SBUX vs. MCD, CMG, YUM, DRI, DPZ, TXRH, EAT, CAKE, WEN, and PZZA
Should you be buying Starbucks stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Starbucks include McDonald's (MCD), Chipotle Mexican Grill (CMG), Yum! Brands (YUM), Darden Restaurants (DRI), Domino's Pizza (DPZ), Texas Roadhouse (TXRH), Brinker International (EAT), Cheesecake Factory (CAKE), Wendy's (WEN), and Papa Johns International (PZZA). These companies are all part of the "restaurants" industry.
Starbucks vs.
McDonald's (NYSE:MCD) and Starbucks (NASDAQ:SBUX) are both large-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, community ranking, profitability, risk, earnings, institutional ownership, media sentiment, analyst recommendations and dividends.
Starbucks received 33 more outperform votes than McDonald's when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 76.04% of users gave Starbucks an outperform vote while only 71.75% of users gave McDonald's an outperform vote.
McDonald's pays an annual dividend of $7.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.3%. Starbucks pays an annual dividend of $2.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.7%. McDonald's pays out 62.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Starbucks pays out 88.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. McDonald's has increased its dividend for 49 consecutive years and Starbucks has increased its dividend for 15 consecutive years.
In the previous week, McDonald's had 37 more articles in the media than Starbucks. MarketBeat recorded 83 mentions for McDonald's and 46 mentions for Starbucks. Starbucks' average media sentiment score of 1.17 beat McDonald's' score of 0.76 indicating that Starbucks is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
70.3% of McDonald's shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 72.3% of Starbucks shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.3% of McDonald's shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of Starbucks shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
McDonald's has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Starbucks. McDonald's is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Starbucks, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
McDonald's currently has a consensus price target of $324.48, indicating a potential upside of 6.44%. Starbucks has a consensus price target of $97.92, indicating a potential upside of 8.00%. Given Starbucks' higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Starbucks is more favorable than McDonald's.
McDonald's has a net margin of 31.73% compared to Starbucks' net margin of 9.73%. Starbucks' return on equity of -44.97% beat McDonald's' return on equity.
McDonald's has a beta of 0.56, suggesting that its share price is 44% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Starbucks has a beta of 1, suggesting that its share price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.
Summary
McDonald's beats Starbucks on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:SBUX) was last updated on 6/10/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
