THE CHEESECAKE FACTORY INCORPORATED vs SHAKE SHACK INC., two Restaurants stocks. A side-by-side on valuation, growth, margins, returns, and what each price is betting.
Where CAKE and SHAK diverge most: on fcf yield, CAKE reads 3.8% and SHAK reads -0.4%; on return on equity, CAKE reads 34.4% and SHAK reads 7.0%. The rest of the comparable metrics sit closer together. What SHAK'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 | SHAK |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $108.48 | $66.87 |
| Market cap | $5.4B | $2.8B |
| Sector | Restaurants | Restaurants |
| Stage | Mature | Growth |
| Implied growth (priced in) | +22.2% | — |
| P/E | 29.5 | 71.1 |
| P/B | 10.40 | 4.90 |
| P/S | 1.39 | 1.80 |
| EV/EBITDA | 18.2 | 16.2 |
| Revenue growth | +5.6% | +17.3% |
| Operating margin | 7.6% | 5.0% |
| Net margin | 4.6% | 2.6% |
| Return on equity | 34.4% | 7.0% |
| Return on assets | 5.4% | 2.0% |
| Return on invested capital | 16.8% | 5.0% |
| FCF yield | 3.8% | -0.4% |
| Dividend yield | 1.0% | — |
| Debt / equity | 1.08 | 0.43 |
| Current ratio | 0.59 | 1.67 |
| Altman Z (solvency) | 2.95 | 2.21 |
| Piotroski F (quality) | 7 / 9 | 8 / 9 |
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