DRI vs. CMG, YUM, DPZ, TXRH, EAT, WEN, CAKE, CBRL, PZZA, and BLMN
Should you be buying Darden Restaurants stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Darden Restaurants include Chipotle Mexican Grill (CMG), Yum! Brands (YUM), Domino's Pizza (DPZ), Texas Roadhouse (TXRH), Brinker International (EAT), Wendy's (WEN), Cheesecake Factory (CAKE), Cracker Barrel Old Country Store (CBRL), Papa Johns International (PZZA), and Bloomin' Brands (BLMN). These companies are all part of the "restaurants" industry.
Darden Restaurants vs.
Darden Restaurants (NYSE:DRI) and Chipotle Mexican Grill (NYSE:CMG) are both large-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, community ranking, earnings, analyst recommendations, dividends, profitability, media sentiment, institutional ownership and valuation.
Darden Restaurants currently has a consensus price target of $189.12, suggesting a potential upside of 4.15%. Chipotle Mexican Grill has a consensus price target of $66.81, suggesting a potential upside of 16.14%. Given Chipotle Mexican Grill's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Chipotle Mexican Grill is more favorable than Darden Restaurants.
Chipotle Mexican Grill received 538 more outperform votes than Darden Restaurants when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 66.48% of users gave Darden Restaurants an outperform vote while only 60.05% of users gave Chipotle Mexican Grill an outperform vote.
Darden Restaurants has a beta of 1.31, indicating that its stock price is 31% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Chipotle Mexican Grill has a beta of 1.27, indicating that its stock price is 27% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Chipotle Mexican Grill has a net margin of 13.51% compared to Darden Restaurants' net margin of 9.01%. Darden Restaurants' return on equity of 50.12% beat Chipotle Mexican Grill's return on equity.
In the previous week, Chipotle Mexican Grill had 10 more articles in the media than Darden Restaurants. MarketBeat recorded 30 mentions for Chipotle Mexican Grill and 20 mentions for Darden Restaurants. Darden Restaurants' average media sentiment score of 1.11 beat Chipotle Mexican Grill's score of 0.90 indicating that Darden Restaurants is being referred to more favorably in the media.
93.6% of Darden Restaurants shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.3% of Chipotle Mexican Grill shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.6% of Darden Restaurants shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Chipotle Mexican Grill shares are owned by 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.
Chipotle Mexican Grill has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Darden Restaurants. Darden Restaurants 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.
Summary
Chipotle Mexican Grill beats Darden Restaurants on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:DRI) was last updated on 1/20/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
