CAKE

The Cheesecake Factory Incorporated
NasdaqGSUSDEQUITY Consumer Cyclical DELAYED
Last price
107.97
▼ 1.06 (0.97%)
MARKET · —

Price

1D — H — L — Range — Vol —
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Open
108.82
Prev close
109.03
Day high
110.00
Day low
107.18
Volume
2.07M
Market cap
$5.39B
P/E (TTM)
29.49
52W range
43.07 – 118.46

Day trading desk

Current session · delayed
Gap from prior close
-0.19%
Prior close 109.03
VWAP
108.14
-0.16% from price
Relative volume
2.90×
Unusually busy
Session range
3.42%
107.00 – 110.66
Position in range
27%
Near session low
ATR (14D)
3.35
3.10% of price
Prior day high
111.00
PDH
Prior day low
107.18
PDL
Bid / ask spread
—
Quote not published
Session volume
4.77M
Avg 1.65M

VWAP and the session figures are computed from the delayed intraday series on this page, so they lag the live tape and will not match a broker's real-time VWAP exactly. Turn on Prior day H/L/C, Opening range and Volume profile in the chart's Studies menu to see these levels drawn on price.

Trailing performance

Price return · vs SPY
Returnvs SPY
1W
+0.82% -1.1%
1M
+0.60% -0.6%
3M
+41.24% +36.7%
6M
+94.03% +75.8%
YTD
+114.40% +100.2%
1Y
+95.01% +78.6%
3Y
+257.19% +174.9%
5Y
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Price return only. Dividends are not reinvested, so total return on a dividend payer will be higher than shown.

Unusual options activity

Account required
Nothing crossed the thresholds in the expiries we scanned.
That is the normal state — most contracts trade well inside their existing open interest.
Free account required

Contracts trading at or above their open interest, ranked by notional and where the print landed.

Free account

5 more panels on CAKE open with an account.

Options chains and analytics, valuation ratios, insider filings, analyst targets and ownership. No card, no trial, nothing to cancel.

Insider net activity

6m · Form 4 rollup
Net shares
-122.68K
Net selling
Buy transactions
9
197.50K shares
Sell transactions
10
320.18K shares
Net transactions
+19
Buys less sells
Sell : buy shares
1.6 : 1
Mixed
Insider-held shares
3.71M
Total on file
Bought 197.50KSold 320.18K

Insider transactions

Account required
DateInsiderAction SharesValueHeld
Sep 1, 26
KRANSDORF JEROME I
Director
STOCK 200 $0 Direct
Aug 26, 26
KRANSDORF JEROME I
Director
STOCK 800 $0 Direct
Aug 17, 26
MEYER JANICE L.
Director
SELL 1.96K $214.12K Direct
Aug 10, 26
AMES EDIE A
Director
SELL 3.00K $320.85K Indirect
Aug 10, 26
GORDON DAVID M
President
SELL 31.95K $3.52M Direct
Aug 10, 26
GORDON DAVID M
President
CONVERSION 16.87K $646.75K Direct
Aug 5, 26
OVERTON DAVID M
Chief Executive Officer
SELL 94.14K $10.00M Indirect
Aug 3, 26
CAPPELLO ALEXANDER L
Director
SELL 2.25K $229.09K Indirect
Jul 31, 26
MAY SCARLETT A
General Counsel
SELL 7.98K $819.02K Direct
Jul 30, 26
CLARK MATTHEW ELIOT
Chief Financial Officer
SELL 68.90K $6.84M Direct
Jul 30, 26
HANSCOM ASHLEY W
Officer
SELL 3.50K $350.00K Direct
Jul 30, 26
CLARK MATTHEW ELIOT
Chief Financial Officer
CONVERSION 68.90K $2.77M Direct
Jun 2, 26
CAPPELLO ALEXANDER L
Director
SELL 2.49K $161.60K Indirect
May 28, 26
CAPPELLO ALEXANDER L
Director
STOCK 2.49K $0 Indirect
What this is, and what it is not

These are SEC Form 4 filings — officers, directors and 10% owners reporting their own trades in the company's stock. Filing is due within two business days of the transaction, so this lags reality by days, and the provider adds its own lag on top.

