# THE CHEESECAKE FACTORY INCORPORATED (CAKE) FY2026 YTD Q2 Statement of Cash Flows

- Company: THE CHEESECAKE FACTORY INCORPORATED (CAKE)
- Period: 2025-12-31 to 2026-06-30
- Filing: Q2 FY2026 10-Q, filed 2026-08-03, accession number 0001104659-26-089840
- Page: https://plicit.ai/financials/cake/fy2026-ytd-q2-cash-flow
- Chart image: https://plicit.ai/charts/cake-fy2026-ytd-q2-cash-flow-sankey.png

## Chart details

Cash flows for Dec 31, 2025 through Jun 30, 2026. Cash basis: Cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash. Beginning cash: Dec 30, 2025. Ending cash: Jun 30, 2026. Beginning and ending cash are dated balances. Positive cash flows add cash; negative cash flows reduce it.

- **Beginning cash on Dec 30, 2025**: 215,729,000 US dollars. Beginning cash: Cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash
- **Operating activities**: 188,930,000 US dollars. Net cash provided.
- **Net income**: 117,942,000 US dollars
- **Depreciation and amortization expenses**: 57,087,000 US dollars
- **Impairment of assets and lease termination expenses**: 344,000 US dollars
- **Deferred income taxes**: 8,144,000 US dollars
- **Stock-based compensation**: 15,775,000 US dollars
- **Payment of deferred consideration and compensation in excess of acquisition-date fair value**: negative 13,229,000 US dollars
- **Accounts and other receivables**: 32,330,000 US dollars
- **Income taxes receivable/payable**: negative 7,345,000 US dollars
- **Inventories**: 3,451,000 US dollars
- **Prepaid expenses**: negative 3,931,000 US dollars
- **Operating lease assets/liabilities**: negative 7,612,000 US dollars
- **Other assets**: negative 14,530,000 US dollars
- **Accounts payable**: 6,371,000 US dollars
- **Gift card liabilities**: negative 29,403,000 US dollars
- **Other accrued expenses**: 23,536,000 US dollars
- **Investing activities**: negative 86,895,000 US dollars. Net cash used.
- **Additions to property and equipment**: negative 86,307,000 US dollars
- **Additions to intangible assets**: negative 588,000 US dollars
- **Financing activities**: negative 122,335,000 US dollars. Net cash used.
- **Repayment on long-term convertible debt, including premium on extinguishment**: negative 68,992,000 US dollars
- **Issuance costs associated with long-term debt**: negative 1,350,000 US dollars
- **Proceeds from exercise of stock options**: 7,285,000 US dollars
- **Common stock dividends paid**: negative 29,914,000 US dollars
- **Treasury stock purchases, inclusive of excise tax**: negative 29,364,000 US dollars
- **Operating adjustment reconciliation**: 147,038,000 US dollars. Intermediate calculation joining the operating reconciliation branches. Its gross amount includes any portion of net income routed through this junction. It is not an additional cash source or use.
- **financing gross reconciliation**: 129,620,000 US dollars. Gross amount at the activity's junction before offsetting its receipts and deductions. It is not an additional cash source or use.
- **investing gross reconciliation**: 86,895,000 US dollars. Gross amount at the activity's junction before offsetting its receipts and deductions. It is not an additional cash source or use.
- **Exchange-rate effect**: 0 US dollars
- **Foreign currency translation adjustment**: negative 259,000 US dollars. Out of cash; drawn as the small gray flow above ending cash.
- **Ending cash on Jun 30, 2026**: 195,170,000 US dollars. Ending cash: Cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash
- **Cash sources and uses**: 404,659,000 US dollars. Opening cash plus net sources, equal to net uses plus ending cash.
- **Net cash change**: negative 20,559,000 US dollars. Ending cash minus beginning cash.
- **Cash flow / Net income**: 1.60×. Operating cash flow divided by reconciliation net income for the same period. Black from 0.90× through 1.10×; green above 1.10×; red below 0.90×. Color uses the unrounded ratio.
- **Operating cash flow**: 188,930,000 US dollars. Operating cash flow used in the free cash flow calculation.
- **Cash purchases of property, plant and equipment**: 86,307,000 US dollars. These cash purchases are already included in investing activities above.
- **Free cash flow**: 102,623,000 US dollars. A supplemental measure; finance-lease payments are excluded from this definition.

### Chart connections

- Beginning cash plus operating, investing and financing cash flows plus the exchange-rate effect equals ending cash. Negative amounts reduce cash.
- Financing contributions meet at a reconciliation junction before connecting to the net cash total.
- Investing contributions meet at a reconciliation junction before connecting to the net cash total.
- Operating reconciliation adjustments are not all independent cash receipts.
- Net income enters operating cash directly in the reconciliation. The adjustment junction contributes the remaining $70.99M after reconciling the other positive and negative adjustments. These connections depict an accounting reconciliation, not traced cash receipts.
- Each activity has one net cash bar connected to the shared cash pool. Positive activity totals enter the pool; negative activity totals leave the pool to fund that activity's net payments. The central pool does not assign a particular funding source to a particular payment.
- The intermediate calculation bars include both sides of the displayed activity breakdowns; they are not additional cash flows.
- Operating cash flow minus cash purchases of property, plant and equipment equals free cash flow: 188,930,000 US dollars minus 86,307,000 US dollars equals 102,623,000 US dollars.