THE CHEESECAKE FACTORY INCORPORATED vs CAVA Group, Inc., two Restaurants stocks. A side-by-side on valuation, growth, margins, returns, and what each price is betting.
Where CAKE and CAVA diverge most: on debt / equity, CAKE reads 1.08 and CAVA reads 0.00; on fcf yield, CAKE reads 3.8% and CAVA reads 0.8%. The rest of the comparable metrics sit closer together. The bull and bear cases for each are in their full reports below.
| Metric | CAKE | CAVA |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $108.48 | $53.66 |
| Market cap | $5.4B | $6.4B |
| Sector | Restaurants | Restaurants |
| Stage | Mature | Growth |
| Implied growth (priced in) | +22.2% | — |
| P/E | 29.5 | 97.6 |
| P/B | 10.40 | 7.55 |
| P/S | 1.39 | 4.62 |
| EV/EBITDA | 18.2 | 39.0 |
| Revenue growth | +5.6% | +26.0% |
| Operating margin | 7.6% | 7.3% |
| Net margin | 4.6% | 4.8% |
| Return on equity | 34.4% | 7.9% |
| Return on assets | 5.4% | 4.4% |
| Return on invested capital | 16.8% | 6.4% |
| FCF yield | 3.8% | 0.8% |
| Dividend yield | 1.0% | — |
| Debt / equity | 1.08 | 0.00 |
| Current ratio | 0.59 | 2.48 |
| Altman Z (solvency) | 2.95 | 6.80 |
| Piotroski F (quality) | 7 / 9 | 6 / 9 |
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