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First Watch Restaurant Group, Inc. FWRG

Retail-Eating Places · CIK 0001789940 · Fiscal year ends 1228

Revenue
$1.22B
Fiscal year ended 2025-12-28
Operating income
$27.51M
Fiscal year ended 2025-12-28
Free cash flow
-$30.99M
Fiscal year ended 2025-12-28

Valuation, from the filing

Public float$733.40MMarket value of stock held by non-affiliates, as stated on the cover page for 2025-06-29
Float per share$12.00Float divided by shares outstanding in the same filing. A floor under the share price on that date, not the price itself.
Float / net income37.7×A lower bound on the multiple, because affiliate holdings are excluded.
Float / revenue0.6×A lower bound on the multiple, because affiliate holdings are excluded.
Float / equity1.2×A lower bound on the multiple, because affiliate holdings are excluded.

Every figure here is drawn from the 10-K cover page and the statements behind it, so each one traces to a filing. Public float counts only stock held by non-affiliates, which makes these floors rather than estimates: a high multiple is conclusive, a low one may mean cheap or may mean closely held. The float was measured on 2025-06-29, not today, and each multiple below it uses the figures for the fiscal year ending 2025-12-28 — the year that filing covered.

Valuation over time

37.7× earnings today, against a median of 26.9× across 4 years on record. Above its own history.

Float measuredPublic floatFloat / net income
2025-06-29$733.40M37.7×
2024-06-30$570.40M30.1×
2023-06-25$389.60M15.3×
2022-06-26$163.30M23.6×

Each float is paired with the fiscal year the filing that stated it covers. Only years where the company reported positive net income appear, because a multiple against a loss is not a multiple.

How this compares in its industry

Percentile among the Retail-Eating Places filers on this site, highest value first. A high percentile means a large figure, which is good for a margin and not for leverage — the ranking says where the company sits, not whether that is where it should be.

MeasureReportedPercentile
Effective tax rate-60.2%4th
Current ratio0.29x7th
Revenue YoY growth20.3%90th
CapEx / revenue12.8%86th
FCF margin-2.5%25th
Long-term debt / equity0.43x31th
Operating margin2.3%41th
SBC / revenue0.9%58th
Net margin1.6%50th

First Watch Restaurant Group, Inc. (FWRG) reported revenue of $1.22B and net income of $19.43M for the fiscal year ended 2025-12-28. This page shows 7 annual periods of income statement, balance sheet and cash flow figures normalized from First Watch Restaurant Group, Inc.’s SEC filings, each linked to the filing it came from. It is classified by the SEC under Retail-Eating Places.

Income

First Watch Restaurant Group, Inc. income by fiscal year, in US dollars, normalized from SEC filings.
Metric2025-12-282024-12-292023-12-312022-12-252021-12-262020-12-272019-12-29
Revenue$1.22B$1.02B$891.55M$730.16M$601.19M$342.39M$436.37M
Cost of revenueUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
Gross profitUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
Operating income$27.51M$38.91M$41.27M$16.91M$22.24M-$47.22M-$37.56M
Net income$19.43M$18.92M$25.38M$6.91M-$2.11M-$49.68M-$45.44M
Research & developmentUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
Weighted-average diluted sharesshares 62.84Mshares 62.35Mshares 61.19Mshares 60.14Mshares 48.21Mshares 45.01Mshares 45.01M
Pretax income$12.13M$28.03M$36.08M$12.59M$370.00K-$69.55M-$57.89M
Income tax expense-$7.30M$9.10M$10.69M$5.68M$2.48M-$19.87M-$12.42M
Diluted EPS$0.31$0.30$0.41$0.11$-0.04$-1.10$-1.01
Selling, general & administrativeUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
General & administrative$128.95M$113.27M$103.12M$84.96M$70.39M$46.32M$55.82M
Selling & marketingUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable

