CMG|Analyst Targets
CMG|Company Info
CMG|Insider Trading
CMG|Fundamentals
CMG|Earnings Snapshot
EPS
| Qtr | Est | Actual | +/− |
|---|---|---|---|
| Q4'26 | $0.25 | - | - |
| Q3'26 | $0.29 | $0.27 | -8.0% |
| Q2'26 | $0.32 | $0.33 | +4.0% |
| Q1'26 | $0.24 | $0.24 | -0.3% |
| Q4'25 | $0.24 | $0.25 | +3.4% |
| Q3'25 | $0.29 | $0.29 | +0.9% |
Revenue
| Qtr | Est | Actual | +/− |
|---|---|---|---|
| Q4'26 | $3.3B | - | - |
| Q3'26 | $3.3B | $3.3B | -0.7% |
| Q2'26 | $3.4B | $3.3B | -0.5% |
| Q1'26 | $3.1B | $3.1B | -0.3% |
| Q4'25 | $3.0B | $3.0B | -0.4% |
| Q3'25 | - | $3.0B | - |
CMG|Monthly Returns
Market Data
CMG Stock Snapshot
- Market cap
- 44.53B
- P/E ratio
- 31.4
- Day range
- $34.17 – $35.13
- News sentiment
- 46/100 · Neutral
- Analyst target
- $40.57 (+17.1%)
- Consensus
- Buy · 43 analysts
CMG ranks mid-pack on momentum, neither leading nor lagging its peers by much. Earnings and guidance carry more weight than macro data at this capitalisation.
Reverse DCF
What growth is priced into CMG?
At today's price, Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc. needs to grow free cash flow about 14.7% a year for 3 years, slowing to a long-run rate by year 10, to justify its valuation at a 8.46% cost of capital. Over the last five years its revenue has trended at 12.6% a year, so the market is asking for 2.1 percentage points above its own delivered rate. On that basis CMG looks priced roughly in line with its own growth record.
- Implied FCF growth
- 14.7%
- Growth trend
- 12.6%
- Growth gap
- +2.1 pts
- Verdict
- FAIR
- Discount rate (WACC)
- 8.46%
- Beta
- 0.85
Behaviour On Record
What CMG's own history says about today's numbers
- Realized volatility (21d)
- 56.1% 96th pct
- Below its peak
- -48.7%
- vs 200-day average
- +3.6%
- Up days (1y)
- 51%
Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc. is currently running 56.1% annualised volatility over the last 21 sessions. Measured against CMG's own 13 years of daily returns rather than a market-wide average, that is the 96th percentile — an extreme by its own standards, against a typical reading of 28.4%.
CMG is trading -48.7% below its running peak. Across 13 full years on file, its median worst-drawdown-in-a-year was -29.1%, and the deepest was -50.1% in 2025. The current drawdown is already deeper than this stock's typical annual low point, which puts it in the part of its range where past recoveries began, and where past declines also continued.
Price sits +3.6% from its 200-day moving average. Against every other day in its history, that gap ranks at the 50th percentile — close to the gap it normally carries. Over the past year CMG closed higher on 51% of sessions, and it is currently 7 sessions into a rising streak.
On November specifically: over 13 years of records, CMG finished the month higher 10 of 13 times, with a median return of +5.7% and an average of +4.5%. Its strongest month historically has been January at +6.4% on average, its weakest October at -5.4%.
Overnight risk is measurable too: CMG has opened more than 2% away from the prior close in 74 of 3,268 sessions (2.3% of the time), with the largest gaps running +12.5% and -9.7%.
Across the last 4 dated reports on file, CMG moved an average of 4.0% in the session after earnings, closing higher 3 of those 4 times, with a median move of +3.5% and a largest of +7.9%.
All figures computed from 3,269 daily closes between 2013-11-06 and 2026-11-05, split-adjusted, recomputed daily. Percentiles are against CMG's own 13-year history, not a peer group or index.
Sector Rotation
Is money rotating into or out of CMG's sector?
Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc. sits in the Consumer Discretionary sector, currently ranked 5th of 12 GICS sectors by relative-strength rotation score (leading).
- Sector rank
- #5 of 12
- Sector state
- Leading
- Sector rotation score
- 91
Analyst Consensus Estimates
What do analysts expect CMG to earn?
