Shake Shack Inc. (SHAK) Stock

Shake Shack Inc. (SHAK) is a Consumer Discretionary stock trading at $73.91 (as of 2026-08-20), with a market capitalization of $2.98B and a trailing P/E of 72.3. Figures are sourced from first-party U.S. SEC EDGAR filings and market data.

Shake Shack Inc. owns, operates, and licenses Shake Shack restaurants (Shacks) in the United States and internationally. Its Shacks offers hamburgers, hot dogs, chicken, crinkle cut fries, shakes, frozen custard, beer, wine, and other products. As of December 29, 2021, it operated 369 Shacks, including 218 domestic company-operated Shacks, 25 domestic licensed Shacks, and 126 international licensed Shacks. Shake Shack Inc. was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

Understand Shake Shack Inc.: how it makes money

Shake Shack owns, operates, and licenses Shake Shack restaurants, selling burgers, hot dogs, fries, shakes, frozen custard, and beverages, and it makes money from restaurant operations plus licensing arrangements for restaurants.

Because Shake Shack monetizes both company-operated restaurants and licensed restaurant locations, its profit engine depends on how well it performs in-house versus how much value it captures through licensing scale and fees.

Business quality (Weak): Clear business model description (owned and licensed Shacks), but the provided dataset only includes licensing-related revenue candidates, so there is no clean, mutually exclusive segment breakdown available for this view.

Valuation: At 58× earnings, SHAK trades 112% above the Restaurants, Hotels & Motels average (27×). Note: one-time items can distort reported P/E.

Bull case

  • Dual growth channels: It owns, operates, and licenses Shacks, including domestic and international licensed locations.
  • Existing operating footprint: As of December 29, 2021, it operated 369 Shacks in total, with both domestic company-operated and licensed Shacks, plus international licensed Shacks.

Bear case

  • Profitability pressure: In the latest provided period, operating margin was negative.
  • Licensing exposure: A meaningful part of the economics runs through licensing (domestic and international licensed Shacks), so licensing results can be a key swing factor.
Valuation — source: SEC EDGAR (first-party)
Price$73.91
Market Cap$2.98B
P/E Ratio72.3
EV / EBITDA17.5
Price / Book5.37
Price / Sales2.00
FCF Yield0.5%
DCF Value (model)$13.99
DCF Upside vs Price-81.1%
Profitability & Growth — source: SEC EDGAR
Revenue (TTM)$1.45B
Net Margin3.2%
Revenue Growth (YoY)14.3%
EPS Growth (YoY)-109.1%
FCF Growth (YoY)-2169.7%
Financial Health — source: SEC EDGAR
Altman Z-Score2.42 (grey)
Valuation vs Sector & Industry
Stock P/E72.3
Sector P/E (Consumer Discretionary)20.5
Industry P/E (Restaurants, Hotels & Motels)26.6
vs Sector252.9%
vs Industry172.1%
Smart-Money Activity — SEC Form 4 / 13F / Congressional disclosures
Top Institutional HolderBlackRock, Inc. ($509.08M)
Institutional Holders Tracked10
Congressional Trades (recent)2
Company
SectorConsumer Discretionary
IndustryRestaurants, Hotels & Motels
CEORobert Lynch
Employees12,826
CountryUS
IPO Date2015-01-30

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Data as of 2026-08-20.

Figures sourced from U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC EDGAR) filings and market data. Not personalized investment advice.