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Sweetgreen, Inc. Class ASGCompetitor analysis, valuation and peers

United States · USD·Consumer Discretionary›Restaurants
Momentum leader 99
Mkt cap
$1.43B
US dollars, full cap
Free float
94%
of shares outstanding
$/day
$53.8M
20-day average traded
Fwd P/E
n/m
no positive forecast
ROIC−WACC
-27.6 pp
WACC 13.5%
Hurdle
n/a
no reverse DCF
Next earnings
118 days
4 Mar 2027
Close · USD$12.01
1D+4.0%
1W+8.5%
1M+25.5%
3M+120.4%
6M+71.6%
YTD+77.7%
1Y+85.6%
ATR %5.4%
Beta1.05
52w lowhigh3.8% off high

What Sweetgreen does

Employees: 6,486

Sweetgreen at a glance

Size Sweetgreen (SG) is a United States Consumer Discretionary company (Restaurants) with a market value of $1.43B, the 2027th largest of 3,117 United States companies the cockpit tracks. Shares closed at $12.01 on 6 Nov 2026.

Performance Over six months the shares gained 71.6%, against +22.4% for the median peer and -1.1% for the United States market (cap-weighted) — 2nd highest of 21 in its peer set.

Growth Revenue fell 0.7% over the last twelve months (peer median +6.7%); the operating margin is -17.9% (peer median 6.7%).

Valuation It trades at 2.4× enterprise value to sales against a peer median of 1.5× (5th most expensive of 21).

Capital Return on invested capital runs 27.6 points below its cost of capital (13.5% WACC).

Short interest Short interest is 22.5% of the free float (15 Oct 2026).

Next results Next results expected around 4 Mar 2027 (exchange calendar; dates can move).

Relative performance

10015011 May 202611 Aug 20266 Nov 2026SG 178Peer median 122
Six months, rebased to 100: Sweetgreen against the median of its 20 peers (local-currency closes).

Sweetgreen financials

Reported figures in USD; fiscal year ends 2025-12-31. TTM = trailing twelve months.
TTMFY2025FY2024FY2023FY2022
Revenue$682M$679M$677M$584M$470M
Revenue growth—0%+16%+24%—
Gross profit$6.28M$32.0M$65.6M$42.4M$22.8M
EBITDA-$47.2M-$37.4M-$17.0M-$44.8M-$89.6M
Net income$13.7M-$134M-$90.4M-$113M-$190M
Free cash flow-$116M-$119M-$41.1M-$63.2M-$140M
Capital expenditure$96.0M$114M$92.2M$95.8M$102M
Total debt$355M$354M$331M$303M$301M

Quarterly statements and history in the cockpit →

Sweetgreen competitor charts

The default views of Competitor Analysis ▸ Charts, drawn from the same data. Open them in the cockpit to change the axes, pin companies and read every value.

Performance: 6-month against 1-month return

0%+20%+40%+60%0%+20%CBRLARCODMP30977616JDWWEN603043TRAVELFOODDEVYANIDOMBJRI0999GYG98619936SSPGWESTLIFE76303087SG6-month return →1-month return →
Up and to the right = strong over both horizons. Sweetgreen is the large dot.

Fundamentals: revenue growth against valuation

0%+10%+20%2×4×CBRLARCODMP30977616JDWWEN603043TRAVELFOODDEVYANIDOMBJRI0999GYG98619936SSPGWESTLIFE76303087SGRevenue growth (TTM) →EV / Sales →
Further right = faster growth; higher = more expensive. The dashed lines are the peer medians. Sweetgreen is the large dot.

Sweetgreen competitors and peer comparison

How Sweetgreen compares with its peers

Peer set: Industry: the same industry and sector in any market, nearest in size. This is the same default set the interactive Competitor Analysis opens with.

