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Company	Current Price	50-Day Moving Average	52-Week Range	Market Cap	Beta	Avg. Volume	Today's Volume
CMG Chipotle Mexican Grill	$3,155.38 +0.4%	$2,878.41	$1,768.64 ▼ $3,241.42	$86.68B	1.26	275,642 shs	269,495 shs
MCD McDonald's	$270.32 -1.1%	$279.53	$245.73 ▼ $302.39	$194.90B	0.71	3.81 million shs	2.64 million shs
WEN Wendy's	$19.94 +0.1%	$18.80	$17.64 ▼ $23.90	$4.09B	0.78	3.57 million shs	3.62 million shs

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Price Performance

Company	1-Day Performance	7-Day Performance	30-Day Performance	90-Day Performance	1-Year Performance
CMG Chipotle Mexican Grill	+0.42%	-1.07%	+8.90%	+27.11%	+53.30%
MCD McDonald's	-1.08%	-1.03%	-1.91%	-9.00%	-8.43%
WEN Wendy's	+0.10%	-0.99%	+8.78%	+4.56%	-8.91%

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MarketRank™

Company	Overall Score	Analyst's Opinion	Short Interest Score	Dividend Strength	ESG Score	News and Social Media Sentiment	Company Ownership	Earnings & Valuation
CMG Chipotle Mexican Grill	3.9286 of 5 stars	2.3	3.0	0.0	2.0	2.5	2.5	2.5
MCD McDonald's	4.7791 of 5 stars	3.4	3.0	4.2	1.1	2.2	2.5	2.5
WEN Wendy's	4.784 of 5 stars	3.1	4.0	1.7	1.8	3.0	3.3	2.5

Analyst Ratings

Company	Consensus Rating Score	Consensus Rating	Consensus Price Target	% Upside from Current Price
CMG Chipotle Mexican Grill	2.65	Moderate Buy	$3,137.12	-0.58% Downside
MCD McDonald's	2.71	Moderate Buy	$317.74	17.54% Upside
WEN Wendy's	2.24	Hold	$22.60	13.34% Upside

Current Analyst Ratings

Latest CMG, MCD, and WEN Analyst Ratings

Date	Company	Brokerage	Action	Rating	Price Target
5/3/2024	WEN Wendy's	Citigroup Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Neutral ➝ Neutral	$20.00 ➝ $21.00
5/3/2024	WEN Wendy's	UBS Group Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Neutral ➝ Neutral	$20.00 ➝ $21.00
5/3/2024	WEN Wendy's	BMO Capital Markets Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Market Perform ➝ Market Perform	$20.00 ➝ $22.00
5/3/2024	WEN Wendy's	Piper Sandler Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Overweight ➝ Overweight	$21.00 ➝ $23.00
5/3/2024	WEN Wendy's	TD Cowen Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Reiterated Rating	Hold ➝ Hold	$19.00
5/3/2024	WEN Wendy's	Wedbush Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Neutral ➝ Neutral	$20.00 ➝ $21.00
5/2/2024	MCD McDonald's	Guggenheim Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Lower Price Target	Buy ➝ Buy	$325.00 ➝ $315.00
5/2/2024	MCD McDonald's	Truist Financial Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Lower Price Target	Buy ➝ Buy	$337.00 ➝ $320.00
5/2/2024	WEN Wendy's	Stephens Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Reiterated Rating	Equal Weight ➝ Equal Weight	$20.00
5/1/2024	MCD McDonald's	JPMorgan Chase & Co. Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Lower Price Target	Overweight ➝ Overweight	$300.00 ➝ $290.00
5/1/2024	MCD McDonald's	KeyCorp Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Lower Price Target	Overweight ➝ Overweight	$315.00 ➝ $310.00

(Data available from 5/4/2021 forward. View 10+ years of historical ratings with our analyst ratings screener.)