A sale is not automatically bearish. Executives sell on scheduled 10b5-1 plans, to cover tax on vesting equity, and to diversify. Purchases with cash are generally the more informative signal, and they are far rarer.

This does not include congressional or senate trading. That comes from STOCK Act disclosures filed with the Senate eFD system and the House Clerk, which this data source does not carry.

Free account required

Officer and director trades in their own stock, straight from Form 4 filings.

Insider holders

10 reporting
NameRelationShares heldLatest
ALEX SPERO G
Officer — Sale
CARANGO KEITH T
Officer 45.60K Sale
CLARK MATTHEW ELIOT
Chief Financial Officer 81.33K Sale
COLLINS KHANH P
Director 14.56K Stock Award(Grant)
GORDON DAVID M
President 84.82K Sale
HANSCOM ASHLEY W
Officer 18.65K Sale
KRANSDORF JEROME I
Director 12.75K Stock Gift
MAY SCARLETT A
General Counsel 48.95K Sale
MEYER JANICE L.
Director 21.25K Sale
OVERTON DAVID M
Chief Executive Officer — Sale

Fundamentals

TTM · reported
Market cap$5.39B
Enterprise value$7.27B
Revenue (TTM)$3.88B
Gross profit$1.58B
EBITDA$354.95M
Net income$178.62M
EPS (TTM)$3.67
Free cash flow$166.74M
Total cash$195.17M
Total debt$2.08B
Book value / share$10.43
Shares outstanding49.76M
Float45.86M
Short % of float37.96%
Dividend yield1.10%
Beta (5Y)1.04

Valuation & profitability ratios

Account required
Trailing P/E29.49
Forward P/E21.66
PEG ratio1.97
Price / sales—
Price / book10.38
EV / revenue1.88
EV / EBITDA20.49
Gross margin40.70%
Operating margin7.77%
Profit margin4.61%
Return on equity38.83%
Return on assets4.70%
Debt / equity401.00
Current ratio0.59
Free account required

Fourteen ratios including P/E, PEG, EV/EBITDA, margins and return on equity.

Financial statements

As reported · 4 years · 6 quarters
Blank means not reported, not zero
Line item2025202420232022YoY
Total revenue $3.75B$3.58B$3.44B$3.30B +4.7%
Operating revenue $3.75B$3.58B$3.44B$3.30B +4.7%
Cost of revenue $2.13B$2.07B$2.03B$2.02B +2.7%
Gross profit $1.63B$1.51B$1.41B$1.28B +7.6%
Selling, general & admin $244.91M$228.74M$217.45M$205.75M +7.1%
Total operating expense $1.37B$1.29B$1.23B$1.18B +6.1%
Operating income $257.80M$221.89M$175.09M$100.52M +16.2%
Net interest income -$10.45M-$10.11M-$10.16M-$7.49M -3.4%
Pre-tax income $162.90M$171.05M$100.01M$32.89M -4.8%
Tax provision $14.47M$14.26M-$1.34M-$10.23M +1.4%
Net income $148.43M$156.78M$101.35M$43.12M -5.3%
Net income to common $148.43M$156.78M$101.35M$43.12M -5.3%
Basic EPS 3.173.282.100.87 -3.4%
Diluted EPS 3.063.202.070.86 -4.4%
EBIT $173.34M$181.15M$110.17M$40.38M -4.3%
EBITDA $282.37M$282.60M$203.31M$132.76M -0.1%
Basic shares 46.79M47.79M48.32M49.81M -2.1%
Diluted shares 48.55M48.97M49.05M50.41M -0.9%

Options analytics

Account required
Put / call volume
1.58
Put-heavy session
Put / call open interest
1.03
Positioning, not flow
Max pain
105.00
-3.0% from spot
ATM implied vol
44.5%
Nearest strike to spot
Skew (10% OTM)
+8.7%
Puts bid over calls
Call volume
198
Contracts, this expiry
Put volume
313
Contracts, this expiry
Heaviest call OI
120.00
1.22K contracts
Heaviest put OI
105.00
1.47K contracts

Max pain is the strike at which the largest dollar value of open contracts expires worthless. It describes current positioning; it is not a forecast and it moves as open interest changes.

Free account required

Put/call ratios, max pain, implied volatility skew and where open interest is concentrated.

