CMG vs. YUM, DRI, MCD, QSR, TGT, MELI, ORLY, CVS, AZO, and SBUX
Should you be buying Chipotle Mexican Grill stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Chipotle Mexican Grill include Yum! Brands (YUM), Darden Restaurants (DRI), McDonald's (MCD), Restaurant Brands International (QSR), Target (TGT), MercadoLibre (MELI), O'Reilly Automotive (ORLY), CVS Health (CVS), AutoZone (AZO), and Starbucks (SBUX). These companies are all part of the "retail/wholesale" sector.
Yum! Brands (NYSE:YUM) and Chipotle Mexican Grill (NYSE:CMG) are both large-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, risk, institutional ownership, community ranking, earnings, dividends, analyst recommendations, valuation and media sentiment.
Yum! Brands has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Chipotle Mexican Grill. Yum! Brands 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.
Yum! Brands has a net margin of 22.57% compared to Yum! Brands' net margin of 12.45%. Yum! Brands' return on equity of 44.41% beat Chipotle Mexican Grill's return on equity.
Yum! Brands has a beta of 1.1, suggesting that its share price is 10% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Chipotle Mexican Grill has a beta of 1.29, suggesting that its share price is 29% more volatile than the S&P 500.
80.2% of Yum! Brands shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.2% of Chipotle Mexican Grill shares are held by institutional investors. 0.3% of Yum! Brands 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, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Yum! Brands presently has a consensus price target of $144.94, indicating a potential upside of 6.32%. Chipotle Mexican Grill has a consensus price target of $2,469.88, indicating a potential downside of 10.95%. Given Chipotle Mexican Grill's higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Yum! Brands is more favorable than Chipotle Mexican Grill.
Chipotle Mexican Grill received 572 more outperform votes than Yum! Brands when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 65.36% of users gave Yum! Brands an outperform vote while only 59.80% of users gave Chipotle Mexican Grill an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Chipotle Mexican Grill had 6 more articles in the media than Yum! Brands. MarketBeat recorded 22 mentions for Chipotle Mexican Grill and 16 mentions for Yum! Brands. Chipotle Mexican Grill's average media sentiment score of 0.81 beat Yum! Brands' score of 0.65 indicating that Yum! Brands is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Chipotle Mexican Grill beats Yum! Brands on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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