TAST vs. CHUY, RICK, BH, DIN, DENN, BJRI, NATH, RRGB, NDLS, and JACK
Should you be buying Carrols Restaurant Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Carrols Restaurant Group include Chuy's (CHUY), RCI Hospitality (RICK), Biglari (BH), Dine Brands Global (DIN), Denny's (DENN), BJ's Restaurants (BJRI), Nathan's Famous (NATH), Red Robin Gourmet Burgers (RRGB), Noodles & Company (NDLS), and Jack in the Box (JACK). These companies are all part of the "eating places" industry.
Chuy's (NASDAQ:CHUY) and Carrols Restaurant Group (NASDAQ:TAST) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, valuation, dividends, analyst recommendations, risk, media sentiment, profitability, community ranking and earnings.
99.9% of Chuy's shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 86.8% of Carrols Restaurant Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.3% of Chuy's shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 33.1% of Carrols Restaurant Group shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Chuy's presently has a consensus target price of $38.14, indicating a potential upside of 38.85%. Carrols Restaurant Group has a consensus target price of $9.55, indicating a potential upside of 0.10%. Given Carrols Restaurant Group's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Chuy's is more favorable than Carrols Restaurant Group.
Chuy's has a beta of 1.68, suggesting that its share price is 68% 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.
In the previous week, Chuy's had 7 more articles in the media than Carrols Restaurant Group. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Chuy's and 5 mentions for Carrols Restaurant Group. Chuy's' average media sentiment score of 0.37 beat Carrols Restaurant Group's score of -0.01 indicating that Carrols Restaurant Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Carrols Restaurant Group has higher revenue and earnings than Chuy's. Chuy's 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.
Chuy's has a net margin of 6.58% compared to Chuy's' net margin of 1.94%. Chuy's' return on equity of 22.38% beat Carrols Restaurant Group's return on equity.
Chuy's received 144 more outperform votes than Carrols Restaurant Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.47% of users gave Carrols Restaurant Group an outperform vote while only 58.40% of users gave Chuy's an outperform vote.
Summary
Chuy's beats Carrols Restaurant Group on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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