CAKEThe Cheesecake Factory Incorporated
Is it safe?
Strong, no red flags: a safe balance sheet.
Financially healthy, low distress risk Altman Z-score, a bankruptcy-risk model from five balance-sheet ratios.
Insiders were net sellers (-$22.3M, 90 days to Oct 8, 2026), selling is often routine.
Investment-grade balance sheet. A rule of thumb on leverage, not a credit rating.
Moderate price swings, typical volatility. Worst drawdown -75% · now 8% below its 52-week high.
Unless marked, from SEC EDGAR, as of Dec 30, 2025.
Against the whole market›
Percentile against every name Ryufin tracks. Higher is better; the tick marks the middle of the market. Context, not one of the checks above.
Where this answer is blind. Altman sits structurally low for utilities and pipelines; Beneish runs high for fast growers, since sales growth alone lifts it; banks and REITs are excluded.
Can CAKE take a bad year?
The Cheesecake Factory Incorporated carries $368M of net debt at 1.16× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
Net debt · as at Q2 2026 · under two and a half years of EBITDA, comfortable
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 1.16×
Net debt / EBITDA · 1.59× a year ago · the load is coming down
- Altman Z-score
- 2.66
Altman Z-score · grey zone, between 1.8 and 3
- Debt / equity
- 1.08×
Debt / equity
Details›
- Total debtQ2 2026
- $563M
- Cash and short-term investments
- $195M
- Net debt
- $368M
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $317M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $204M
- Debt / equity
- 1.08×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 1.77×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 38%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −76%
- Below its 52-week high
- 7.5%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.