Chipotle Mexican Grill (CMG) Competitors

Chipotle Mexican Grill (NYSE:CMG) and Yum! Brands (NYSE:YUM) 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 media sentiment, risk, community ranking, earnings, institutional ownership, dividends, analyst recommendations, valuation and profitability.

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer CMG or YUM?

Chipotle Mexican Grill received 590 more outperform votes than Yum! Brands when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 65.28% of users gave Yum! Brands an outperform vote while only 59.88% of users gave Chipotle Mexican Grill an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Chipotle Mexican Grill	Outperform Votes 1658 59.88%	Underperform Votes 1111 40.12%
Yum! Brands	Outperform Votes 1068 65.28%	Underperform Votes 568 34.72%

Do analysts rate CMG or YUM?

Chipotle Mexican Grill currently has a consensus target price of $3,137.12, suggesting a potential downside of 0.09%. Yum! Brands has a consensus target price of $143.53, suggesting a potential upside of 1.33%. Given Yum! Brands' higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Yum! Brands is more favorable than Chipotle Mexican Grill.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Chipotle Mexican Grill	0 Sell rating(s)	9 Hold rating(s)	17 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.65
Yum! Brands	0 Sell rating(s)	10 Hold rating(s)	6 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.38

Do insiders and institutionals hold more shares of CMG or YUM?

91.3% of Chipotle Mexican Grill shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 82.4% of Yum! Brands shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.0% of Chipotle Mexican Grill shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of Yum! Brands shares are owned 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.

Does the media prefer CMG or YUM?

In the previous week, Chipotle Mexican Grill and Chipotle Mexican Grill both had 27 articles in the media. Yum! Brands' average media sentiment score of 0.72 beat Chipotle Mexican Grill's score of 0.55 indicating that Yum! Brands is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Chipotle Mexican Grill	11 Very Positive mention(s)	2 Positive mention(s)	5 Neutral mention(s)	2 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
Yum! Brands	14 Very Positive mention(s)	3 Positive mention(s)	5 Neutral mention(s)	1 Negative mention(s)	1 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Is CMG or YUM more profitable?

Yum! Brands has a net margin of 22.92% compared to Chipotle Mexican Grill's net margin of 12.70%. Chipotle Mexican Grill's return on equity of 43.74% beat Yum! Brands' return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Chipotle Mexican Grill	12.70%	43.74%	16.55%
Yum! Brands	22.92%	-18.64%	24.65%

Which has more risk & volatility, CMG or YUM?

Chipotle Mexican Grill has a beta of 1.26, suggesting that its share price is 26% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Yum! Brands has a beta of 1.07, suggesting that its share price is 7% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Which has better earnings and valuation, CMG or YUM?

Yum! Brands has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Chipotle Mexican Grill. Yum! Brands 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.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Chipotle Mexican Grill	$10.20B	8.45	$1.23B	$46.86	67.01
Yum! Brands	$7.03B	5.68	$1.60B	$5.64	25.12

Summary

Chipotle Mexican Grill beats Yum! Brands on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.