Compare Stocks: CBRL, WEN, CAKE, and PZZA

Comparative Price Performance Over Time

Compare Price & Volume

Company	Current Price	50-Day Moving Average	52-Week Range	Market Cap	Beta	Avg. Volume	Today's Volume
CAKE Cheesecake Factory	$114.61 +1.1%	$91.13	$43.07 ▼ $118.46	$5.64B	1	2.05 million shs	2.11 million shs
CBRL Cracker Barrel Old Country Store	$58.02 +0.6%	$53.35	$24.85 ▼ $63.15	$1.29B	1.2	789,766 shs	870,135 shs
PZZA Papa John's International	$24.08 +0.6%	$30.99	$22.77 ▼ $55.74	$788.15M	1.13	1.85 million shs	939,543 shs
WEN Wendy's	$8.84 -1.9%	$7.76	$6.07 ▼ $10.62	$1.72B	0.37	10.00 million shs	4.51 million shs

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Compare Price Performance

Company	1-Day Performance	7-Day Performance	30-Day Performance	90-Day Performance	1-Year Performance
CAKE Cheesecake Factory	+1.13%	+5.08%	+35.28%	+77.33%	+82.76%
CBRL Cracker Barrel Old Country Store	+0.64%	-1.73%	+8.02%	+74.18%	+6.65%
PZZA Papa John's International	+0.58%	+3.66%	-20.71%	-26.36%	-47.98%
WEN Wendy's	-1.89%	+2.55%	+26.47%	+20.11%	-16.92%

Compare Price & Volume

Company	Current Price	50-Day Moving Average	52-Week Range	Market Cap	Beta	Avg. Volume	Today's Volume
CAKE Cheesecake Factory	$114.61 +1.1%	$91.13	$43.07 ▼ $118.46	$5.64B	1	2.05 million shs	2.11 million shs
CBRL Cracker Barrel Old Country Store	$58.02 +0.6%	$53.35	$24.85 ▼ $63.15	$1.29B	1.2	789,766 shs	870,135 shs
PZZA Papa John's International	$24.08 +0.6%	$30.99	$22.77 ▼ $55.74	$788.15M	1.13	1.85 million shs	939,543 shs
WEN Wendy's	$8.84 -1.9%	$7.76	$6.07 ▼ $10.62	$1.72B	0.37	10.00 million shs	4.51 million shs

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Compare Price Performance

Company	1-Day Performance	7-Day Performance	30-Day Performance	90-Day Performance	1-Year Performance
CAKE Cheesecake Factory	+1.13%	+5.08%	+35.28%	+77.33%	+82.76%
CBRL Cracker Barrel Old Country Store	+0.64%	-1.73%	+8.02%	+74.18%	+6.65%
PZZA Papa John's International	+0.58%	+3.66%	-20.71%	-26.36%	-47.98%
WEN Wendy's	-1.89%	+2.55%	+26.47%	+20.11%	-16.92%

Compare Analyst Forecasts

Company	Consensus Rating Score	Consensus Rating	Consensus Price Target	% Upside from Current Price
CAKE Cheesecake Factory	2.28	Hold	$81.00	-29.33% Downside
CBRL Cracker Barrel Old Country Store	2.17	Hold	$48.14	-17.02% Downside
PZZA Papa John's International	1.67	Reduce	$32.00	32.89% Upside
WEN Wendy's	1.81	Reduce	$7.76	-12.18% Downside

