Best Restaurant Stocks To Watch Today – January 31st

Alibaba Group, Uber Technologies, Berkshire Hathaway, Booking, SoundHound AI, Coca-Cola, and Block are the seven Restaurant stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat’s stock screener tool. Restaurant stocks are publicly traded companies that operate in the restaurant industry. These companies own and operate restaurants, fast food chains, and other dining establishments, and their stock prices are influenced by factors such as sales, profitability, and overall performance of the restaurant industry. Investors can buy and sell shares of restaurant stocks to potentially profit from the success or failure of these companies. These companies had the highest dollar trading volume of any Restaurant stocks within the last several days.

Alibaba Group (BABA)

Alibaba Group Holding Limited, through its subsidiaries, provides technology infrastructure and marketing reach to help merchants, brands, retailers, and other businesses to engage with their users and customers in the People's Republic of China and internationally. The company operates through seven segments: China Commerce, International Commerce, Local Consumer Services, Cainiao, Cloud, Digital Media and Entertainment, and Innovation Initiatives and Others.

BABA stock traded down $4.33 during midday trading on Friday, reaching $98.42. 25,062,228 shares of the company’s stock traded hands, compared to its average volume of 19,326,174. The company has a market capitalization of $234.10 billion, a P/E ratio of 20.01, a PEG ratio of 0.41 and a beta of 0.30. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.16, a current ratio of 1.37 and a quick ratio of 1.37. Alibaba Group has a fifty-two week low of $68.36 and a fifty-two week high of $117.82. The business has a 50-day moving average price of $86.27 and a two-hundred day moving average price of $88.62.

Uber Technologies (UBER)

Uber Technologies, Inc. develops and operates proprietary technology applications in the United States, Canada, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia excluding China and Southeast Asia. It operates through three segments: Mobility, Delivery, and Freight. The Mobility segment connects consumers with a range of transportation modalities, such as ridesharing, carsharing, micromobility, rentals, public transit, taxis, and other modalities; and offers riders in a variety of vehicle types, as well as financial partnerships products and advertising services.

UBER stock traded up $0.36 during midday trading on Friday, reaching $66.95. 9,427,127 shares of the company’s stock traded hands, compared to its average volume of 24,664,521. The company has a market capitalization of $140.98 billion, a P/E ratio of 33.42, a PEG ratio of 0.77 and a beta of 1.36. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.70, a current ratio of 1.41 and a quick ratio of 1.41. Uber Technologies has a fifty-two week low of $54.84 and a fifty-two week high of $87.00. The business has a 50-day moving average price of $65.71 and a two-hundred day moving average price of $70.14.

Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.B)

Berkshire Hathaway Inc., through its subsidiaries, engages in the insurance, freight rail transportation, and utility businesses worldwide. The company provides property, casualty, life, accident, and health insurance and reinsurance; and operates railroad systems in North America. It also generates, transmits, stores, and distributes electricity from natural gas, coal, wind, solar, hydroelectric, nuclear, and geothermal sources; operates natural gas distribution and storage facilities, interstate pipelines, liquefied natural gas facilities, and compressor and meter stations; and holds interest in coal mining assets.

BRK.B stock traded down $4.67 during midday trading on Friday, reaching $467.68. 1,102,249 shares of the company’s stock traded hands, compared to its average volume of 3,905,066. The business has a 50-day moving average price of $461.92 and a two-hundred day moving average price of $456.01. Berkshire Hathaway has a fifty-two week low of $381.48 and a fifty-two week high of $491.67. The company has a market capitalization of $1.01 trillion, a P/E ratio of 9.47, a PEG ratio of 3.36 and a beta of 0.88.

Booking (BKNG)

Booking Holdings Inc, formerly The Priceline Group Inc., is a provider of travel and restaurant online reservation and related services. The Company, through its online travel companies (OTCs), connects consumers wishing to make travel reservations with providers of travel services across the world. It offers consumers an array of accommodation reservations (including hotels, bed and breakfasts, hostels, apartments, vacation rentals and other properties) through its Booking.com, priceline.com and agoda.com brands.

Shares of NASDAQ BKNG traded down $5.03 during trading on Friday, reaching $4,769.31. 90,838 shares of the stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 251,340. The business’s 50-day moving average price is $5,000.97 and its 200 day moving average price is $4,426.92. Booking has a twelve month low of $3,180.00 and a twelve month high of $5,337.24. The company has a market capitalization of $157.86 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 32.37, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 1.61 and a beta of 1.41.

SoundHound AI (SOUN)

SoundHound AI, Inc. develops independent voice artificial intelligence (AI) solutions that enables businesses across automotive, TV, and IoT, and to customer service industries to deliver high-quality conversational experiences to their customers. Its products include Houndify platform that offers a suite of Houndify tools to help brands build conversational voice assistants, such as Application Programming Interfaces (API) for text and voice queries, support for custom commands, extensive library of content domains, inclusive software development kit platforms, collaboration capabilities, diagnostic tools, and built-in analytics; SoundHound Chat AI that integrates with knowledge domains, pulling real-time data like weather, sports, stocks, flight status, and restaurants; and SoundHound Smart Answering is built to offer customer establishments custom AI-powered voice assistant.

Shares of NASDAQ SOUN traded up $0.28 during trading on Friday, reaching $14.28. 30,324,499 shares of the stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 60,680,680. The business’s 50-day moving average price is $15.51 and its 200 day moving average price is $8.77. SoundHound AI has a twelve month low of $1.62 and a twelve month high of $24.98. The company has a quick ratio of 2.58, a current ratio of 2.58 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.13. The company has a market capitalization of $5.28 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of -39.78 and a beta of 2.63.

Coca-Cola (KO)

The Coca-Cola Company, a beverage company, manufactures, markets, and sells various nonalcoholic beverages worldwide. The company provides sparkling soft drinks, sparkling flavors; water, sports, coffee, and tea; juice, value-added dairy, and plant-based beverages; and other beverages. It also offers beverage concentrates and syrups, as well as fountain syrups to fountain retailers, such as restaurants and convenience stores.

Shares of NYSE KO traded down $0.48 during trading on Friday, reaching $63.58. 5,231,754 shares of the stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 15,807,082. The business’s 50-day moving average price is $62.65 and its 200 day moving average price is $66.37. Coca-Cola has a twelve month low of $57.93 and a twelve month high of $73.53. The company has a quick ratio of 0.90, a current ratio of 1.06 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.53. The company has a market capitalization of $273.87 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 26.29, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 3.52 and a beta of 0.61.

Block (XYZ)

Block, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, creates tools that enables sellers to accept card payments and provides reporting and analytics, and next-day settlement. It provides hardware products, including Magstripe reader, which enables swiped transactions of magnetic stripe cards; Contactless and chip reader that accepts Europay, MasterCard, and Visa (EMV) chip cards and Near Field Communication payments; Square Stand, which enables an iPad to be used as a payment terminal or full point of sale solution; Square Register that combines its hardware, point-of-sale software, and payments technology; Square Terminal, a payments device and receipt printer to replace traditional keypad terminals, which accepts tap, dip, and swipe payments.

XYZ traded down $0.90 during trading on Friday, hitting $92.05. The company had a trading volume of 3,043,243 shares, compared to its average volume of 5,927,533. The stock has a market capitalization of $57.05 billion, a PE ratio of 51.71, a P/E/G ratio of 0.82 and a beta of 2.51. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.26, a current ratio of 2.07 and a quick ratio of 2.07. Block has a 1-year low of $55.00 and a 1-year high of $99.26.