Trade-Ideas: Chipotle Mexican Grill (CMG) Is Today's Pre-Market Leader Stock

Trade-Ideas LLC identified Chipotle Mexican Grill (CMG) as a pre-market leader candidate
By TheStreet Wire ,

Trade-Ideas LLC identified

Chipotle Mexican Grill

(

CMG

) as a pre-market leader candidate. In addition to specific proprietary factors, Trade-Ideas identified Chipotle Mexican Grill as such a stock due to the following factors:

  • CMG has an average dollar-volume (as measured by average daily share volume multiplied by share price) of $584.2 million.
  • CMG traded 13,184 shares today in the pre-market hours as of 9:12 AM.
  • CMG is up 2.2% today from Friday's close.

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More details on CMG:

Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, develops and operates fast-casual and fresh Mexican food restaurants. CMG has a PE ratio of 37. Currently there are 15 analysts that rate Chipotle Mexican Grill a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and 11 rate it a hold.

The average volume for Chipotle Mexican Grill has been 553,200 shares per day over the past 30 days. Chipotle Mexican Grill has a market cap of $19.2 billion and is part of the services sector and leisure industry. The stock has a beta of 0.23 and a short float of 5.6% with 1.59 days to cover. Shares are down 10.5% year-to-date as of the close of trading on Friday.

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TheStreetRatings.com

Analysis:

TheStreet Quant Ratings

rates Chipotle Mexican Grill as a

buy

. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth, growth in earnings per share, increase in net income and notable return on equity. We feel its strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had lackluster performance in the stock itself.

Highlights from the ratings report include:

  • The revenue growth came in higher than the industry average of 1.5%. Since the same quarter one year prior, revenues rose by 12.2%. Growth in the company's revenue appears to have helped boost the earnings per share.
  • CHIPOTLE MEXICAN GRILL INC has improved earnings per share by 10.6% in the most recent quarter compared to the same quarter a year ago. The company has demonstrated a pattern of positive earnings per share growth over the past two years. We feel that this trend should continue. During the past fiscal year, CHIPOTLE MEXICAN GRILL INC increased its bottom line by earning $14.13 versus $10.46 in the prior year. This year, the market expects an improvement in earnings ($17.31 versus $14.13).
  • The company, on the basis of net income growth from the same quarter one year ago, has significantly outperformed against the S&P 500 and exceeded that of the Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure industry average. The net income increased by 10.8% when compared to the same quarter one year prior, going from $130.80 million to $144.88 million.
  • The return on equity has improved slightly when compared to the same quarter one year prior. This can be construed as a modest strength in the organization. Compared to other companies in the Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure industry and the overall market on the basis of return on equity, CHIPOTLE MEXICAN GRILL INC has underperformed in comparison with the industry average, but has exceeded that of the S&P 500.
  • The gross profit margin for CHIPOTLE MEXICAN GRILL INC is currently lower than what is desirable, coming in at 28.31%. It has decreased from the same quarter the previous year. Along with this, the net profit margin of 11.90% trails that of the industry average.

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