Earnings

History & consensus estimates
Reported vs expected · EPS
QuarterEst.ActualSurprise
Jun 2026 1.181.44 +21.9%
Mar 2026 1.011.05 +3.5%
Dec 2025 0.991.00 +1.5%
Sep 2025 0.600.68 +13.0%
Forward consensus
PeriodEPSAnalystsRevenueGrowth
Current quarter 0.88 17 $989.98M +9.1%
Next quarter 1.20 17 $1.02B +6.6%
Current year 4.55 17 $4.02B +7.2%
Next year 5.02 18 $4.32B +7.5%

Analyst targets & ownership

Account required
Mean target$97.43
High target$122.00
Low target$60.00
Implied upside-9.76%
Analyst count14
ConsensusHOLD
Strong buy / Buy0 / 4
Hold13
Sell / Strong sell1 / 0
Held by insiders7.46%
Held by institutions103.88%
Institutions holding449
Free account required

Price targets, consensus spread, insider and institutional ownership.

Moving averages & technicals

Computed from 2Y daily closes
SMA 10
106.66
+1.23% from price
SMA 20
103.39
+4.68% from price
SMA 50
106.26
+1.85% from price
SMA 100
90.00
+19.96% from price
SMA 200
74.53
+45.22% from price
EMA 12
106.28
+1.59% from price
EMA 26
105.10
+2.73% from price
EMA 50
101.76
+6.10% from price
RSI (14)
56.8
Neutral
MACD (12,26,9)
1.18
Hist 0.73
ATR (14)
3.35
3.09% of price
Realised vol 30D
38.4%
Annualised
Bollinger upper
111.82
20, 2σ
Bollinger lower
94.96
20, 2σ
50 / 200 cross
Golden
106.26 vs 74.53
Trend bias
Above 200
+45.22%

Options chain

Account required
Expiry
Spot 107.97
Calls
StrikeLastBidAskVolOIIV
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Puts
StrikeLastBidAskVolOIIV
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Free account required

Every listed expiry, both sides of the book, with volume, open interest and implied volatility.

Risk profile

Daily returns · 1Y window
Beta vs SPY
0.49
Less volatile than market
Correlation to SPY
0.16
Largely independent
Realised vol 30D
38.4%
Annualised
Market vol 1Y
13.0%
SPY, annualised
Max drawdown 1Y
-23.9%
Peak to trough
Max drawdown 5Y
-43.3%
Peak to trough
ATR 14
3.35
3.09% of price
Beta (reported)
1.04
5Y monthly, from filing

Short interest

Semi-monthly exchange report · lags by ~2 weeks
Shares short
9.91M
Prior 9.25M
Change vs prior
+7.2%
Shorts adding
% of float
37.96%
Heavily shorted
% of shares out
19.91%
Against total outstanding
Days to cover
6.3
Crowded exit
Float
45.86M
Freely tradeable shares

Exchanges publish short interest twice a month with a settlement lag, so this is roughly two weeks behind. Days to cover divides shares short by average daily volume — it estimates how long covering would take, not whether it will happen.

Rating changes

341 on file
DateFirm ActionFromTo
Apr 21, 26 Oppenheimer MAINTAINED Outperform Outperform
Apr 15, 26 Citigroup MAINTAINED Buy Buy
Feb 19, 26 Citigroup MAINTAINED Buy Buy
Feb 19, 26 Wells Fargo MAINTAINED Equal-Weight Equal-Weight
Feb 19, 26 Stephens & Co. DOWNGRADE Overweight Equal-Weight
Feb 12, 26 Mizuho MAINTAINED Outperform Outperform
Feb 9, 26 Citigroup MAINTAINED Buy Buy
Jan 20, 26 Morgan Stanley MAINTAINED Underweight Underweight
Jan 7, 26 Barclays MAINTAINED Underweight Underweight
Dec 17, 25 Freedom Capital Markets INITIATED — Hold
Nov 7, 25 Argus Research MAINTAINED Buy Buy
Oct 30, 25 JP Morgan MAINTAINED Underweight Underweight

Dividends & splits

Declared · from the issuer
Forward rate$1.20 / yr
Forward yield1.10%
5-year avg yield2.01%
Payout ratio30.89%
Ex-dividend dateAug 11, 2026
Next pay dateAug 25, 2026
Last split3:2
Split dateDec 9, 2004

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