Current Analyst Ratings Breakdown

Latest CBRL, WEN, CAKE, and PZZA Analyst Ratings

Date	Company	Brokerage	Action	Rating	Price Target
8/21/2026	PZZA Papa John's International	Weiss Ratings Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Upgrade	Sell (D) ➝ Sell (D+)
8/13/2026	CAKE Cheesecake Factory	Weiss Ratings Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Upgrade	Buy (B-) ➝ Buy (B)
8/11/2026	WEN Wendy's	KeyCorp Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Reiterated Rating	Sector Weight
8/10/2026	WEN Wendy's	UBS Group Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Reiterated Rating	Neutral	$8.00
8/10/2026	WEN Wendy's	BMO Capital Markets Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Reiterated Rating	Market Perform
8/10/2026	WEN Wendy's	Morgan Stanley Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Set Price Target		$5.50
8/10/2026	WEN Wendy's	Citigroup Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Neutral	$7.25 ➝ $8.00
8/7/2026	PZZA Papa John's International	Weiss Ratings Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Downgrade	Sell (D+) ➝ Sell (D)
8/7/2026	PZZA Papa John's International	Benchmark Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Downgrade	Buy ➝ Hold
8/7/2026	PZZA Papa John's International	UBS Group Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Lower Price Target	Neutral	$33.00 ➝ $28.00
8/7/2026	PZZA Papa John's International	Piper Sandler Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Lower Price Target	Neutral	$30.00 ➝ $26.00

(Data available from 8/25/2023 forward. View 10+ years of historical ratings with our analyst ratings screener.)

Compare Sales & Book Value

Company	Annual Revenue	Price/Sales	Cashflow	Price/Cash	Book Value	Price/Book
CAKE Cheesecake Factory	$3.75B	1.52	$5.93 per share	19.34	$8.76 per share	13.08
CBRL Cracker Barrel Old Country Store	$3.48B	0.37	$9.39 per share	6.18	$20.73 per share	2.80
PZZA Papa John's International	$2.05B	0.39	$4.28 per share	5.63	($13.23) per share	-1.82
WEN Wendy's	$2.18B	0.77	$1.77 per share	5.00	$0.62 per share	14.26

Compare Profitability & Earnings

Company	Net Income	EPS	Trailing P/E Ratio	Forward P/E Ratio	P/E Growth	Net Margins	Return on Equity (ROE)	Return on Assets (ROA)	Next Earnings Date
CAKE Cheesecake Factory	$148.43M	$3.69	31.06	23.11	2.03	4.61%	43.97%	6.18%	10/27/2026 (Estimated)
CBRL Cracker Barrel Old Country Store	$46.38M	$1.16	50.02	48.76	N/A	0.79%	2.78%	0.58%	9/16/2026 (Estimated)
PZZA Papa John's International	$30.53M	$0.79	30.48	18.96	2.49	1.34%	-10.98%	5.68%	11/5/2026 (Estimated)
WEN Wendy's	$165.07M	$0.66	13.39	17.00	0.72	5.72%	115.31%	2.70%	11/6/2026 (Estimated)

Latest CBRL, WEN, CAKE, and PZZA Earnings

Date	Quarter	Company	Consensus Estimate	Reported EPS	Beat/Miss	Gap EPS	Revenue Estimate	Actual Revenue
9/16/2026	Q4 2026	CBRL Cracker Barrel Old Country Store	$0.12	N/A	N/A	N/A	$830.88 million	N/A
8/7/2026	Q2 2026	WEN Wendy's	$0.1629	$0.18	+$0.0171	$0.17	$557.14 million	$570.57 million
8/6/2026	Q2 2026	PZZA Papa John's International	$0.4464	$0.46	+$0.0136	$0.24	$481.25 million	$482.40 million
7/28/2026	Q2 2026	CAKE Cheesecake Factory	$1.18	$1.44	+$0.26	$1.41	$999.54 million	$1.03 billion
6/9/2026	Q3 2026	CBRL Cracker Barrel Old Country Store	-$0.45	$0.29	+$0.74	$1.90	$776.69 million	$797.37 million

Compare Dividends

Company	Annual Payout	Dividend Yield	5-Year Annualized Dividend Growth	Payout Ratio	Years of Consecutive Growth
CAKE Cheesecake Factory	$1.20	1.05%	+24.57%	32.52%	N/A
CBRL Cracker Barrel Old Country Store	$1.00	1.72%	-17.40%	86.21%	N/A
PZZA Papa John's International	$1.84	7.64%	+15.38%	232.91%	4 Years
WEN Wendy's	$0.56	6.33%	+18.23%	84.85%	N/A

