Luckin Coffee Inc. vs SHAKE SHACK INC., two Restaurants stocks. A side-by-side on valuation, growth, margins, returns, and what each price is betting.
Where LKNCY and SHAK diverge most: on operating margin, LKNCY reads 10.3% and SHAK reads -0.7%; on debt / equity, LKNCY reads 0.00 and SHAK reads 0.45. 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 | LKNCY | SHAK |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $7.97 | $58.61 |
| Market cap | $2.6B | $2.4B |
| Sector | Restaurants | Restaurants |
| Stage | Growth | Growth |
| P/E | 5.0 | 59.8 |
| P/B | 1.15 | 4.26 |
| P/S | 0.36 | 1.58 |
| EV/EBITDA | 2.4 | 13.8 |
| Revenue growth | +55.0% | +16.2% |
| Operating margin | 10.3% | -0.7% |
| Net margin | 7.3% | 2.8% |
| Return on equity | 23.0% | 7.4% |
| Return on assets | 11.9% | 2.1% |
| Return on invested capital | 22.1% | 5.6% |
| FCF yield | 19.3% | 0.7% |
| Debt / equity | 0.00 | 0.45 |
| Current ratio | 1.70 | 1.69 |
| Altman Z (solvency) | 3.12 | 1.97 |
| Piotroski F (quality) | 7 / 9 | 6 / 9 |
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