CIBC lowered the firm’s price target on Restaurant Brands (QSR) to $87 from $88 and keeps an Outperformer rating on the shares. The analyst is “relatively neutral” on the company’s acquisition of Carrols Restaurant (TAST). The decision to acquire Carrols should accelerate renovations and provide a reasonable return, but a fully modernized Burger King footprint is still likely five years away and the stock now “becomes a slightly noisier story,” the analyst tells investors in a research note.
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