Noodles & Company

NDLS Consumer Cyclical Restaurants

Noodles & Company’s revenue for fiscal 2025 (year ended December 2025) was $495.1 million, roughly unchanged from fiscal 2024. In the quarter to June 2026, revenue was flat, EPS grew 78.0%, free cash flow grew 142.2% and total debt fell 1.91%, each against the same quarter a year earlier.

14.01 0.16 +1.16%
Market cap
$82.6M
P/E
0.0×
Fwd P/E
−7.6×
Dividend yield
—
F-score
3/9
Altman Z
0.15
Beneish M
−3.47
Dividend safety
n/a
Dec '16 Dec '17 Dec '18 Dec '19 Dec '20 Dec '21 Dec '22 Dec '23 Dec '24 Dec '25
P/E ratio
0.00 0.00 0.00 138.50 0.00 113.38 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Piotroski F-Score
4 6 7 6 4 7 4 4 4 3
P/S ratio
0.23 0.43 0.65 0.53 0.89 0.87 0.50 0.28 0.05 0.07
Altman Z-Score
1.08 1.75 3.10 1.20 0.91 1.52 1.26 0.87 0.32 0.15
P/FCF ratio
0.00 0.00 0.00 18.75 0.00 23.72 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Altman Z″-Score (non-manufacturers)
(3.74) (3.53) (2.16) (1.23) (2.20) (2.08) (2.01) (2.12) (3.36) (4.87)
Beneish M-Score
(4.83) (3.95) (2.78) 1.34 (2.95) (2.76) (2.16) (3.24) (3.41) (3.47)
P/Operating CF
12.99 17.80 28.97 17.69 431.80 65.81 146.17 869.74 (2.64) (30.64)
P/B ratio
4.36 5.48 5.62 4.82 11.78 10.96 6.62 5.25 0.00 0.00
Price to Tangible BV
6.36 7.04 6.58 5.74 16.05 13.84 8.30 7.33 0.00 0.00
EV/Sales
0.40 0.55 0.73 0.59 0.98 0.91 0.59 0.44 0.26 0.29
EV/EBITDA
0.00 0.00 17.04 9.81 187.22 15.08 12.96 10.02 67.46 0.00
EV/Operating CF
7.90 61.09 62.88 9.14 42.09 11.92 31.42 8.06 16.90 19.52
EV/FCF
(10.51) (14.98) (37.38) 21.12 (144.47) 24.80 (12.34) (9.03) (6.03) (27.82)
Quick Ratio
0.15 0.13 0.22 0.24 0.19 0.08 0.13 0.13 0.08 0.09
Current Ratio
0.53 0.50 0.70 0.51 0.41 0.29 0.34 0.34 0.31 0.31
Net Debt/EBITDA
(2.11) (6.19) 2.04 1.10 16.69 0.65 1.92 3.49 52.58 (29.34)
Debt/Assets
40.43% 31.11% 26.10% 10.90% 11.90% 6.14% 13.39% 21.79% 31.03% 41.57%
Debt/Equity
3.28 1.61 0.85 0.82 1.42 0.56 1.20 2.95 (18.06) (2.40)
Asset Turnover
2.17 2.31 2.56 1.68 1.08 1.37 1.49 1.41 1.42 1.69
Operating CF/Net income
(0.35) (0.09) (0.63) 18.25 (0.39) 9.87 (2.88) (2.79) (0.21) (0.17)
Capex/Depreciation
(1.53) (0.83) (0.61) (0.76) (0.53) (0.82) (1.41) (1.92) (0.97) (0.44)
Interest Coverage
(23.16) (8.82) (0.87) 1.85 (6.37) 2.79 (0.34) (1.05) (3.31) (2.89)
ROE
(119.87%) (147.37%) (19.07%) 3.19% (57.95%) 10.89% (8.72%) (30.08%) (335.60%) 167.31%
ROA
(31.90%) (23.03%) (4.73%) 0.60% (6.35%) 1.05% (0.97%) (2.77%) (10.45%) (14.52%)
ROIC
(38.84%) (23.47%) (2.53%) 4.18% (19.58%) 6.45% (0.63%) (3.01%) (18.47%) (31.74%)
Return on Tangible Assets
(47.69%) (34.75%) (6.54%) 1.64% (26.28%) 5.62% (3.81%) (9.19%) (39.49%) (66.09%)
Average Days of Receivables
4.26 2.01 2.05 2.85 3.22 3.12 4.74 3.97 3.25 3.23
Research and Development Expense of Revenue
0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00%
Selling, General and Administrative Expense of Revenue
