MCD vs. CMG, BABA, PDD, LOW, BKNG, TJX, MELI, SBUX, TGT, and CVS
Should you be buying McDonald's stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of McDonald's include Chipotle Mexican Grill (CMG), Alibaba Group (BABA), PDD (PDD), Lowe's Companies (LOW), Booking (BKNG), TJX Companies (TJX), MercadoLibre (MELI), Starbucks (SBUX), Target (TGT), and CVS Health (CVS). These companies are all part of the "retail/wholesale" sector.
McDonald's (NYSE:MCD) and Chipotle Mexican Grill (NYSE:CMG) are both large-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, institutional ownership, dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability, valuation, risk, community ranking and media sentiment.
McDonald's has a net margin of 33.36% compared to Chipotle Mexican Grill's net margin of 12.70%. Chipotle Mexican Grill's return on equity of 43.74% beat McDonald's' return on equity.
McDonald's has a beta of 0.71, indicating that its stock price is 29% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Chipotle Mexican Grill has a beta of 1.26, indicating that its stock price is 26% more volatile than the S&P 500.
70.3% of McDonald's shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.3% of Chipotle Mexican Grill shares are held by institutional investors. 0.2% of McDonald's shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Chipotle Mexican Grill shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
McDonald's received 371 more outperform votes than Chipotle Mexican Grill when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.98% of users gave McDonald's an outperform vote while only 59.88% of users gave Chipotle Mexican Grill an outperform vote.
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.
McDonald's presently has a consensus price target of $317.74, indicating a potential upside of 18.32%. Chipotle Mexican Grill has a consensus price target of $3,137.12, indicating a potential downside of 1.45%. Given McDonald's' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe McDonald's is more favorable than Chipotle Mexican Grill.
In the previous week, McDonald's had 56 more articles in the media than Chipotle Mexican Grill. MarketBeat recorded 85 mentions for McDonald's and 29 mentions for Chipotle Mexican Grill. Chipotle Mexican Grill's average media sentiment score of 0.51 beat McDonald's' score of -0.01 indicating that Chipotle Mexican Grill is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
McDonald's beats Chipotle Mexican Grill on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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