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Bloomin' Brands, Inc.BLMNCompetitor analysis, valuation and peers

United States · USD·Consumer Discretionary›Restaurants
Momentum strong 72
Mkt cap
$835M
US dollars, full cap
Free float
99%
of shares outstanding
$/day
$27.3M
20-day average traded
Fwd P/E
10.5×
forward earnings
ROIC−WACC
-3.3 pp
WACC 7.2%
Hurdle
+6 pp
Req g minus delivered
Close · USD$9.75
1D-6.9%
1W-7.8%
1M+15.0%
3M-11.5%
6M+22.6%
YTD+58.0%
1Y+41.5%
ATR %7.1%
Beta1.29
52w lowhigh19.8% off high

What Bloomin' Brands does

Employees: 64,000

Bloomin' Brands at a glance

Size Bloomin' Brands (BLMN) is a United States Consumer Discretionary company (Restaurants) with a market value of $835M, the 2367th largest of 3,117 United States companies the cockpit tracks. Shares closed at $9.75 on 6 Nov 2026.

Performance Over six months the shares gained 22.6%, against +8.1% for the median peer and -1.1% for the United States market (cap-weighted) — 6th highest of 21 in its peer set.

Growth Revenue fell 2.0% over the last twelve months (peer median +8.0%); the operating margin is 2.8% (peer median 5.3%).

Valuation It trades at 10.5× forward earnings against a peer median of 26.0× (2nd cheapest of 17).

Price implies For today's price to make sense, revenue must grow about 11% a year for seven years (Req g). Recent delivered growth is +5%, so the hurdle is +6 pp: the price needs faster growth than the company has been delivering — of companies that just grew 25–50% a year, 93.8% slowed down over the next four years.

Capital Return on invested capital runs 3.3 points below its cost of capital (7.2% WACC).

Short interest Short interest is 14.2% of the free float (15 Oct 2026).

Relative performance

10012014011 May 202611 Aug 20266 Nov 2026BLMN 120Peer median 111
Six months, rebased to 100: Bloomin' Brands against the median of its 20 peers (local-currency closes).

Bloomin' Brands financials

Reported figures in USD; fiscal year ends 2025-12-31. TTM = trailing twelve months.
TTMFY2025FY2024FY2023FY2022
Revenue$3.98B$3.96B$3.95B$4.17B$4.42B
Revenue growth—0%-5%-6%—
Gross profit$352M$352M$423M$550M$581M
EBITDA$294M$340M$383M$486M$599M
Net income$29.4M$5.38M-$128M$247M$102M
Free cash flow$155M$96.8M$7.39M$250M$171M
Capital expenditure$165M$180M$221M$282M$220M
Total debt$1.92B$2.02B$2.29B$2.04B$2.17B

Quarterly statements and history in the cockpit →

Bloomin' Brands competitor charts

The default views of Competitor Analysis ▸ Charts, drawn from the same data. Open them in the cockpit to change the axes, pin companies and read every value.

Performance: 6-month against 1-month return

-40%-20%0%+20%-10%0%+10%815326953543FWRG81792589CKF76119887SAPPHIRE3399CNNEBH3087RBA7630PZZAWESTLIFE9936BLMN6-month return →1-month return →
Up and to the right = strong over both horizons. Bloomin' Brands is the large dot.

Fundamentals: revenue growth against valuation

0%+10%+20%+30%0×200×400×815326953543FWRG81792589SAPPHIRE3399PZZAWESTLIFE9936BLMNRevenue growth (TTM) →Forward P/E →
Further right = faster growth; higher = more expensive. The dashed lines are the peer medians. Bloomin' Brands is the large dot.

Capital: growth delivered against growth the price implies

0%+20%+40%0%20%40%81532695354381792589CKF7611SAPPHIRE3399BH30877630PZZAWESTLIFE9936AWBLMNGrowth delivered (Del g) →Growth the price implies (Req g, 7 yrs) →
Above the diagonal = the price needs more growth than the company has been delivering; below = the price already allows for a slowdown. Bloomin' Brands is the large dot.

Bloomin' Brands competitors and peer comparison

How Bloomin' Brands compares with its peers

Peer set: Industry: the same industry and sector in any market, nearest in size. This is the same default set the interactive Competitor Analysis opens with.

