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CAVA Group, Inc. (CAVA) — chart, structure and Closelooknet read

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Signals for this name

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

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 Closelooknet index and its own sleeve — equal-weight, nightly closes.

HALO Growth 100 · as of 2026-10-14

DayWeekMonth3 months
CAVA−2.6%−0.9%+3.2%−24.2%
Better Food, Clean Label & Functional+0.9%+3.7%+2.2%—
HALO Growth 100−0.8%−1.4%−3.2%—

Against the index: 0.5 pts ahead on the week, 6.4 pts ahead on the month; against its Better Food, Clean Label & Functional sleeve 1.0 pts ahead on the month.

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

Mentioned on Closelooknet 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 Closelooknet

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

Dailies

Weather around the name 3 macro readings: Money Temperature, Factor regime, Sovereign pressure

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 53/100 · S&P 500 fund at 50, above its 50- and 200-day averagesEight instruments scored on position, momentum, volume, volatility and fragility — the regime every name trades inside. Temperature lab → 2026-10-14
  • Factor regime Momentum repair attempt below trendMomentum against low volatility (SPMO / SPLV): below its 50-day trend, 89th percentile of the window, +0.6% over 20 sessions. Factor regime → 2026-10-14
  • Sovereign pressure Index -0.32 · down 0.76 over 21 sessionsG7 long-end yields, 10s30s and the slope — the funding weather for every balance sheet on this site. Sovereign pressure → 2026-10-14
How it trades on rate days beta 1.17 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 1.17 — moves strongly with bonds for every 1% move in TLT (20+ year Treasuries), CAVA Group, Inc. moved 1.17% on average · correlation 0.18 · higher than 90% of US names
  • Beta, last 3 months 1.22 about the same as 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.

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 Closelooknet scores where it exists.

Company snapshot — CAVA Group, Inc.

CAVA in five paragraphs: what it makes and sells, where it sits in the Closelooknet 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
Closelooknet'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 Closelooknet tracks it
CAVA is a HALO Growth 100 constituent and carries a Closelooknet 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. Constituent of HALO Growth 100.

Written from the company’s public profile and Closelooknet’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.

FAQ · from the current data · as of 2026-10-15

Quick answers

What is CAVA Group, Inc. (CAVA)?

CAVA Group, Inc. trades as CAVA on the US exchange (US) in the Closelooknet research universe, as of the registry build of 2026-10-15.

Is CAVA in a Closelooknet index?

Yes — CAVA Group, Inc. is a constituent of HALO Growth 100, as of 2026-10-15.

Where does CAVA trade against its moving averages?

Resizing — 46.4% off its high: 46.4% below its 52-week high, under its 200-day — a deeper resizing of the trend, not a shallow dip. As of 2026-10-13 — a technical state from the nightly Closelooknet bake, not advice. The Technical tab carries the full row.

How is CAVA doing against its Closelooknet index?

Over the past month CAVA Group, Inc. is +3.2% against −3.2% for the HALO Growth 100 — 6.4 points ahead of its index, as of 2026-10-14. Its Better Food, Clean Label & Functional sleeve is +2.2% 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.

How does CAVA Group, Inc. compare with its peers?

Against its peer group (HALO Growth 100 · Better Food, Clean Label & Functional), CAVA Group, Inc. (CAVA) sits 46.4% below its 52-week high, 11.4% below its 50-day average; ELF Beauty Inc (ELF) is 28.4% below, Sprouts Farmers Market LLC (SFM) is 54.5% below, Givaudan SA (GIVN.SW) is at its high. Put any of them next to CAVA in the chart grid (2×1 or 2×2) and the page lays the companies side by side: performance, trend, valuation, margins and our money-flow reading.

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

Over the past year CAVA Group, Inc. had a beta of 1.17 to TLT, the long-dated Treasury fund — it moves strongly with bonds, higher than 90% 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 Closelooknet written about CAVA Group, Inc.?

CAVA Group, Inc. appears in 1 Closelooknet 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 Closelooknet 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 Closelooknet" block on this page lists the long reads, the reference entries and the dailies that name it.

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. Closelooknet'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 Closelooknet 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 does this page show?

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

Related in the Closelooknet universe

same Closelooknet index seat first, then Restaurants. Scored names rank on their Closelooknet 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.