This is therefore a contrasting of the profitability, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk, dividends, earnings and valuation in Waitr Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ:WTRH) and J. Alexander’s Holdings Inc. (NYSE:JAX). The two are both Restaurants companies that compete with one another.

Valuation and Earnings

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Waitr Holdings Inc.	69.27M	12.10	34.31M	-0.16	0.00
J. Alexander’s Holdings Inc.	242.26M	0.63	4.46M	0.51	18.64

Table 1 highlights Waitr Holdings Inc. and J. Alexander’s Holdings Inc.’s top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

Profitability

Table 2 demonstrates the net margins, return on assets and return on equity of Waitr Holdings Inc. and J. Alexander’s Holdings Inc.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Waitr Holdings Inc.	-49.53%	-0.6%	-0.6%
J. Alexander’s Holdings Inc.	1.84%	7.6%	5%

Liquidity

The Current Ratio and a Quick Ratio of Waitr Holdings Inc. are 0.5 and 0.5. Competitively, J. Alexander’s Holdings Inc. has 0.4 and 0.4 for Current and Quick Ratio. Waitr Holdings Inc.’s better ability to pay short and long-term obligations than J. Alexander’s Holdings Inc.

Analyst Recommendations

In next table is given Waitr Holdings Inc. and J. Alexander’s Holdings Inc.’s ratings and recommendations.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Waitr Holdings Inc.	0	0	1	3.00
J. Alexander’s Holdings Inc.	0	0	0	0.00

Waitr Holdings Inc.’s upside potential is 50.13% at a $18 average target price.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

Waitr Holdings Inc. and J. Alexander’s Holdings Inc. has shares owned by institutional investors as follows: 51.4% and 90.2%. Waitr Holdings Inc.’s share owned by insiders are 34.1%. Insiders Comparatively, owned 4.07% of J. Alexander’s Holdings Inc. shares.

Performance

Here are the Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly, Half Yearly, Yearly and YTD Performance of both pretenders.

	Performance (W)	Performance (M)	Performance (Q)	Performance (HY)	Performance (Y)	Performance (YTD)
Waitr Holdings Inc.	-0.18%	-10.45%	-3.94%	7.76%	9.7%	-1.61%
J. Alexander’s Holdings Inc.	-1.36%	9.88%	0.43%	-21.9%	-1.05%	14.82%

For the past year Waitr Holdings Inc. had bearish trend while J. Alexander’s Holdings Inc. had bullish trend.

Summary

J. Alexander’s Holdings Inc. beats on 9 of the 12 factors Waitr Holdings Inc.