The Cheesecake Factory Incorporated
CAKE Consumer Cyclical Restaurants
The Cheesecake Factory Incorporated’s revenue for fiscal 2025 (year ended December 2025) was $3.8 billion, up 4.75% from fiscal 2024. In the quarter to June 2026, revenue grew 7.72%, EPS grew 24.6%, free cash flow grew 220.4% and total debt fell 10.4%, each against the same quarter a year earlier. Dividend growth for five consecutive years, revenue growth for five, operating cash flow growth for three.
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The Cheesecake Factory Incorporated (CAKE) Altman Z-score
The Cheesecake Factory Incorporated's Altman Z-score for fiscal 2025 is 2.33, in the grey zone (1.81–2.99).
Altman Z-score, annual
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Annual newest first
| Period | Altman Z-score | Change (points) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | 2.33 | (0.02) |
| FY2024 | 2.35 | 0.17 |
| FY2023 | 2.19 | 0.11 |
| FY2022 | 2.07 | (0.01) |
| FY2021 | 2.08 | 0.92 |
| FY2020 | 1.16 | (0.82) |
| FY2019 | 1.98 | (2.95) |
| FY2018 | 4.94 | (0.27) |
| FY2017 | 5.20 | (0.76) |
| FY2016 | 5.97 | 0.55 |
How fiscal 2025’s score is made up
| Component | This year | Year before | Result | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Working capital / total assets | (0.10) | — | −0.12 | |
| Retained earnings / total assets | 0.43 | — | 0.61 | |
| EBIT / total assets | 0.06 | — | 0.19 | |
| Market value of equity / total liabilities | 0.84 | — | 0.50 | |
| Sales / total assets | 1.15 | — | 1.15 | |
| Altman Z-score | Grey zone | 2.33 | ||
| Z″ Variant for non-manufacturing and asset-light companies (drops the sales/assets term, uses book equity) | Grey zone | 1.31 | ||
How the Altman Z-score works
Z = 1.2 × working capital ÷ total assets + 1.4 × retained earnings ÷ total assets + 3.3 × EBIT ÷ total assets + 0.6 × market value of equity ÷ total liabilities + 1.0 × revenue ÷ total assets (Altman, 1968). The market value of equity is the close on the last trading day of the fiscal year times weighted basic shares.
Z″ = 6.56 × working capital ÷ total assets + 3.26 × retained earnings ÷ total assets + 6.72 × EBIT ÷ total assets + 1.05 × book equity ÷ total liabilities (Altman, Hartzell and Peck, 1995), the variant for non-manufacturing and asset-light companies.
| Zone | Z | Z″ |
|---|---|---|
| Safe zone | above 2.99 | above 2.60 |
| Grey zone | 1.81–2.99 | 1.10–2.60 |
| Distress zone | below 1.81 | below 1.10 |
Not worked out for banks, insurers and REITs, whose balance sheets the model does not describe, nor when a figure is missing or there is no share price in the week to the fiscal year end.
Altman Z-score against peers
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| CAKE The Cheesecake Factory Incorporated | 2.3× |
What Altman Z-score is
The Altman Z-Score weighs working capital, retained earnings, operating profit, market value and sales against assets and debts to gauge the risk of distress.
1.2 × working capital ÷ total assets + 1.4 × retained earnings ÷ total assets + 3.3 × EBIT ÷ total assets + 0.6 × market value of equity ÷ total liabilities + 1.0 × revenue ÷ total assets