Best Restaurant Stocks To Add to Your Watchlist - October 13th

Key Points

• The article highlights McDonald's, Booking, Chipotle Mexican Grill, Toast, and Texas Roadhouse as the top restaurant stocks to watch due to their significant trading volumes.
• Investors assess restaurant stocks based on metrics such as same-store sales, customer traffic, and margin pressure, reflecting the sensitivity of these businesses to consumer spending and economic cycles.
• Toast, Inc. is noted for its cloud-based digital solutions tailored for the restaurant industry, offering various software and hardware products to streamline operations.

McDonald's, Booking, Chipotle Mexican Grill, Toast, and Texas Roadhouse are the five Restaurant stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat's stock screener tool. Restaurant stocks are shares of publicly traded companies that operate, franchise, supply, or provide technology to restaurants—from quick‑service and casual‑dining chains to foodservice suppliers and POS providers. Investors evaluate them by metrics like same‑store sales, customer traffic, margin pressure from labor and commodity costs, and the company's franchise versus corporate exposure, since restaurant performance is highly sensitive to consumer spending and economic cycles. These companies had the highest dollar trading volume of any Restaurant stocks within the last several days.

McDonald's (MCD)

McDonald's Corp. engages in the operation and franchising of restaurants. It operates through the following segments: U.S., International Operated Markets, and International Developmental Licensed Markets and Corporate. The U.S. segment focuses its operations on the United States. The International Operated Markets segment consists of operations and the franchising of restaurants in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, and the U.K.

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Booking (BKNG)

Booking Holdings Inc, formerly The Priceline Group Inc., is a provider of travel and restaurant online reservation and related services. The Company, through its online travel companies (OTCs), connects consumers wishing to make travel reservations with providers of travel services across the world. It offers consumers an array of accommodation reservations (including hotels, bed and breakfasts, hostels, apartments, vacation rentals and other properties) through its Booking.com, priceline.com and agoda.com brands.

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Chipotle Mexican Grill (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.

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Toast (TOST)

Toast, Inc. operates a cloud-based digital technology platform for the restaurant industry in the United States, Ireland, and India. The company offers software products for restaurant operations and point of sale, such as Toast POS, Toast now, multi-location management, kitchen display system, Toast mobile order and pay, Toast catering and events, Toast invoicing, Toast tables, and restaurant retail; and hardware products, including Toast flex, Toast flex for guest, Toast go 2, Toast tap, kiosks, and Delphi by Toast.

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Texas Roadhouse (TXRH)

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