CMG vs. MCD, SBUX, YUM, DRI, DPZ, TXRH, WEN, EAT, CAKE, and BLMN
Should you be buying Chipotle Mexican Grill stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Chipotle Mexican Grill include McDonald's (MCD), Starbucks (SBUX), Yum! Brands (YUM), Darden Restaurants (DRI), Domino's Pizza (DPZ), Texas Roadhouse (TXRH), Wendy's (WEN), Brinker International (EAT), Cheesecake Factory (CAKE), and Bloomin' Brands (BLMN). These companies are all part of the "restaurants" industry.
McDonald's (NYSE:MCD) and Chipotle Mexican Grill (NYSE:CMG) are both large-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, media sentiment, dividends, profitability, analyst recommendations, valuation, earnings, institutional ownership and community ranking.
McDonald's received 359 more outperform votes than Chipotle Mexican Grill when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.98% of users gave McDonald's an outperform vote while only 59.91% of users gave Chipotle Mexican Grill an outperform vote.
McDonald's currently has a consensus price target of $308.57, indicating a potential upside of 22.45%. Chipotle Mexican Grill has a consensus price target of $62.88, indicating a potential upside of 26.19%. Given McDonald's' higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Chipotle Mexican Grill is more favorable than McDonald's.
McDonald's has a beta of 0.71, suggesting that its share price is 29% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Chipotle Mexican Grill has a beta of 1.24, suggesting that its share price is 24% more volatile than the S&P 500.
70.3% of McDonald's shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.3% of Chipotle Mexican Grill shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.2% of McDonald's 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 large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
McDonald's has higher revenue and earnings than Chipotle Mexican Grill. McDonald's 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.
McDonald's has a net margin of 33.36% compared to McDonald's' net margin of 13.23%. McDonald's' return on equity of 46.17% beat Chipotle Mexican Grill's return on equity.
In the previous week, Chipotle Mexican Grill had 7 more articles in the media than McDonald's. MarketBeat recorded 89 mentions for Chipotle Mexican Grill and 82 mentions for McDonald's. Chipotle Mexican Grill's average media sentiment score of 0.36 beat McDonald's' score of 0.25 indicating that McDonald's is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
McDonald's beats Chipotle Mexican Grill on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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