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Top 5 Companies in the Restaurants Industry Providing Best Value To Investors (TAST, CHUX, MRT, BNHNA, RUTH)

Written on Fri, 07/23/2010 - 5:42am
By Chip Brian

Below are the top five companies in the Restaurants industry as measured by the price to sales per share ratio. Often companies with the lowest ratio present the greatest value to investors.
Carrols Restaurant Group (NASDAQ:TAST) has a price/sales ratio of 0.14x based on a current price of $5.2 and trailing 12-month sales per share of $37.5.
O'Charley's (NASDAQ:CHUX) has a price/sales ratio of 0.16x based on a current price of $6.56 and trailing 12-month sales per share of $41.05.
Morton's Restaurant (NYSE:MRT) has a price/sales ratio of 0.29x based on a current price of $5.19 and trailing 12-month sales per share of $18.05.
Benihana (NASDAQ:BNHNA) has a price/sales ratio of 0.31x based on a current price of $6.28 and trailing 12-month sales per share of $20.38.
Ruth's Hospitality (NASDAQ:RUTH) has a price/sales ratio of 0.31x based on a current price of $4.19 and trailing 12-month sales per share of $13.45.
SmarTrend is bearish on shares of MRT and our subscribers were alerted to Sell on April 28, 2010 at $6.41. The stock has fallen 19% since the alert was issued.

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