BH vs. CHUY, TAST, DENN, NATH, DIN, BJRI, RRGB, JACK, CBRL, and PZZA
Should you be buying Biglari stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Biglari include Chuy's (CHUY), Carrols Restaurant Group (TAST), Denny's (DENN), Nathan's Famous (NATH), Dine Brands Global (DIN), BJ's Restaurants (BJRI), Red Robin Gourmet Burgers (RRGB), Jack in the Box (JACK), Cracker Barrel Old Country Store (CBRL), and Papa John's International (PZZA). These companies are all part of the "restaurants" industry.
Biglari (NYSE:BH) and Chuy's (NASDAQ:CHUY) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, community ranking, earnings, analyst recommendations, valuation, risk, dividends and institutional ownership.
Chuy's received 191 more outperform votes than Biglari when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 62.22% of users gave Biglari an outperform vote while only 58.40% of users gave Chuy's an outperform vote.
Chuy's has a net margin of 6.58% compared to Biglari's net margin of 3.47%. Chuy's' return on equity of 13.51% beat Biglari's return on equity.
Biglari has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Chuy's. Biglari is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Chuy's, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
74.3% of Biglari shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 99.9% of Chuy's shares are held by institutional investors. 71.4% of Biglari shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.3% of Chuy's shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Chuy's has a consensus price target of $38.14, indicating a potential upside of 38.85%. Given Chuy's' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Chuy's is more favorable than Biglari.
In the previous week, Chuy's had 11 more articles in the media than Biglari. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Chuy's and 1 mentions for Biglari. Biglari's average media sentiment score of 0.18 beat Chuy's' score of -0.01 indicating that Biglari is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Biglari has a beta of 0.77, indicating that its share price is 23% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Chuy's has a beta of 1.68, indicating that its share price is 68% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Chuy's beats Biglari on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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