Analysts expect Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc. to earn $1.09 per share in the fiscal year ending Dec 2026 and $1.52 in the fiscal year ending Dec 2028, from 5 estimates. These are analyst forecasts, not company guidance, and later years rest on fewer analysts.
Revenue marked ~ is our calculation from the EPS estimate, not analyst consensus.
Analyst Rating Changes
Are analysts turning bullish or bearish on CMG?
Bernstein most recently reiterated its rating on Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc. to Outperform on Oct 29, 2026 with a price target of $43 (from $50). Over the last 90 days, coverage has run 0 upgrades against 2 downgrades, a net bearish lean.
- Latest action
- Bernstein: Outperform
- 90-day upgrades
- 0
- 90-day downgrades
- 2
- Net rating momentum
- -2
Earnings Release, Scored
What did Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc.'s latest earnings release say?
Most important lines
- 1
Diluted earnings per share was $0.27, a 6.9% decrease from $0.29
Negative tone - 2
The effective income tax rate for the third quarter of 2026 was 25.6%, an increase from 23.1% in the third quarter of 2025.
- 3
Adjusted diluted earnings per share 1 was $0.27, a 6.9% decrease from $0.29
Negative tone
Peers & ETF holders
CMG peers & ETF holders
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News & sentiment
What is the news saying about CMG?
CMG rose 12.1% over the month to Nov 6. News tone held between 25 and 60 from Oct 6 to Oct 20, then dropped to 25 on Oct 21.
- Oct 8 +6.9%same day: Chipotle (CMG) Stock May Be Fully Priced Following Chipotlane Expansion
- Oct 28 +9.8%same day: Chipotle’s Stock Needs a Jolt. An Earnings Beat Might Not Be Enough.
- Nov 4 +6.7%same day: What Does Chipotle Mexican Grill (CMG) Smoked Brisket Return Mean For Fall Traffic?
Technical analysis
How strong is CMG's momentum right now?
On the daily chart CMG ranks at the 38th percentile for momentum against 1,060 stocks and ETFs, a neutral reading.
Institutional ownership
Are big funds buying or selling CMG?
96 of the 210 tracked managers added to CMG in their latest 13F and 113 trimmed. Together they own 77.8% of the company, worth $33.8B. BlackRock and Vanguard Capital Management alone hold 16.6%.
- 1BlackRock, Inc.10.12%$4.4B positionAdded 16.5% last quarter
- $2.8B positionTrimmed 1.0% last quarter
- 3JPMorgan Chase & Co5.15%$2.2B positionAdded 34.6% last quarter
- $2.1B positionTrimmed 1.3% last quarter
- 5State Street Corp4.34%$1.9B positionAdded 1.5% last quarter
- 6Capital World Investors3.57%$1.6B positionTrimmed 43.2% last quarter
- $1.2B positionAdded 20.2% last quarter
- 8FMR LLC (Fidelity)2.67%$1.2B positionAdded 13.0% last quarter
- $1.0B positionTrimmed 29.6% last quarter
- 10Norges Bank2.01%$878.8M positionAdded 34.3% last quarter
Congressional trading
Is Congress trading CMG?
9 members of Congress disclosed 24 CMG trades between May 19, 2021 and Oct 2, 2026: 7 buys and 17 sells, about $1.47M in estimated value.
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How has CMG done against its peers?
Over the six months to Nov 6, CMG returned +5.4%. Of the 15 related stocks and ETFs, 7 did better, led by DRI at +15.8%.
- 1DRIDarden Restaurants, Inc.up 15.8%+10.3 pts
- 2HLTHilton Worldwide Holdings Inc.up 15.7%+10.2 pts
- 3MARMarriott International, Inc.up 15.6%+10.1 pts
- 4TXRHTexas Roadhouse Inc.up 15.2%+9.8 pts
- 5ARMKAramarkup 14.6%+9.2 pts
- 6RCLRoyal Caribbean Cruises Ltd.up 13.9%+8.5 pts
- 7HDThe Home Depot, Inc.up 6.2%+0.8 pts
- 8CMGThis stockup 5.4%
- 16TJXThe TJX Companies, Inc.down 12.3%−17.7 pts