MCD vs. SBUX, CMG, YUM, DPZ, DRI, TXRH, WEN, EAT, CAKE, and BLMN
Should you be buying McDonald's stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of McDonald's include Starbucks (SBUX), Chipotle Mexican Grill (CMG), Yum! Brands (YUM), Domino's Pizza (DPZ), Darden Restaurants (DRI), Texas Roadhouse (TXRH), Wendy's (WEN), Brinker International (EAT), Cheesecake Factory (CAKE), and Bloomin' Brands (BLMN). These companies are all part of the "restaurants" industry.
Starbucks (NASDAQ:SBUX) and McDonald's (NYSE:MCD) are both large-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, institutional ownership, dividends, risk, earnings, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, valuation and profitability.
Starbucks currently has a consensus price target of $96.43, indicating a potential upside of 20.21%. McDonald's has a consensus price target of $315.78, indicating a potential upside of 21.97%. Given Starbucks' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe McDonald's is more favorable than Starbucks.
In the previous week, Starbucks had 6 more articles in the media than McDonald's. MarketBeat recorded 49 mentions for Starbucks and 43 mentions for McDonald's. McDonald's' average media sentiment score of 0.42 beat Starbucks' score of 0.32 indicating that Starbucks is being referred to more favorably in the media.
72.3% of Starbucks shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 70.3% of McDonald's shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.0% of Starbucks shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of McDonald's shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Starbucks has a beta of 0.97, suggesting that its share price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, McDonald's has a beta of 0.71, suggesting that its share price is 29% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Starbucks received 46 more outperform votes than McDonald's when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 76.72% of users gave Starbucks an outperform vote while only 71.96% of users gave McDonald's an outperform vote.
McDonald's has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Starbucks. McDonald's is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Starbucks, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Starbucks pays an annual dividend of $2.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.8%. McDonald's pays an annual dividend of $6.68 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.6%. Starbucks pays out 62.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. McDonald's pays out 56.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Starbucks has raised its dividend for 14 consecutive years and McDonald's has raised its dividend for 48 consecutive years.
McDonald's has a net margin of 33.36% compared to McDonald's' net margin of 11.38%. McDonald's' return on equity of -49.91% beat Starbucks' return on equity.
Summary
Starbucks beats McDonald's on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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