Bloomin' Brands against its 20 peers (data as of 6 Nov 2026)
MeasureBLMNPeer medianRank in peer set
1-month return+15.0%+6.3%4th highest of 21
6-month return+22.6%+8.1%6th highest of 21
Distance from 52-week high-19.8%-12.9%8th lowest of 21
Revenue growth (TTM)-2.0%+8.0%3rd lowest of 21
Operating margin2.8%5.3%5th lowest of 21
Forward P/E10.5×26.0×2nd cheapest of 17
Growth the price implies (Req g, 7 yrs)10.6%3.9%6th most demanding of 17
Growth delivered (Del g)+4.5%+11.6%4th lowest of 17
Hurdle (Req g minus delivered)+6.1 pp-4.3 pp5th most demanding of 17
ROIC minus cost of capital-3.3 pp+1.1 pp8th lowest of 20
EV / EBITDA9.2×13.0×5th cheapest of 19
Net debt / EBITDA6.3×2.0×3rd most indebted of 19

Peer table

Peer set: Industry: the same industry and sector in any market, nearest in size
CompanyMarketMarket cap6M returnRevenue growthOp. marginForward P/EReq gDelivered g
Bloomin' Brands BLMNUnited States$835M+23%-2%3%10.5×10.6%+4.5%
Mos Food Services 8153.TJapan$845M+10%+6%5%30.3×2.2%+7.4%
Kura Sushi 2695.TJapan$848M-2%+4%1%48.1×21.5%+12.5%
KOMEDA 3543.TJapan$859M-4%+13%17%19.2×-0.7%+14.7%
First Watch Restaurant FWRGUnited States$794M+6%+16%3%53.3×n/an/a
Royal 8179.TJapan$887M+5%+7%5%24.6×5.7%+14.4%
Auntea Jenny (Shanghai) Industrial 2589.HKHong Kong$784M-61%+36%15%8.5×-7.1%+23.7%
Collins Foods CKF.AXAustralia$762M+15%+5%8%16.3×1.4%+8.4%
Hiday Hidaka 7611.TJapan$760M+11%+10%11%23.5×-3.3%+16.1%
Matsuya Foods 9887.TJapan$733M+7%+18%4%n/an/an/a
Sapphire Foods India SAPPHIRE.NSIndia$715M+12%+13%4%409.8×46.7%+25.1%
Maruchiyo Yamaokaya 3399.TJapan$710M+82%+19%11%28.4×3.5%+24.7%
Cannae CNNEUnited States$700M+25%-7%-17%n/an/an/a
Biglari BHUnited States$1.01B+5%+8%5%n/a22.1%-1.8%
Doutor Nichires 3087.TJapan$1.03B+33%+8%7%16.3×-4.7%+10.6%
Restaurant Brands Asia RBA.NSIndia$668M+31%+16%0%n/an/an/a
Ichibanya 7630.TJapan$1.06B+21%+8%6%57.3×12.2%+8.2%
Papa John's International PZZAUnited States$650M-37%-6%5%19.7×4.8%+2.5%
Westlife Foodworld WESTLIFE.NSIndia$1.08B+31%+10%5%343.5×49.0%+21.7%
Ohsho Food Service 9936.TJapan$1.11B-1%0%7%27.5×4.2%+7.7%
A&W Food Services of Canada AW.TOCanada$625M0%+3%30%14.0×2.6%-0.6%

Questions

Which companies are Bloomin' Brands's closest peers?
The cockpit's peer set: Mos Food Services (8153.T), Kura Sushi (2695.T), KOMEDA (3543.T), First Watch Restaurant (FWRG), Royal (8179.T), Auntea Jenny (Shanghai) Industrial (2589.HK), Collins Foods (CKF.AX), Hiday Hidaka (7611.T).
Is Bloomin' Brands expensive compared with its peers?
On forward p/e it trades at 10.5× against a peer median of 26.0×, 2nd cheapest of 17 in its peer set. For today's price to make sense, revenue must grow about 11% a year for seven years (Req g). Recent delivered growth is +5%, so the hurdle is +6 pp: the price needs faster growth than the company has been delivering — of companies that just grew 25–50% a year, 93.8% slowed down over the next four years.
How has Bloomin' Brands stock performed?
Over six months to 6 Nov 2026 the shares returned +22.6% against +8.1% for the median peer; over one year +41.5%.

How these numbers are made. Returns are close-to-close in local currency. Revenue growth and margins are trailing twelve months. Req g is the revenue growth that today's enterprise value requires for seven years at the company's own cost of capital; Delivered g is what it actually grew; the gap is the hurdle (honest precision about ±8 points, so read the ranking more than the decimal). No fair values, price targets or analyst ratings are shown, by design. Method and validation.