Starbucks (NASDAQ:SBUX) Vs. MCD, CMG, YUM, DRI, DPZ, TXRH, WEN, PZZA, CBRL, and JACK
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), The Wendy's (WEN), Papa John's International (PZZA), Cracker Barrel Old Country Store (CBRL), and Jack in the Box (JACK). These companies are all part of the "restaurants" industry.
Starbucks vs.
Starbucks (NASDAQ:SBUX) and Chipotle Mexican Grill (NYSE:CMG) 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 dividends, risk, earnings, profitability, valuation, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, media sentiment and community ranking.
Starbucks presently has a consensus price target of $127.65, indicating a potential upside of 11.92%. Chipotle Mexican Grill has a consensus price target of $1,882.57, indicating a potential upside of 3.03%. Given Starbucks' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Starbucks is more favorable than Chipotle Mexican Grill.
Starbucks received 451 more outperform votes than Chipotle Mexican Grill when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 80.75% of users gave Starbucks an outperform vote while only 61.56% of users gave Chipotle Mexican Grill an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Starbucks had 3 more articles in the media than Chipotle Mexican Grill. MarketBeat recorded 23 mentions for Starbucks and 20 mentions for Chipotle Mexican Grill. Chipotle Mexican Grill's average media sentiment score of 0.63 beat Starbucks' score of 0.24 indicating that Chipotle Mexican Grill is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
68.3% of Starbucks shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.3% of Chipotle Mexican Grill shares are held by institutional investors. 0.4% of Starbucks 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 large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Starbucks has higher revenue and earnings than Chipotle Mexican Grill. Starbucks 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.
Starbucks has a beta of 0.88, indicating that its share price is 12% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Chipotle Mexican Grill has a beta of 1.36, indicating that its share price is 36% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Starbucks has a net margin of 10.43% compared to Chipotle Mexican Grill's net margin of 8.57%. Chipotle Mexican Grill's return on equity of 28.27% beat Starbucks' return on equity.
Summary
Starbucks beats Chipotle Mexican Grill on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding SBUX and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
Skip ChartMedia Sentiment Over Time
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NASDAQ and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment >-1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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