GENK vs. LOCO, DENN, NATH, PBPB, BH, CHUY, TAST, STKS, THCH, and RRGB
Should you be buying GEN Restaurant Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of GEN Restaurant Group include El Pollo Loco (LOCO), Denny's (DENN), Nathan's Famous (NATH), Potbelly (PBPB), Biglari (BH), Chuy's (CHUY), Carrols Restaurant Group (TAST), ONE Group Hospitality (STKS), TH International (THCH), and Red Robin Gourmet Burgers (RRGB). These companies are all part of the "eating places" industry.
El Pollo Loco (NASDAQ:LOCO) and GEN Restaurant Group (NASDAQ:GENK) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, dividends, community ranking, risk, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, valuation and earnings.
El Pollo Loco has a net margin of 5.64% compared to El Pollo Loco's net margin of 0.44%. GEN Restaurant Group's return on equity of 10.13% beat El Pollo Loco's return on equity.
El Pollo Loco received 340 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 59.97% of users gave El Pollo Loco an outperform vote.
81.3% of El Pollo Loco shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 10.2% of GEN Restaurant Group shares are held by institutional investors. 1.9% of El Pollo Loco shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
El Pollo Loco presently has a consensus target price of $12.00, indicating a potential upside of 8.79%. GEN Restaurant Group has a consensus target price of $13.83, indicating a potential upside of 16.74%. Given El Pollo Loco's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe GEN Restaurant Group is more favorable than El Pollo Loco.
El Pollo Loco has higher revenue and earnings than GEN Restaurant Group. El Pollo Loco is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than GEN Restaurant Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, GEN Restaurant Group had 20 more articles in the media than El Pollo Loco. MarketBeat recorded 26 mentions for GEN Restaurant Group and 6 mentions for El Pollo Loco. GEN Restaurant Group's average media sentiment score of 0.38 beat El Pollo Loco's score of 0.25 indicating that El Pollo Loco is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
El Pollo Loco beats GEN Restaurant Group on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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