Consumer Discretionary / RestaurantsUpdated 2026-05-10 22:07 UTC

CAKE stock hub

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Market cap

3.1B

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Market data

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Current market quote for this ticker.

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Sector context

Where the current metrics sit

Percentiles come from the backend screener cohort cache for the ticker's country and sector.

Forward P/E15.6

P25 11.5P50 15.8P75 23.1

Trailing P/E18.1

P25 13.1P50 20.6P75 33.1

ROE41.3

P25 -21.1P50 4.5P75 16.1

ROIC8.8

P25 -4.5P50 5.2P75 12.8

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Indicator catalog

All CAKE market and fundamental indicators

A searchable catalog of the available market, valuation, profitability, growth, balance-sheet, ownership, and analyst metrics for this ticker.

Available fields

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Currency

USD

Showing 275 of 275 available metrics for this ticker.

Profile and market data

Ticker identity, listing, currency, market cap, and source dates.

Metric	Value
Cik	0000887596
Company name	The Cheesecake Factory Incorporated
Country	United States
Country code	US
Cusip	163072101
Employees	48,400
Employees Change	500%
Employees Change Percent	1.04
Enterprise value	$5B
Exchange	NASDAQ
Financial currency	USD
First seen	2026-05-09
Industry	Restaurants
IPO Date	1992-09-17
Isin	US1630721017
Last refreshed	2026-05-10
Market cap	$3.1B
Market cap category	Mid-Cap
Price	$61.65
Price currency	USD
Rev Per Employee	78,583.51x
Sector	Consumer Discretionary
Sic	5812
Symbol	CAKE
Website	https://www.thecheesecakefactory.com

Valuation

Multiples, yields, enterprise-value ratios, and valuation checks.

Metric	Value
Earnings Yield	5.39%
EV Earnings	30.11x
EV Sales Forward	1.23x
EV/EBIT	21.75x
EV/EBITDA	14.67x
EV/FCF	28.84x
EV/Sales	1.31x
FCF yield	5.63%
Forward P/E	15.56x
P/B ratio	6.68x
P/E ratio	18.07x
P/S ratio	0.81x
PE Ratio10 Y	28.7x
PE Ratio3 Y	17.93x
PE Ratio5 Y	37.23x
PS Forward	0.76x

Profitability

Margins, returns on capital, cash conversion, and quality metrics.

Metric	Value
EBIT Margin	6.01%
EBITDA Margin	8.91%
FCF margin	4.53%
Gross margin	40.5%
Gross Profit	$1.5B
Gross Profit Growth	7.38%
Gross Profit Growth Q	6.34%
Gross Profit Growth3 Y	5.3%
Gross Profit Growth5 Y	14.5%
Net Income	$165M
Net Income Growth	5.43%
Net Income Growth Q	50.41%
Net Income Growth Quarters	1%
Net Income Growth Years	0%
Net Income Growth3 Y	50.92%
Pretax Margin	4.78%
Profit Margin	4.34%
Profit Per Employee	$3,410
Profitable Years	5
ROA	4.46
Roa5y	3.3
ROCE	9.08
ROE	41.33
Roe5y	27.86
ROIC	8.8
Roic5y	6.9

Growth

Revenue, earnings, cash-flow, and forward growth indicators.

Metric	Value
Cagr10y	4.14%
Cagr15y	6.68%
Cagr1y	25.52%
Cagr20y	4.59%
Cagr3y	26.66%
Cagr5y	1.52%
Div CAGR10	3.61%
Div CAGR3	1.82%
Div CAGR5	33.39%
EPS Growth	7.03
EPS Growth Q	52.24
EPS Growth Quarters	1
EPS Growth Years	0
EPS Growth3 Y	52.43
FCF Growth	50.6%
FCF Growth Q	47.76%
FCF Growth3 Y	33.69%
FCF Growth5 Y	61.37%
OCF Growth	13.76%
OCF Growth Q	22.56%
OCF Growth10 Y	2.37%
OCF Growth3 Y	18.15%
OCF Growth5 Y	40.86%
Revenue Growth	5.14x
Revenue Growth Q	5.57x
Revenue Growth Quarters	9x
Revenue Growth Years	5x
Revenue Growth3 Y	4.06x
Revenue Growth5 Y	13.77x

Financial strength

Debt, cash, solvency, accounting-quality, and balance-sheet signals.

