Cheesecake Factory Inc

Consumer Discretionary
Restaurants
www.thecheesecakefactory.com

Earnings Score
Moat Score
Safety Score

Market Cap $2.34B
PE 15
Debt $627.31M
Cash $135.41M
EV $2.83B
FCF $114.43M

Earnings

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Sales & Net Margins

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Earnings	$156.53M
EBIT	$190.98M
ROE	46%
ROA	6%
FCF	$114.43M
Equity	$339.41M
Growth Stability	-217%
PE	14.95
PEG	0.24
PB	6.9
P/FCF	20.46
P/S	0.65
Price/Cash	0.06
Debt/Equity	1.85
Debt/FCF	5.48
Net Margins	4%
Op. Margins	5%
Earnings CAGR	-4%
Sales Growth YoY	4%
Sales Growth QoQ	1%
Sales CAGR	7%
FCF CAGR	-10%
Equity CAGR	-8%
Earnings Stability	0.06
Earnings Growth YoY	-1%
Earnings Growth QoQ	-20%
Earnings CAGR 5Y	63%

Sales CAGR 5Y	14%
FCF CAGR 5Y	31%
Equity CAGR 5Y	4%
Earnings CAGR 3Y	5%
Sales CAGR 3Y	5%
FCF CAGR 3Y	9%
Equity CAGR 3Y	8%
Market Cap	$2.34B
Revenue	$3.62B
Dividend Yield	2%
Payout Ratio	34%
Assets	$3.11B
Total Debt	$627.31M
Cash	$135.41M
Shares Outstanding	47.53M
EV	2.83B
Earnings Score	6%
Moat Score	82%
Safety Score	48%
Final Score	45%
Working Capital	-322.89M
Current Ratio	0.53
Shares Growth 3y	-2%
Equity Growth QoQ	-23%
Equity Growth YoY	2%

Assets & ROA

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Stockholders Equity & ROE

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Cheesecake Factory owns and operates restaurants in the United States and Canada under brands that include The Cheesecake Factory, North Italia, and a collection within the Fox Restaurants Concepts subsidiary. The company's international presence, in the Middle East and Mexico, is through licensing agreements with third parties. The company also has a bakery division that produces cheesecakes and other baked products for sale in its restaurants, international licensees, and third-party bakery customers. The company has four operating business segments: The Cheesecake Factory restaurants, North Italia, other FRC, and Flower Child. Most of the company's revenue comes from The Cheesecake Factory restaurants segment.

SEC Filings

Direct access to Cheesecake Factory Inc (CAKE) Annual Reports (10K) and Quarterly Reports (10Q) from the SEC website.

2025
- 10-Q Apr 01
2024
- 10-K Dec 31
- 10-Q Oct 01
- 10-Q Jul 02
- 10-Q Apr 02
- 10-K Jan 02
2023
- 10-Q Oct 03
- 10-Q Jul 04
- 10-Q Apr 04
- 10-K Jan 03

Sector Comparison

How does Cheesecake Factory Inc compare to its competitors?

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Peter Lynch's Chart

This chart shows the current pricing of Cheesecake Factory Inc compared to its past. The addition of the earnings trend line provides further insights into the company's earnings power.

CAGR -4%

Stability 6%

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Cheesecake Factory Inc Discounted Cash Flow

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= $588M

	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	TV
fcf	$114M	$103M	$92M	$83M	$74M	$66M	$60M	$53M	$48M	$43M	$38M	$385M
DCF		$93M	$76M	$62M	$51M	$41M	$34M	$27M	$22M	$18M	$15M	$148M
Value	$588M

Competitiveness and MOAT

High margins render the company resilient under dire circumstances, hence able to drive competitors out or acquire them. ROE and ROA measure the average flow generated by each invested dollar. Their marginal value is a forecast of future growth, and it is considered by Buffett and Munger the most important single indicator.

Years	12/2015	01/2017	01/2018	12/2018	12/2019	12/2020	12/2021	01/2023	01/2024	12/2024	TTM
Net Margins	6%	6%	7%	4%	5%	-14%	2%	1%	3%	4%	4%
ROA	-	16%	11%	9%	5%	-13%	3%	1%	4%	6%	6%
ROE	-	23%	26%	17%	22%	-96%	15%	15%	32%	35%	46%

Bad Net Margins (3.55%)

Net Margins are too low to guarantee profitability in case of higher costs or higher interest rates. Furthermore lower margins cause higher earnings’ volatility.

Safety and Stability

Being debt the number one cause of investment losses and company death, the ratio Debt/FCF is of utmost importance to guarantee safety. On the other hand the Graham’s stability measures the drawdown of earnings, hence indicating the reliability of the flow generated by the company.

Years	12/2015	01/2017	01/2018	12/2018	12/2019	12/2020	12/2021	01/2023	01/2024	12/2024	TTM
Debt over FCF	-	-	0.08	0.05	2	-5.9	3.19	9.46	7.03	4.19	5.48
Debt over Equity	-	-	0.02	0.02	0.51	0.97	1.41	1.6	1.48	1.02	1.85
Growth Stability	-	-	-	72%	96%	-217%	-	-	-	100%	-217%

Bad Debt/FCF ratio (5.48)

Net Margins are too low to guarantee profitability in case of higher costs or higher interest rates. Furthermore lower margins cause higher earnings’ volatility.

Bad Debt/Equity ratio (1.85)

The company is overleveraged and has a bad balance between equity and debt.

Bad Graham’s Stability (-217%)

The company has a bad stability in its earnings, which is a sign of a bad competitive advantage.

Growth

Growth can be dangerous when forecasting, simply projecting the current growth is in general wrong. A company passes through multiple phases, from being young and unprofitable, to the first periods of profitability and high growth, until it arrives at a period of regime with limited growth. Identifying in which phase the company is in may help forecasting.

Years	12/2015	01/2017	01/2018	12/2018	12/2019	12/2020	12/2021	01/2023	01/2024	12/2024	CAGR 5Y
Revenue YoY growth	-	8%	-1%	3%	6%	-20%	48%	13%	4%	4%	14%
Earnings YoY growth	-	20%	13%	-37%	29%	-318%	-118%	-12%	135%	55%	63%
Equity YoY growth	-	2%	2%	-7%	0%	-50%	14%	-12%	9%	39%	4%
FCF YoY growth	-	114%	-41%	60%	-23%	-133%	-408%	-66%	35%	62%	31%