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CAVA CAVA GROUP INC

2026Q2 · CUSIP 148929102 · Sector: Consumer

Piling in

Net holder growth ranks near the top of the market

Funds that own it
543
Institutions that reported holding it to the SEC
Net increase in holders
+25
Last quarter 518 → now 543
How unusual is that
Top 20%
Stronger buying than 82% of US stocks
What the filings say, in one paragraph

543 funds held CAVA at the end of 2026Q2, up 25 from the quarter before. That is stronger buying than 81.5% of US stocks — among the most piled-into names this quarter. On the business itself, revenue over the last 12 months was $1.4B(YoY +26.8%), the P/E is 93.7x, return on equity is 7.9%. CAVA has had 9 buying rushes in its history, and the price moved +33.4% on average over the six months after (that is the raw price move, not how much it beat the market by). It sits in the Consumer sector.

How many funds owned it, quarter by quarter

Bars = net change in institutional holders, positive (green) or negative (red). Line = total institutional holders.

2023Q3: holders=140 2023Q4: holders=198 2024Q1: holders=290 2024Q2: holders=390 2024Q3: holders=450 2024Q4: holders=523 2025Q1: holders=518 2025Q2: holders=541 2025Q3: holders=499 2025Q4: holders=484 2026Q1: holders=518 2026Q2: holders=543 -100 -50 +0 +50 +100 126349571 23Q323Q424Q124Q224Q324Q425Q125Q225Q325Q426Q126Q2 Net change in holders (bars) Total funds holding (line)

What happened after each past buying rush 9 times in its history

Quarter of the rush How unusual then Price, next 3 months Price, next 6 months
2026Q2 Top 20% — —
2026Q1 Top 10% -14.6% —
2025Q2 Top 20% -32.3% -3.0%
2024Q4 Top 10% -26.1% -46.8%
2024Q3 Top 5% -21.4% -38.5%
2024Q2 Top 1% in the market +39.8% +20.7%
2024Q1 Top 5% +29.7% +82.9%
2023Q4 Top 10% +41.5% +83.4%
2023Q3 Top 5% +58.1% +134.7%

These are the raw price moves, not how much it beat the market by. Compare them against the market over the same months — in a strong bull market almost everything is up.

Show all the numbers (large funds, value held, options…) ▾
Of them, large funds
223
Change in large funds
+28
Total value they hold
$8.2B
Funds buying for the first time
89
Funds that sold out entirely
64
Price change that quarter
-11.1%
Funds holding puts (bearish)
19
Funds holding calls (bullish)
20

These are for people who want to dig. Skip them if they do not mean anything to you — the three numbers above are enough.

Fundamentals

PE (TTM)
93.7
EPS (TTM)
$0.55
EPS YoY
-53.8%
Revenue (TTM)
$1.4B
Revenue YoY
+26.8%
Net margin
4.8%
ROE
7.9%
Debt ratio
43.9%
FCF (TTM)
$49M
Dividend (TTM)
No dividend
Quarterly Revenue & EPS
2023-10-01: EPS 0.06 2023-12-31: EPS 1.24 2024-04-21: EPS 0.12 2024-07-14: EPS 0.17 2024-10-06: EPS 0.15 2024-12-29: EPS 0.66 2025-04-20: EPS 0.22 2025-07-13: EPS 0.16 2025-10-05: EPS 0.12 2025-12-28: EPS 0.04 2026-04-19: EPS 0.20 2026-07-12: EPS 0.19 0M 219M 438M $M 0.00 0.68 1.36 2022202320242025202607/26 Revenue EPS

Quarterly figures, revenue up to 10 years back; EPS split-adjusted, early quarters hidden when not calibrable

P/E (TTM) over time
4Y median 86 38 92 147 202420252026

P/E = close around day 47 after quarter-end ÷ TTM EPS then; this is a consistent valuation date, not the company’s actual filing date; loss quarters hidden

Quarterly free cash flow
-19M2M23M 20222023202420252026
Latest quarter $3M (2025-12-28)

FCF = operating cash flow − capex, computed from SEC XBRL; banks/insurers have no standard cash-flow structure and are hidden

As of 2026-07-12 · SEC filings (XBRL)

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