Head-To-Head Survey: Atour Lifestyle (NASDAQ:ATAT) & BJ’s Restaurants (NASDAQ:BJRI)

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

Institutional & Insider Ownership

17.8% of Atour Lifestyle shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 100.0% of BJ’s Restaurants shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.4% of BJ’s Restaurants shares are owned 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.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of current ratings and recommmendations for Atour Lifestyle and BJ’s Restaurants, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Atour Lifestyle	0	1	8	0	2.89
BJ’s Restaurants	2	4	5	0	2.27

Atour Lifestyle presently has a consensus target price of $46.62, indicating a potential upside of 47.94%. BJ’s Restaurants has a consensus target price of $56.50, indicating a potential downside of 0.02%. Given Atour Lifestyle’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Atour Lifestyle is more favorable than BJ’s Restaurants.

Profitability

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

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Atour Lifestyle	16.75%	55.00%	22.21%
BJ’s Restaurants	2.86%	12.93%	4.79%

Risk & Volatility

Atour Lifestyle has a beta of 0.66, meaning that its share price is 34% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, BJ’s Restaurants has a beta of 1.33, meaning that its share price is 33% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Atour Lifestyle and BJ’s Restaurants”s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Atour Lifestyle	$1.40 billion	3.09	$231.80 million	$2.03	15.52
BJ’s Restaurants	$1.40 billion	0.86	$48.81 million	$1.87	30.22

Atour Lifestyle has higher revenue and earnings than BJ’s Restaurants. Atour Lifestyle 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.

Summary

Atour Lifestyle beats BJ’s Restaurants on 10 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Atour Lifestyle

Atour Lifestyle Holdings Limited, through its subsidiaries, develops lifestyle brands around hotel offerings in the People’s Republic of China. The company provides hotel management services, including day-to-day management services of the hotels for the franchisees; and sells hotel supplies and other products. It also offers retail management service; investment management service; financial information service management; property management services; and software and technology services, as well as operates travel agency. Atour Lifestyle Holdings Limited was incorporated in 2012 and is headquartered in Shanghai, China.

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.