Cava Group (CAVA)
Consumer Discretionary · Restaurants · NYSE
Cava Group is a fast-growing Mediterranean fast-casual restaurant chain known for its customizable, fresh ingredient-focused menu.
What Cava Group does
Cava Group is a rapidly growing Mediterranean restaurant brand that operates a chain of fast-casual restaurants. The company focuses on customizable bowls, pitas, and salads, utilizing fresh, high-quality Mediterranean-inspired ingredients.
Themes: fast-casual dining, healthy food and lifestyle, Mediterranean cuisine
Fundamentals
- Price$69.29 as of 2026-08-25 close
- Market cap$8.1B as of 2026-08-25
- 1-year return+5.9% 2025-08-25 close $65.45 → 2026-08-25 close $69.29
- P/E131.89 as of 2026-08-26
- Net margin+5.4% as of 2026-08-26
- Gross margin+31.7% as of 2026-08-26
- ROE+8.4% as of 2026-08-26
- Debt / equity0.00 as of 2026-08-26
- Revenue growth (YoY)+22.4% as of 2026-08-26
- Revenue CAGR (3y)+27.9% SEC XBRL
- Beta1.76 as of 2026-08-26
- Last reported earnings2026-08-11 SEC EDGAR Form 8-K (Item 2.02)
How CAVA compares in its sector
- price-to-earnings ratiotop 10% 266 covered Consumer Discretionary peers, as of 2026-08-26
- net profit marginmiddle range 334 covered Consumer Discretionary peers, as of 2026-08-26
- operating marginmiddle range 334 covered Consumer Discretionary peers, as of 2026-08-26
- gross marginmiddle range 331 covered Consumer Discretionary peers, as of 2026-08-26
- return on equitymiddle range 334 covered Consumer Discretionary peers, as of 2026-08-26
- 3-year revenue CAGRtop 10% 325 covered Consumer Discretionary peers
- free cash flow (absolute dollars, latest fiscal year)middle range 311 covered Consumer Discretionary peers, as of FY2025
Position among covered Consumer Discretionary companies that report each metric (minimum 5 peers). A relative position within our covered catalog — not a valuation, quality, or investment judgment. A higher percentile is simply a higher value (for P/E, more expensive on earnings — never "better"). Informational only.
Top 10 scores & list membership
CAVA is not currently in any published Top 10 list. Its scores are below.
Long-term score
42.8 #1214 of 1,608 scored · #112 of 184 in Consumer Discretionary
Growth 84th (3-year revenue CAGR 27.9%, revenue growth year over year 22.4%) and financial health 53rd (debt to equity 0, free cash flow margin 3.3%); weakest is valuation (10th, price to earnings 128.6, price to book 9.6).
Short-term score
55.9 #391 of 1,696 scored · #42 of 186 in Consumer Discretionary
Setup 71st: over the past year its closes ranged, and it has retraced around half of its move over the past year — 52% of it; catalysts 58th: the analyst consensus rating has improved toward "buy" since the prior reading; weakest is trend 45th: it is trading 3.0% below its 50-day average, the short-term trend line.
Scores as of 25 Aug 2026. Each bar is a percentile: how this company ranked against every company the score ranked, 0–100. A list is a published formula and its output, not a recommendation. Method version 3.
How Cava Group looks technically
Cava Group (CAVA) is trading 2.0% below its 200-day average, the long-term trend line — a long-term downtrend. Its 50-day average crossed above its 200-day average about 113 trading days ago — a "golden cross", a bullish long-term signal. There is no clear trend right now — the price is choppy (ADX, a 0–100 trend-strength gauge, is 20, below the 25 that marks a real trend). Momentum is neutral — its 14-day RSI (a 0–100 momentum gauge) is 50, neither overbought (above 70) nor oversold (below 30). It made a new 20-day high about 8 trading days ago. It is 29.9% below its highest point of the past year. Trading volume is unusually light — only about 48% of its 30-day average.
