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Texas Roadhouse and Brinker International have the recipe rivals are missing. August 15, 2026 Key points. * While chains like Sweetgreen and Papa John's struggled in 2026, Texas Roadhouse and Brinker International managed to grow both comps and margins. * Texas Roadhouse shares rallied nearly 30% year-to-date and reached a new all-time high after management cut its fiscal 2026 beef inflation forecast to 5%. * Brinker International stock surged 80% over three months as Chili's same-store sales growth of 5.6% drove an upbeat fiscal 2027 outlook despite Maggiano's weakness. * MarketBeat previews the top five stocks to own by September 1st. The restaurant sector has been a mixed bag so far in 2026. Commodity prices like beef and oil have been a major pressure point, and several fast casual chains like Sweetgreen Inc. NYSE: SG and Papa John's International Inc. NASDAQ: PZZA recently reported disastrous earnings. But the industry has its fair share of winners as well, and the following two companies are pulling off an impressive double-feat: growing comps and margins. With commodity pressures (hopefully) in the rearview and consumer sentiment bouncing off historic lows, these three restaurant stocks look like good candidates for a strong second-half finish. Texas Roadhouse: margins expected to improve as commodity pressures fade. Texas Roadhouse today. Texas Roadhouse $207.10 +0.09 (+0.04%) As of 08/14/2026 04:00 PM Eastern * 52-Week Range - $153.82 | $216.30 * Dividend Yield - 1.45% * P/E Ratio - 33.14 * Price Target - $208.48 Texas Roadhouse Inc. NASDAQ: TXRH was hit hardest by soaring beef prices, and its stock went nearly two years between all-time highs. The company sells its steaks at thinner margins than most casual chains and makes up the difference by upselling add-ons, sides, and drinks. This strategy gave them little room to absorb soaring beef costs, which peaked in Q4 2025 when the company reported 9.5% commodity inflation in its quarterly earnings. At the time, management gave commodity guidance of 7% for fiscal 2026, which was expected to pressure margin growth through the rest of the year. Discover more ETF screener access But when the company released its fiscal Q2 2026 results on Aug. 6, some of those fears were put to rest. The commodity inflation outlook was lowered to 5% for fiscal 2026, with a predicted decline to 2%-3% by Q3. Beef relief is the primary reason investors remain committed to the company despite negative year-over-year (YOY) earnings growth. Margin rates have yet to reflect these falling costs, but Q2 saw sales outgrow the commodity pressure, which helps explain why profitability eroded despite 6.2% comps and 11.1% revenue growth. However, declines in margin rates are slowing, and food and beverage costs as a percentage of sales should turn negative YOY if current pricing trends hold. The stock received several price target boosts following the earnings report, including a new Street-high target of $235 from Robert Baird and Royal Bank of Canada. TXRH shares are now up nearly 30% year-to-date (YTD), with nearly half the gain coming in the last six weeks. The stock broke above the 50- and 200-day moving averages in June as the Relative Strength Index (RSI) crept into bullish territory. A Golden Cross confirmed the breakout, and the stock made its first new all-time high since 2024 on July 29. With cost relief in sight and consumer sentiment improving, the stock may have further upside. Brinker International: 2027 guidance boost pops stock another 10%. Brinker International today. Brinker International $237.42 -1.19 (-0.50%) As of 08/14/2026 03:59 PM Eastern * 52-Week Range - $100.30 | $253.71 * P/E Ratio - 21.80 * Price Target - $234.35 Brinker International Inc. NYSE: EAT has been one of the industry's surprise turnaround stories, driven mostly by growth in its flagship Chili's restaurants. And unlike Texas Roadhouse, the company began seeing its margins expand before cost relief entered the picture, which is why its stock chart looks more like that of an AI hyperscaler than a casual sit-down dining chain. Shares are up 80% in the last three months alone, and got yet another bump following the company's latest numbers. Brinker International reported its fiscal Q4 2026 results before the bell on Aug. 12, with fairly milquetoast headline numbers: earnings per share (EPS) of $3.07, slightly below consensus, and revenue of $1.54 billion, slightly above consensus. But the proof was in the composition, which again shows very strong underlying economics. Same-store sales at Chili's grew 5.6%, which helped offset a 2.5% comp decline from Maggiano's. Restaurant operating margins grew 40 basis points YOY and 20 basis points sequentially, indicating that dollar economics were improving even at the zenith of commodity pressure. Maggiano's remains an anchor, with foot traffic declining 5.3%, but it accounts for less than 10% of total company sales. It was the full-year fiscal 2027 guidance boost that sent the stock soaring after the release. Management guided annual revenue of $6.2 billion to $6.3 billion, and EPS of $12.60 to $13.40. At the midpoint, these figures represent YOY growth of 6.9% and 21%. However, there's a caveat: a 53rd week, which should be removed for a complete comparison. Without the 53rd week, revenue growth estimates are 4.9%, and the EPS range is $11.90 to $12.70. Still impressive growth, but not as shocking as the headline figures. The EAT stock chart