Chipotle Mexican Grill CMG
equity
Price History
The shaded fan is where this price has historically travelled over the months after a close like today’s. It is not a forecast: it has no view on direction, only on distance.
Over 3 months from Sep 2026, roughly two-thirds of past moves landed between $28.42 and $39.32; nine in ten between $25.6 and $43.65.
Tested against this asset’s own history: across 234 past 3-month windows, the price actually landed inside the two-thirds band 65% of the time. The gap from 68% is the model’s error — real returns have fatter tails than the maths assumes, so the band gets breached more often than it claims.
Time underwater
How far below its previous all-time high the price sat, each month. 0% means a new high.
Worst drawdown: −68%, peaking Dec 2007 and bottoming Jan 2009 — 31 months below the prior high before recovering.
DCA Backtest
- Invested
- $24,900
- Value today
- $179,532
- Return
- +621.0%
- Months invested
- 249
Scenarios
Inflation — the same contributions merely keeping pace with CPI would be $33,748 today, so the real (inflation-adjusted) return is +432.0%.
Lump sum instead — $24,900 all at once in Jan 2006: $875,849 (+3417.5%) — lump sum came out ahead.
Worst timing — same monthly amount started at the all-time high (Apr 2024): $2,282 on $3,000 invested (-23.9%).
⚠ Price returns only — dividends are not included. This understates the true return of dividend-paying shares, and any comparison against crypto (which pays no dividends) is biased against equities by roughly the dividend yield, compounded.
If this saved you a spreadsheet — buy me a coffee.
Every start month at once
Each cell is the return-to-date of £/$/€100-a-month DCA started that month. Click a cell to load it in the backtest above. The ringed cell is the all-time-high start — the worst timing scenario.
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About Chipotle Mexican Grill
Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc., also known simply as Chipotle, is an American multinational chain of fast casual restaurants specializing in bowls, tacos, and Mission burritos made to order in front of the customer. As of December 2025, Chipotle has 4,000 locations. Its name derives from chipotle, the Nahuatl name for a smoked and dried jalapeño chili pepper. (Wikipedia)
It's a listed company categorised under consumer discretionary and restaurants, with a market cap of about $42.3B.
It rates Low Risk at 1.7/5, meaning the rated factors look benign — steady pricing, deep liquidity, and no obvious structural red flags.
What pushes the score up: market / volatility (3.0/5).
Scoring well: sector / regulatory at 1.0/5.
Not yet researched: concentration, governance. These are excluded from the score rather than guessed, so the real risk may be higher than what’s shown.
Ratings summarise sourced facts against fixed rules — not investment advice, and no substitute for your own diligence.
Risk Profile
- Annualised volatility (3yr)3/532.4
- Max drawdown from ATH3/567.5
- Beta vs S&P 5003/50.94
- Avg daily $ volume1/5722.1m
- Float % of shares outstandingnot yet researched
- Debt / equity1/50.00
- Interest coverage (EBIT / interest)not yet researched
- 3yr EPS volatility2/515.6
- Largest customer, % of revenuenot yet researched
- Geographic revenue concentrationnot yet researched
- Board independence %not yet researched
- Share structurenot yet researched
- Litigation / audit historynot yet researched
- Sector regulatory exposure1/5low
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