Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc. (CMG): Today's Featured Leisure Laggard
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) pushed the Leisure industry lower today making it today's featured Leisure laggard. The industry as a whole closed the day up 0.4%. By the end of trading, Chipotle Mexican Grill fell $4.26 (-1.1%) to $402.79 on light volume. Throughout the day, 235,024 shares of Chipotle Mexican Grill exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 379,000 shares. The stock ranged in price between $401.88-$406.17 after having opened the day at $403.95 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $407.05. Other companies within the Leisure industry that declined today were:
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), down 7.4%,
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), down 2.0%,
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), down 1.8% and
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), down 1.6%.
Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc. develops and operates fast casual and fresh Mexican food restaurants. Its restaurants primarily offer burritos, tacos, burrito bowls, and salads. As of June 3, 2013, the company operated 1,450 restaurants. Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc. Chipotle Mexican Grill has a market cap of $12.4 billion and is part of the services sector. Shares are up 35.5% year to date as of the close of trading on Thursday. Currently there are 10 analysts that rate Chipotle Mexican Grill a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and 14 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, growth in earnings per share, increase in net income and solid stock price performance. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company is trading at a premium valuation based on our review of its current price compared to such things as earnings and book value.
- You can view the full Chipotle Mexican Grill Ratings Report.
On the positive front,
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), up 6.5%,
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), up 6.0%,
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), up 5.1% and
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), up 4.9% , were all gainers within the leisure industry with
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) being today's featured leisure industry leader.
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