BJ’s Restaurants (NASDAQ:BJRI) and Yatra Online (NASDAQ:YTRA) Critical Contrast

Yatra Online (NASDAQ:YTRA) and BJ’s Restaurants (NASDAQ:BJRI) are both small-cap consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, dividends, institutional ownership, valuation, earnings and profitability.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of current ratings and price targets for Yatra Online and BJ’s Restaurants, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Yatra Online	1	1	0	0	1.50
BJ’s Restaurants	2	4	5	0	2.27

BJ’s Restaurants has a consensus target price of $57.12, suggesting a potential downside of 2.83%. Given BJ’s Restaurants’ stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe BJ’s Restaurants is more favorable than Yatra Online.

Profitability

This table compares Yatra Online and BJ’s Restaurants’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Yatra Online	-1.88%	-2.32%	-1.41%
BJ’s Restaurants	2.86%	12.93%	4.79%

Insider and Institutional Ownership

51.0% of Yatra Online shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 99.9% of BJ’s Restaurants shares are held by institutional investors. 4.4% of Yatra Online shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.4% of BJ’s Restaurants shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares Yatra Online and BJ’s Restaurants”s gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Yatra Online	$107.36 million	0.56	-$2.48 million	($0.04)	-23.30
BJ’s Restaurants	$1.43 billion	0.87	$48.81 million	$1.87	31.44

BJ’s Restaurants has higher revenue and earnings than Yatra Online. Yatra Online is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than BJ’s Restaurants, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Volatility & Risk

Yatra Online has a beta of 0.82, meaning that its stock price is 18% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, BJ’s Restaurants has a beta of 1.33, meaning that its stock price is 33% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

BJ’s Restaurants beats Yatra Online on 13 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Yatra Online

Yatra Online, Inc. operates as an online travel company in India and internationally. It operates in Air Ticketing, and Hotels and Packages, and Other Services segments. The company provides travel-related services, including domestic and international air ticketing, hotel bookings, homestays, holiday packages, bus ticketing, rail ticketing, cab bookings, and ancillary services for leisure and business travelers. It also offers various services, including exploring and searching comprises web and mobile platforms that enable customers to explore and search flights, hotels, holiday packages, buses, trains, and activities through its website, www.yatra.com. In addition, the company provides its services through mobile applications that comprise Yatra, a mobile interface; Yatra Web Check-In, an application for flight check-in process for travelers; and Yatra Corporate, a self-booking application for business customers. Further, it offers tours, sightseeing, shows, and event services; rail and cab services, and other ancillary travel services; and sells travel vouchers and coupons. The company was incorporated in 2005 and is based in Gurugram, India.

About BJ’s Restaurants

BJ’s Restaurants, Inc. owns and operates casual dining restaurants in the United States. Its restaurants offer pizzas, craft and other beers, appetizers, entrées, pastas, sandwiches, specialty salads, and desserts under brand name Pizookie. The company was formerly known as Chicago Pizza & Brewery, Inc. and changed its name to BJ’s Restaurants, Inc. in August 2004. BJ’s Restaurants, Inc. was founded in 1978 and is based in Huntington Beach, California.