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.

Revenue
+13.9%
EPS
+92.7%
Free cash flow
+24.5%
Total debt
−10.4%

Quarter to September 2026, against a year earlier

110.96 4.43 −3.84%
Market cap
$5.5B
P/E
24.9×
Fwd P/E
24.0×
Dividend yield
1.05%
F-score
6/9
Altman Z
2.33
Beneish M
−2.77
Dividend safety
82/100

The Cheesecake Factory Incorporated (CAKE) EV/FCF

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As of 5 November 2026, The Cheesecake Factory Incorporated (CAKE) trades at a EV/FCF of 27.8×. Over the past ten years it has ranged from −62.5× (March 2021) to 840× (December 2020); the current reading is higher than 75% of that period.

EV/FCF, daily

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Annual newest first

Period EV/FCF Change
FY2025 18.0× (30.66%)
FY2024 26.0× (23.62%)
FY2023 34.0× (21.09%)
FY2022 43.1× 176.45%
FY2021 15.6× —
FY2020 −39.3× —
FY2019 14.5× 37.35%
FY2018 10.5× (47.12%)
FY2017 19.9× 40.39%
FY2016 14.2× (41.51%)

Quarterly newest first

Period EV/FCF Change
Sep 2026 26.6× 31.51%
Jun 2026 20.2× 17.58%
Mar 2026 17.2× (4.67%)
Dec 2025 18.0× (4.41%)
43 more quarters

Against its own ten years

Low −62.5× High 840×
Ten-year median 21.2×
Current reading's percentile 72

EV/FCF against peers

What EV/FCF is

EV/Free CF shows how the value of a whole company, debt included, compares with the free cash its business produces.

((Stock Price × Shares (Basic, Weighted) (latest quarter)) + (Long Term Debt (Total) (latest quarter) + Current Part of Debt (latest quarter)) − Cash & Short Term Investments (latest quarter)) ÷ (Operating Cash Flow (TTM) + Property, Plant, Equipment Change (Net) (TTM) + Intangible Assets Change (Net) (TTM))

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