Promising Restaurant Stocks To Add to Your Watchlist - July 30th

Key Points

• Five notable restaurant stocks to monitor include Booking Holdings, Berkshire Hathaway, Alibaba Group, Chipotle Mexican Grill, and Wingstop, as they reported the highest trading volume in recent days.
• Booking Holdings reached a stock price of $5,652.91, while maintaining a market cap of approximately $183.95 billion and a P/E ratio of 35.17.
• Wingstop experienced a stock price increase to $366.93, boasting a market capitalization of $10.24 billion and a P/E ratio of 61.30.

Booking, Berkshire Hathaway, Alibaba Group, Chipotle Mexican Grill, and Wingstop are the five Restaurant stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat's stock screener tool. Restaurant stocks are the equity shares of companies that own or operate dining establishments—ranging from fast-food chains and casual diners to upscale and specialty restaurants. Investors buy and sell these shares on public exchanges, seeking returns through stock price appreciation, dividend payouts, and the overall growth of the restaurant industry. These companies had the highest dollar trading volume of any Restaurant stocks within the last several days.

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.

BKNG stock traded up $62.14 during midday trading on Wednesday, reaching $5,652.91. The stock had a trading volume of 240,598 shares, compared to its average volume of 253,926. The company's fifty day simple moving average is $5,558.09 and its 200 day simple moving average is $5,061.42. The company has a market cap of $183.95 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 35.17, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 1.71 and a beta of 1.40. Booking has a 52-week low of $3,180.00 and a 52-week high of $5,839.41.

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Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.B)

Berkshire Hathaway Inc., through its subsidiaries, engages in the insurance, freight rail transportation, and utility businesses worldwide. The company provides property, casualty, life, accident, and health insurance and reinsurance; and operates railroad systems in North America. It also generates, transmits, stores, and distributes electricity from natural gas, coal, wind, solar, hydroelectric, nuclear, and geothermal sources; operates natural gas distribution and storage facilities, interstate pipelines, liquefied natural gas facilities, and compressor and meter stations; and holds interest in coal mining assets.

Shares of Berkshire Hathaway stock traded up $2.27 on Wednesday, reaching $478.83. 1,842,843 shares of the company were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 4,833,777. Berkshire Hathaway has a 1-year low of $406.11 and a 1-year high of $542.07. The company has a market cap of $1.03 trillion, a P/E ratio of 12.76, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 3.35 and a beta of 0.83. The stock's 50 day moving average price is $487.39 and its 200-day moving average price is $496.39.

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Alibaba Group (BABA)

Alibaba Group Holding Limited, through its subsidiaries, provides technology infrastructure and marketing reach to help merchants, brands, retailers, and other businesses to engage with their users and customers in the People's Republic of China and internationally. The company operates through seven segments: China Commerce, International Commerce, Local Consumer Services, Cainiao, Cloud, Digital Media and Entertainment, and Innovation Initiatives and Others.

BABA traded down $1.45 on Wednesday, reaching $117.91. The company's stock had a trading volume of 7,063,591 shares, compared to its average volume of 22,155,885. The stock has a 50 day moving average of $115.82 and a two-hundred day moving average of $117.44. The company has a quick ratio of 1.55, a current ratio of 1.55 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.19. The company has a market capitalization of $281.25 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 15.83, a P/E/G ratio of 1.80 and a beta of 0.21. Alibaba Group has a fifty-two week low of $73.87 and a fifty-two week high of $148.43.

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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.

NYSE CMG traded down $0.43 on Wednesday, reaching $43.95. The stock had a trading volume of 17,965,192 shares, compared to its average volume of 13,720,547. Chipotle Mexican Grill has a 12-month low of $43.75 and a 12-month high of $66.74. The business's 50-day moving average price is $52.46 and its 200 day moving average price is $52.41. The stock has a market cap of $59.22 billion, a P/E ratio of 39.21, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 2.28 and a beta of 1.08.

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Wingstop (WING)

Wingstop Inc., together with its subsidiaries, franchises and operates restaurants under the Wingstop brand. Its restaurants offer classic wings, boneless wings, tenders, and hand-sauced-and-tossed in various flavors, as well as chicken sandwiches with fries and hand-cut carrots and celery that are cooked-to-order.

Wingstop stock traded up $76.63 during trading hours on Wednesday, hitting $366.93. The stock had a trading volume of 2,135,646 shares, compared to its average volume of 822,811. The stock has a market capitalization of $10.24 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 61.30, a PEG ratio of 3.91 and a beta of 1.84. Wingstop has a 1-year low of $204.00 and a 1-year high of $433.86. The stock's fifty day moving average is $337.67 and its two-hundred day moving average is $284.00.

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