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Bjs Restaurants Inc key statistics and ratios

In fiscal 2025, Bjs Restaurants Inc had return on equity of 13.3% and a net margin of 3.5%. Each ratio below is calculated from the figures on its income statement, balance sheet and cash flow pages.

Financial ratios

US$ thousands unless shown otherwise. Fiscal years, plus the last twelve months (LTM) when newer.

Fiscal year2009Dec 20092010Dec 20102011Jan 20122012Jan 20132013Dec 20132014Dec 20142015Dec 20152016Jan 20172017Jan 20182018Jan 20192019Dec 20192020Dec 20202021Dec 20212022Jan 20232023Jan 20242024Dec 20242025Dec 2025LTMJun 2026
Net margin3.1%4.5%5.1%4.4%2.7%3.2%4.9%4.6%4.3%4.5%3.9%−7.4%−0.3%0.3%1.5%1.2%3.5%2.9%
Return on equity5.2%8.6%10.2%8.9%5.4%7.3%13.6%15.4%16.8%17.9%15.1%−19.8%−1.1%1.2%5.5%4.5%13.3%10.7%
Return on assets—5.4%6.8%5.9%3.6%4.4%6.8%6.6%6.5%7.4%5.1%−5.4%−0.3%0.4%1.9%1.6%4.7%4.1%
Effective tax rate29.9%24.8%27.7%26.4%16.0%24.6%27.0%25.4%−26.5%2.3%2.3%—————−3.3%−7.7%
Dividends ÷ net income————————5.1%18.7%22.1%——2.5%0.2%0.0%0.0%—

Returns use average equity or assets over the year. Return on equity is left blank when equity is negative or so small that the ratio says nothing (above ±200%); interest cover is left blank above 200 times. Price-based ratios such as P/E are on the valuation page.

Financial health

3 of 6 checks passed · June 30, 2026
What it owns · $992m
Short-term assets $54mLonger-term assets $938m
What it owes, and who funded it · $992m
Short-term liabilities $186mLonger-term liabilities $408mShareholders' equity $397m
  • Short-term assets cover short-term liabilities $54m of assets due within a year against $186m of liabilities due within a year.
  • Short-term assets cover long-term liabilities $54m short-term assets against $408m of longer-dated liabilities.
  • More cash than debt $14m of cash against $44m of debt.
  • Debt below 40% of shareholders' equity Debt is 11% of equity.
  • Debt burden no higher than five years ago Debt to equity moved from 15% to 11% over five years.
  • A year's operating cash flow covers at least 20% of debt $118m of operating cash flow against $44m of debt.
  • Operating profit covers interest at least five times over Interest not separately reported. Not assessable.

From Bjs Restaurants Inc's latest balance sheet as filed. Checks are fixed, documented rules (methodology), counted only where the company reports the figures — a dot means the filing doesn't break the item out. Descriptions of reported data, not advice.

Moat

48 /100

Moderate moat

How hard Bjs Restaurants's competitive advantage looks for rivals to wear away, judged from 10 years of its own filings: returns on capital, pricing power, profit durability, cash conversion and discipline.

  • Returns on capital 2 / 20

    Net income has been a median 2.7% of total assets over 10 years.

  • Pricing power 20 / 20

    Gross margin has been a median 74.5%, moving by 0.7 percentage points (standard deviation) across 9 years.

  • Durability 0 / 20

    Operating margin has been a median 1.9%; its worst year was -3.8%.

  • Cash conversion 8 / 20

    Free cash flow was positive in 7 of 10 years, at a median 2.3% of revenue.

  • Discipline 18 / 20

    The diluted share count fell 4.1% over five years; stock-based pay has been a median 0.8% of revenue.

AI disruption exposure: Low. In this industry, the business rests on physical assets, regulated networks or products AI itself depends on.

A rules-based reading of reported figures, not a forecast and not investment advice. How the score is built: methodology.

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Figures from Bjs Restaurants Inc's SEC filings (10-K and 10-Q), retrieved October 26, 2026. How we read and check them: methodology and data sources. Not investment advice. Back to Bjs Restaurants Inc.