Trend
7
| Distance from the 200-day | it is trading 2.0% below its 200-day average, the long-term trend line — a long-term downtrend | -2.0% |
|---|---|---|
| 50-day moving average | its average price over the last 50 trading days — a short-term trend line — is $71.47 | $71.47 |
| 200-day moving average | its average price over the last 200 trading days — the long-term trend line — is $70.70 | $70.70 |
| Swing structure | its recent peaks and dips disagree — one of them is rising while the other is not, so there is no clean up or down pattern in the swings | mixed — one of the two is not confirming |
| Last swing turn | its last significant turn was a swing high 11 calendar days ago — the swings before that are what the structure reading is measured on | 11 sessions |
| Since the 50/200 cross | its 50-day average crossed above its 200-day average about 113 trading days ago — a "golden cross", a bullish long-term signal | 113 sessions |
| Trend strength (14-day ADX) | there is no clear trend right now — the price is choppy (ADX, a 0–100 trend-strength gauge, is 20, below the 25 that marks a real trend) | 19.5 |
Momentum
3
| 14-day RSI | momentum is neutral — its 14-day RSI (a 0–100 momentum gauge) is 50, neither overbought (above 70) nor oversold (below 30) | 50.1 |
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| Position in its 14-day range | it is trading in the upper half of its 14-day range ($60.15 to $75.65) — its "stochastic" reading is 59 out of 100, where 0 would mean closing exactly at the 14-session low and 100 exactly at the high. This measures WHERE the price sits inside its recent range, which is a different question from the RSI beside it: RSI is a momentum gauge, measuring how FAST the price has been moving, so a stock can drift quietly to the bottom of its range with an ordinary RSI, or fall sharply and still sit in the middle. It has been slipping within that range over the last few sessions. | 59.0 |
| Since the MACD crossed zero | MACD, a trend-momentum gauge, is in positive territory (momentum leaning bullish) | 20 sessions |
Range
12
| 52-week high | its highest closing price over the past year (about 252 trading days) was $98.79 | $98.79 |
|---|---|---|
| From the 52-week high | it is 29.9% below its 52-week high (its highest price of the past year) | -29.9% |
| Above the 52-week low | it is 59.6% above its 52-week low (its lowest price of the past year) | +59.6% |
| Below the 52-week high | it is 29.9% below its highest point of the past year | 29.9% |
| Since a 20-day breakout | it made a new 20-day high about 8 trading days ago | 8 sessions |
| Since a 55-day breakout | it made a new 55-day low about 11 trading days ago | 11 sessions |
| All-time high | its highest closing price on record is $172.43 (set on 2024-11-13) | $172.43 |
| Given back of the 52-week move | over the past year its closes ranged ($43.59 to $97.39), and it has given back around half of its rise from last year’s low — 52% of it. Chart-watchers call 61.8%-65% given back the "golden pocket" — for this company that is $62.42 to $64.14. It is watched widely enough that orders cluster there, which is the honest reason it matters; it is not a forecast. | 52.2% |
| From the all-time high | it is 59.8% below its all-time high | -59.8% |
| Nearest price level | it is sitting right on a resistance level at $69.40 — a price it turned at three times since 2025-04-07, most recently on 2026-07-30. Since 2024-08-26 it has 5 such levels below the current price and 7 above. Levels like these describe where the price has reversed or paused before; they are not a forecast of where it will go. | +0.2% |
| All-time low | its lowest closing price on record is $29.05 (set on 2023-10-04) | $29.05 |
| Above the all-time low | it is 138.5% above its all-time low | +138.5% |
Volatility
5
| Band width vs its own 6 months | day-to-day price swings are about average versus its own recent 6-month history | 42nd percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Typical daily range | in a typical session it travels about $3.63 between its high and its low — about 5.2% of its price. That is its "average true range" over the last 14 sessions, which also counts the distance from the previous close, so a day that opens well away from yesterday counts as the large move it was | $3.63 |
| Bollinger bands (20-day, ±2σ) | most of its recent trading has stayed between about $59.16 and $76.03 — the "Bollinger bands", a range drawn two standard deviations either side of its 20-day average price, which widens when the stock gets more volatile and narrows when it settles | $59.16 – $67.60 – $76.03 |
| Typical daily range (% of price) | its price moves about 5.2% in a typical session — about typical for the companies we cover. This is the average gap between a session's high and low over the last 14 sessions, counting overnight moves, expressed against the current price so it can be compared with companies trading at any price | 5.2% |
