CAVA Group, Inc.
boothcheck covers CAVA Group, Inc. (CAVA) but does not put one priced-in number on it: here the defensible answer is the evidence rather than a point estimate. boothcheck publishes no house fair value, target price, or buy/sell rating. Narrative composed July 25, 2026.
• Restaurant count moved from 367 to 439 across fiscal 2025 and reached 459 by mid-April 2026, and every one of those builds was funded from operations and cash on hand rather than borrowed money (FY2025 10-K). • Trailing operating margin of 5.8% sits below TXRH at 8.0% and EAT at 10.4%, so the price is paying a compounding multiple on profitability the company has not yet put on the board. • Second-quarter results land August 11, 2026, the next read on the same-restaurant sales pace management
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504 institutional managers reported holding CAVA in 13F filings for the quarter ended 2026-03-31. Together they hold about 94% of the company; the top 10 hold 52%. 110 opened new positions that quarter. Held by BlackRock, Vanguard Group, AllianceBernstein, among others. On the short side, 13.7M shares were sold short as of the 2026-06-15 count, about 12% of shares outstanding (4.4 days of typical volume to cover).
Quarterly 13F filings arrive up to 45 days after quarter end, so the picture is never current (filed through 2026-05-29). Nothing here is investment advice.
Open-market insider buys at CAVA over the trailing three years: 2023: 1 buy totaling $332k; 2025: 1 buy totaling $7k; 2026: 4 buys totaling $662k. 22 officers and directors are on file.
Code P open-market purchases from SEC Form 4 filings, non-derivative, excluding scheduled 10b5-1 plans. Nothing here is investment advice.
CAVA's recent reports: the day-one move, then what the following quarter actually did.
| report | day one | next quarter |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-11-09 | -9.0% | +36.2% |
| 2024-02-28 | +12.7% | +18.5% |
| 2024-05-30 | +6.3% | -9.3% |
| 2024-08-24 | +18.6% | +11.6% |
Day-one is the close-to-close move around the filing. Nothing here is investment advice.
CAVA's latest 8-K filings: 2026-08-11 (items 2.02, 9.01); 2026-08-03 (items 5.02, 9.01); 2026-06-24 (items 5.02, 5.07, 9.01); 2026-05-19 (items 2.02, 9.01); 2026-04-21 (items 5.02, 9.01).
Item codes are the SEC's own classification of what each report discloses. Dates link to the filing on EDGAR. Nothing here is investment advice.
Model solve date: 2026-Q2
Narrative composed: July 25, 2026
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