CMG vs. MCD, SBUX, YUM, DPZ, DRI, 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), Domino's Pizza (DPZ), Darden Restaurants (DRI), 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 investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, dividends, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, media sentiment, valuation, earnings, community ranking and profitability.
McDonald's has a net margin of 33.36% compared to McDonald's' net margin of 12.70%. McDonald's' return on equity of 43.74% beat Chipotle Mexican Grill's return on equity.
In the previous week, McDonald's had 19 more articles in the media than Chipotle Mexican Grill. MarketBeat recorded 50 mentions for McDonald's and 31 mentions for Chipotle Mexican Grill. McDonald's' average media sentiment score of 0.32 beat Chipotle Mexican Grill's score of 0.27 indicating that Chipotle Mexican Grill is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
McDonald's has a beta of 0.71, meaning that its share price is 29% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Chipotle Mexican Grill has a beta of 1.26, meaning that its share price is 26% more volatile than the S&P 500.
McDonald's currently has a consensus price target of $315.78, indicating a potential upside of 21.94%. Chipotle Mexican Grill has a consensus price target of $3,147.31, indicating a potential upside of 0.81%. Given Chipotle Mexican Grill's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe McDonald's is more favorable than Chipotle Mexican Grill.
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.
70.3% of McDonald's shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.3% of Chipotle Mexican Grill shares are held by institutional investors. 0.2% of McDonald's shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Chipotle Mexican Grill shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
McDonald's received 370 more outperform votes than Chipotle Mexican Grill when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.96% of users gave McDonald's an outperform vote while only 59.88% of users gave Chipotle Mexican Grill an outperform vote.
Summary
McDonald's and Chipotle Mexican Grill tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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