| Stretch from the 200-day average | it is trading 0.4 daily ranges below its 200-day average price (2.0% below it in plain percentage terms) — a way of asking how far it has stretched from its own average in units of how far it normally moves in a day, so a calm company and a jumpy one can be compared on the same scale | 0.4 daily ranges below its 200-day average |
Volume
1
| Volume vs its 30-day average | trading volume is unusually light — only about 48% of its 30-day average | 0.48× |
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Analyst
2
| Change in the average price target | analysts have cut their average price target by 3.9% since the prior reading | -3.9% |
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| Change in the consensus rating | the analyst consensus rating has improved toward "buy" since the prior reading | 0.07 toward buy |
Candlestick patterns
2
| Since a doji | 9 sessions ago it opened and closed at almost the same price after trading through a wider range — a "doji", the classic picture of buyers and sellers finishing the session level | 9 sessions ago |
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| Since a bearish engulfing | 1 session ago it opened above the previous session's close and finished below that session's open — a "bearish engulfing" pair, where one down day more than undid the up day before it | 1 session ago |
Price gaps
3
| Gap at the open | it opened on 2026-08-25 at essentially the same price it closed at the session before — no meaningful overnight gap | +0.0% |
|---|---|---|
| Open gap | it gapped 14.2% above the previous close 9 sessions ago and has not traded back through the level it left behind at 60.81 — an "unfilled gap", which describes a price range no trade has since crossed and is not a forecast that it will be crossed | +14.2% |
| Gap filled | a 3.9% gap up opened on 2026-07-30 has been "filled" 18 sessions ago — price traded back through the level the gap left behind, and it closed again during the very session that opened it | 18 sessions ago |
Price streaks
1
| Closing streak | it has closed lower 2 sessions in a row, a -5.89% move over the run — an unbroken run of down days, which describes what has already happened and says nothing about the next session | 2 sessions down |
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Relative strength
4
| vs market, 1 month | over the past 1 month this stock beat the market by 8.1 percentage points (the stock gained 11.7% while the market gained 3.7%) | +8.1% |
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| vs market, 3 months | over the past 3 months this stock lagged the market by 16.6 percentage points (the stock lost 13.8% while the market gained 2.7%) | -16.6% |
| vs market, 6 months | over the past 6 months this stock lagged the market by 29.6 percentage points (the stock lost 19.1% while the market gained 10.5%) | -29.6% |
| vs market, 12 months | over the past 12 months this stock lagged the market by 13.3 percentage points (the stock gained 5.9% while the market gained 19.2%) | -13.3% |
Signal agreement
2
| Bullish technical signals | 2 of the 9 technical signals we can compute for it are currently in a bullish state: a "golden cross" — its 50-day average is above its 200-day, MACD momentum is positive — these describe past price behaviour, not a forecast | 2 of 9 |
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| Bearish technical signals | 3 of the 9 technical signals we can compute for it are currently in a bearish state: trading below its 200-day average, lagging the market over 6 months, trading below the Ichimoku cloud — these describe past price behaviour, not a forecast | 3 of 9 |
Trend (Ichimoku cloud)
1
| Vs the Ichimoku cloud | trading 5.5% below the Ichimoku cloud — a band drawn from where its own highs and lows sat up to 2026-07-20 and projected forward over today's price, the side traders read as an established downtrend, with the band above acting as the level that would have to be cleared. The band itself is thick, spanning 9.3% of the share price, which is taken to mean a barrier that has held for a while and takes effort to cross. | -5.5% |
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Volume-weighted price
2
| Vs this year’s average price paid | the price is 8% below the average price paid so far this year, so the typical buyer over that stretch is under water. That average is $75.30 — a volume-weighted average of daily closes over 157 sessions, not a true tick-by-tick VWAP. | -8.0% |
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| Vs the average paid since it last reported | the price is sitting right on the average price paid since it last reported on 2026-08-11 (its 8-K), so the typical buyer over that stretch is roughly break-even. That average is $69.48 — a volume-weighted average of daily closes over 11 sessions, not a true tick-by-tick VWAP. | -0.3% |
Price levels it has turned at before
CAVA last closed at $69.29 on 2026-08-25. Since 2024-08-26 it has turned at 5 prices below its last close and 7 above; the 3 nearest below and the 3 nearest above are listed, nearest first.
