The Investment Thread

The restaurants Cava and Portillo’s just published their annual reports within a day of each other. I’m not terribly good at interpreting financial results… but it’s crazy how different the market values them. Both emerging chains.

Annual revenue:
Cava: $717 million
Portillo’s: $680 million

Net income
Cava: $13.2 million
Portillo’s: $24.8 million

Store numbers
Cava: 309
Portillo’s: 84

Total assets:
Cava: $983 million
Portillo’s: $1.38 billion

Debt:
Cava: $342 million
Portillo’s: $300 million

Market capitalization:
Cava: $6.46 billion
Portillo’s: $1.12 billion
There's a whole lot more digging that would need to be done, but Portillo seems to be really well positioned. The number that jumps out is assets per store.

And of course that market cap difference is pretty stark.