Metric	Value
Asset Turnover	$1.19
Assets	$3.3B
Cash	$235.1M
Current Assets	$464.8M
Current Liabilities	$781.3M
Debt	$2.1B
Debt EBITDA	$3.54
Debt Equity	$4.66
Debt FCF	$12.43
Equity	$459.2M
Interest Coverage	22.59
Liabilities	$2.8B
Long Term Assets	$2.8B
Long Term Liabilities	$2.1B
Net Cash	$-1.9B
Net Cash By Market Cap	$-62.25
Net Debt EBITDA	$5.63
Net Debt Equity	$4.15
Net Debt FCF	$11.06
Tangible Book Value	$207.3M
Tangible Book Value Per Share	$4.16
WACC	6.04

Liquidity

Current-asset coverage and working-capital efficiency metrics.

Metric	Value
Current ratio	0.59
Inventory Turnover	38.53
Net Working Capital	$-312.5M
Quick ratio	0.43
Working Capital	$-316.5M
Working Capital Turnover	$-11.9

Dividends and buybacks

Dividend yield, payout, buybacks, and shareholder-yield indicators.

Metric	Value
Buyback Yield	1.6%
Dividend Growth	5.56%
Dividend Growth Years	0%
Dividend per share	$1.2
Dividend Years	5
Dividend Yield	1.95%
Ex Div Date	2026-05-13
Last Dividend	$0.3
Payout Frequency	Quarterly
Payout Ratio	33.41%

Performance and technicals

Returns, volatility, beta, momentum, RSI, and moving-average context.

Metric	Value
10Y total return	50.01%
1Y total return	25.5%
200-day SMA	56.83
3Y total return	103.23%
50-day SMA	59.7
50-day SMA vs 200-day SMA	50over200
5Y total return	7.83%
All Time High	69.7
All Time High Change	-11.55%
All Time High Date	2025-07-23
All Time Low	2.67
All Time Low Change	2,211.59%
All Time Low Date	1994-05-11
ATR	2.28
Beta	1.04
Beta1y	1.61
Beta2y	1.01
Ch YTD	22.13
High	62.18
High52	69.7
High52 Date	2025-07-23
High52ch	-11.55%
Low	60.88
Low52	43.07
Low52 Date	2025-11-20
Low52ch	43.14%
Ma50ch	3.26%
Price vs 200-day SMA	8.47%
RSI	54.4
RSI Monthly	58.62
RSI Weekly	55.79
Sharpe ratio	0.73x
Sortino ratio	1.24
Total Return	3.55%
Tr YTD	22.71
Tr15y	163.89%
Tr1m	10.52%
Tr1w	2.41%
Tr3m	-2.07%

Analyst estimates

Ratings, targets, revisions, and forward estimate fields.

Metric	Value
Analyst Count	16
Analyst Count Top	5
Analyst Price Target Top	$60.6
Analyst Ratings	Hold
Analyst Ratings Top	Hold
Earnings EPS Estimate	$1.01
Earnings EPS Estimate Growth	8.6
Earnings Revenue Estimate	964,768,464x
Earnings Revenue Estimate Growth	4.05x
Operating Income	$228.5M
Operating Income Growth	11.32
Operating Income Growth Q	7.01
Operating Income Growth3 Y	35.6
Operating margin	6.01
Price target	$61.25
Price Target Change	$-0.65
Price Target Change Top	$-1.7

Ownership and float

Institutional, insider, float, short-interest, and share-count fields.

Metric	Value
Float	45,668,206%
Float Percent	91.91%
Shares Insiders	8.06%
Shares Institutions	111.59%
Shares Out	49,685,363
Shares Qo Q	0.23%
Shares Yo Y	-1.6%
Short Float	19.38%
Short Ratio	7.83
Short Shares	17.81

Other indicators

Additional ticker metrics that do not fit the primary research groupings yet.

