Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc. (CMG): Today's Featured Leisure Winner
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Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc. develops and operates fast-casual, fresh Mexican food restaurants in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and France. Its restaurants primarily offer burritos, tacos, burrito bowls, and salads. Chipotle Mexican Grill has a market cap of $8.26 billion and is part of the services sector. The company has a P/E ratio of 30.5, above the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are down 24% year to date as of the close of trading on Wednesday. Currently there are five analysts that rate Chipotle Mexican Grill a buy, two analysts rate it a sell, and 15 rate it a hold.
TheStreet Ratings rates Chipotle Mexican Grill as a
. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its robust revenue growth, largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures, impressive record of earnings per share growth, compelling growth in net income and good cash flow from operations. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had lackluster performance in the stock itself.
- You can view the full Chipotle Mexican Grill Ratings Report.
On the negative front,
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