| Level | Side | Distance | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| $69.40 | Resistance | 0.2% above the last close | turned there three times · 2025-04-07 to 2026-07-30 |
| $67.15 | Support | 3.1% below the last close | turned there twice · 2025-09-24 to 2025-10-09 |
| $72.33 | Resistance | 4.4% above the last close | turned there five times · 2025-06-23 to 2026-05-13 |
| $65.83 | Support | 5.0% below the last close | turned there four times · 2025-08-13 to 2026-07-08 |
| $74.37 | Resistance | 7.3% above the last close | turned there three times · 2025-03-13 to 2026-07-15 |
| $62.03 | Support | 10.5% below the last close | turned there twice · 2025-09-17 to 2025-12-24 |
A level is a price this company reversed or paused at more than once — they describe past behaviour, not a forecast of where the price will go.
Wave structure
No Elliott-wave labelling currently fits its swings: the recent highs and lows do not satisfy the three rules a five-wave count has to obey, so there is no count to show rather than a count we are unsure about.
Read from daily closes as of 2026-08-25.
An Elliott-wave count describes the swings already printed and the level that would disprove it. It is not a forecast, a target, or advice.
Screens: Trading below the 200-day moving average · Pulled back from the 12-month high · trendless / choppy (low ADX) · Analyst price target recently CUT · lagging the market · Trading below the Ichimoku cloud | Learn: moving average · golden cross · adx · rsi · breakout · fifty two week high low · volume and relative volume
Based on daily closing prices as of 2026-08-25. Describes past price behavior only — informational, not financial advice.
Analyst consensus
- Consensus ratingBuy (1.93 mean, 1=Strong Buy…5=Strong Sell) — 24 analysts
- Mean price target$84.79 range $18.00 – $110.00; median $90.00
Analyst estimates, as of 2026-08-26. These are third-party analyst opinions and price targets, aggregated — not a recommendation, prediction, or advice from stocks-llm. Informational only.
Analyst EPS estimate for CAVA
- Consensus EPS estimate$0.1842 next reporting period, as of 2026-08-26
Change over time is not available yet: it needs two readings of the same reporting period at least 30 days apart, and we have been recording these estimates since 2026-08-04. An estimate for a DIFFERENT quarter is not a revision, so a reading from before the last report is never compared with one after it.
The consensus estimate for the next reporting period, and how it has moved between readings of that SAME period. A change is measured only between readings estimating one period — when a company reports, the consensus moves to the next quarter and the two numbers are not comparable. Informational only, not a forecast and not advice.
Key risks (from latest filing)
["The company's ability to successfully open new restaurant locations and achieve profitability in new markets.","Dependence on high-quality food supply chains and potential for food safety incidents.","Intense competition in the fast-casual restaurant industry."]
What changed in the latest 10-Q
AI-assisted comparison of CAVA's 10-Q filed 2026-05-20 against the prior one filed 2025-11-05.
