UPDATE: Dougherty & Co Starts Carrol's Restaurant (TAST) at Buy
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(Update corrects price target to $10.50 vs $10.)
Dougherty & Co initiates coverage on Carrol's Restaurant (NASDAQ: TAST) with a Buy rating and a price target of $10.50
Analyst Jeremy Hamblin said, "Carrols has rapidly grown its unit base from 297 stores in mid-2012 to 674 units at the end of 2014 via franchise acquisition and we expect units to grow another 25%+ to 850 units by 2017 in the same manner. Historically, TAST is able to improve restaurant margins 300+ bps on acquired units by reducing food waste and theft which helps to generate 30%+ ROIs on acquisitions. We anticipate that sky-high beef prices that cost TAST over $10 M in EBITDA on a $36 M base in FY14 will abate in 2H16 creating another tailwind for earnings growth. We initiate with a Buy rating and $10.50 PT which is based on 9.0x our FY16 EBITDA estimate of $56 M."
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Shares of Carrol's Restaurant closed at $8.40 yesterday.
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