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

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