Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc.

CMG Consumer Cyclical Restaurants

Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc.’s revenue for fiscal 2025 (year ended December 2025) was $11.9 billion, up 5.41% from fiscal 2024.

Revenue
+9.31%
EPS
0.00%
Free cash flow
+15.6%

Quarter to June 2026, against a year earlier

31.89 0.61 +1.95%
Market cap
$39.6B
P/E
29.3×
Fwd P/E
29.8×
Dividend yield
—
F-score
5/9
Altman Z
6.99
Beneish M
−2.60
Dividend safety
n/a

Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc. (CMG) Altman Z-score

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Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc.'s Altman Z-score for fiscal 2025 is 6.99, in the safe zone (above 2.99).

Altman Z-score, annual

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Annual newest first

Period Altman Z-score Change (points)
FY2025 6.99 (4.17)
FY2024 11.16 0.56
FY2023 10.60 2.69
FY2022 7.90 (1.32)
FY2021 9.23 1.32
FY2020 7.91 1.56
FY2019 6.35 (6.70)
FY2018 13.05 1.36
FY2017 11.70 (2.59)
FY2016 14.28 (4.65)

How fiscal 2025’s score is made up

Component This year Year before Result Points
Working capital / total assets 0.03 — 0.04
Retained earnings / total assets 0.07 — 0.10
EBIT / total assets 0.22 — 0.71
Market value of equity / total liabilities 8.03 — 4.82
Sales / total assets 1.33 — 1.33
Altman Z-score Safe zone 6.99
Z″ Variant for non-manufacturing and asset-light companies (drops the sales/assets term, uses book equity) Grey zone 2.36

Z and Z″ put Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc. in different zones: safe zone by Z, grey zone by Z″.

How the Altman Z-score works

Z = 1.2 × working capital ÷ total assets + 1.4 × retained earnings ÷ total assets + 3.3 × EBIT ÷ total assets + 0.6 × market value of equity ÷ total liabilities + 1.0 × revenue ÷ total assets (Altman, 1968). The market value of equity is the close on the last trading day of the fiscal year times weighted basic shares.

Z″ = 6.56 × working capital ÷ total assets + 3.26 × retained earnings ÷ total assets + 6.72 × EBIT ÷ total assets + 1.05 × book equity ÷ total liabilities (Altman, Hartzell and Peck, 1995), the variant for non-manufacturing and asset-light companies.

Zone Z Z″
Safe zoneabove 2.99above 2.60
Grey zone1.81–2.991.10–2.60
Distress zonebelow 1.81below 1.10

Not worked out for banks, insurers and REITs, whose balance sheets the model does not describe, nor when a figure is missing or there is no share price in the week to the fiscal year end.

Altman Z-score against peers

What Altman Z-score is

The Altman Z-Score weighs working capital, retained earnings, operating profit, market value and sales against assets and debts to gauge the risk of distress.

1.2 × working capital ÷ total assets + 1.4 × retained earnings ÷ total assets + 3.3 × EBIT ÷ total assets + 0.6 × market value of equity ÷ total liabilities + 1.0 × revenue ÷ total assets

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