GEN Restaurant Group (GENK) and Its Competitors Financial Contrast

GEN Restaurant Group (NASDAQ:GENK) is one of 75 publicly-traded companies in the “Eating places” industry, but how does it weigh in compared to its peers? We will compare GEN Restaurant Group to similar companies based on the strength of its analyst recommendations, dividends, earnings, valuation, institutional ownership, profitability and risk.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of recent ratings and recommmendations for GEN Restaurant Group and its peers, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
GEN Restaurant Group	0	0	4	0	3.00
GEN Restaurant Group Competitors	553	4828	6310	322	2.53

GEN Restaurant Group presently has a consensus target price of $13.83, suggesting a potential upside of 29.53%. As a group, “Eating places” companies have a potential upside of 5.12%. Given GEN Restaurant Group’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe GEN Restaurant Group is more favorable than its peers.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

10.2% of GEN Restaurant Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 64.9% of shares of all “Eating places” companies are held by institutional investors. 16.0% of shares of all “Eating places” companies are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Profitability

This table compares GEN Restaurant Group and its peers’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
GEN Restaurant Group	0.44%	2.32%	0.43%
GEN Restaurant Group Competitors	-8.88%	-451.00%	-5.21%

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares GEN Restaurant Group and its peers revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
GEN Restaurant Group	$181.01 million	$8.41 million	59.33
GEN Restaurant Group Competitors	$2.14 billion	$247.82 million	27.81

GEN Restaurant Group’s peers have higher revenue and earnings than GEN Restaurant Group. GEN Restaurant Group is trading at a higher price-to-earnings ratio than its peers, indicating that it is currently more expensive than other companies in its industry.

Summary

GEN Restaurant Group beats its peers on 7 of the 12 factors compared.

About GEN Restaurant Group

GEN Restaurant Group, Inc. operates restaurants in California, Arizona, Hawaii, Nevada, Texas, New York, and Florida. It offers meats, poultry, and seafood. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Cerritos, California.