WEN vs. SHAK, GPI, URBN, GMS, SIG, CPRI, AAP, ABG, TRIP, and RUSHA
Should you be buying Wendy's stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Wendy's include Shake Shack (SHAK), Group 1 Automotive (GPI), Urban Outfitters (URBN), GMS (GMS), Signet Jewelers (SIG), Capri (CPRI), Advance Auto Parts (AAP), Asbury Automotive Group (ABG), Tripadvisor (TRIP), and Rush Enterprises (RUSHA). These companies are all part of the "retail/wholesale" sector.
Shake Shack (NYSE:SHAK) and Wendy's (NASDAQ:WEN) are both mid-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, valuation, dividends, community ranking, media sentiment, risk, profitability and institutional ownership.
Shake Shack currently has a consensus price target of $98.35, suggesting a potential downside of 0.81%. Wendy's has a consensus price target of $22.06, suggesting a potential upside of 19.93%. Given Shake Shack's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Wendy's is more favorable than Shake Shack.
Wendy's has a net margin of 9.44% compared to Wendy's' net margin of 2.08%. Shake Shack's return on equity of 62.68% beat Wendy's' return on equity.
Shake Shack has a beta of 1.78, indicating that its stock price is 78% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Wendy's has a beta of 0.78, indicating that its stock price is 22% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Wendy's received 220 more outperform votes than Shake Shack when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.69% of users gave Wendy's an outperform vote while only 51.78% of users gave Shake Shack an outperform vote.
86.1% of Shake Shack shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 86.0% of Wendy's shares are held by institutional investors. 10.1% of Shake Shack shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 17.1% of Wendy's shares are held by company 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.
Wendy's has higher revenue and earnings than Shake Shack. Wendy's is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Shake Shack, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Wendy's had 4 more articles in the media than Shake Shack. MarketBeat recorded 23 mentions for Wendy's and 19 mentions for Shake Shack. Shake Shack's average media sentiment score of 0.56 beat Wendy's' score of 0.32 indicating that Wendy's is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Wendy's beats Shake Shack on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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