CMG vs. MCD, SBUX, YUM, DRI, DPZ, TXRH, EAT, WEN, CAKE, and PZZA
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), 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.
Chipotle Mexican Grill vs.
Chipotle Mexican Grill (NYSE:CMG) and McDonald's (NYSE:MCD) are both large-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, institutional ownership, media sentiment, dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings, risk, profitability and valuation.
Chipotle Mexican Grill currently has a consensus price target of $66.67, suggesting a potential upside of 33.53%. McDonald's has a consensus price target of $323.39, suggesting a potential upside of 5.71%. Given Chipotle Mexican Grill's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Chipotle Mexican Grill is more favorable than McDonald's.
McDonald's has a net margin of 31.73% compared to Chipotle Mexican Grill's net margin of 13.56%. Chipotle Mexican Grill's return on equity of 42.92% beat McDonald's' return on equity.
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 company insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of McDonald's shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
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.
In the previous week, McDonald's had 45 more articles in the media than Chipotle Mexican Grill. MarketBeat recorded 98 mentions for McDonald's and 53 mentions for Chipotle Mexican Grill. Chipotle Mexican Grill's average media sentiment score of 0.95 beat McDonald's' score of 0.74 indicating that Chipotle Mexican Grill is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Chipotle Mexican Grill has a beta of 1.27, meaning that its stock price is 27% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, McDonald's has a beta of 0.71, meaning that its stock price is 29% less volatile than the S&P 500.
McDonald's received 364 more outperform votes than Chipotle Mexican Grill when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.94% of users gave McDonald's an outperform vote while only 60.16% of users gave Chipotle Mexican Grill an outperform vote.
Summary
Chipotle Mexican Grill beats McDonald's on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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