QSR vs. CMG, YUM, DRI, YUMC, TXRH, WING, CAVA, ARMK, MAIN, and EAT
Should you be buying Restaurant Brands International stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Restaurant Brands International include Chipotle Mexican Grill (CMG), Yum! Brands (YUM), Darden Restaurants (DRI), Yum China (YUMC), Texas Roadhouse (TXRH), Wingstop (WING), CAVA Group (CAVA), Aramark (ARMK), Main Street Capital (MAIN), and Brinker International (EAT). These companies are all part of the "eating places" industry.
Chipotle Mexican Grill (NYSE:CMG) and Restaurant Brands International (NYSE:QSR) are both large-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, community ranking, risk, valuation, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations, media sentiment and institutional ownership.
Chipotle Mexican Grill received 1023 more outperform votes than Restaurant Brands International when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 60.70% of users gave Restaurant Brands International an outperform vote while only 59.91% of users gave Chipotle Mexican Grill an outperform vote.
Chipotle Mexican Grill presently has a consensus target price of $62.88, indicating a potential upside of 26.04%. Restaurant Brands International has a consensus target price of $83.46, indicating a potential upside of 20.96%. Given Restaurant Brands International's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Chipotle Mexican Grill is more favorable than Restaurant Brands International.
Restaurant Brands International has a net margin of 17.17% compared to Restaurant Brands International's net margin of 13.23%. Restaurant Brands International's return on equity of 46.17% beat Chipotle Mexican Grill's return on equity.
91.3% of Chipotle Mexican Grill shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 82.3% of Restaurant Brands International shares are held by institutional investors. 1.0% of Chipotle Mexican Grill shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.4% of Restaurant Brands International shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Chipotle Mexican Grill had 74 more articles in the media than Restaurant Brands International. MarketBeat recorded 87 mentions for Chipotle Mexican Grill and 13 mentions for Restaurant Brands International. Chipotle Mexican Grill's average media sentiment score of 0.81 beat Restaurant Brands International's score of 0.25 indicating that Restaurant Brands International is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Chipotle Mexican Grill has higher revenue and earnings than Restaurant Brands International. Restaurant Brands International 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.
Chipotle Mexican Grill has a beta of 1.24, meaning that its share price is 24% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Restaurant Brands International has a beta of 0.92, meaning that its share price is 8% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Chipotle Mexican Grill beats Restaurant Brands International on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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