Metric	Value
Adjusted FCF	$145.7M
Average Volume	1,335,445.25x
Bv Per Share	9.22
CAPEX	$-146.8M
Ch10y	21.43
Ch15y	102.9
Ch1m	10.52
Ch1w	2.41
Ch1y	23.03
Ch20y	88.53
Ch3m	-2.53
Ch3y	88.02
Ch5y	-3.34
Ch6m	29.93
Change	1.4%
Change From Open	-0.18
Close	60.8
Days Gap	1.58
Depreciation Amortization	110,333,000
Dollar Volume	107,477,650.8
Earnings Date	2026-04-29
Earnings Time	amc
EBIT	$228.5M
EBITDA	$338.8M
EPS	$3.41
F Score	7
FCF	$172.3M
FCF EV Yield	3.47x
FCF Per Share	$3.47
Financing CF	-72,000,000
Fiscal Year End	December
Founded	1,972
Graham Number	26.61345
Graham Upside	-56.83
Income Tax	$16.7M
Investing CF	-147,599,000
Is Primary Listing	1
Is Spac	No
Last Earnings Date	2026-04-29
Last Report Date	2026-03-31
Last Split Date	2004-12-09
Last Split Type	Forward
Last10k Filing Date	2026-02-23
Lynch Fair Value	$85.31
Lynch Upside	38.38
Ma150	55.77
Ma150ch	10.55%
Ma20	61.49
Ma20ch	0.26%
Net CF	99,679,000
Next Earnings Date	2026-07-28
Open	61.76
Optionable	Yes
P FCF Ratio	17.78
P OCF Ratio	9.6
Payment Date	2026-05-26
Position In Range	59.23
Post Close	61.65
Postmarket Change Percent	-0.6
Postmarket Price	$61.28
Ppne	2,346,920,000
Price Date	2026-05-08
Price EBITDA	$9.04
Ptbv Ratio	14.78
Relative Volume	1.31x
Revenue	3,803,442,000x
SBC By Revenue	0.7x
Share Based Comp	26,667,000
Tax By Revenue	0.44x
Tax Rate	9.2%
Tr20y	145.25%
Tr6m	31.29%
Us State	California
Volume	1,743,352
Z Score	2.47

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Next action

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Income

CAKE dividend yield, growth & safety

Yield, payout sustainability, and the multi-year growth streak.

Dividend yield

+1.9%

$1.20 annual per share

Payout ratio

+33.4%

Share of earnings returned as dividends. Below 60% is generally sustainable.

5Y dividend CAGR

+33.4%

0 consecutive years of growth

Total shareholder yield

+3.5%

Next ex-dividend date: 2026-05-13

Performance

CAKE stock returns vs the market

Total return (incl. dividends) compared to S&P 500.

Ownership

Who owns CAKE?

Insider, institutional, and short-interest positioning.

Institutional ownership

+111.6%

Float: +91.9% of shares outstanding

Insider ownership

+8.1%

Stake held by company insiders. Higher generally signals alignment.

Negative means the company is buying back shares.

Technical

CAKE momentum and risk profile

RSI, moving-average stack, beta, and risk-adjusted return.

RSI (14)

54.4

Neutral momentum band

Price vs 200-day MA

+8.5%

50/200-day relationship not available

Beta (5Y)

1.04

Moves roughly with the market

Sharpe ratio

0.73

Risk-adjusted return — higher is better; >1.0 is solid.

Peers

CAKE vs. sector cohort

Currency-neutral comparison: P/E, P/S, ROIC, 5Y revenue CAGR, and 1Y total return. Market-cap column appears only when every peer reports in the same currency.

Ticker	Name	Market cap	P/E	P/S	ROIC	5Y rev CAGR	1Y total return	Rating
ABNB	Airbnb Inc.	84B	34.7x	6.6x	15.9%	+29.9%	+14.9%	ホールド
AMZN	Amazon.com Inc.	2.9T	32.6x	3.9x	13.5%	+12.1%	+44.5%	縮小
BKNG	Booking Holdings Inc.	128.6B	21.8x	4.6x	57.9%	+37.4%	-19.6%	買い

Questions

About CAKE

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What is the current CAKE stock rating?

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