Management's Discussion & Analysis (MD&A)
- Added:
- Newer filing references Form 10-K for year ended December 28, 2025 (older filing references December 29, 2024)
- Newer filing shows 459 CAVA Restaurants as of April 19, 2026 in 29 states (older filing shows 415 restaurants as of October 5, 2025 in 28 states)
- Newer filing uses 'Sixteen Weeks Ended' reporting period (older filing uses 'Twelve Weeks Ended' and 'Forty Weeks Ended')
- Newer filing compares April 19, 2026 to April 20, 2025 (older filing compares October 5, 2025 to October 6, 2024)
- Newer filing shows CAVA Revenue $434,392 thousand for sixteen weeks ended April 19, 2026 vs $328,482 thousand for prior year
- Newer filing shows Same Restaurant Sales 9.7% (older filing shows 1.9% for twelve weeks ended October 5, 2025)
- Newer filing shows AUV $3,027 (older filing shows $2,935)
- Newer filing shows consolidated Revenue $438,270 thousand (older filing shows segment-level detail only in excerpt)
- Newer filing describes segment determination basis as 'determined on the same basis that the Company's CEO, who is the CODM, manages, evaluates, and makes key decisions'
- Newer filing specifies 'CAVA Foods is below quantitative thresholds for segment reporting purposes, resulting in CAVA being the Company's one reportable segment'
- Newer filing shows Net New CAVA Restaurant Openings of 20 for sixteen weeks ended April 19, 2026 vs 15 prior year
- Newer filing shows 21 new restaurant openings and 1 permanent closure during the sixteen-week period
- Newer filing presents consolidated operating results with detailed line items including specific dollar amounts for April 19, 2026 and April 20, 2025
- Removed:
- Older filing's 'Adjusted Net Income' and 'Adjusted Net Income margin' metrics are not presented in newer filing's key performance measures table
- Older filing presented both twelve-week and forty-week comparative periods; newer filing presents only sixteen-week period
- Older filing included detailed segment-level CAVA results comparison; newer filing excerpt shows only consolidated results
- Older filing contained footnote explaining same restaurant sales calculation adjustment for fiscal 2023-2024 comparison; not present in newer filing
- Reworded:
- Older filing refers to 'consumer-packaged goods ("CPG") business'; newer filing uses 'CPG business' without defining the acronym in that section
- Older filing states 'CAVA is the Company's only reportable segment as CAVA Foods is below the quantitative thresholds'; newer filing uses expanded explanation of how segments are determined and CODM role
- Older filing says 'We believe that these key financial measures provide useful information'; newer filing says 'We believe that these key performance measures provide useful information'
- Older filing describes segment presentation rationale: 'We present our segment results before our consolidated results as we believe that our CAVA segment is more useful and meaningful'; this language is not in newer filing excerpt
- Newer filing's Overview section ends with production and CPG operations description; older filing's Overview is similarly structured but references different fiscal year
- Notes:
- The older filing excerpt ends mid-sentence in the Results of Operations section; full comparison limited to available text
- The newer filing excerpt also appears truncated (ends mid-sentence regarding interest income); full MD&A comparison not possible
- Different reporting periods (sixteen weeks vs. twelve/forty weeks) make direct metric comparisons less meaningful
- Older filing excerpt does not include full consolidated results comparison, limiting ability to assess all changes in financial presentation
Risk Factors
The two filings could not be meaningfully compared for this section.
AI-assisted comparison of two SEC filing sections. It describes wording and theme changes only, makes no materiality, legal, or investment judgement, and is not financial advice. Informational only — not financial advice.
Insider activity (SEC Form 4)
3 open-market purchases and 10 open-market sales by insiders in the last 90 days.
- Last 90 days3 buys ($343750) · 10 sells ($277M) — 2 buying, 7 selling insiders
- Last 180 days4 buys ($661550) · 13 sells ($279M) — 2 buying, 7 selling insiders
Activity heuristic: net selling (a transparent product heuristic from the counts above, not a prediction or advice)
Most recent open-market transaction: 2026-06-18. As of 2026-08-26.
View full insider trading history → View SEC Form 3/4/5 filingsAsk about CAVA's insider activity →
Only open-market purchases (SEC code P) and sales (code S) are counted here. Option exercises, vesting/awards, gifts, and shares withheld for taxes are excluded — they are compensation or mechanical, not open-market conviction. Sales may be planned and non-discretionary (e.g. a Rule 10b5-1 plan) and are not necessarily bearish; open-market buying is not a recommendation to buy. Informational only — not financial advice.
