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Company snapshot — CAVA Group, Inc.

CAVA in five paragraphs: what it makes and sells, where it sits in the Closelook stack, who it is priced against, why we track it, what we watch. Research diary, not advice.

What it does
CAVA Group runs a chain of restaurants under its own brand across the United States and also sells its dips, spreads and dressings through grocery stores. It operates counter, online and mobile ordering channels of its own. The company is headquartered in Washington, D.C.
Where it sits in the stack
CAVA has no seat in Rubin, our AI build-out index; it sits instead in the HALO Growth 100, our growth index outside the megacaps, within the Better Food, Clean Label & Functional sleeve that tracks shifting consumer eating habits.
Who it is priced against
Closelook's peer group places it with premium-format restaurants such as Chipotle and Dutch Bros, flavour and fragrance houses Givaudan and Symrise, and functional-food names Freshpet, Bellring Brands, Sprouts Farmers Market and ELF Beauty, built around where consumer behaviour is actually changing.
Why Closelook tracks it
CAVA is a HALO Growth 100 constituent and carries a Closelook score, strongest on quality and weakest on momentum. The diary has quoted it once, in the Midday 10, as it crossed below its 50-day average.
What the diary watches
The diary watches whether the shares find support around their moving averages, since a weak momentum reading sits against a stronger quality score and a wide gap from the 52-week high.

CAVA Group, Inc. (CAVA) trades on US exchanges, classified under Consumer Cyclical. Constituent of HALO Growth 100.

The Closelook company score reads 39/100 composite (momentum 5, quality 28, valuation 15) across 7 modules — the full breakdown, chart structure and analog history load live above.

Written from the company’s public profile and Closelook’s own readings, 2026-09-17. Descriptive, refreshed with the registry; corrections welcome via the imprint. closelook.net is an investment research diary — market structure, index membership and scores are our own readings, not investment advice. Related: index compare · sector dispersion · scanner.

Signals for this name

Every Closelook reading that exists for CAVA, from the same nightly bakes the boards use. Research diary readings, not advice.

Who it is priced against HALO Growth 100 · Better Food, Clean Label & Functional · 8 names with week and year-to-date

Peer group

HALO Growth 100 · Better Food, Clean Label & Functional

Flavour and fragrance houses, premium-format restaurants, functional-beverage challengers. Where consumer behaviour is actually changing.

Compared against CAVA on the nightly bakes; the Peers tab ranks the cohort on the Closelook scores where it exists.

Versus its index HALO Growth 100 — the name, its sleeve and the index over day, week and month

Versus its index

The name against its Closelook index and its own sleeve — equal-weight, nightly closes.

HALO Growth 100 · as of 2026-09-24

DayWeekMonth3 months
CAVA+0.8%+4.5%−22.8%−35.8%
Better Food, Clean Label & Functional−0.5%+0.3%−13.8%—
HALO Growth 100−0.8%−0.5%−7.7%—

Against the index: 5.0 pts ahead on the week, 15.1 pts behind on the month; against its Better Food, Clean Label & Functional sleeve 9.0 pts behind on the month.

Returns from the index workers’ nightly closes; equal-weight sleeves. A relative reading from the research diary, not advice.

Dividends and capital return no distribution in twelve months

Dividends and capital return

What CAVA pays out and buys back — distributions read from the price series, money terms from the filings.

  • Distributions No cash distribution recorded in the price series over the last three years
  • Share count −0.2% in FY2025 15 m USD of stock-based compensation in the year

Per-share amounts are derived from the adjusted price series in the listing currency, so dates sit within days of the ex-date; filing figures come from the fundamentals feed for the last reported fiscal year. An investment diary, not a recommendation.

How it trades on rate days beta 1.00 to TLT · on the worst bond days it moved with the market

How it trades on rate days

How CAVA has moved when long-dated Treasury yields rise — measured against TLT, the 20+ year Treasury fund.

  • Beta to long bonds, 1 year 1.00 — moves strongly with bonds for every 1% move in TLT (20+ year Treasuries), CAVA Group, Inc. moved 1.00% on average · correlation 0.16 · higher than 86% of US names
  • Beta, last 3 months 1.44 more rate-sensitive lately than over the year
  • On the 10 worst bond days −0.85% on average against −0.74% for the S&P 500 the 10 sessions of the past year in which TLT fell most, i.e. long yields rose most
  • Latest of those days +0.77% TLT −1.29% that day 2026-09-24

Daily total returns from the adjusted price series; a TLT down day is a day long yields rose. Beta = the average move of the name for a 1% move in TLT. Past sensitivity, not a forecast. An investment diary, not a recommendation.

Weather around the name 4 macro readings: Money Temperature, Factor regime, Sector × region …

The weather around this name

Macro readings that apply by membership — the regime, the factor tape, the sector cell, the funding backdrop.

