RESTAURANT BRANDS INTERNATIONAL INC. vs SHAKE SHACK INC., two Restaurants stocks. A side-by-side on valuation, growth, margins, returns, and what each price is betting.
Restaurant Brands International and Shake Shack sit at different maturity stages of the restaurant business. Restaurant Brands, franchisor of Burger King, Tim Hortons, and Popeyes, keeps a fat 13.55% of revenue, returns 24.55% on equity, generates a 4.58% free cash flow yield, and pays a 3.34% dividend at 26.26 times earnings. Shake Shack, the company-run better-burger chain, keeps just 2.76% of sales, returns 7.43% on equity, yields 0.69% in cash, and trades richer at 58.1 times. The franchisor carries heavy leverage at 2.52 debt-to-equity versus Shake Shack's 0.45. Restaurant Brands at $34.1B is roughly fifteen times Shake Shack's $2.3B.
Comparison updated 2026-07-11.
| Metric | QSR | SHAK |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $75.24 | $58.61 |
| Market cap | $34.5B | $2.4B |
| Sector | Restaurants | Restaurants |
| Stage | Mature | Growth |
| Implied growth (priced in) | -2.2% | — |
| P/E | 26.6 | 59.8 |
| P/B | 6.53 | 4.26 |
| P/S | 3.60 | 1.58 |
| EV/EBITDA | 17.9 | 13.8 |
| Revenue growth | +9.4% | +16.2% |
| Operating margin | 26.8% | -0.7% |
| Net margin | 13.6% | 2.8% |
| Return on equity | 24.6% | 7.4% |
| Return on assets | 5.2% | 2.1% |
| Return on invested capital | 11.8% | 5.6% |
| FCF yield | 4.5% | 0.7% |
| Dividend yield | 3.3% | — |
| Debt / equity | 2.52 | 0.45 |
| Current ratio | 0.99 | 1.69 |
| Altman Z (solvency) | 1.63 | 1.97 |
| Piotroski F (quality) | 4 / 9 | 6 / 9 |
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