While fast casual cedes meals to grocery and convenience stores, real diners are still walking in: same-restaurant sales rose 9.0% on guest traffic growth of 5.3%. Both lines beat expectations, and management reaffirmed full-year adjusted EBITDA guidance of $181 million to $191 million.
The AI buildout still runs on borrowed money: free cash flow came in at negative $5.7 billion even as revenue more than doubled year over year. Demand is not the question here, funding it is.
Monster Beverage closed at 45.71, exactly half its prior close, the single largest move in a 110-name priority list. Archer Aviation topped the winners at 10.9%, with Axon and NuScale both above 7%.
Shareholders keep getting paid to wait: a 10% dividend hike, the ninth straight annual raise, alongside a double beat. FY2027 adjusted EPS guidance is $6.04 to $6.24, with roughly $600 million left on the buyback.
Gross margin nearly doubled to 17.5% from 9.5% a year ago, turning a slight revenue miss into an EPS beat and putting fiscal 2027 revenue guidance as high as $72 billion. Negative operating cash flow is the offsetting worry.
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Three Fed rate cuts transformed FDRR from a timely bet into a potential mismatch, and income investors holding it may not realize what they actually own beneath the dividend label.
Cheesecake Factory is the day's biggest payer, sending shareholders $14.9 million at 30 cents a share on August 25. Four others, led by HBT Financial's $9.1 million, bring today's total cash to shareholders to roughly $37 million.