  • Money Temperature Composite 60/100 · S&P 500 fund at 66, bullish alignedEight instruments scored on position, momentum, volume, volatility and fragility — the regime every name trades inside. Temperature lab → 2026-09-24
  • Factor regime Momentum leading — risk appetite buildingMomentum against low volatility (SPMO / SPLV): above its 50-day trend, 99th percentile of the window, +10.1% over 20 sessions. Factor regime → 2026-09-24
  • Sector × region Consumer discretionary in US: −0.7% week · −6.3% month · −2.5% quarter · −3.1% yearThe Sector Engine cell this name lives in, from XLY.US; the 11 × 4 matrix shows where its sector is being bought and where it is being sold. Sector Engine → 2026-09-24
  • Sovereign pressure Index 0.60 · up 0.32 over 21 sessionsG7 long-end yields, 10s30s and the slope — the funding weather for every balance sheet on this site. Sovereign pressure → 2026-09-23

FAQ · from the current data · as of 2026-09-25

Quick answers

What is CAVA Group, Inc. (CAVA)?

CAVA Group, Inc. trades as CAVA on the US exchange (US) and is classified under Consumer Cyclical in the Closelook research universe, as of the registry build of 2026-09-25.

Is CAVA in a Closelook index?

Yes — CAVA Group, Inc. is a constituent of HALO Growth 100, as of 2026-09-25.

What is CAVA Group, Inc.'s Closelook composite score?

39 out of 100, with momentum 5, quality 28 and valuation 15 sub-scores, as of 2026-09-25. Scores are Closelook's own research readings, not ratings or investment advice.

Where does CAVA trade against its moving averages?

Resizing — 46.2% off its high: 46.2% below its 52-week high, under its 200-day — a deeper resizing of the trend, not a shallow dip. As of 2026-09-23 — a technical state from the nightly Closelook bake, not advice. The Technical tab carries the full row.

How is CAVA doing against its Closelook index?

Over the past month CAVA Group, Inc. is −22.8% against −7.7% for the HALO Growth 100 — 15.1 points behind its index, as of 2026-09-24. Its Better Food, Clean Label & Functional sleeve is −13.8% over the same month. The “Versus its index” table on this page carries the day, the week and the month for the name, its sleeve and the index.

What does CAVA Group, Inc. do?

CAVA Group runs a chain of restaurants under its own brand across the United States and also sells its dips, spreads and dressings through grocery stores. It operates counter, online and mobile ordering channels of its own. The company is headquartered in Washington, D.C. Closelook's peer group places it with premium-format restaurants such as Chipotle and Dutch Bros, flavour and fragrance houses Givaudan and Symrise, and functional-food names Freshpet, Bellring Brands, Sprouts Farmers Market and ELF Beauty, built around where consumer behaviour is actually changing.

Where does CAVA Group, Inc. sit in the AI build-out?

CAVA has no seat in Rubin, our AI build-out index; it sits instead in the HALO Growth 100, our growth index outside the megacaps, within the Better Food, Clean Label & Functional sleeve that tracks shifting consumer eating habits. CAVA is a HALO Growth 100 constituent and carries a Closelook score, strongest on quality and weakest on momentum. The diary has quoted it once, in the Midday 10, as it crossed below its 50-day average.

Does CAVA Group, Inc. pay a dividend?

No cash distribution shows in CAVA Group, Inc.’s price series over the last three years. The share count fell 0.2% over the fiscal year. The "Dividends and capital return" block on this page carries the lines.

How does CAVA Group, Inc. trade when bond yields rise?

Over the past year CAVA Group, Inc. had a beta of 1.00 to TLT, the long-dated Treasury fund — it moves strongly with bonds, higher than 86% of US names. On the 10 sessions in which long bonds fell most it moved −0.85% on average, against −0.74% for the S&P 500. The "How it trades on rate days" block on this page carries the lines.

Where has Closelook written about CAVA Group, Inc.?

CAVA Group, Inc. appears in 1 Closelook piece, most recently Midday 10: The optics chain gets paid at midday — semis reclaim their 50-day lines while the broad tape drifts, and Fabrinet reports into the repricing (2026-08-17). What Closelook said most recently: CAVA drops 4.31% to 71.22, crossing below its 50-day average intraday after opening the session above it. (Midday 10, 2026-08-17). The "Mentioned on Closelook" block on this page lists the long reads, the reference entries and the dailies that name it.

What does this page show?

A live price chart with SMA overlays and drawing tools for CAVA, performance metrics, index-membership context and the Closelook structure read — an investment research diary view, not investment advice.

Mentioned on Closelook 1 piece · newest: Midday 10, “The optics chain gets paid at midday — semis reclaim their 50-day lines while the broad tape drifts, and Fabrinet reports into the repricing” (2026-08-17)

Mentioned on Closelook

Where CAVA appears in the diary — 1 piece, newest first. Every link is our own writing.

Dailies

Related in the Closelook universe

same Closelook index seat first, then Restaurants. Scored names rank on their Closelook score; names without one rank on trend state — above or below their 50- and 200-day averages — never on a score they do not carry.