Key TakeawaysChipotle Mexican Grill shares will likely remain on investors’ radar screens Monday after a week of volatile trading that followed the announcement last Tuesday that CEO Brian Niccol was leaving the company for Starbucks. The price formed a bullish hammer candlestick pattern on the highest volume since April 22, 2020 following the CEO departure news, indicating a potential upside reversal.Key Fibonacci retracement levels to watch on Chipotle's chart include 38.2% around $56, 61.8% around $61, a ...

Declining Sales: Starbucks has reported a significant decline in performance during its fiscal third quarter. Net income and sales dipped compared to the previous year, with same-store sales plummeting by 3%. This downturn was primarily driven by a sharp 5% decrease in transactions, indicating a decline in customer visits.The U.S. market experienced a particularly steep decline in store traffic, falling by 6%. The situation was even more dire in China, Starbucks’ second-largest market, where same-store sale ...

Is Starbucks’ mobile app the company’s greatest weakness?Former CEO Howard Schultz has said as much, per a recent podcast appearance. And it’s something new CEO Brian Niccol will likely tackle first when he takes the helm at the coffee chain next month, CNBC reported Sunday (Aug. 18).According to that report, both investors and executives have blamed operational troubles for the company’s lagging sales, with Schultz telling the Acquired podcast earlier this summer that the mobile app is a problem, calling i ...

This was a big shakeup.Investors in Starbucks (SBUX 0.53%) and Chipotle (CMG -2.78%) were met with a bit of a shock recently when it was announced that Chipotle CEO Brian Niccol would be leaving the company and taking the reins at Starbucks after its CEO, Laxman Narasimhan, was ousted. Niccol was highly successful at Chipotle, while Narasimhan was not so lucky in his tenure overseeing Starbucks.The market's reaction to the news could not be more different for the two companies' share prices. Starbucks' stoc ...

Starbucks has been in the news, but this lesser-known coffee chain has much bigger opportunities.Starbucks made big news last week with its poaching of Chipotle Mexican Grill's superstar CEO Brian Niccol. Starbucks stock shot up more than 20% after the announcement, and it was a shot of caffeine that the coffee king has been desperately needing.Investors have confidence in Niccol's ability to get Starbucks back to growth, but it's somewhat premature. He's not even starting until September, and it's going to ...

In this articleSBUXMobile order and Uber Eats and Doordash delivery pick up area at Starbucks coffee shop, Queens, New York. Lindsey Nicholson | UCG | Universal Images Group | Getty ImagesIt's become a familiar sight at Starbucks cafes: a counter crowded with mobile orders, frustrated customers waiting for the drinks they ordered and overwhelmed baristas trying to keep up with it all.Fixing that problem will likely top incoming CEO Brian Niccol's list of tasks to turn around the struggling coffee giant when ...

Starbucks soared as it poached Chipotle's fearless leader.It's not often that a personnel change can move a stock by double-digit percentages, but that's exactly what happened on Tuesday, when Chipotle (CMG -2.78%) CEO Brian Niccol said he was jumping ship for the top job at Starbucks (SBUX 0.53%). Chipotle stock was down 11% as of Tuesday morning, while Starbucks had jumped 21%. Altogether, Niccol's move represented close to a $30 billion swing in market cap.Niccol is rightly regarded as something of a sta ...

Niccol will face new challenges as he takes over the struggling coffee giant.The news that Chipotle (CMG -2.78%) CEO Brian Niccol has jumped ship to move to Starbucks (SBUX 0.53%) sent shock waves across the restaurant industry. Niccol has had a successful tenure at Chipotle with rapid expansion, revenue growth in the double digits, and procedural changes that addressed the setbacks that hurt Chipotle in previous years.However, Starbucks presents its own challenges. Howard Schultz has been Starbucks' only t ...

文章核心观点 - Chipotle Mexican Grill (CMG) 的CEO Brian Niccol 即将离职，于九月接任 Starbucks (SBUX) 的CEO职位，这引发了投资者对两家公司股票选择的关注[1] 增长比较 - Chipotle 在过去的五年中，股价上涨超过200%，而 Starbucks 则下跌了2%[2] - Chipotle 预计2024财年的每股收益(EPS)将增长20%，达到$1.08，2025财年预计增长18%[3] - Chipotle 的总销售额预计今年增长15%，2025财年增长13%，达到$127.9亿[4] - Starbucks 预计2024财年的EPS基本持平，2025财年增长11%，达到$3.94[9][10] - Starbucks 的总销售额预计2024财年增长1%，2025财年增长6%，达到$388.4亿[11] 估值比较 - Starbucks 的估值更具吸引力，其市盈率(P/E)为26.6倍，接近S&P 500的23.3倍，而Chipotle的市盈率则显著高于市场，为49.7倍[14] 资产负债表比较 - Chipotle 的财务状况更强，拥有$14.9亿现金及等价物，总资产$89.2亿，总负债$52亿[17] - Starbucks 拥有$33.9亿现金及等价物，但总负债高达$380.4亿，总资产为$301.1亿[19] 最终思考 - Starbucks 需要改善其整体运营表现，因为其资产负债表显示出破产风险[21] - 在Brian Niccol的领导下，Starbucks 有望达到他在Chipotle时的高绩效标准，两家公司的股票目前均为Zacks Rank 3 (Hold)，考虑到其良好的前景，两者都是可行的长期投资，尽管未来可能会有更好的买入机会[22]

Starbucks Has Lost Its Way (Again) And Founder Howard Schultz Knows WhygettyThe brand that popularized modern coffee culture and grew into the second-largest restaurant chain in the world (after McDonald’s) finds itself at a familiar crossroads, coping with a familiar boardroom melodrama. The latest crisis at Seattle-based Starbucks began with three consecutive quarters of disappointing results, including declining same-store sales and earnings in its two most recent quarters. The recent revenue misses are ...