CAKE The Cheesecake Factory, Inc.data gap · 84% coverage
Consumer Discretionary · Restaurants · close $114.92 (2026-10-16) · latest quarter in EDGAR: 2026-06-30
The Cheesecake Factory, Inc. (CAKE) has a ThetaGrade House Rating of 39/100 (grade D), ranking #119 of 128 in Consumer Discretionary. Its strongest pillars are growth (56) and valuation (38); its weakest is cash flow (25). Data gap: 3 factors without usable data, so 84% of the method weight is covered. TTM revenue growth is 5.7% and operating margin 5.3%.
Data as of .
Data gap
No usable data for: Consensus score (1–5), 90-day net rating shift, 4Q gross-margin change. Data gap: no usable data for this factor, so it is left out and its weight is shared among the factors that do have data (no value is imputed). 84% of the full method weight is backed by data.
Analyst sentiment
weight 7.5% · no data · —| Consensus score (1–5) (0.0%)data gap | derived | — |
| 90-day net rating shift (0.0%)data gap | derived | — |
Growth
weight 30.83% (→33.3%) · 56| Revenue growth YoY (TTM) (13.3%) | 5.7% | 42 |
| EPS growth YoY (TTM) (13.3%) | 13.2% | 59 |
| Revenue acceleration (6.7%) | 2.2% | 78 |
Profitability
weight 18.5% (→20.0%) · 25| Operating margin (20.0%) | 5.3% | 25 |
| 4Q gross-margin change (0.0%)data gap | — | — |
Balance sheet
weight 18.5% (→20.0%) · 36| Net debt / EBITDA (10.7%) | 1.39× | 35 |
| Current ratio (5.3%) | 0.59 | 8 |
| Interest coverage (4.0%) | 23.51× | 77 |
Cash flow
weight 12.33% (→13.3%) · 25| FCF margin (6.7%) | 4.1% | 22 |
| FCF yield (6.7%) | 2.7% | 28 |
Valuation
weight 12.33% (→13.3%) · 38| P/E (inverted) (6.7%) | 31.23× | 21 |
| EV/Sales (inverted) (6.7%) | 1.59× | 55 |
Technicals (EOD)
| RSI(14) | 65.3 |
| EMA 9 / 21 | 111.65 / 108.80 |
| 200-day SMA | 76.91 |
| Volume vs 20d avg | 0.98× |
| 20-day return | 19.9% |
Exit-rule monitor
- EXITRating break: House Rating below 60
Data source per metric (SEC XBRL tag or derivation): Revenue: RevenueFromContractWithCustomerExcludingAssessedTax · Operating income: OperatingIncomeLoss · Interest expense: InterestPaidNet · D&A: DepreciationDepletionAndAmortization · EPS: EarningsPerShareDiluted · Market cap: SEC shares (dei EntityCommonStockSharesOutstanding (cover page)) × EOD close · P/E: EOD close ÷ SEC TTM EPS (EarningsPerShareDiluted).
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FAQ
- What is CAKE's House Rating?
- CAKE scores 39 out of 100 (grade D) as of 2026-10-16, ranking #119 of 128 Consumer Discretionary stocks we cover.
- What do analysts say about CAKE?
- We do not have enough analyst-sentiment data to score this stock.
- When does CAKE report earnings next?
- CAKE's next earnings report is estimated for about 2026-10-27 (window 2026-10-24 to 2026-10-30), based on its past SEC 8-K earnings filings. This is an estimate, not a company-confirmed date.
- Is CAKE a buy?
- ThetaGrade does not give personal advice. The House Rating is an educational, rules-based summary of public data; see the methodology for how it is built.
Sources: SEC EDGAR filings (fetched 2026-10-18), Finnhub recommendation trends, Massive EOD prices. Scores are sector percentiles; a factor without usable data is a data gap: it is left out and the remaining weights are renormalized (nothing is imputed). Educational only. Methodology