THE CHEESECAKE FACTORY INCORPORATED vs CHIPOTLE MEXICAN GRILL, INC., two Restaurants stocks. A side-by-side on valuation, growth, margins, returns, and what each price is betting.
Where CAKE and CMG diverge most: on debt / equity, CAKE reads 1.08 and CMG reads 0.00; on return on invested capital, CAKE reads 16.8% and CMG reads 62.6%. The rest of the comparable metrics sit closer together. On valuation, today's CAKE price has a different growth bar priced in than CMG (+19.8% implied for CAKE vs +23.8% for CMG); the higher figure is the steeper assumption to clear, not a better or worse stock. What CMG's price implies is a somewhat stretched bet versus history (whole-company basis). The bull and bear cases for each are in their full reports below.
| Metric | CAKE | CMG |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $102.72 | $36.20 |
| Market cap | $5.1B | $46.3B |
| Sector | Restaurants | Restaurants |
| Stage | Mature | Mature |
| Implied growth (priced in) | +19.8% | +23.8% |
| P/E | 27.9 | 33.2 |
| P/B | 9.85 | 21.05 |
| P/S | 1.32 | 3.73 |
| EV/EBITDA | 17.3 | 21.0 |
| Revenue growth | +5.6% | +7.3% |
| Operating margin | 7.6% | 15.7% |
| Net margin | 4.6% | 11.4% |
| Return on equity | 34.4% | 64.5% |
| Return on assets | 5.4% | 16.0% |
| Return on invested capital | 16.8% | 62.6% |
| FCF yield | 4.0% | 3.4% |
| Dividend yield | 1.1% | — |
| Debt / equity | 1.08 | 0.00 |
| Current ratio | 0.59 | 0.72 |
| Altman Z (solvency) | 2.89 | 5.70 |
| Piotroski F (quality) | 7 / 9 | 8 / 9 |
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