Is Chipotle Mexican Grill (NYSE: CMG) A Stock A New Investor Should Consider Now?

Chipotle Mexican Grill (NYSE:CMG) shares, rose in value, with the stock price down by -1.78% to the previous day’s close as strong demand from buyers drove the stock to $50.01.

Actively observing the price movement in the recent trading, the stock is buoying the session at $50.92, falling within a range of $49.71 and $50.4. The value of beta (5-year monthly) is 1.274 whereas the PE ratio is 44.89 over 12-month period. Referring to stock’s 52-week performance, its high was $69.26, and the low was $47.55. On the whole, CMG has fluctuated by -5.17% over the past month.

With the market capitalization of Chipotle Mexican Grill currently standing at about $67.79 billion, investors are eagerly awaiting this quarter’s results, scheduled for on 2025-Feb-03.

Projections by analysts suggest varying estimates for the company’s quarterly revenue. Analysts have estimated the company’s revenue for the quarter at 12.66B, with a low estimate of 2.89B and a high estimate of 3.08B. Wall Street analysts also predicted that the company’s y-o-y revenues would reach 2.98B.

Technical indicators serve as essential tools for traders, offering insights into market sentiment and potential price movements. We see that CMG’s technical picture suggests that short-term indicators denote the stock is a 100% Sell on average. However, medium-term indicators have put the stock in the category of 100% Sell while long-term indicators on average have been pointing out that it is a 100% Sell.

The stock’s technical analysis shows that the PEG ratio is about 2.48, with the price of CMG currently trading nearly -0.52% and -7.11% away from the simple moving averages for 20 and 50 days respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently indicates a reading of 44.22, while the 7-day volatility ratio is showing 2.29% which for the 30-day chart, stands at 3.09%. Furthermore, Chipotle Mexican Grill (CMG)’s beta value is 1.27, and its average true range (ATR) is 1.49.

A comparison of Chipotle Mexican Grill (CMG) with its peers suggests the former has fared considerably weaker in the market. CMG showed an intraday change of -1.78% in today’s session so far, and over the past year, it shrunk by -15.39%%.

Data on historical trading for Chipotle Mexican Grill (NYSE:CMG) indicates that the trading volumes over the past 10 days have averaged 14.05 and over the past 3 months, they’ve averaged 11.99 million. According to company’s latest data on outstanding shares, there are 1.36 billion shares outstanding.

Nearly 0.79% of Chipotle Mexican Grill’s shares belong to company insiders and institutional investors own 87.22% of the company’s shares. The data on short interest also indicates that stock shorts accounted for 20.71 million shares as on 2025-03-14, resulting in a short ratio of 1.49. According to the data, the short interest in Chipotle Mexican Grill (CMG) stood at 154.00 of shares outstanding as of 2025-03-14; the number of short shares registered in 2025-02-14 reached 23.06 million. The stock has fallen by -17.06% since the beginning of the year, thereby showing the potential of a further growth. This could raise investors’ confidence to be optimistic about the CMG stock heading into the next quarter.

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