CMG vs. DPZ, SBUX, WING, ARCO, CAVA, DRI, MCD, QSR, SHAK, and YUMC
Should you be buying Chipotle Mexican Grill stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Chipotle Mexican Grill include Domino's Pizza (DPZ), Starbucks (SBUX), Wingstop (WING), Arcos Dorados (ARCO), CAVA Group (CAVA), Darden Restaurants (DRI), McDonald's (MCD), Restaurant Brands International (QSR), Shake Shack (SHAK), and Yum China (YUMC). These companies are all part of the "retail - restrnts" industry.
Chipotle Mexican Grill vs. Its Competitors
Domino's Pizza (NASDAQ:DPZ) and Chipotle Mexican Grill (NYSE:CMG) are both large-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, risk, dividends, profitability, earnings, media sentiment, valuation and institutional ownership.
Chipotle Mexican Grill has a net margin of 13.32% compared to Domino's Pizza's net margin of 12.49%. Chipotle Mexican Grill's return on equity of 43.50% beat Domino's Pizza's return on equity.
Chipotle Mexican Grill has higher revenue and earnings than Domino's Pizza. Domino's Pizza 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.
Domino's Pizza has a beta of 1.12, meaning that its stock price is 12% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Chipotle Mexican Grill has a beta of 0.99, meaning that its stock price is 1% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Chipotle Mexican Grill had 18 more articles in the media than Domino's Pizza. MarketBeat recorded 31 mentions for Chipotle Mexican Grill and 13 mentions for Domino's Pizza. Chipotle Mexican Grill's average media sentiment score of 0.92 beat Domino's Pizza's score of 0.57 indicating that Chipotle Mexican Grill is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Domino's Pizza presently has a consensus target price of $490.04, suggesting a potential upside of 15.87%. Chipotle Mexican Grill has a consensus target price of $59.41, suggesting a potential upside of 42.51%. Given Chipotle Mexican Grill's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Chipotle Mexican Grill is more favorable than Domino's Pizza.
94.6% of Domino's Pizza shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.3% of Chipotle Mexican Grill shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.8% of Domino's Pizza shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Chipotle Mexican Grill shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Chipotle Mexican Grill beats Domino's Pizza on 13 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:CMG) was last updated on 10/6/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
