Dividends

CAKECheesecake Factory Incorporated

StockNasdaqUnited StatesConsumer discretionaryEU retail investors: available

+4.7% today · +146.1% over a year

5/10 A 1–10 summary of how an instrument compares with similar ones (same sector and region) by published rules. It describes today's data; it is not a price forecast. More in the glossary → «Balanced» — higher than 56% of the instruments we score

Trend: among the best of its peers; priced higher than most peers (P/E 27.7). Dividend yield 1.01%.

Cheesecake Factory Incorporated (CAKE) dividends: trailing yield 1.01%, next ex-dividend date 10 Nov 2026, Dividend Safety 39/100, not lowered for 4 years.

Trailing 12-month yieldA high yield can signal risk rather than safety: payouts may be cut, and part of a fund's distribution may be your own capital returned.
1.01%
Forward yield (next or typical regular payment, annualised)
1.04%
Dividends per share, last 12 months
$1.17
Payments per year
4
Dividend safety0–100 points: payout versus earnings and cash flow, debt, cut history, years without a lower dividend and how stretched the yield looks.
39 / 100
Unsafe

Yield after tax (estimate)

Before tax → After tax, CY non-dom

Last 12 months
1.01% → 0.84%
Forward
1.04% → 0.86%

Of every 100 paid out

Withheld at source (United States)
15.00%
Cyprus Special Defence Contribution (after credit for foreign tax)
0.00%
Cyprus GeSY health contribution
2.65%
You keep
82.35%
  • Source country assumed: United States (from the issuer’s data). Depositary receipts and companies listed outside their home country may be taxed by that home country.
  • US rate 15 % assumes a W-8BEN form is on file with your broker (US–Cyprus treaty); without it the US withholds 30 %.
  • GeSY 2.65 % applies to dividends and interest of every Cyprus resident, domiciled or not, up to €180,000 of income a year.

Cyprus resident, domiciled: 0.84%

Estimate, not tax advice: published rules as of 2026-10-14 for the profile chosen; your broker’s withholding and your own situation can differ. How we estimate tax

Next payment

Ex-dividend date
10 Nov 2026
Payment date
24 Nov 2026
Amount per share
$0.30
Status
Announced

Dividend profile

Years without a lower dividend
4
Years without a cut of over 10 %
4
Payout ratio (earnings)
28%
Payout ratio (free cash flow)
26%

Annual total matches the company's SEC filing

Our rules see a meaningful risk that this dividend is cut.

Caution. Dividend Safety below 40 points. More in the glossary →Dividend Safety below 40 points.

Dividends per share by year

Sum of payments by calendar year of the ex-date; the current year is left out until it ends.

Dividends per share by year: 2016 $0.24, 2017 $1.06, 2018 $1.24, 2019 $1.38, 2020 $0.36, 2022 $0.81, 2023 $1.08, 2024 $1.08, 2025 $1.082016: $0.242017: $1.062018: $1.242019: $1.382020: $0.362022: $0.812023: $1.082024: $1.082025: $1.08

Payment history

Amounts are per share on today's share count (adjusted for splits), before withholding tax.

Status
10 Nov 202624 Nov 2026$0.30RegularAnnounced2
11 Aug 2026—$0.30RegularSingle source1
13 May 2026—$0.30RegularSingle source1
04 Mar 2026—$0.30RegularSingle source1

Each payment is checked against up to 2 data feeds. Several feeds can share one upstream, so Verified needs two independent ones. Verified: two or more sources agree. Single source: not cross-checked yet. Sources disagree: the median is shown. Announced: declared, may still change.

What dividend safety is made of

0–100 points: payout versus earnings and cash flow, debt, cut history, years without a lower dividend and how stretched the yield looks.

Similar dividend payers

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