SBUX vs. MCD, CMG, YUM, DRI, DPZ, TXRH, EAT, WEN, CAKE, and PZZA
Should you be buying Starbucks stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Starbucks include McDonald's (MCD), Chipotle Mexican Grill (CMG), Yum! Brands (YUM), Darden Restaurants (DRI), Domino's Pizza (DPZ), Texas Roadhouse (TXRH), Brinker International (EAT), Wendy's (WEN), Cheesecake Factory (CAKE), and Papa Johns International (PZZA). These companies are all part of the "restaurants" industry.
Starbucks vs.
Starbucks (NASDAQ:SBUX) and McDonald's (NYSE:MCD) are both large-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership, media sentiment, dividends, earnings, risk and community ranking.
Starbucks has a beta of 1, meaning that its stock price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.Comparatively, McDonald's has a beta of 0.74, meaning that its stock price is 26% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Starbucks pays an annual dividend of $2.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.2%. McDonald's pays an annual dividend of $7.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.3%. Starbucks pays out 78.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. McDonald's pays out 62.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Starbucks has raised its dividend for 15 consecutive years and McDonald's has raised its dividend for 49 consecutive years. McDonald's is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Starbucks currently has a consensus price target of $105.33, indicating a potential downside of 6.81%. McDonald's has a consensus price target of $323.61, indicating a potential upside of 6.15%. Given McDonald's' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe McDonald's is more favorable than Starbucks.
McDonald's has a net margin of 31.73% compared to Starbucks' net margin of 9.73%. Starbucks' return on equity of -44.97% beat McDonald's' return on equity.
72.3% of Starbucks shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 70.3% of McDonald's shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.1% of Starbucks shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of McDonald's shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Starbucks received 29 more outperform votes than McDonald's when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 76.37% of users gave Starbucks an outperform vote while only 71.92% of users gave McDonald's an outperform vote.
In the previous week, McDonald's had 52 more articles in the media than Starbucks. MarketBeat recorded 113 mentions for McDonald's and 61 mentions for Starbucks. Starbucks' average media sentiment score of 1.10 beat McDonald's' score of 0.89 indicating that Starbucks is being referred to more favorably in the media.
McDonald's has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Starbucks. McDonald's is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Starbucks, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
McDonald's beats Starbucks on 12 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:SBUX) was last updated on 2/19/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
