WING vs. TXRH, CAVA, ARMK, YUMC, DRI, SG, EAT, CAKE, PZZA, and CBRL
Should you be buying Wingstop stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Wingstop include Texas Roadhouse (TXRH), CAVA Group (CAVA), Aramark (ARMK), Yum China (YUMC), Darden Restaurants (DRI), Sweetgreen (SG), Brinker International (EAT), Cheesecake Factory (CAKE), Papa John's International (PZZA), and Cracker Barrel Old Country Store (CBRL). These companies are all part of the "eating places" industry.
Texas Roadhouse (NASDAQ:TXRH) and Wingstop (NASDAQ:WING) are both large-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, profitability, earnings, dividends, community ranking and institutional ownership.
94.8% of Texas Roadhouse shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.5% of Texas Roadhouse shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.4% of Wingstop shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Texas Roadhouse presently has a consensus price target of $155.55, suggesting a potential downside of 7.63%. Wingstop has a consensus price target of $330.39, suggesting a potential downside of 13.70%. Given Wingstop's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Texas Roadhouse is more favorable than Wingstop.
Wingstop has a net margin of 16.75% compared to Wingstop's net margin of 6.94%. Wingstop's return on equity of 28.85% beat Texas Roadhouse's return on equity.
Texas Roadhouse has a beta of 1, meaning that its stock price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.Comparatively, Wingstop has a beta of 1.67, meaning that its stock price is 67% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Texas Roadhouse pays an annual dividend of $2.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. Wingstop pays an annual dividend of $0.88 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.2%. Texas Roadhouse pays out 49.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Wingstop pays out 31.3% 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. Texas Roadhouse has raised its dividend for 5 consecutive years and Wingstop has raised its dividend for 6 consecutive years.
Texas Roadhouse received 3 more outperform votes than Wingstop when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 61.18% of users gave Wingstop an outperform vote while only 53.61% of users gave Texas Roadhouse an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Wingstop had 4 more articles in the media than Texas Roadhouse. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for Wingstop and 9 mentions for Texas Roadhouse. Wingstop's average media sentiment score of 0.81 beat Texas Roadhouse's score of 0.76 indicating that Texas Roadhouse is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Texas Roadhouse has higher revenue and earnings than Wingstop. Texas Roadhouse is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Wingstop, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Texas Roadhouse beats Wingstop on 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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