Chipotle Mexican Grill raises FY11 guidance




Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc. (NYSE:CMG). Last Market Price: 329.07, Change: +21.16, % Change: (6.87%). Shares trade in the range of 318.41 – 330.19 dollars. It has a market capitalization of 10.31B dollars, making it a Large Cap Stock and has 31.35M outstanding shares. The company has a beta of 1.05, indicating, the stock to be more volatile than the market. As per the most recent quarterly report, the net income per share (EPS) is 6.42; P/E of 51.25 indicating high expected future growth in earnings. It operates in Services sector and belongs to Restaurants industry. Percentage shares held by institutional investors is 102%. The company has a 52 week Price range (low – high) of $ 178.09 – 346.78. Average volumes of shares traded daily are 1,020,000. Volume traded in the last session was at 1,240,000, 1.22 times the average volume.

  • Reports Q3 (September)
    • EPS of $1.90 better than the estimates
    • Revenues rose 24.1% year on year to $591.9 million

For Q2 (Jun ’11), It had a Net profit margin of 8.86%, an Operating margin of 14.67%. Other Key stats and ratios are : Return on average assets of 16.78%, Return on average equity of 22.55%. The organization has an employee strength of 26,500

Consensus Recommendation is a Hold.


Estimate for sales for the Year Ending Dec-11 show a mean of 2,246.64 million dollars, an estimate high of 2,272.00 million dollars and an estimate low of 2,167.00 million dollars. A year ago the figures stood at 2,075.10 million dollars.

Estimate for sales for the Year Ending Dec-12 show a mean of 2,659.70 million dollars, an estimate high of 2,778.79 million dollars and an estimate low of 2,513.00 million dollars. A year ago the figures stood at 2,383.59 million dollars.

Estimate for EPS for the Year Ending Dec-11 show a mean of 6.80 dollars, an estimate high of 7.00 dollars and an estimate low of 6.55 dollars. A year ago the figures stood at 6.13 dollars.

Estimate for EPS for the Year Ending Dec-12 show a mean of 8.65 dollars, an estimate high of 9.74 dollars and an estimate low of 8.00 dollars. A year ago the figures stood at 7.53 dollars.

Sales for Quarter Ending Sep-11 was estimated at 584.74 million dollars, however the actual sales figure stood at 591.85 million dollars, 7.11 million dollars more than estimates.

Sales for Quarter Ending Jun-11 was estimated at 560.53 million dollars, however the actual sales figure stood at 571.56 million dollars, 11.03 million dollars more than estimates.


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Ed Liston

Ed Liston is a senior contributing editor at TheStockMarketWatch.com. An active market watcher and investor, Ed guides an independent team of experienced analysts and writes for multiple stock trader publications. He is widely quoted in various financial publications on the Internet. When Ed is not writing about stocks, investing in stocks, talking about stocks, or otherwise doing something stock related, he likes to go sailing and fishing.

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