reflects the margin gains TXRH has yet to achieve. An 80% gain in a quarter has already baked in much of the cost relief, and EAT faces less pressure from beef prices anyway. The long-term uptrend remains healthy, with price firmly above the 50- and 200-day moving averages, which formed a bullish Golden Cross in June. But a short-term pullback wouldn't be surprising with the RSI above 75, which indicates an overbought stock. However, if investors take profits over the next few sessions, the pullback could create a better entry point for new investors, especially since the stock still trades at a discount to TXRH at 24 times earnings. Continue following MarketBeat Before you consider Brinker International, you'll want to hear this. MarketBeat keeps track of Wall Street's top-rated and best performing research analysts and the stocks they recommend to their clients on a daily basis. 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Companies mentioned in this article. | Company | MarketRank(TM) | Current Price | Price Change | Dividend Yield | P/E Ratio | Consensus Rating | Consensus Price Target | | Brinker International (EAT) | 2.9082 of 5 stars | $237.42 | -0.5% | 0.64% | 21.80 | Moderate Buy | $234.35 | | Texas Roadhouse (TXRH) | 4.7242 of 5 stars | $207.10 | 0.0% | 1.45% | 33.14 | Hold | $208.48 | | Darden Restaurants (DRI) | 3.1652 of 5 stars | $225.32 | 0.8% | 2.88% | 21.71 | Moderate Buy | $228.88 |

Biloxi or D'Iberville: the median price depends on which half of the market you're standing in. August 13, 2026 Pull up two different market trackers for D'Iberville this year and you get two numbers that shouldn't exist in the same city. One puts the median home price at $259,000 as of May 2026. Another, tracking active listings in July 2026, puts the median at $479,000. That's not a rounding error or a bad data feed. It's what happens when a small coastal city gets split into two markets at once, and it changes how you should actually shop if you're weighing D'Iberville against neighboring Biloxi. The Gap Isn't a Typo, It's the Shape of the Market. D'Iberville's for-sale inventory right now runs from roughly $149,000 to $869,000, and there's remarkably little in the middle. On one end you have older ranch homes and cottages, the kind built before the city's current growth wave, priced in the low $200,000s and below. On the other end you have new construction: communities like The Highlands from D.R. Horton, the River's Edge subdivision, and pre-sale condos in the French Market District, most of them priced from the high $300,000s past $600,000. A market tracker that happens to sample more of the older resale stock in a given month reports a low median. One that catches more new-construction listings reports a high median. Both are technically correct. Neither tells you what a specific $280,000 budget actually buys, because that number sits right in the gap between the two clusters, and what you find there depends entirely on which cluster a given listing belongs to. Biloxi doesn't have this problem, at least not to the same degree. Tracked closings there over the trailing six months, as of August 2026, show a median sold price of $295,000 across 405 sales, with the middle half of those transactions closing between $220,000 and $367,000, according to Resideline's tracking of closed sales. That's a normal curve. Biloxi's housing stock was built out over decades, from Pointe Cadet cottages to Back Bay new construction, so the price distribution fills in smoothly rather than bunching at two ends. Why D'Iberville split this way. The barbell isn't random. It's what a city looks like mid-buildout, and D'Iberville is very publicly mid-buildout right now. City leaders detailed a $16 million project to widen Mallet Road to four lanes and upgrade its intersection with Sangani Mallet Road, tying into a Jackson County road that opened about a year and a half ago, during the city's annual State of the City event in May 2026, according to WLOX's coverage of the announcement. More than 100 acres of vacant land off I-10, sitting between Old Highway 67 and Popp's Ferry Road just south of Walk-On's, is being positioned for a major commercial corridor, with Mayor Rusty Quave telling WLOX in March 2026 that a large anchor retailer and several national chains have already shown interest, though no deals were finalized at the time. City Manager Bobby Weaver put it plainly when describing what draws people to the city: "The growth that they've seen, the road work that's constantly going on." That growth has since produced specifics. D'Iberville is set to land its first Mississippi location for BJ's Wholesale Club, planned for the corner of Popp's Ferry Road and D'Iberville Boulevard, and city leaders confirmed Texas Roadhouse is eyeing the former Red Lobster site, according to reporting from WXXV. The marina is expanding, the city revived its fishing rodeo after a ten-year gap, and the population has climbed to roughly 13,743 residents in 2026, up 8.04% since the 2020 census. Builders read that trajectory and price accordingly. New construction in a city that's actively adding retail anchors and widening its main commercial corridor commands a premium over resale stock that predates the investment. That premium is exactly what's stretching the median in two directions at once, and it's why neither $259,000 nor $479,000 is wrong. They're describing two different D'Ibervilles that happen to share a zip code. The line that actually moves your insurance bill. There's a