Balance

First Watch Restaurant Group, Inc. balance by fiscal year, in US dollars, normalized from SEC filings.
Metric2025-12-282024-12-292023-12-312022-12-252021-12-262020-12-272019-12-29
Cash & equivalents$21.25M$33.31M$49.63M$49.67M$51.86M$38.85MUnavailable
Total assets$1.74B$1.51B$1.27B$1.10B$1.05B$1.01BUnavailable
Current assets$49.08M$55.88M$71.19M$67.29M$67.70M$49.04MUnavailable
Total liabilities$1.12B$918.97M$705.76M$581.31M$542.49M$686.65MUnavailable
Current liabilities$167.50M$138.47M$115.07M$99.98M$96.52M$76.53MUnavailable
Total equity incl. NCI$626.28M$595.39M$561.28M$523.14M$504.43M$320.87M$329.80M
Temporary (mezzanine) equityUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
Inventory$7.17M$6.12M$5.38M$5.03M$4.02M$2.92MUnavailable
Accounts receivable$6.86M$7.24M$5.53M$6.16M$4.45M$3.92MUnavailable
Goodwill$420.21M$398.56M$359.88M$345.22M$345.22M$345.22MUnavailable
Long-term debt$269.07M$189.04M$119.77M$94.67M$99.75M$286.40MUnavailable
Accounts payable$8.70M$6.96M$6.32M$7.59M$11.06M$4.22MUnavailable

Cash flow

First Watch Restaurant Group, Inc. cash flow by fiscal year, in US dollars, normalized from SEC filings.
Metric2025-12-282024-12-292023-12-312022-12-252021-12-262020-12-272019-12-29
Operating cash flow$125.91M$115.67M$95.34M$62.94M$62.97M-$18.36M$21.46M
Capital expenditures$156.91M$127.92M$83.33M$62.22M$35.31M$26.75M$59.17M
Investing cash flow-$213.76M-$206.65M-$123.37M-$63.11M-$35.68M-$26.97M-$82.39M
Financing cash flow$75.79M$74.33M$28.07M-$2.02M-$14.27M$73.31M$55.76M
Net change in cash-$12.07M-$16.65M$38.00K-$2.19M$13.02M$27.98M-$5.16M
Stock-based compensation$10.76M$8.52M$7.60M$10.37M$8.60M$750.00KUnavailable
Common dividends paidUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
Common share repurchasesUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
Depreciation & amortization$75.01M$57.72M$41.22M$34.23M$32.38M$30.72M$28.03M

Derived

First Watch Restaurant Group, Inc. derived by fiscal year, in US dollars, normalized from SEC filings.
Metric2025-12-282024-12-292023-12-312022-12-252021-12-262020-12-272019-12-29
Free cash flow-$30.99M-$12.24M$12.01M$718.00K$27.66M-$45.11M-$37.70M
Gross marginUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
Operating margin2.3%3.8%4.6%2.3%3.7%-13.8%-8.6%
FCF margin-2.5%-1.2%1.3%0.1%4.6%-13.2%-8.6%
SBC / revenue0.9%0.8%0.9%1.4%1.4%0.2%Unavailable
Current ratio0.29x0.40x0.62x0.67x0.70x0.64xUnavailable
Revenue YoY growth20.3%13.9%22.1%21.5%75.6%-21.5%Unavailable
Net margin1.6%1.9%2.8%0.9%-0.4%-14.5%-10.4%
R&D / revenueUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
CapEx / revenue12.8%12.6%9.3%8.5%5.9%7.8%13.6%
Long-term debt / equity0.43xUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
Effective tax rate-60.2%32.5%29.6%45.1%669.5%UnavailableUnavailable

Amounts are abbreviated; the exact reported value is carried in each cell. — means unavailable, not zero. Open FWRG in the interactive workspace to inspect any figure back to its filing.

Source filings

10-Q · Filed 2026-08-04View SEC filing
10-Q · Filed 2026-05-05View SEC filing
10-K · Filed 2026-02-24View SEC filing
10-Q · Filed 2025-11-04View SEC filing
10-Q · Filed 2025-08-05View SEC filing
10-Q · Filed 2025-05-06View SEC filing

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