Latest CBRL, WEN, CAKE, and PZZA Dividends

Announcement	Company	Period	Amount	Yield	Ex-Dividend Date	Record Date	Payable Date
8/7/2026	WEN Wendy's	quarterly	$0.07	3.64%	9/1/2026	9/1/2026	9/15/2026
7/23/2026	CAKE Cheesecake Factory	quarterly	$0.30	1.06%	8/11/2026	8/11/2026	8/25/2026

(Data available from 1/1/2013 forward)

Compare Debt

Company	Debt-to-Equity Ratio	Current Ratio	Quick Ratio
CAKE Cheesecake Factory	1.08	0.59	0.52
CBRL Cracker Barrel Old Country Store	0.72	0.50	0.19
PZZA Papa John's International	N/A	0.83	0.71
WEN Wendy's	27.95	1.90	1.88

Compare Ownership

Institutional Ownership

Company	Institutional Ownership
CAKE Cheesecake Factory	94.48%
CBRL Cracker Barrel Old Country Store	96.01%
PZZA Papa John's International	N/A
WEN Wendy's	85.96%

Insider Ownership

Company	Insider Ownership
CAKE Cheesecake Factory	8.00%
CBRL Cracker Barrel Old Country Store	1.40%
PZZA Papa John's International	1.80%
WEN Wendy's	17.10%

Compare Miscellaneous Stats

Company	Employees	Shares Outstanding	Free Float	Optionable
CAKE Cheesecake Factory	48,400	49.76 million	45.78 million	Optionable
CBRL Cracker Barrel Old Country Store	76,730	22.35 million	22.04 million	Optionable
PZZA Papa John's International	9,400	32.92 million	32.33 million	Optionable
WEN Wendy's	14,900	190.67 million	158.07 million	Optionable

CBRL, WEN, CAKE, and PZZA Headlines

Recent News About These Companies

Wendy’s Is Handing Out $1.99 Nuggets for a Limited Time: How to Get Them

3 hours ago | yahoo.com

Wendy's offering $1.99 'crave-worthy' nuggets deal. How to claim

3 hours ago | yahoo.com

Wendy's CEO Says Food Quality Hasn't Been Chain's Top Priority—Vows Changes

August 24 at 4:00 PM | forbes.com

McAlister’s moving into Wendy’s location in Palestine

August 24 at 12:28 PM | msn.com

Wendy’s names Tariq Hassan chief marketing and customer growth officer

August 24 at 12:28 PM | nrn.comN

Wendy’s Launches $1.99 10-Piece Nuggets Deal

August 24 at 12:28 PM | yahoo.com

Wendy’s hires ex-McDonald’s CMO as chief marketing, customer growth officer

August 24 at 12:28 PM | marketingdive.comM

Wendy’s CEO aims for chain to get back in the burger fight

August 24 at 12:28 PM | msn.com

Wendy's CEO Aims for Chain to Get Back in the Burger Fight

August 24 at 9:15 AM | wsj.com

THE WENDY'S COMPANY NAMES TARIQ HASSAN CHIEF MARKETING AND CUSTOMER GROWTH OFFICER

August 24 at 9:15 AM | prnewswire.com

The Wendy's Company (NASDAQ:WEN) Given Consensus Rating of "Reduce" by Analysts

August 24 at 4:43 AM | marketbeat.com

4 Ordering Tips To Get The Best Wendy's Dave's Single Burger

August 24 at 1:15 AM | yahoo.com

Zacks Research Issues Negative Outlook for Wendy's Earnings

August 24 at 1:13 AM | americanbankingnews.com

Zacks Research Has Bearish Estimate for Wendy's Q3 Earnings

August 24 at 1:11 AM | marketbeat.com

Wendy Williams pleads for freedom in rare public sighting

August 23 at 3:14 PM | msn.com

Woman alleges Wendy's meal caused foodborne illness, led to $93K in medical bills

August 23 at 9:53 AM | nbcnewyork.comN

Trian Fund Management L.P. Takes $252.58 Million Position in The Wendy's Company $WEN

August 23 at 6:16 AM | marketbeat.com

Chicago woman hospitalized twice after eating Wendy’s ‘bacteria-tainted’ double cheeseburger: lawsuit