Sales & Book Value

Company	Annual Revenue	Price/Sales	Cashflow	Price/Cash	Book Value	Price/Book
CMG Chipotle Mexican Grill	$9.87B	8.78	$57.17 per share	55.19	$122.38 per share	25.78
MCD McDonald's	$25.49B	7.65	$14.62 per share	18.49	($6.49) per share	-41.65
WEN Wendy's	$2.19B	1.87	$1.70 per share	11.73	$1.43 per share	13.94

Profitability & Earnings

Company	Net Income	EPS	Trailing P/E Ratio	Forward P/E Ratio	P/E Growth	Net Margins	Return on Equity (ROE)	Return on Assets (ROA)	Next Earnings Date
CMG Chipotle Mexican Grill	$1.23B	$46.86	67.34	47.60	2.52	12.70%	43.74%	16.55%	7/24/2024 (Estimated)
MCD McDonald's	$8.47B	$11.78	22.95	20.46	2.95	33.36%	-180.54%	16.57%	7/25/2024 (Estimated)
WEN Wendy's	$204.44M	$0.98	20.14	18.13	2.00	9.44%	62.68%	3.99%	8/14/2024 (Estimated)

Latest CMG, MCD, and WEN Earnings

Date	Quarter	Company	Consensus Estimate	Reported EPS	Beat/Miss	Gap EPS	Revenue Estimate	Actual Revenue
5/2/2024	Q1 2024	WEN Wendy's	$0.21	$0.23	+$0.02	$0.26	$540.84 million	$534.80 million
4/30/2024	Q1 24	MCD McDonald's	$2.71	$2.70	-$0.01	$2.74	$6.16 billion	$6.17 billion
4/24/2024	Q1 2024	CMG Chipotle Mexican Grill	$11.63	$13.37	+$1.74	$13.73	$2.67 billion	$2.70 billion
2/15/2024	Q4 2023	WEN Wendy's	$0.23	$0.21	-$0.02	$0.19	$546.47 million	$540.65 million
2/6/2024	Q4 2023	CMG Chipotle Mexican Grill	$9.73	$10.36	+$0.63	$10.51	$2.49 billion	$2.52 billion
2/5/2024	12/31/2023	MCD McDonald's	$2.83	$2.95	+$0.12	$3.10	$6.45 billion	$6.41 billion

Dividends

Company	Annual Payout	Dividend Yield	3-Year Dividend Growth	Payout Ratio	Years of Consecutive Growth
CMG Chipotle Mexican Grill	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
MCD McDonald's	$6.68	2.47%	+7.32%	56.71%	48 Years
WEN Wendy's	$1.00	5.02%	+51.08%	102.04%	3 Years

Latest CMG, MCD, and WEN Dividends

Announcement	Company	Period	Amount	Yield	Ex-Dividend Date	Record Date	Payable Date
5/2/2024	WEN Wendy's	Quarterly	$0.25	5.02%	6/3/2024	6/3/2024	6/17/2024
2/7/2024	MCD McDonald's	quarterly	$1.67	2.32%	2/29/2024	3/1/2024	3/15/2024
2/15/2024	WEN Wendy's	Quarterly	$0.25	5.27%	2/29/2024	3/1/2024	3/15/2024

(Data available from 1/1/2013 forward)

Debt

Company	Debt-to-Equity Ratio	Current Ratio	Quick Ratio
CMG Chipotle Mexican Grill	N/A	1.65	1.61
MCD McDonald's	N/A	1.16	1.16
WEN Wendy's	11.21	2.04	2.18

Ownership

Institutional Ownership

Company	Institutional Ownership
CMG Chipotle Mexican Grill	91.31%
MCD McDonald's	70.29%
WEN Wendy's	85.96%

Insider Ownership

Company	Insider Ownership
CMG Chipotle Mexican Grill	0.96%
MCD McDonald's	0.23%
WEN Wendy's	17.10%

Miscellaneous

Company	Employees	Shares Outstanding	Free Float	Optionable
CMG Chipotle Mexican Grill	116,068	27.47 million	27.20 million	Optionable
MCD McDonald's	150,000	721.01 million	719.35 million	Optionable
WEN Wendy's	15,300	205.36 million	170.24 million	Optionable

