ARCO vs. PLAY, EAT, BLMN, SG, PZZA, CAKE, FWRG, KRUS, CBRL, and JACK
Should you be buying Arcos Dorados stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Arcos Dorados include Dave & Buster's Entertainment (PLAY), Brinker International (EAT), Bloomin' Brands (BLMN), Sweetgreen (SG), Papa John's International (PZZA), Cheesecake Factory (CAKE), First Watch Restaurant Group (FWRG), Kura Sushi USA (KRUS), Cracker Barrel Old Country Store (CBRL), and Jack in the Box (JACK). These companies are all part of the "eating places" industry.
Arcos Dorados (NYSE:ARCO) and Dave & Buster's Entertainment (NASDAQ:PLAY) are both mid-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, valuation, community ranking, institutional ownership, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, dividends, earnings and profitability.
Arcos Dorados presently has a consensus price target of $13.38, suggesting a potential upside of 26.48%. Dave & Buster's Entertainment has a consensus price target of $69.21, suggesting a potential upside of 26.56%. Given Dave & Buster's Entertainment's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Dave & Buster's Entertainment is more favorable than Arcos Dorados.
Dave & Buster's Entertainment has a net margin of 5.76% compared to Arcos Dorados' net margin of 4.18%. Dave & Buster's Entertainment's return on equity of 53.96% beat Arcos Dorados' return on equity.
Dave & Buster's Entertainment received 246 more outperform votes than Arcos Dorados when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.58% of users gave Dave & Buster's Entertainment an outperform vote while only 55.26% of users gave Arcos Dorados an outperform vote.
55.9% of Arcos Dorados shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.5% of Dave & Buster's Entertainment shares are held by institutional investors. 1.6% of Dave & Buster's Entertainment shares are held 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.
Arcos Dorados has a beta of 1.27, suggesting that its stock price is 27% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Dave & Buster's Entertainment has a beta of 2.08, suggesting that its stock price is 108% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Arcos Dorados has higher revenue and earnings than Dave & Buster's Entertainment. Arcos Dorados is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Dave & Buster's Entertainment, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Arcos Dorados had 8 more articles in the media than Dave & Buster's Entertainment. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for Arcos Dorados and 5 mentions for Dave & Buster's Entertainment. Dave & Buster's Entertainment's average media sentiment score of 0.94 beat Arcos Dorados' score of 0.04 indicating that Dave & Buster's Entertainment is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Dave & Buster's Entertainment beats Arcos Dorados on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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