurants when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.26% of users gave Dine Brands Global an outperform vote while only 54.70% of users gave BJ's Restaurants an outperform vote.
Dine Brands Global presently has a consensus price target of $58.57, suggesting a potential upside of 31.89%. BJ's Restaurants has a consensus price target of $38.30, suggesting a potential upside of 7.04%. Given BJ's Restaurants' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Dine Brands Global is more favorable than BJ's Restaurants.
Dine Brands Global has higher earnings, but lower revenue than BJ's Restaurants. Dine Brands Global 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.
In the previous week, Dine Brands Global had 25 more articles in the media than BJ's Restaurants. MarketBeat recorded 28 mentions for Dine Brands Global and 3 mentions for BJ's Restaurants. Dine Brands Global's average media sentiment score of 1.55 beat BJ's Restaurants' score of -0.01 indicating that BJ's Restaurants is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Dine Brands Global beats BJ's Restaurants on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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