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Article: Cheesecake Factory adjusting in bid to reheat shares.(MARKETPLACE)
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- Los Angeles Business Journal
- Article date:
- July 3, 2006
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CHEESECAKE Factory Inc. might pile its plates high, but its stock has been falling down.
Last week, the perennial Wall Street darling experienced a 52-week low, with its shares hitting $25.21 on Wednesday. The basement price capped a three-month period that saw Cheesecake Factory shares dive 30 percent.
Investors reacted to an announcement by the Calabasas Hills-based restaurant company projecting that second-quarter same-store sales would be flat to slightly negative. For the first quarter, same-store sales dipped 1.3 percent, marking only the second time in around 13 years that Cheesecake Factory notched negative comps.
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