QSR vs. CMG, YUM, DRI, YUMC, WING, TXRH, CAVA, ARMK, MAIN, and SG
Should you be buying Restaurant Brands International stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Restaurant Brands International include Chipotle Mexican Grill (CMG), Yum! Brands (YUM), Darden Restaurants (DRI), Yum China (YUMC), Wingstop (WING), Texas Roadhouse (TXRH), CAVA Group (CAVA), Aramark (ARMK), Main Street Capital (MAIN), and Sweetgreen (SG). These companies are all part of the "eating places" industry.
Chipotle Mexican Grill (NYSE:CMG) and Restaurant Brands International (NYSE:QSR) are both large-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, dividends, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, community ranking, risk and valuation.
91.3% of Chipotle Mexican Grill shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 82.3% of Restaurant Brands International shares are held by institutional investors. 1.0% of Chipotle Mexican Grill shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.4% of Restaurant Brands International shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Chipotle Mexican Grill received 1006 more outperform votes than Restaurant Brands International when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 60.67% of users gave Restaurant Brands International an outperform vote while only 59.86% of users gave Chipotle Mexican Grill an outperform vote.
Chipotle Mexican Grill has higher revenue and earnings than Restaurant Brands International. Restaurant Brands International 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.
Chipotle Mexican Grill has a beta of 1.25, suggesting that its share price is 25% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Restaurant Brands International has a beta of 0.92, suggesting that its share price is 8% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Restaurant Brands International has a net margin of 17.17% compared to Restaurant Brands International's net margin of 12.70%. Restaurant Brands International's return on equity of 43.74% beat Chipotle Mexican Grill's return on equity.
In the previous week, Chipotle Mexican Grill had 17 more articles in the media than Restaurant Brands International. MarketBeat recorded 27 mentions for Chipotle Mexican Grill and 10 mentions for Restaurant Brands International. Chipotle Mexican Grill's average media sentiment score of 0.92 beat Restaurant Brands International's score of 0.68 indicating that Restaurant Brands International is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Chipotle Mexican Grill presently has a consensus target price of $3,156.92, indicating a potential downside of 0.38%. Restaurant Brands International has a consensus target price of $83.18, indicating a potential upside of 20.93%. Given Chipotle Mexican Grill's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Restaurant Brands International is more favorable than Chipotle Mexican Grill.
Summary
Chipotle Mexican Grill beats Restaurant Brands International on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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