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Sales at the burrito baron's restaurants are rising once again.

The venture-backed IPO market has roared back to life in 2026, headlined by SpaceX’s record $1.77 trillion IPO, but the stock performance of newly public companies has been comparably muted. There have been 44 VC-backed IPOs in the US so far this year, according to new PitchBook data, on track to trounce 2025’s total of 50. In addition to SpaceX—and the planned mega-IPOs of Anthropic and OpenAI—companies including Cerebras, Quantinuum, X-Energy and HawkEye 360 raised significant proceeds, and de

18 That's the number of U.S. IPOs of restaurants since 2017, including Sweetgreen, Cava Group and Krispy Kreme, according to Dealogic. Cava’s shares have at times outperformed the S&P 500 since its offering, while those of Sweetgreen and Krispy Kreme have declined.

Jersey Mike's sandwich chain made it from the Jersey Shore to the financial capital of the world.

Investors must assess how much Starlink, Starship, and AI success is already reflected in SpaceX's valuation.

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The sandwich chain is going public on Thursday. It will test the appetite of investors after blockbuster debuts like Elon Musk’s SpaceX.

📣 "That does not resonate with the customer when you tell them they have fewer options...they have the memories and the trauma of the prior consolidations in this industry. And some of the worst trauma, I'm sorry, [Union Pacific], you caused it.

Chipotle first revealed its Recipe for Growth turnaround plan in February, and the impact has been swift. After exceeding expectations in Q1 with positive same-store sales and transactions, the fast casual did the same in the second quarter, with comps rising 2.2 percent and transactions increasing 1 percent. It was Chipotle’s best same-store sales performance […]

The fast-casual sandwich chain is set to start trading on the New York Stock Exchange after pricing its shares at $23.

Is Chipotle now affordable?

The chain’s Recipe for Growth initiative, which launched in February, is already shifted momentum with same-store sales up 2.2%.

David Ellison insists his blockbuster media merger is still on track, but a legal standoff with a coalition of state attorneys general is about to flip an abstract delay into a very concrete and very expensive problem.

Jersey Mike's Subs (JMKE) priced its IPO of 43.5 million shares of Class A common at $23 a share, fo

The sandwich chain is going public on Thursday. It will test the appetite of investors after blockbuster debuts like Elon Musk’s SpaceX.

The Lululemon- and Inditex-backed company will be able to produce recycled nylon at industrial scale, helping brands meet growing recycled-content and non-destruction rules.

Chipotle Mexican Grill raised its 2026 comparable sales growth outlook to low single-digit range.

SummaryView Transcript Rail traffic is UP, but the biggest story in North American rail is the proposed CPKC-KCS merger. We unpack the latest AAR data and hear why Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern CEOs believe this merger will be *better* for consumers, improving service, lowering costs, and bringing trucks off highways. But competitors aren’t convinced. […] The post Rail Merger: UP CEO Says it’s BETTER for Consumers | FreightWaves Today appeared first on FreightWaves.

Private equity backer Blackstone is betting on the sandwich chain, but high-profile listings have delivered mixed results for everyday investors this year.

Chipotle Mexican Grill managed to beat earnings and revenue estimates, but margins and labor pose a challenge for the burrito chain.

The fast-casual chain’s revenue rose 9.3% to $3.35 billion as it opened 100 restaurants in its second quarter.

Yahoo Finance Senior Business Reporter Brooke DiPalma joins Josh Lipton on Asking for a Trend to break down Chipotle's (CMG) second quarter earnings results, including the company's latest performance, consumer trends, and what investors should watch next.

Chipotle is expected to post a strong second quarter as the burrito chain's growth strategy took off, offsetting macro uncertainty.

The CEO of BNSF says Union Pacific’s latest regulatory filing does nothing to change the anti-competitive aspects of the $85 billion rail merger. The post BNSF CEO assails new rail merger filing, says transcon will raise rates, prices appeared first on FreightWaves.

Investing.com -- Retail investors have previously been locked out of the most significant wealth creation happening in private markets, but that dynamic is beginning to shift as public vehicles offering exposure to late-stage private companies gain traction, according to Willy Lee, a principal at Neostellar (NASDAQ: NSLR).

The CEOs of Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern are confident that their merger application addressing competition concerns provides a compelling case for regulatory approval. The post CEOs of UP, NS, say latest additions to rail merger application further enhance competitive aspects appeared first on FreightWaves.

SpaceX stock is down over 50% from a short-lived peak just a few days after it went public. Here's what investors can expect for its future.

The entertainment giant reported a notable insider sale as legal challenges surfaced against its merger with Warner Bros. Discovery.

The deal adds roughly 50 MHz of low-band and mid-band spectrum covering nearly every U.S. market to AT&T's holdings

The largest IPO of all time has cooled off. Here's what investors need to know.