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    How Investors Are Reacting To Cheesecake Factory (CAKE) Spotlight On Emerging Concepts And Off-Premise Momentum

    Simply Wall St·12/20/2025 22:20:58
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    • In recent days, Freedom Capital Markets began covering The Cheesecake Factory, highlighting its collection of premium dining brands and underappreciated smaller concepts such as North Italia and Flower Child.
    • Amid this fresh analyst attention, investors are reassessing Cheesecake Factory’s balance of a mature core brand with emerging growth concepts and off-premise sales.
    • We’ll now explore how this renewed focus on incubator brands and off-premise momentum could influence Cheesecake Factory’s broader investment narrative.

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    Cheesecake Factory Investment Narrative Recap

    To own Cheesecake Factory today, you need to believe its mature flagship can keep pulling in traffic while incubator brands and off-premise sales quietly add incremental growth, despite softer same-store sales and high debt. Freedom Capital Markets’ new Hold rating and focus on North Italia and Flower Child may support sentiment around those growth levers, but it does not materially change the near term catalyst of off-premise momentum or the key risk around leverage and traffic softness.

    The most relevant recent development here is the reminder that off-premise sales now make up about 21% of Cheesecake Factory’s revenue, largely through DoorDash, with new menu formats like Bites and Bowls seeing encouraging adoption. For investors watching the stock’s recent underperformance and mixed same-store sales, this off-premise channel and menu innovation are central to whether the brand can offset dine in pressures and keep its growth narrative intact.

    Yet against this optimism, investors should be aware that high debt levels combined with...

    Read the full narrative on Cheesecake Factory (it's free!)

    Cheesecake Factory's narrative projects $4.4 billion revenue and $247.6 million earnings by 2028. This requires 5.9% yearly revenue growth and about a $88.7 million earnings increase from $158.9 million today.

    Uncover how Cheesecake Factory's forecasts yield a $59.22 fair value, a 14% upside to its current price.

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    Eight fair value estimates from the Simply Wall St Community span roughly US$30 to US$75 per share, reflecting very different expectations. When you set those views against concerns about high leverage and lagging same store sales, it underlines why many investors are weighing both upside from incubator brands and the risk of balance sheet pressure before making a call.

    Explore 8 other fair value estimates on Cheesecake Factory - why the stock might be worth as much as 44% more than the current price!

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    This article by Simply Wall St is general in nature. We provide commentary based on historical data and analyst forecasts only using an unbiased methodology and our articles are not intended to be financial advice. It does not constitute a recommendation to buy or sell any stock, and does not take account of your objectives, or your financial situation. We aim to bring you long-term focused analysis driven by fundamental data. Note that our analysis may not factor in the latest price-sensitive company announcements or qualitative material. Simply Wall St has no position in any stocks mentioned.