Some of the best known stocks of the last decade have fallen in 2025.

Can they make a comeback?

Motley Fool Money starts now.

Welcome to Motley Fool Money. I'm Travis Hoym, joined today by John Quast and Rachel Warren.

And today we want to talk about comebacks and potential comebacks to some really well-known

companies, Chipotle, Target, Crocs. Those are the three that are going to be on the tip of our

tongue today. But there's a number of companies that kind of fall into this category. Chipoli stock, John, has fallen 51% from its

high in 2024. Same store sales have gone negative. This is one of those companies that

sort of seemed indestructible since the whole E. coli thing early in the 2010s. But things have really turned over the past year. So has something

changed? And I also want to note that the valuation is something that we should talk about because

this is a company that is very well known, always been very highly valued, but it still trades for

30 times earning. So is this the kind of stock that you're looking at, hey, you know what? Maybe this

is a

stock to come back in 2026, or is it still a little too uncertain? It's a good question, Travis.

And let's just start by saying that over the long term, stock price is correlated with profits.

And so Chipotle's profits are somewhat okay right now, but investors clearly believe

that they're headed lower in coming years. And so that's why this stock has fallen as much

as it has. I think there's some credence to the fear that Chipotle's profits could fall. So there's

a little trend emerging. If you look over the last

three quarters, Chipotle's opened about 200 new locations. Average unit volumes have dropped

about 3% over that time. And that's actually pretty rare for Chipotle. Those average unit volumes,

the sales per location per year, have gone up consistently over the last 20 years, let's say. And lower

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