Is Cava Group Inc (NYSE: CAVA) Proving The Doubters Wrong?

Cava Group Inc (CAVA) concluded trading on Thursday at a closing price of $88.39, with 6.14 million shares of worth about $542.52 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained negative as price took a plunge of -30.64% during that period and on March 27, 2025 the price saw a gain of about 1.98%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 115.09M shares, out of which, 98.84M shares are available for trading.

Stock saw a price change of 4.41% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of -10.68%. Year-to-date (YTD), CAVA shares are showing a performance of -21.64% which increased to 29.51% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $58.22 but also hit the highest price of $172.43 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for Cava Group Inc shares is 3.01 million. The stock is currently trading 5.39% above its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is down -18.43% for SMA50 and it goes to -21.98% lower than SMA200.

Cava Group Inc (NYSE: CAVA) currently have 115.09M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 61.90% of that.

The stock has a current market capitalization of $10.22B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 3.52. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 80.33, while it has posted earnings per share of $1.10 in the same period. Its PEG reads 2.67 and has Quick Ratio of 2.91 while making debt-to-equity ratio of 0.54. Volatility of a stock is a metric used to know how much the price of that stock is under influence and for CAVA, volatility over the week remained 4.68% while standing at 6.20% over the month.

Analysts are in expectations that Cava Group Inc (CAVA) stock would likely to be making an EPS of 0.14 in the current quarter, while forecast for next quarter EPS is 0.18 and it is 0.72 for next year. For the current quarter EPS, analysts have given the company a lowest target 0.12 which is 0.17 at the higher side of the target for the same. When we compare those targets with actual EPS, we find that company posted an EPS of 0.13 in the same quarter a year ago. Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to rise by 26.53% while it is estimated to increase by 30.78% in next year.

Digging deeper we find that several firms have released their research notes about the support levels of the stock. Most recent of them is a note released by JP Morgan on March 20, 2025 offering an Overweight rating for the stock and assigned a target price of $110 to it. Coverage by Piper Sandler stated Cava Group Inc (CAVA) stock as an Overweight in their note to investors on February 28, 2025, suggesting a price target of $115 for the stock. On November 20, 2024, Bernstein Initiated their recommendations, while on September 27, 2024, UBS Initiated their ratings for the stock with a price target of $135. Stock get an Equal-weight rating from Morgan Stanley on August 29, 2024.

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