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Price Hikes Help Chipotle Deliver An Earnings Beat
Chipotle Mexican Grill ‘s (NYSE: CMG) new CEO, Brian Niccol, has had an upbeat start to his tenure as the company posted revenues that were largely in-line with consensus estimates, as well as an earnings beat. Price hikes to the tune of ab...
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Will Chipotle’s Digital Investments Pay Off In The First Quarter?
Chipotle Mexican Grill (NYSE: CMG) will announce its first quarter earnings on April 25, wherein a rise in revenue and decline in earnings per share is expected. Revenue growth is expected to be driven by an improvement in comparable sales, incr...
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Here’s Why Effective Cost Management Should Be One Of The Key Targets Of Chipotle’s New CEO
Chipotle Mexican Grill (NYSE: CMG) recently announced that it had appointed Brian Niccol as its new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) effective from March 5 th 2018. Niccol comes from Yum! Brands where he was the CEO of Taco Bell. He was instrumenta...
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Key Takeaways From Chipotle Mexican Grill’s Q4 2017 Results
Chipotle Mexican Grill (NYSE: CMG) announced its Q4 2017 results on February 6 th 2018 and the company reported a 182% year on year increase in EPS (earnings per share) which stood at $1.55. This increase was partially due to the benefit of chan...
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Chipotle Mexican Grill Q4 2017 Earnings Preview
Chipotle Mexican Grill (NYSE: CMG) will announce its Q4 and full year 2017 results on February 6 th 2018 and as the company struggles to regain its reputation after a major E. coli virus outbreak in 2015, several isolated incidents which are blo...
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Should Chipotle Mexican Grill Double Down On Home Delivery?
Chipotle Mexican Grill (NYSE: CMG) is struggling to grow revenues as cautious customers are staying away from its restaurants due to fears of food virus, after a major E. coli outbreak and several subsequent isolated incidents. The company is wor...
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Is A Takeover The Solution To Chipotle’s Woes ?
Chipotle Mexican Grill ‘s (NYSE: CMG) food safety nightmare continues and the company was recently impacted by another incident in Los Angeles . While these food safety related incidents are isolated and limited to just one restaurant, for...
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Can A New CEO Turn Chipotle Around ?
As the company struggles to re-establish itself after a significant reputation loss due to a food virus impacting most of its restaurants in 2015, Chipotle Mexican Grill ‘s (NYSE: CMG) founder and CEO, Steve Ellis, recently announced that h...
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Chipotle’s Nightmare With Negative Publicity Continues
Chipotle Mexican Grill ‘s (NYSE: CMG) food virus nightmare is continuing even as the company is taking several measures toward food safety after the E. coli virus hit its food in October 2015. Recently a Texan actor posted a story on a soci...
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Here’s Why The New Proposed Corporate Tax Regime Can Impact Chipotle Mexican Grill Significantly
One of the key economic reforms proposed by the Trump administration is to bring down the corporate tax rate to 20 percent, from the current 35 percent levels. The White House economic advisor recently stated that this proposal is “non-negotiable...
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Here’s Why We Have Revised Our Price Estimate For Chipotle Mexican Grill To $284
Chipotle Mexican Grill (NYSE: CMG) is struggling to grow revenues since the company’s reputation took a beating two years ago when its food was found contaminated with an E. coli virus. While the company took several measures to assure c...
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Is The Chipotle Growth Story Over?
After the E. coli virus hit its food in late 2015, Chipotle Mexican Grill (NYSE: CMG) seems to be going on a downward spiral. Between August 2015 (before the E. coli issue) and October 2017, the company’s stock price has declined from a high of ...
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Chipotle Fails To Deliver, Sales Growth Remains Sluggish In Q3 2017
Chipotle Mexican Grill (NYSE: CMG) announced its Q3 2017 results on October 24 th and the company failed to meet analyst expectations (which were not very high) for both revenues and earnings per share (EPS). The company’s EPS was impacted negat...
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Here’s What We Are Watching In Chipotle’s Q3 2017 Results
As it struggles to grow revenue amidst food safety concerns, Chipotle Mexican Grill (NYSE: CMG) will declare its Q3 2017 results on October 24 th 2017 . While the company introduced the much-in-demand queso sauce to attract customers, initial su...
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Here’s Why Innovation Is Likely To Be The Key Growth Driver For Restaurants
As the millennial generation reaches its prime spending years, companies are increasingly adapting themselves to the preferences of this generation. A Goldman Sachs report on millennials states that this generation is focused on “eating right and...
