CMG Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (Chipotle Mexican Grill | NYSE:CMG)

Chipotle is a leading fast-casual, Mexican-inspired restaurant chain, generating $11.9 billion in sales across 3,983 company-operated US locations, 104 international units primarily in Canada and Europe, and 14 licensed stores largely operated in the Middle East at the end of 2025. The firm's revenue is primarily driven by food and beverage sales at its company-owned restaurants, supplemented by delivery fees generated through its first-party digital channels. Chipotle emphasizes ingredients with no artificial flavors and utilizes an efficient, assembly line service model to serve mainly customizable burritos, bowls, salads, quesadillas, and tacos.

Chipotle Mexican Grill trades on the NYSE stock market under the symbol CMG.

As of August 17, 2026, CMG stock price declined to $33.43 with 3,807,979 million shares trading.

CMG has a beta of 1.11, meaning it tends to be more sensitive to market movements. CMG has a correlation of 0.09 to the broad based SPY ETF.

CMG has a market cap of $42.38 billion. This is considered a Large Cap stock.

Last quarter Chipotle Mexican Grill reported $3 billion in Revenue and $.33 earnings per share. This beat revenue expectation by $23 million and exceeded earnings estimates by $.01.

In the last 3 years, CMG traded as high as $69.26 and as low as $28.04.

The top ETF exchange traded funds that CMG belongs to (by Net Assets): VTI, VOO, VO, IVV, SPY.

CMG has underperformed the market in the last year with a price return of -22.6% while the SPY ETF gained +21.3%. However, in the short term, CMG had mixed performance relative to the market. It has outperformed in the last 3 months, returning +4.2% vs +3.9% return in SPY. But in the last 2 weeks, CMG shares have been beat by the market, returning -10.2% compared to an SPY return of +3.8%.

CMG support price is $32.59 and resistance is $34.41 (based on 1 day standard deviation move). This means that using the most recent 20 day stock volatility and applying a one standard deviation move around the stock's closing price, stastically there is a 67% probability that CMG shares will trade within this expected range on the day.