THE CHEESECAKE FACTORY INCORPORATED vs Texas Roadhouse, Inc., two Restaurants stocks. A side-by-side on valuation, growth, margins, returns, and what each price is betting.
Where CAKE and TXRH diverge most: on debt / equity, CAKE reads 1.08 and TXRH reads 0.03; on return on assets, CAKE reads 5.4% and TXRH reads 11.5%. The rest of the comparable metrics sit closer together. On valuation, today's CAKE price has a different growth bar priced in than TXRH (+22.2% implied for CAKE vs +14.7% for TXRH); the higher figure is the steeper assumption to clear, not a better or worse stock. What TXRH'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 | TXRH |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $108.48 | $161.52 |
| Market cap | $5.4B | $10.6B |
| Sector | Restaurants | Restaurants |
| Stage | Mature | Mature |
| Implied growth (priced in) | +22.2% | +14.7% |
| P/E | 29.5 | 25.8 |
| P/B | 10.40 | 6.74 |
| P/S | 1.39 | 1.71 |
| EV/EBITDA | 18.2 | 14.9 |
| Revenue growth | +5.6% | +10.0% |
| Operating margin | 7.6% | 8.5% |
| Net margin | 4.6% | 6.8% |
| Return on equity | 34.4% | 26.7% |
| Return on assets | 5.4% | 11.5% |
| Return on invested capital | 16.8% | 25.6% |
| FCF yield | 3.8% | 3.8% |
| Dividend yield | 1.0% | 1.7% |
| Debt / equity | 1.08 | 0.03 |
| Current ratio | 0.59 | 0.46 |
| Altman Z (solvency) | 2.95 | 5.33 |
| Piotroski F (quality) | 7 / 9 | 7 / 9 |
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