Sweetgreen against its 20 peers (data as of 6 Nov 2026)
MeasureSGPeer medianRank in peer set
1-month return+25.5%+1.9%2nd highest of 21
6-month return+71.6%+22.4%2nd highest of 21
Distance from 52-week high-3.8%-12.8%3rd highest of 21
Revenue growth (TTM)-0.7%+6.7%5th lowest of 21
Operating margin-17.9%6.7%lowest of 21
EV / Sales2.4×1.5×5th most expensive of 21
ROIC minus cost of capital-27.6 pp+1.3 pplowest of 21

Peer table

Peer set: Industry: the same industry and sector in any market, nearest in size
CompanyMarketMarket cap6M returnRevenue growthOp. marginEV / SalesReq gDelivered g
Sweetgreen SGUnited States$1.43B+72%-1%-18%2.4×n/an/a
Cracker Barrel Old Country Store CBRLUnited States$1.45B+106%-5%0%0.7×14.0%+3.3%
Arcos Dorados ARCOUnited States$1.45B-23%+11%6%0.7×-3.5%+18.7%
Domino's Pizza Enterprises DMP.AXAustralia$1.48B+48%-11%5%1.5×17.9%-1.4%
Monogatari 3097.TJapan$1.50B+43%+22%8%1.6×2.0%+18.8%
Colowide 7616.TJapan$1.51B+21%+16%4%1.4×13.6%+12.3%
J D Wetherspoon JDW.LUnited Kingdom$1.33B+69%+5%5%0.9×7.7%+23.7%
Wendy's WENUnited States$1.55B+12%-1%13%2.3×2.4%+4.7%
Guangzhou Restaurant 603043.SSChina$1.31B0%+9%11%1.6×-3.5%+10.4%
Travel Food Services TRAVELFOOD.NSIndia$1.63B-6%-2%30%8.9×13.0%+15.6%
Devyani International DEVYANI.NSIndia$1.68B+8%+14%4%3.3×52.1%+37.6%
Domino's Pizza DOM.LUnited Kingdom$1.19B+24%+6%15%2.0×9.5%+6.3%
BJ's Restaurants BJRIUnited States$1.18B+30%+4%3%1.1×26.8%+12.4%
Xiaocaiyuan International 0999.HKHong Kong$1.17B+16%+3%15%1.4×-9.6%+15.8%
Guzman y Gomez GYG.AXAustralia$1.82B+55%+19%17%5.6×32.7%+34.2%
Yoshinoya 9861.TJapan$1.84B+42%+10%4%1.2×11.2%+5.8%
Ohsho Food Service 9936.TJapan$1.11B-1%0%7%1.5×4.2%+7.7%
SSP SSPG.LUnited Kingdom$1.87B+17%+5%7%1.0×2.6%+20.5%
Westlife Foodworld WESTLIFE.NSIndia$1.08B+31%+10%5%4.3×49.0%+21.7%
Ichibanya 7630.TJapan$1.06B+21%+8%6%2.3×12.2%+8.2%
Doutor Nichires 3087.TJapan$1.03B+33%+8%7%0.8×-4.7%+10.6%

Questions

Which companies are Sweetgreen's closest peers?
The cockpit's peer set: Cracker Barrel Old Country Store (CBRL), Arcos Dorados (ARCO), Domino's Pizza Enterprises (DMP.AX), Monogatari (3097.T), Colowide (7616.T), J D Wetherspoon (JDW.L), Wendy's (WEN), Guangzhou Restaurant (603043.SS).
Is Sweetgreen expensive compared with its peers?
On ev / sales it trades at 2.4× against a peer median of 1.5×, 5th most expensive of 21 in its peer set.
How has Sweetgreen stock performed?
Over six months to 6 Nov 2026 the shares returned +71.6% against +22.4% for the median peer; over one year +85.6%.

How these numbers are made. Returns are close-to-close in local currency. Revenue growth and margins are trailing twelve months. Req g is the revenue growth that today's enterprise value requires for seven years at the company's own cost of capital; Delivered g is what it actually grew; the gap is the hurdle (honest precision about ±8 points, so read the ranking more than the decimal). No fair values, price targets or analyst ratings are shown, by design. Method and validation.