August 22 at 10:27 PM | nypost.comN

Wendy Williams Delivers Heartbreaking Plea After Six Months In Isolation

August 22 at 10:27 PM | allhiphop.comA

Chicago woman suing Wendy's after becoming ill from burger meal, lawsuit says

August 22 at 10:27 PM | msn.com

Wendy’s worker heads to Yale after his bosses paid his way through college

August 22 at 1:31 AM | msn.com

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CBRL, WEN, CAKE, and PZZA Company Descriptions

Cheesecake Factory NASDAQ:CAKE

$114.61 +1.28 (+1.13%)

Closing price 08/24/2026 04:00 PM Eastern

Extended Trading

$115.51 +0.90 (+0.79%)

As of 08/24/2026 07:24 PM Eastern

The Cheesecake Factory Incorporated operates and licenses restaurants in the United States and Canada. The company operates bakeries that produce cheesecakes and other baked products for its restaurants, international licensees, third-party bakery customers, external foodservice operators, retailers, and distributors. It operates restaurants under the brands comprising The Cheesecake Factory, North Italia, Flower Child, Fox Restaurant Concepts. The Cheesecake Factory Incorporated was founded in 1972 and is headquartered in Calabasas, California.

Cracker Barrel Old Country Store NASDAQ:CBRL

$58.02 +0.37 (+0.64%)

Closing price 08/24/2026 04:00 PM Eastern

Extended Trading

$58.24 +0.21 (+0.37%)

As of 08/24/2026 07:00 PM Eastern

Cracker Barrel Old Country Store, Inc. develops and operates the Cracker Barrel Old Country Store concept in the United States. Its Cracker Barrel stores consist of restaurants with a gift shop. The company's restaurants serve breakfast, lunch, and dinner daily, as well as dine-in, pick-up, and delivery services. Its gift shop offers various decorative and functional items, such as rocking chairs, seasonal gifts, apparel, toys, food, cookware, and various other gift items, as well as various candies, preserves, and other food items. The company was incorporated in 1969 and is headquartered in Lebanon, Tennessee.

Papa John's International NASDAQ:PZZA

$24.08 +0.14 (+0.58%)

Closing price 08/24/2026 04:00 PM Eastern

Extended Trading

$23.84 -0.24 (-1.00%)

As of 08/24/2026 07:22 PM Eastern

Papa John's International, Inc. engages in the operation and franchise of pizza delivery and carryout restaurants. It operates through the following segments: Domestic Company-owned Restaurants, North America Franchising, North America Commissaries, International Operations, and All Others. The Domestic Company-Owned Restaurants segment consists of retail sales of pizza and side items, breadsticks, cheese sticks, chicken poppers and wings, dessert items, and canned and bottled beverages. The North America Franchising segment involves the offering of sales and support activities, development rights, and collection of royalties from franchisees located in the United States and Canada. The North America Commissaries segment includes the eleven full-service regional dough production and distribution and quality control centers. The International Operations segment represents all restaurant operations outside of the United States and Canada. The All Others segment focuses on franchise contributions to marketing funds and sale, company-owned and franchised restaurants, information systems and related services used in restaurant operations, point-of-sale system, online and other technology-based ordering platforms, printing, and promotional items. The company was founded by John H. Schnatter in 1984 and is headquartered in Louisville, KY.

Wendy's NASDAQ:WEN

$8.84 -0.17 (-1.89%)

Closing price 08/24/2026 04:00 PM Eastern

Extended Trading

$8.82 -0.02 (-0.23%)

As of 08/24/2026 07:24 PM Eastern

The Wendy’s Co. engages in operating, developing, and franchising a system of quick-service restaurants. It operates through the following segments: Wendy’s U.S., Wendy’s International, and Global Real Estate and Development. The Wendy’s U.S. segment includes the operation and franchising of Wendy’s restaurants in the U.S. The Wendy’s International segment is involved in the operation and franchising of Wendy’s restaurants in countries and territories other than the U.S. The Global Real Estate and Development segment focuses on real estate activity for owned sites and sites leased from third parties. The company was founded by R. David Thomas on November 15, 1969 and is headquartered in Dublin, OH.

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Latest CBRL, WEN, CAKE, and PZZA Analyst Ratings

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