THE CHEESECAKE FACTORY INCORPORATED vs Luckin Coffee Inc., two Restaurants stocks. A side-by-side on valuation, growth, margins, returns, and what each price is betting.
Where CAKE and LKNCY diverge most: on debt / equity, CAKE reads 1.37 and LKNCY reads 0.00; on revenue growth, CAKE reads +5.1% and LKNCY reads +55.0%. The rest of the comparable metrics sit closer together. 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 | CAKE | LKNCY |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $82.74 | $7.97 |
| Market cap | $4.0B | $2.6B |
| Sector | Restaurants | Restaurants |
| Stage | Mature | Growth |
| Implied growth (priced in) | +12.0% | — |
| P/E | 24.3 | 5.0 |
| P/B | 8.73 | 1.15 |
| P/S | 1.05 | 0.36 |
| EV/EBITDA | 14.6 | 2.4 |
| Revenue growth | +5.1% | +55.0% |
| Operating margin | 5.6% | 10.3% |
| Net margin | 4.3% | 7.3% |
| Return on equity | 35.9% | 23.0% |
| Return on assets | 5.0% | 11.9% |
| Return on invested capital | 16.2% | 22.1% |
| FCF yield | 4.3% | 19.3% |
| Dividend yield | 1.3% | — |
| Debt / equity | 1.37 | 0.00 |
| Current ratio | 0.59 | 1.70 |
| Altman Z (solvency) | 2.56 | 3.12 |
| Piotroski F (quality) | 8 / 9 | 7 / 9 |
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