second mechanism worth understanding before you compare a listing in one city to a listing in the other, and it has nothing to do with which side of the city limit sign a house sits on. Coastal insurance agencies serving the area note that homes near Biloxi's Back Bay and oceanfront corridors run 25 to 40% above inland rates, while properties near the D'Iberville border sit far enough from peak coastal exposure to catch meaningfully lower premiums, according to a breakdown from Bridgeway Insurance Agency. The same breakdown notes that Woolmarket, an inland Biloxi neighborhood, runs 15 to 25% below the city's own averages for the same reason. What that means in practice: the flood zone letters themselves don't explain the gap. Harrison County's FEMA flood insurance study lists nearly the same zone types for both cities, A, AE, VE, and X for D'Iberville, with Biloxi adding an AH designation on top of that same list, according to the county's flood insurance study documentation. Two houses with the same zone letter in two different cities can carry very different premiums depending on elevation and distance from open water. City name is a poor stand-in for that math. An elevation certificate for the specific parcel is not. What this means when you're comparing two actual listings. Here's where the two mechanisms combine into something useful. If you're looking at a $280,000 listing in D'Iberville and a $280,000 listing in Biloxi, the city-level median tells you almost nothing about which one is the better buy. What tells you something: * Whether the D'Iberville listing predates the current growth wave or is new construction, since that alone can explain a six-figure swing in what similar square footage costs a few streets apart * The parcel's actual distance from Back Bay water, not its city name, since that's what drives the insurance quote * Its flood zone letter and elevation certificate, pulled for that specific address rather than assumed from the neighborhood's reputation * Proximity to the Mallet Road and Popp's Ferry corridor projects still under construction, since access and retail convenience in that stretch of D'Iberville will look different in two years than it does today None of that shows up in a median price. All of it shows up in a title report, a flood determination, and a builder's plat map, which is the kind of detail that only becomes visible once you're looking at a specific address instead of a citywide number. Faq. Is D'Iberville actually cheaper than Biloxi right now? It depends entirely on which segment of D'Iberville's inventory you're comparing. Older resale stock there can undercut Biloxi's $220,000 to $367,000 middle-half range. New construction in communities built during the current growth wave often runs well above it. Does D'Iberville flood less than Biloxi? Not by city line alone. Both cities carry overlapping FEMA flood zone designations under Harrison County's flood insurance study. The meaningful difference is a specific parcel's elevation and distance from Back Bay, not which city holds the deed records. Will the current D'Iberville development push resale values up? The city has confirmed infrastructure spending, a first-in-Mississippi big-box retailer, and new dining options moving into vacant sites, all factors that typically support demand in a growing commercial corridor. Whether that translates to a specific property's future value depends on the parcel itself, and isn't something a blog post can promise you. The number that matters isn't the city's median. It's what a specific address costs to insure, what it cost to build, and what's happening on the road in front of it over the next two years. That's the kind of comparison that doesn't show up on a portal, and it's exactly the work its team does before a client ever writes an offer. If you're weighing a move between Biloxi and D'Iberville, HL Raymond Properties can walk the specific streets with you and show you which half of each market you're actually standing in.

Texas Roadhouse to open new restaurant in Olivette. Posted: Aug 6, 2026 / 04:44 PM CDT Updated: Aug 6, 2026 / 04:44 PM CDT Ask FOX2NOW anything Where is the new Texas Roadhouse located in Olivette? Which other businesses are part of Olivette Crossing? Why is Texas Roadhouse opening in Olivette Crossing? Full Summary Texas Roadhouse announced plans to open a new restaurant in the Olivette Crossing retail district of Olivette, Missouri, near Olive Boulevard and Interstate 170. OLIVETTE, Mo. - Texas Roadhouse, the American steakhouse chain known for its hand-cut steaks and lively atmosphere, is planning to open a new St. Louis-area restaurant in Olivette. Texas Roadhouse is preparing to open a new location in the Olivette Crossing retail district, located near Olive Boulevard and Interstate 170. "Texas Roadhouse represents another exciting milestone in Olive Crossing's evolution," said Jason Braidwood, President of Keeley Properties, via a news release. "From the beginning, our vision has been to create a destination that brings together best-in-class residential, hospitality, and retail experiences. Texas Roadhouse is a nationally recognized brand that complements our existing tenant mix while giving the community another reason to visit Olive Crossing." Details on construction and the expected opening date will be released at a later time. Olivette Crossing includes business such as ALDI, Paris Baguette, Tropical Smoothie Café, Verizon, and The Brass Tap, along with The Clover luxury apartments.