Brinker price target raised to $118 from $100 at Jefferies

Jefferies raised the firm’s price target on Brinker (EAT) to $118 from $100 and keeps a Hold rating on the shares. The firm views 2025 as “poised to be a largely normal year for Restaurants,” with a competitive landscape in value proposition, fighting for traffic share in a cautious consumer environment and “perhaps more separation” between relative winners and losers, the analyst tells investors in a Restaurants and Foodservice Distribution outlook note. In Restaurants, the analyst’s top pick is McDonald’s (MCD) and in Foodservice Distribution the firm’s top pick is Performance Food Group (PFGC), the analyst noted.