10 Restaurant Stocks Near 52-Week Lows

Motley Fool Staff
Updated

If you're aiming to "buy low and sell high," then it makes infinite sense to start your search with bargain-priced stocks. Regularly reviewing a list of stocks trading near their 52-week lows can be a great first step.

In this series, I do the initial legwork for you. To prevent us from being inundated with scores of disparate companies, I conduct my search by industry. This allows us to make some initial comparisons among semi-related companies.

Today, let's look at the restaurant space. Below are the 10 stocks that are within 20% of their 52-week lows and have market caps above $200 million.

Dunkin' Brands (NAS: DNKN)

$27.89

$24.97

$31.94

40.2

Jack in the Box (NAS: JACK)

$20.89

$18.25

$24.51

17.6

Denny's (NAS: DENN)

$3.58

$3.11

$4.37

14.9

Cracker Barrel (NAS: CBRL)

$42.98

$37.31

$57.79

11.9

Yum! Brands (NYS: YUM)

$54.14

$46.27

$57.75

21.2

Arcos Dorados (NYS: ARCO)

$23.09

$19.70

$29.43

45.2

Wendy's

$5.09

$4.29

$5.62

NM

Darden Restaurants

$48.50

$40.69

$53.81

14.3

Texas Roadhouse (NAS: TXRH)

$14.58

$12.21

$18.52

17.8

The Cheesecake Factory

$28.36

$23.65

$34.07

19.3

Sources: S&P Capital IQ, Yahoo! Finance.

Although each of these restaurants trade near their 52-week lows, we should note that the price ranges we're seeing are relatively tight overall. You can see that none of the 52-week highs is twice its corresponding 52-week low. That may seem like a big gap, but it's quite common.

The company with the lowest P/E ratio in the group is Cracker Barrel, whose stock has been eyed by Biglari Holdings. Biglari recently upped its stake in Cracker Barrel from 9.3% to 9.9%.

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