Dallas 10/23/2010 2:41:21 AM
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Stocks At Record Highs (CMG, BJRI, PCLN)

Stocks At Record Highs

Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc. (NYSE:CMG) soared 15.57% to $207.16 after climbing to its life time high of $207.23 earlier in the session on Friday after reporting strong earnings results the previous day. The move brought out positive comments from analysts Friday.

Bank of America Merrill Lynch raised estimates and maintained a Buy rating for Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc. . The Firm said “"We continue to rate CMG shares Buy and are increasing our price objective from $194 to $232 with our higher objective driven by applying a 30x P/E to our new EPS estimate for 2012," wrote Merrill Lynch analysts Joseph T. Buckley, Steven B. Barlow and Andrew M. Charles. "Our valuation objective is based on a P/E to Growth (PEG) ratio of 1.5x our estimated 20% EPS growth rate for 2011-12 with that growth target expected to be far exceeded in 2010. We are raising our EPS estimates from $5.10 to $5.44 for 2010, $6.10 to $6.50 for 2011, and $7.30 to $7.77 for 2012.

BJ's Restaurants, Inc. (NASDAQ:BJRI) soared 17.60% to $33.95 and made  an all time high of $34.49 after the restaurant operator reported quarterly net income rose by three-quarters as revenue surged. More than 1.25 million shares have traded hands, compared to its average volume of 204K shares.

After the market closed on Thursday, BJ's said third-quarter net income rose to $5.5 million, or 20 cents per share, from $3.2 million, or 12 cents per share last, year. Revenue rose 20 percent to $128.8 million from $103.9 million. Analysts polled by Thomson Reuters, on average, expected income of 19 cents per share on revenue of $124.2 million. Revenue in restaurants open at least one year rose 6.7 percent.

priceline.com Incorporated (NASDAQ:PCLN) soared 6% to $364.09 after hitting a record high of $364.63 earlier in the session. The stock has jumped 63% so far this year. It has a 52-week range of $364.63.

priceline.com Incorporated (priceline.com) is an online travel company, which offers a range of travel services, including hotel rooms, car rentals, airline tickets, vacation packages, cruises and destination services. Internationally, the Company offer customers hotel room reservations in over 90 countries and 32 languages.

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