Luckin Coffee Inc. vs RESTAURANT BRANDS INTERNATIONAL INC., two Restaurants stocks. A side-by-side on valuation, growth, margins, returns, and what each price is betting.
Luckin Coffee and Restaurant Brands International take opposite routes to profit, one running its own Chinese coffee shops and the other franchising Burger King, Tim Hortons, and Popeyes. Franchising shows in the margins: Restaurant Brands keeps 13.55% of revenue against Luckin's 7.3%. Restaurant Brands returns 24.55% on equity and pays a 3.34% dividend, while Luckin returns a comparable 23.04% and pays none. On cash, Restaurant Brands generates a 4.58% free cash flow yield versus Luckin's 2.42%. The franchisor carries heavy leverage at 2.52 debt-to-equity while Luckin runs debt-free. Restaurant Brands trades at 26.26 times earnings, Luckin at 39.85. Both are large, $34.1B against $20.5B.
Comparison updated 2026-07-11.
| Metric | LKNCY | QSR |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $7.97 | $75.24 |
| Market cap | $2.6B | $34.5B |
| Sector | Restaurants | Restaurants |
| Stage | Growth | Mature |
| Implied growth (priced in) | — | -2.2% |
| P/E | 5.0 | 26.6 |
| P/B | 1.15 | 6.53 |
| P/S | 0.36 | 3.60 |
| EV/EBITDA | 2.4 | 17.9 |
| Revenue growth | +55.0% | +9.4% |
| Operating margin | 10.3% | 26.8% |
| Net margin | 7.3% | 13.6% |
| Return on equity | 23.0% | 24.6% |
| Return on assets | 11.9% | 5.2% |
| Return on invested capital | 22.1% | 11.8% |
| FCF yield | 19.3% | 4.5% |
| Dividend yield | — | 3.3% |
| Debt / equity | 0.00 | 2.52 |
| Current ratio | 1.70 | 0.99 |
| Altman Z (solvency) | 3.12 | 1.63 |
| Piotroski F (quality) | 7 / 9 | 4 / 9 |
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