44.49% 41.60% 42.77% 41.96% 43.01% 40.65% 40.22% 41.60% 41.58% 40.90%
Intangible Assets out of Total Assets
0.04 0.04 0.04 0.02 0.02 0.02 0.02 0.02 0.02 0.03
Share Based Compensation of Revenue
0.48% 0.33% 0.65% 0.53% 0.63% 0.86% 0.85% 0.84% 0.73% 0.61%
Graham Net Nets
(1.40) (0.65) (0.32) (1.22) (0.86) (0.68) (1.12) (2.23) (11.76) (8.76)
Graham Number
0.00 0.00 0.00 8.13 0.00 9.76 0.00 0.00 11.89 36.10
Earnings Yield
(63.70%) (27.31%) (3.00%) 0.72% (6.62%) 0.88% (1.27%) (7.23%) (137.93%) (130.28%)
Free Cash Flow Yield
(16.51%) (8.52%) (3.04%) 5.33% (0.76%) 4.22% (9.58%) (17.21%) (80.42%) (15.55%)
Revenue per Share
140.24 96.72 86.53 84.00 71.13 83.57 88.77 87.81 86.79 85.55
Operating CF per Share
7.12 0.87 1.01 5.46 1.65 6.36 1.67 4.80 1.33 1.26
Capex per Share
(12.47) (4.41) (2.71) (3.10) (2.13) (3.30) (5.90) (9.08) (5.06) (2.14)
Free Cash Flow per Share
(5.35) (3.54) (1.70) 2.36 (0.48) 3.06 (4.24) (4.28) (3.73) (0.88)
Cash per Share
0.53 0.71 0.88 1.90 1.42 0.40 0.27 0.53 0.20 0.22
Shareholders Equity per Share
7.43 7.60 9.96 9.19 5.37 6.62 6.68 4.74 (0.98) (7.83)
Interest Debt per Share
0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Book value per Share
7.43 7.60 9.96 9.19 5.37 6.62 6.68 4.74 (0.98) (7.83)
Free Cash Flow
(18.60) (16.73) (8.99) 13.01 (2.66) 17.39 (24.33) (24.55) (21.21) (5.11)
Working Capital
(23.24) (21.81) (9.80) (28.71) (34.41) (54.02) (42.48) (44.89) (45.52) (42.95)
Capital Expenditures
(43.33) (20.83) (14.34) (17.05) (11.78) (18.78) (33.89) (52.04) (28.77) (12.39)
Net Current Asset Value
(157.85) (127.31) (96.00) (298.63) (300.22) (281.26) (283.84) (318.31) (310.03) (288.08)
EV/EBIT
0.00 0.00 0.00 50.52 0.00 74.13 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Capex to Sales
0.09 0.05 0.03 0.04 0.03 0.04 0.07 0.10 0.06 0.03
Price to Operating Income
0.00 0.00 0.00 44.85 0.00 70.92 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Other line items
Depreciation/Fixed assets
0.16 0.16 0.17 0.18 0.18 0.19 0.19 0.18 0.22 0.26
Cash ROIC
(16.56%) (17.27%) (8.80%) 12.72% (3.34%) 28.58% (28.31%) (22.24%) (22.02%) (7.90%)
Accounts Receivable Turnover
84.75 111.29 180.04 149.60 111.23 126.07 95.36 83.21 99.97 113.00
Accounts Payable Turnover
10.18 11.28 12.89 13.62 12.40 10.74 8.94 7.76 8.28 8.55
Inventory Turnover
12.00 11.45 12.37 12.01 10.01 12.38 14.18 12.23 11.92 12.28
Average Days of Payables
29.62 32.84 23.67 29.13 23.92 48.12 40.53 49.09 38.93 47.49
Days of Inventory on Hand
31.53 29.83 29.07 30.75 36.03 29.11 26.59 30.15 30.98 29.33
Average Receivables
5.75 4.10 2.54 3.09 3.54 3.77 5.34 6.05 4.93 4.38
Average Payables
12.84 10.77 9.39 8.60 7.88 10.97 15.43 16.00 14.94 14.87
Average Inventory
10.89 10.61 9.79 9.76 9.76 9.52 9.72 10.15 10.38 10.36
Average Assets
224.71 197.35 178.63 275.28 366.08 347.55 342.65 355.97 346.37 293.16
Average Common Equity
59.80 30.84 44.27 51.63 40.14 33.67 38.00 32.76 10.79 (25.44)

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