DUTCH BROS INC. vs THE CHEESECAKE FACTORY INCORPORATED, two Restaurants stocks. A side-by-side on valuation, growth, margins, returns, and what each price is betting.
Where BROS and CAKE diverge most: on debt / equity, BROS reads 0.22 and CAKE reads 1.37; on revenue growth, BROS reads +28.4% and CAKE reads +5.1%. The rest of the comparable metrics sit closer together. What BROS's price implies is a demanding bet versus history and the cohort (whole-company basis). What CAKE's price implies is a bet that sits within the historical range (whole-company basis). The bull and bear cases for each are in their full reports below.
| Metric | BROS | CAKE |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $63.99 | $84.78 |
| Market cap | $8.2B | $4.1B |
| Sector | Restaurants | Restaurants |
| Stage | Growth | Mature |
| Implied growth (priced in) | — | +21.8% |
| P/E | 100.0 | 24.9 |
| P/B | 8.86 | 8.95 |
| P/S | 4.66 | 1.08 |
| EV/EBITDA | 27.8 | 14.9 |
| Revenue growth | +28.4% | +5.1% |
| Operating margin | 7.4% | 5.6% |
| Net margin | 4.6% | 4.3% |
| Return on equity | 8.8% | 35.9% |
| Return on assets | 2.6% | 5.0% |
| Return on invested capital | 11.5% | 16.2% |
| FCF yield | 1.1% | 4.2% |
| Dividend yield | — | 1.3% |
| Debt / equity | 0.22 | 1.37 |
| Current ratio | 1.33 | 0.59 |
| Altman Z (solvency) | 2.92 | 2.58 |
| Piotroski F (quality) | 8 / 9 | 8 / 9 |
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