Institutional ownership (13F)
5 institutional 13F filers reported holding CAVA as of 2026-03-31 (quarter-end position, filed within 45 days).
- Distinct 13F filers 5
- Reported shares held 21,178,167
- Reported value $1,713,313,718
reported quarterly holdings change (2025-12-31 → 2026-03-31): 0 new, 3 increased, 2 decreased, 0 exited. Change counts cover only managers that filed 13F reports in BOTH quarters, derived between two quarter-end snapshots — not same-day trades; a single manager is never said to have "bought" or "sold".
Institutional holdings are quarter-end long positions reported on SEC Form 13F-HR, filed up to 45 days after the quarter ends — they are delayed, are not real-time trades, exclude short positions and most non-US securities, and are not investment advice. Any increase/decrease is a reported change between two quarterly snapshots, not a same-day purchase or sale. These are quarter-end snapshots from the 13F filings on SEC EDGAR, filed within 45 days — not real-time, and any change is a difference between two quarterly reports, not a same-day trade. Informational only — not financial advice.
Short interest (FINRA)
CAVA had 12,865,002 shares of reported short interest as of the 2026-07-31 FINRA settlement date (delayed, bi-monthly; not real-time).
CAVA had 11.0% of its shares outstanding sold short as of the 2026-07-31 FINRA settlement date (percent of FLOAT would be higher — float is not disclosed in the source). FINRA reported 3.62 days to cover at the same settlement.
- Reported short interest (shares) 12,865,002
- Short interest (% of shares outstanding) 11.0%
- Prior settlement (shares) 13,382,232
- Reported change -3.87%
- Days to cover (reported) 3.62
Reported to FINRA as of the 2026-07-31 settlement date. Short interest is reported to FINRA and published on a delayed, bi-monthly schedule (as of a settlement date, disseminated roughly eight business days later) — it is NOT real-time, does not cover every venue or all US trading, and is not a short-squeeze prediction or investment advice. Days-to-cover is the value FINRA reports; percent of float is not shown because the source file carries no share-count denominator — where a percent appears it is of shares OUTSTANDING, the larger base, and is therefore a floor on percent of float. Informational only — not financial advice.
Competitors & peers
- Chipotle Mexican Grill (CMG)
- Sweetgreen (SG)
- Shake Shack (SHAK)
- Panera Bread
- CAVA (legacy Zoes Kitchen brand)
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Frequently asked questions
What does Cava Group (CAVA) do?
Cava Group is a rapidly growing Mediterranean restaurant brand that operates a chain of fast-casual restaurants. The company focuses on customizable bowls, pitas, and salads, utilizing fresh, high-quality Mediterranean-inspired ingredients.
What sector is Cava Group (CAVA) in?
Cava Group (CAVA) is classified in the Consumer Discretionary sector. Its industry is Restaurants. It trades on NYSE.
Who are Cava Group's (CAVA) competitors?
Notable peers of Cava Group (CAVA) include Chipotle Mexican Grill, Sweetgreen, Shake Shack, Panera Bread and CAVA (legacy Zoes Kitchen brand). This peer set is informational only — not financial advice.
Is Cava Group (CAVA) overbought or oversold right now?
Cava Group (CAVA) is currently neither overbought nor oversold — its 14-day RSI (a 0–100 momentum gauge) is 50, in the neutral middle (as of 2026-08-25). RSI describes recent price momentum, not a forecast — informational only, not financial advice.
Where does stocks-llm's data on CAVA come from?
Fundamentals and prices come from market data, as of 2026-08-26; company filings and profile facts come from SEC EDGAR. All figures are delayed daily-close data shown with their as-of date — informational only, not financial advice.
Fundamentals: market data, as of 2026-08-26. Filings: SEC EDGAR. Prices are delayed daily-close data.
Last updated 2026-08-25.
Informational only — NOT financial advice. All figures are delayed daily-close data from SEC EDGAR & market data, shown with their as-of date.