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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 superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, dividends, risk, media sentiment, institutional ownership, earnings, profitability and analyst recommendations.

Chipotle Mexican Grill has a net margin of 13.59% compared to Domino's Pizza's net margin of 12.84%. Chipotle Mexican Grill's return on equity of 43.29% beat Domino's Pizza's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Domino's Pizza12.84% -15.45% 33.56%
Chipotle Mexican Grill 13.59%43.29%17.32%

In the previous week, Chipotle Mexican Grill had 19 more articles in the media than Domino's Pizza. MarketBeat recorded 41 mentions for Chipotle Mexican Grill and 22 mentions for Domino's Pizza. Domino's Pizza's average media sentiment score of 1.34 beat Chipotle Mexican Grill's score of 1.22 indicating that Domino's Pizza is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Domino's Pizza
16 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
4 Neutral mention(s)
1 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Chipotle Mexican Grill
33 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
6 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Domino's Pizza currently has a consensus target price of $487.17, suggesting a potential upside of 5.11%. Chipotle Mexican Grill has a consensus target price of $61.04, suggesting a potential upside of 8.99%. 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.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Domino's Pizza
2 Sell rating(s)
8 Hold rating(s)
14 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.56
Chipotle Mexican Grill
0 Sell rating(s)
9 Hold rating(s)
19 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.72

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.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Domino's Pizza$4.71B3.37$584.17M$17.4426.58
Chipotle Mexican Grill$11.31B6.67$1.53B$1.1349.56

94.6% of Domino's Pizza shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.3% of Chipotle Mexican Grill shares are held by institutional investors. 0.8% of Domino's Pizza shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.8% of Chipotle Mexican Grill shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Domino's Pizza has a beta of 1.09, suggesting that its stock price is 9% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Chipotle Mexican Grill has a beta of 1.08, suggesting that its stock price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Chipotle Mexican Grill beats Domino's Pizza on 10 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding CMG and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
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Media Sentiment Over Time

This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE 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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CMG vs. The Competition

MetricChipotle Mexican GrillRETAIL IndustryRetail SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$74.71B$11.79B$26.50B$20.51B
Dividend YieldN/A3.67%175.56%3.74%
P/E Ratio49.5639.7529.1027.90
Price / Sales6.672.155.3340.80
Price / Cash40.3218.0047.3222.25
Price / Book20.9011.135.764.59
Net Income$1.53B$400.87M$869.96M$982.91M
7 Day Performance-2.02%-1.46%0.41%0.11%
1 Month Performance10.65%3.20%2.78%3.55%
1 Year Performance-3.95%10.03%29.33%13.79%

Chipotle Mexican Grill Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
CMG
Chipotle Mexican Grill
4.3582 of 5 stars
$56.00
+1.0%
$61.04
+9.0%
-2.6%$74.71B$11.31B49.56130,504Positive News
Analyst Forecast
Options Volume
DPZ
Domino's Pizza
3.5567 of 5 stars
$451.00
-0.3%
$487.17
+8.0%
-3.0%$15.44B$4.71B25.8610,700Positive News
SBUX
Starbucks
4.4325 of 5 stars
$93.51
-1.0%
$98.23
+5.1%
+30.9%$106.19B$36.35B33.86361,000Trending News
Gap Up
WING
Wingstop
3.1981 of 5 stars
$325.16
-0.6%
$362.26
+11.4%
-15.4%$9.07B$625.81M54.441,335Analyst Forecast
ARCO
Arcos Dorados
3.5699 of 5 stars
$7.70
-2.1%
$8.80
+14.4%
-19.1%$1.62B$4.47B11.8498,615Positive News
CAVA
CAVA Group
4.1382 of 5 stars
$84.25
-2.6%
$117.82
+39.8%
-0.4%$9.74B$963.71M70.218,100
DRI
Darden Restaurants
4.7267 of 5 stars
$215.03
-2.4%
$224.60
+4.5%
+53.7%$25.16B$12.08B24.22191,105
MCD
McDonald's
4.8264 of 5 stars
$293.08
-0.3%
$321.17
+9.6%
+19.3%$209.56B$25.92B25.87150,000Trending News
Analyst Forecast
QSR
Restaurant Brands International
4.9224 of 5 stars
$68.04
-1.3%
$75.68
+11.2%
-1.1%$22.29B$8.41B23.0637,600News Coverage
Positive News
Analyst Forecast
SHAK
Shake Shack
3.5123 of 5 stars
$140.04
-1.3%
$124.43
-11.1%
+65.8%$5.97B$1.25B499.5412,826Analyst Forecast
Insider Trade
YUMC
Yum China
4.7343 of 5 stars
$47.50
+3.8%
$48.70
+2.5%
+55.0%$17.63B$11.30B19.87351,000Positive News

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