THE CHEESECAKE FACTORY INCORPORATED vs Yum China Holdings, Inc., two Restaurants stocks. A side-by-side on valuation, growth, margins, returns, and what each price is betting.
Where CAKE and YUMC diverge most: on implied growth (priced in), CAKE reads +23.9% and YUMC reads -3.5%; on debt / equity, CAKE reads 1.37 and YUMC reads 0.00. The rest of the comparable metrics sit closer together. On valuation, today's CAKE price has a different growth bar priced in than YUMC (+23.9% implied for CAKE vs -3.5% for YUMC); the higher figure is the steeper assumption to clear, not a better or worse stock. What YUMC'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 | YUMC |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $101.36 | $48.20 |
| Market cap | $5.0B | $17.1B |
| Sector | Restaurants | Restaurants |
| Stage | Mature | Mature |
| Implied growth (priced in) | +23.9% | -3.5% |
| P/E | 29.7 | 18.5 |
| P/B | 10.97 | 2.79 |
| P/S | 1.32 | 1.41 |
| EV/EBITDA | 18.0 | 9.3 |
| Revenue growth | +5.1% | +6.7% |
| Operating margin | 5.6% | 13.7% |
| Net margin | 4.3% | 7.8% |
| Return on equity | 35.9% | 15.5% |
| Return on assets | 5.0% | 8.7% |
| Return on invested capital | 16.2% | 15.9% |
| FCF yield | 3.4% | 5.5% |
| Dividend yield | 1.1% | 2.0% |
| Debt / equity | 1.37 | 0.00 |
| Current ratio | 0.59 | 1.01 |
| Altman Z (solvency) | 2.77 | 3.65 |
| Piotroski F (quality) | 8 / 9 | 8 / 9 |
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