Contrasting Portillo’s (PTLO) and Its Competitors

Portillo’s (NASDAQ:PTLO) is one of 382 public companies in the “Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure” industry, but how does it contrast to its rivals? We will compare Portillo’s to related companies based on the strength of its institutional ownership, profitability, earnings, valuation, analyst recommendations, dividends and risk.

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares Portillo’s and its rivals top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Portillo’s	$732.07 million	$19.34 million	39.00
Portillo’s Competitors	$3.43 billion	$250.20 million	-158.98

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

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of recent ratings and target prices for Portillo’s and its rivals, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Portillo’s	1	8	2	0	2.09
Portillo’s Competitors	3798	17241	25542	902	2.50

Portillo’s presently has a consensus price target of $5.66, suggesting a potential downside of 19.43%. As a group, “Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure” companies have a potential upside of 57.57%. Given Portillo’s’ rivals stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Portillo’s has less favorable growth aspects than its rivals.

Risk & Volatility

Portillo’s has a beta of 1.51, suggesting that its stock price is 51% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Portillo’s’ rivals have a beta of 1.44, suggesting that their average stock price is 44% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

98.3% of Portillo’s shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 48.6% of shares of all “Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure” companies are held by institutional investors. 6.3% of Portillo’s shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 22.3% of shares of all “Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure” companies are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Profitability

This table compares Portillo’s and its rivals’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Portillo’s	1.85%	2.78%	0.86%
Portillo’s Competitors	2.41%	-40.04%	2.14%

Summary

Portillo’s rivals beat Portillo’s on 9 of the 13 factors compared.

About Portillo’s

Portillo’s Inc. owns and operates fast casual restaurants in the United States. The company offers Chicago-style hot dogs and sausages, Italian beef sandwiches, char-grilled burgers, chopped salads, crinkle-cut French fries, homemade chocolate cakes, and chocolate cake shake. It offers its products through its website, application, and certain third-party platforms. Portillo’s Inc. was founded in 1963 and is based in Oak Brook, Illinois.