Dine Brands Global, Inc. Common DIN

Competitive advantage analysis · consumer-cyclical

Corporate Default
Overall moat score
61/100
Moderate

Ranked against 56 peers in Restaurants

About Dine Brands Global, Inc. Common

Dine Brands Global, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, owns, franchises, and operates restaurants in the United States and internationally. It operates through three segments: Franchise, Company-owned restaurants, and Rental. The company franchises the restaurants operated by Applebee's franchisees, IHOP franchisees, and Fuzzy's franchisees in the United States. It owns, franchises, and operates restaurant concepts, including Applebee's Neighborhood Grill + Bar … Full DIN analysis →

Key strengths

  • Margins Consistently Above Peers Gross margin at 40.9% (top 17%) and operating margin at 16.3% (top 13%) indicate strong pricing power.
  • ROIC Sustainably Above Peers ROIC at 68.5th percentile exceeds peers and WACC, demonstrating superior capital allocation.

Key risks

  • Elevated Debt Risk Debt serviceability is weak (score 0.31), raising refinancing risk.

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Pricing Power

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Where DIN ranks in Restaurants

Dine Brands Global, Inc. Common ranks #18 of 57 scored companies in Restaurants by moat score — the top 32%. The widest moat in the group is Yum! Brands, Inc. (YUM) at 83/100.

# Company Moat score Rating
14 The Cheesecake Factory Incorpor CAKE 67/100 Moderate
15 El Pollo Loco Holdings, Inc. LOCO 65/100 Moderate
16 Shake Shack, Inc. SHAK 64/100 Moderate
17 Dutch Bros Inc. BROS 63/100 Moderate
18 Dine Brands Global, Inc. Common DIN 61/100 Moderate
19 SUPER HI INTERNATIONAL HOLDING HDL 61/100 Moderate
20 Flanigan's Enterprises, Inc. BDL 61/100 Moderate
21 Starbucks Corporation SBUX 60/100 Moderate
22 Arcos Dorados Holdings Inc. ARCO 59/100 Moderate

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How DIN scores on the Corporate Default defenses

Pricing Power

Score 78 · 20% of the moat score

Pricing power is the ability to raise prices without losing volume.

Cost Advantage

Score 49 · 15% of the moat score

A cost advantage means delivering the same product for structurally less — better purchasing, denser distribution, a more automated process.

Customer Stickiness

Score 58 · 15% of the moat score

Stickiness is what makes revenue repeat without being re-won every year.

Capital Efficiency

Score 66 · 18% of the moat score

Capital efficiency asks what the company earns on the money tied up in the business.

Resilience

Score 44 · 17% of the moat score

Resilience is the capacity to get through a bad year on its own terms — enough liquidity, enough interest cover, and enough cash generation to avoid a rescue financing or a forced sale.

Scale & Market Position

Score 68 · 15% of the moat score

Scale matters only when it converts into economics.

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Understanding DIN's moat

What is Dine Brands Global, Inc. Common's moat score?

Dine Brands Global, Inc. Common (DIN) scores 61 out of 100 on the StatsAlpha Moat Map, which rates its competitive advantage as moderate. It ranks #18 of 57 scored companies in Restaurants, the top 32%. The score is a weighted composite of 6 competitive defenses, each measured against industry peers of 56 companies in Restaurants. Its strongest defense is Pricing Power (78/100) and its weakest is Resilience (44/100).

How does Dine Brands Global, Inc. Common compare with other Restaurants companies?

Dine Brands Global, Inc. Common ranks #18 of 57 scored companies in Restaurants by moat score. The widest moat in Restaurants is Yum! Brands, Inc. (YUM) at 83/100. The companies ranked closest are Dutch Bros Inc. (BROS) at 63 just above it and SUPER HI INTERNATIONAL HOLDING (HDL) at 61 just below it.

How is the moat score calculated?

Each company is scored with an industry-specific template — Corporate Default in this case, chosen because the defenses that matter to a bank are not the ones that matter to a software company. Every defense combines several financial signals, and each signal is measured as a percentile against a peer group of 56 companies in Restaurants. The defenses are then weighted to produce the overall score out of 100.

Why is Dine Brands Global, Inc. Common scored with the Corporate Default template?

Most public companies sell a product or a service at a margin, so the moat question is whether that margin survives contact with competitors. The Corporate template scores the six defenses that show up in a general operating company's financial signature: whether it can hold price, produce more cheaply than rivals, keep its customers, earn a return above its cost of capital, withstand a downturn, and turn size into economics.

Which competitive defenses are measured for Dine Brands Global, Inc. Common?

The Corporate Default template measures 6 defenses, and DIN scores: Pricing Power (78), Cost Advantage (49), Customer Stickiness (58), Capital Efficiency (66), Resilience (44), Scale & Market Position (68). Each is scored independently as a percentile against peers, so a company can be strong on one and weak on another — the overall score reflects how those defenses are weighted for this industry.

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