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.
Chipotle Mexican Grill (NYSE:CMG) and McDonald's (NYSE:MCD) are both large-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, community ranking, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, profitability, institutional ownership, dividends and valuation.
In the previous week, McDonald's had 15 more articles in the media than Chipotle Mexican Grill. MarketBeat recorded 48 mentions for McDonald's and 33 mentions for Chipotle Mexican Grill. McDonald's' average media sentiment score of 0.32 beat Chipotle Mexican Grill's score of 0.31 indicating that McDonald's is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Chipotle Mexican Grill currently has a consensus price target of $3,147.31, suggesting a potential upside of 0.57%. McDonald's has a consensus price target of $315.78, suggesting a potential upside of 21.97%. Given McDonald's' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly 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.
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.
Chipotle Mexican Grill has a beta of 1.26, indicating that its stock price is 26% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, McDonald's has a beta of 0.71, indicating that its stock price is 29% less volatile than the S&P 500.
91.3% of Chipotle Mexican Grill shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 70.3% of McDonald's shares are held by institutional investors. 1.0% of Chipotle Mexican Grill shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of McDonald's shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
McDonald's has a net margin of 33.36% compared to Chipotle Mexican Grill's net margin of 12.70%. Chipotle Mexican Grill's return on equity of 43.74% beat McDonald's' return on equity.
Summary
McDonald's beats Chipotle Mexican Grill on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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