Shake Shack (SHAK) reported $400.53 million in revenue for the quarter ended December 2025, representing a year-over-year increase of 21.9%. EPS of $0.37 for the same period compares to $0.26 a year ago.
The reported revenue represents a surprise of -0.47% over the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $402.42 million. With the consensus EPS estimate being $0.36, the EPS surprise was +3.55%.
While investors scrutinize revenue and earnings changes year-over-year and how they compare with Wall Street expectations to determine their next move, some key metrics always offer a more accurate picture of a company's financial health.
Since these metrics play a crucial role in driving the top- and bottom-line numbers, comparing them with the year-ago numbers and what analysts estimated about them helps investors better project a stock's price performance.
Here is how Shake Shack performed in the just reported quarter in terms of the metrics most widely monitored and projected by Wall Street analysts:
- Same-Shack sales growth: 2.1% compared to the 2.1% average estimate based on 10 analysts.
- Shack counts - Company-operated: 373 compared to the 374 average estimate based on 10 analysts.
- Shack counts - Licensed: 286 versus 288 estimated by nine analysts on average.
- Shack counts - System-wide: 659 versus 662 estimated by nine analysts on average.
- Shack counts - International licensed: 239 compared to the 239 average estimate based on seven analysts.
- Shack counts - Domestic licensed: 47 versus the seven-analyst average estimate of 49.
- Average weekly sales: $77.00 compared to the $77.33 average estimate based on four analysts.
- Revenue- Shack sales: $385.26 million compared to the $387.25 million average estimate based on 10 analysts. The reported number represents a change of +21.7% year over year.
- Revenue- Licensing: $15.27 million compared to the $15.39 million average estimate based on 10 analysts. The reported number represents a change of +26.7% year over year.
- Shack system-wide sales: $618 million versus the four-analyst average estimate of $618.01 million. The reported number represents a year-over-year change of +23.4%.
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Shares of Shake Shack have returned +4.9% over the past month versus the Zacks S&P 500 composite's +0.6% change. The stock currently has a Zacks Rank #5 (Strong Sell), indicating that it could underperform the broader market in the near term.
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