DRI vs. CMG, YUM, DPZ, TXRH, EAT, WEN, CAKE, PZZA, CBRL, and BJRI
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), Papa Johns International (PZZA), Cracker Barrel Old Country Store (CBRL), and BJ's Restaurants (BJRI). These companies are all part of the "restaurants" industry.
Darden Restaurants vs.
Chipotle Mexican Grill (NYSE:CMG) and Darden Restaurants (NYSE:DRI) are both large-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, dividends, profitability, media sentiment, valuation, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, community ranking and earnings.
In the previous week, Darden Restaurants had 68 more articles in the media than Chipotle Mexican Grill. MarketBeat recorded 121 mentions for Darden Restaurants and 53 mentions for Chipotle Mexican Grill. Chipotle Mexican Grill's average media sentiment score of 0.95 beat Darden Restaurants' score of 0.72 indicating that Chipotle Mexican Grill is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Chipotle Mexican Grill has a net margin of 13.56% 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.
Chipotle Mexican Grill presently has a consensus target price of $66.67, indicating a potential upside of 34.37%. Darden Restaurants has a consensus target price of $202.08, indicating a potential downside of 3.24%. Given Chipotle Mexican Grill's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Chipotle Mexican Grill is more favorable than Darden Restaurants.
91.3% of Chipotle Mexican Grill shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 93.6% of Darden Restaurants shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.0% of Chipotle Mexican Grill shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of Darden Restaurants shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Chipotle Mexican Grill has a beta of 1.27, indicating that its stock price is 27% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Darden Restaurants has a beta of 1.27, indicating that its stock price is 27% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Chipotle Mexican Grill has higher earnings, but lower revenue 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.
Chipotle Mexican Grill received 539 more outperform votes than Darden Restaurants when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 66.46% of users gave Darden Restaurants an outperform vote while only 60.16% of users gave Chipotle Mexican Grill an outperform vote.
Summary
Chipotle Mexican Grill beats Darden Restaurants on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:DRI) was last updated on 3/25/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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