CVS vs. CMG, TGT, MELI, SBUX, TJX, ORLY, BKNG, AZO, JD, and CPNG
Should you be buying CVS Health stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of CVS Health include Chipotle Mexican Grill (CMG), Target (TGT), MercadoLibre (MELI), Starbucks (SBUX), TJX Companies (TJX), O'Reilly Automotive (ORLY), Booking (BKNG), AutoZone (AZO), JD.com (JD), and Coupang (CPNG). These companies are all part of the "retail/wholesale" sector.
CVS Health (NYSE:CVS) and Chipotle Mexican Grill (NYSE:CMG) are both large-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, valuation, risk, institutional ownership, dividends, profitability, analyst recommendations, earnings and media sentiment.
80.7% of CVS Health shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.3% of Chipotle Mexican Grill shares are held by institutional investors. 0.2% of CVS Health shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Chipotle Mexican Grill shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
CVS Health presently has a consensus target price of $80.35, indicating a potential upside of 43.74%. Chipotle Mexican Grill has a consensus target price of $3,137.12, indicating a potential downside of 0.58%. Given CVS Health's higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe CVS Health is more favorable than Chipotle Mexican Grill.
Chipotle Mexican Grill has a net margin of 12.70% compared to CVS Health's net margin of 2.03%. Chipotle Mexican Grill's return on equity of 43.74% beat CVS Health's return on equity.
CVS Health has a beta of 0.56, indicating that its stock price is 44% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Chipotle Mexican Grill has a beta of 1.26, indicating that its stock price is 26% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, CVS Health had 38 more articles in the media than Chipotle Mexican Grill. MarketBeat recorded 96 mentions for CVS Health and 58 mentions for Chipotle Mexican Grill. Chipotle Mexican Grill's average media sentiment score of 0.45 beat CVS Health's score of -0.05 indicating that Chipotle Mexican Grill is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
CVS Health has higher revenue and earnings than Chipotle Mexican Grill. CVS Health 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 received 255 more outperform votes than CVS Health when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 76.00% of users gave CVS Health an outperform vote while only 59.88% of users gave Chipotle Mexican Grill an outperform vote.
Summary
Chipotle Mexican Grill beats CVS Health on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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