---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001058090-25-000008"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CMG"
cik: "0001058090"
company_name: "CHIPOTLE MEXICAN GRILL INC"
filed_at: "2025-02-04T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-27T03:17:38.491499+00:00"
event_type: "earnings"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.75
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Chipotle Q4 comparable sales +5.4%, EPS $0.24 (+20%); authorizes $300M buyback

## Summary
- Q4 revenue $2.8B (+13.1%), diluted EPS $0.24 (+20% YoY); adjusted EPS $0.25 (+19%).
- Full year 2024 revenue $11.3B (+14.6%), diluted EPS $1.11 (+24.7%); adjusted EPS $1.12 (+24.4%).
- Q4 comparable sales +5.4% driven by 4.0% transaction growth; full year comp +7.4% with 5.3% transaction growth.
- Operating margin expanded to 16.9% for FY2024 (15.8% in 2023); Q4 restaurant-level margin 24.8% vs 25.4% last year.
- Board authorized $300M stock repurchase; opened 304 company-owned restaurants in 2024 (257 with Chipotlane).

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001058090-25-000008
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CMG
- cik: 0001058090
- company_name: CHIPOTLE MEXICAN GRILL INC
- filed_at: 2025-02-04T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: earnings
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.75
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 2.02, 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1058090/000105809025000008/0001058090-25-000008-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1058090/000105809025000008/cmg-20250204.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001058090-25-000008.txt

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