Wednesday May 8, 2024, 19:29:15
CAKE (Post-Call): Reiterates a 2024 Net Income Margin Target of About 4.25%
After today’s (Wednesday’s) market close, The Cheesecake Factory reported that its first-quarter adjusted EPS reached $0.73. This easily surpassed our $0.60 forecast and sell-side consensus (according to Consensus Metrix) of $0.63. The Q1 income-statement line item that was most better than our estimates was Other Operating Costs/Revenues, which at 26.2% actual was +60 basis points more favorable than our 26.8% estimate. Trends in utilities and supply-chain costs helped get to this line-item outperformance in Q1. Management notes that it does not build any continued leverage into this line item into its stated targets (see below for more info about those targets).