+2.68% to $28.73 from $27.98
What moved CMG
- Traders had built up unusually large bearish options positions against Chipotle heading into the report.
- The stock had been trading near its 52-week low heading into earnings.
- Shares rose about 2.7% after the company reported continued same-store sales momentum.
Sources: CNBC · Investing.com
-9.72% to $33.82 from $37.46
What moved CMG
- Shares fell as much as 10% intraday, the stock’s sharpest decline since October 2025.
- Minnesota’s Department of Health identified 110 outbreak cases; 75 of 84 people interviewed reported eating at Chipotle between June 14 and July 14.
- Chipotle pulled jalapeños from its restaurants and switched to a different grower after using its ingredient-traceability system to trace the peppers to a common lot.
- The reaction reflects lingering investor sensitivity to Chipotle’s history, which included at least five separate foodborne-illness outbreaks between 2015 and 2018.
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