CMG vs. MCD, SBUX, YUM, DPZ, DRI, TXRH, WEN, EAT, CAKE, and BLMN
Should you be buying Chipotle Mexican Grill stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Chipotle Mexican Grill include McDonald's (MCD), Starbucks (SBUX), Yum! Brands (YUM), Domino's Pizza (DPZ), Darden Restaurants (DRI), Texas Roadhouse (TXRH), Wendy's (WEN), Brinker International (EAT), Cheesecake Factory (CAKE), and Bloomin' Brands (BLMN). These companies are all part of the "restaurants" industry.
McDonald's (NYSE:MCD) and Chipotle Mexican Grill (NYSE:CMG) are both large-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking, valuation, risk, dividends, media sentiment and earnings.
In the previous week, Chipotle Mexican Grill had 4 more articles in the media than McDonald's. MarketBeat recorded 30 mentions for Chipotle Mexican Grill and 26 mentions for McDonald's. McDonald's' average media sentiment score of 0.62 beat Chipotle Mexican Grill's score of 0.52 indicating that Chipotle Mexican Grill is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
McDonald's currently has a consensus target price of $316.15, indicating a potential upside of 21.26%. Chipotle Mexican Grill has a consensus target price of $3,156.92, indicating a potential downside of 1.70%. Given Chipotle Mexican Grill's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe McDonald's is more favorable than Chipotle Mexican Grill.
McDonald's has higher revenue and earnings than Chipotle Mexican Grill. McDonald's is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Chipotle Mexican Grill, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
McDonald's has a net margin of 33.36% compared to McDonald's' net margin of 12.70%. McDonald's' return on equity of 43.74% beat Chipotle Mexican Grill's return on equity.
70.3% of McDonald's shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.3% of Chipotle Mexican Grill shares are held by institutional investors. 0.2% of McDonald's shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Chipotle Mexican Grill shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
McDonald's received 371 more outperform votes than Chipotle Mexican Grill when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.97% of users gave McDonald's an outperform vote while only 59.86% of users gave Chipotle Mexican Grill an outperform vote.
McDonald's has a beta of 0.71, meaning that its share price is 29% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Chipotle Mexican Grill has a beta of 1.25, meaning that its share price is 25% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Chipotle Mexican Grill beats McDonald's on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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