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Cheesecake Factory (CAKE) FCF Margin (2016 - 2025)

Cheesecake Factory's FCF Margin history spans 17 years, with the latest figure at 5.17% for Q4 2025.

  • For Q4 2025, FCF Margin fell 71.0% year-over-year to 5.17%; the TTM value through Dec 2025 reached 4.13%, up 112.0%, while the annual FY2025 figure was 4.13%, 112.0% up from the prior year.
  • FCF Margin for Q4 2025 was 5.17% at Cheesecake Factory, down from 5.94% in the prior quarter.
  • Across five years, FCF Margin topped out at 11.07% in Q2 2021 and bottomed at 3.91% in Q3 2021.
  • The 5-year median for FCF Margin is 3.33% (2024), against an average of 3.4%.
  • The largest annual shift saw FCF Margin skyrocketed 1660bps in 2021 before it tumbled -666bps in 2022.
  • A 5-year view of FCF Margin shows it stood at 9.79% in 2021, then plummeted by -126bps to 2.59% in 2022, then surged by 221bps to 3.13% in 2023, then surged by 88bps to 5.88% in 2024, then fell by -12bps to 5.17% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant, the three most recent readings for CAKE's FCF Margin are 5.17% (Q4 2025), 5.94% (Q3 2025), and 1.6% (Q3 2025).