Questions about the company Cheesecake Factory Texas Road House.

   

General Information:

$1$ What is the name and ticker symbol of the corporation?

$2$ Where are the corporate headquarters?

$3$ When was the company founded?

$4$ When is the corporations fiscal year end?

$5$ What are the primary products or services of the corporation?

$6$ Present a graph of the company, a competitor and a stock index for the last $5$ years.

create your own graph or use the snipping tool capture a graph on Yahoo$/$finance for example

$7$ What is the Company's Market Cap?

Is this a small, medium or large company?

$8$ What was the higest and lowest stock price? HI

LO

$9$ Who are the companys competitors? $($list $3)$

$($publicly traded companies$)$

$10$ Number of Employees

Market Information:

$12$ On which stock exchange is the corporations stock traded?

$13$ What is the current market price of their stock?

$14$ What is the Beta for this company? Is it more risky or less risky than the overall market?

Is it less risky or more risky that the overall market?

Operations

$15$ How did the company fair duing the pandemic

$16$ Do you think their debt load is excessive in $2023?$

Cash Flow and Retained Earnings:

$17$ List the amount of cash flows from each of the $3$ activities: Operating, Investing, and Financing for the most recent year. What was the increase or decrease in cash for each section? operating

investing

financing

net change

$18$ Does the company have sufficieint cash on hand to cover operations?

$19$ What classes of stock does the company have?

$20$ How many shares of each class of stock are authorized, how many are issued, and how many are outstanding?

$21$ Does the company have any treasury stock? How many shares and what dollar amount?

$22$ What is the trend for Free Cash Flow. Is this positive or negative, explain

Footnote Disclosures:

$23$ How many significant accounting policies are discussed

$25$ Discuss the company's critical audit issue

What inventory method do they use?

$27$ What method$($s$)$ does it use to depreciate its assets?

Report of the Independent Auditor$($s$)$:

$29$ Who is$/$are the companys auditor$($s$)?$

$30$ Does the auditor$($s$)$ give a qualified opinion, an unqualified opinion, a disclaimer of opinion, or an adverse opinion? What does that opinion mean? Is it good?

  

Answer rating: 100% (QA)

1 Name and Ticker Symbol The Cheesecake Factory Incorporated Ticker Symbol CAKE 2 Corporate Headquarters Calabasas Hills California United States 3 Year Founded The company was founded in 1972 4 Fisca... View the full answer