CMG, MCD, and WEN Headlines

Source	Headline
	Wesbanco Bank Inc. Invests $809,000 in The Wendy's Company (NASDAQ:WEN) marketbeat.com - May 4 at 10:34 PM
	'Dire and Scary': Wendy Williams Lifetime Doc Producers Say They Became 'Worried' About Her Care Under Guardianship msn.com - May 4 at 5:20 PM
	Person shot, critically hurt in Wendy's parking lot on Chicago's Southwest Side cbsnews.com - May 4 at 5:20 PM
	Wendy's Vs Burger King's Chicken Sandwich: Which Is Better? msn.com - May 4 at 5:20 PM
	‘Where Is Wendy Williams?' Producers Say They Were "Worried" About Her Care Under Her Guardianship msn.com - May 4 at 5:20 PM
	Producers Behind ‘Where Is Wendy Williams?’ Say Her Story Is ‘Not Over’ msn.com - May 4 at 5:03 AM
	Balanced Outlook on Wendy’s: Hold Recommendation Amidst Strategic Growth and Market Challenges markets.businessinsider.com - May 4 at 12:03 AM
	Wendy’s Stock Outlook: Hold Rating Amidst Cautious Growth and Competitive Challenges markets.businessinsider.com - May 4 at 12:03 AM
	Wendy Fisher msn.com - May 4 at 12:03 AM
	Wendy’s Lays Out Plan to Boost Franchisee Profits qsrmagazine.com - May 4 at 12:03 AM
	'This Is Not An Easy Story To Watch Or To Tell’: Amid Backlash Against Wendy Williams Docuseries, Producers Explain How The Talk Show Vet Feels About It msn.com - May 4 at 12:03 AM
	The Wendy’s Company (NASDAQ:WEN) Q1 2024 Earnings Call Transcript finance.yahoo.com - May 4 at 12:03 AM
	Wendy's (NASDAQ:WEN) Given New $21.00 Price Target at Citigroup marketbeat.com - May 3 at 10:43 PM
	The Wendy's Company (NASDAQ:WEN) to Issue $0.25 Quarterly Dividend marketbeat.com - May 3 at 9:48 PM
	Wendy's (NASDAQ:WEN) Releases Earnings Results, Beats Expectations By $0.02 EPS marketbeat.com - May 3 at 8:36 PM
	Wendy's (WEN) Q1 Earnings Beat Estimates, Revenues Lag zacks.com - May 3 at 1:26 PM
	Wendy's (NASDAQ:WEN) Issues FY 2024 Earnings Guidance marketbeat.com - May 3 at 1:21 PM
	Wendy's (NASDAQ:WEN) Earns "Hold" Rating from TD Cowen marketbeat.com - May 3 at 9:33 AM
	Banks Were Right in Boosting Shake Shack Stock Before Earnings (WEN) marketbeat.com - May 3 at 7:30 AM
	Kaleab Wendy talks win over Waterloo West, state title aspirations sports.yahoo.com - May 3 at 1:00 AM
	Wendy Valdez Calls Out Lack Of Courtesy For PWDs In Mall Elevators, ‘Nakatingin Sa Iyo Na Walang Pakialam’ smartparenting.com.ph - May 3 at 1:00 AM
	Chicago man charged with shooting Wendy's worker through drive-thru window msn.com - May 2 at 7:59 PM
	Wendy's: Q1 Earnings Snapshot washingtonpost.com - May 2 at 7:59 PM
	Wendy’s stock jumps as burger chain points to successes in advertising msn.com - May 2 at 7:59 PM

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Company Descriptions

Chipotle Mexican Grill

NYSE:CMG

Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, owns and operates Chipotle Mexican Grill restaurants. It sells food and beverages through offering burritos, burrito bowls, quesadillas, tacos, and salads. The company also provides delivery and related services its app and website. It has operations in the United States, Canada, France, Germany, and the United Kingdom. Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc. was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in Newport Beach, California.

McDonald's

NYSE:MCD

McDonald's Corporation operates and franchises restaurants under the McDonald's brand in the United States and internationally. It offers food and beverages, including hamburgers and cheeseburgers, various chicken sandwiches, fries, shakes, desserts, sundaes, cookies, pies, soft drinks, coffee, and other beverages; and full or limited breakfast, as well as sells various other products during limited-time promotions. The company owns and operates under various structures comprising conventional franchise, developmental license, or affiliate. McDonald's Corporation was founded in 1940 and is based in Chicago, Illinois.

Wendy's

NASDAQ:WEN

The Wendy's Company, together with its subsidiaries, operates as a quick-service restaurant company in the United States and internationally. It operates through Wendy's U.S., Wendy's International, and Global Real Estate & Development segments. The company is involved in operating, developing, and franchising a system of quick-service restaurants specializing in hamburger sandwiches. It owns and leases real estate properties. The company was formerly known as Wendy's/Arby's Group, Inc. and changed its name to The Wendy's Company in July 2011. The Wendy's Company was founded in 1969 and is headquartered in Dublin, Ohio.

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