CAVA
Analyst target raises behind the outperformance
- CAVA +5.88% on the last session vs SPY +0.07%: +5.8 pts of stock-specific move.
- 1 analyst action in the past 10 days (1 positive, 0 negative); latest: Melius Research upgraded to Buy, target $95.00.
- Market backdrop (Today): Core PPI m/m 1.3% vs 0.3% expected (hotter); Core Retail Sales m/m 0.9% vs 0.6% expected (stronger); S&P futures -0.08%, 10-year yield -3bp in the 30 minutes after.
Bargain & stretch prices
Prices CAVA only reaches with set odds, from its own recent swings. Odds, not a forecast.
| Today | Next 5 sessions | |
|---|---|---|
| Stretch sell side |
53.01 +2.8% reached 3 in 10 days reached today |
54.82 +6.3% reached 3 in 10 weeks |
| Now | 54.62 · prior close 51.59 | |
| Bargain buy side |
50.21 -2.7% ↓ less often while far below its high
reached 2 in 10 days · 24% vs usual 26% |
48.55 -5.9% ↓ less often while far below its high
reached 3 in 10 weeks · 25% vs usual 27% |
More patient or more eager
| Bargain | Reached | Stretch | Reached | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Today | ||||
| Patient | 49.76 | 2 in 10 days↓ 15% vs 17% | 53.48 | 2 in 10 days |
| Balanced | 50.21 | 2 in 10 days↓ 24% vs 26% | 53.01 | 3 in 10 days |
| Eager | 50.62 | 4 in 10 days↓ 40% vs 41% | 52.58 | 5 in 10 days |
| Next 5 sessions | ||||
| Patient | 47.60 | 2 in 10 weeks↓ 16% vs 18% | 55.92 | 2 in 10 weeks |
| Balanced | 48.55 | 3 in 10 weeks↓ 25% vs 27% | 54.82 | 3 in 10 weeks |
| Eager | 49.45 | 4 in 10 weeks↓ 41% vs 43% | 53.82 | 5 in 10 weeks |
"3 in 10 days" means the price was reached on about 3 of every 10 days like this one. Patient prices are further away and come less often; eager ones are closer and come more often. From CAVA's daily swings (about 2.8% a day lately), anchored on the Oct 14 close. The odds were measured on 10 years of S&P 500 prices (they move about 3 points from year to year with the market: bargain prices come more often in falling years, stretch prices in rising ones), and where a situation below changed them consistently (in at least 8 of 10 years), they are adjusted and marked. In those tests, waiting for the bargain price did no better on average than buying at the close: what you save when it comes, you pay when it doesn't.
Situations on the Oct 14 close
- Bargain price, next session: reached 24% of days instead of the usual 26% (held in 9 of 10 years)
- Bargain price, next 5 sessions: reached 25% of weeks instead of the usual 27% (held in 10 of 10 years)
Big drop and big gain: among CAVA's own worst or best 10% of daily moves, as on the Aftermath tab. The past times are history: in our tests, how a stock did after its earlier times did not predict the next one, and across the S&P 500 none of these situations leaned up or down except, weakly, an all-time high followed by a big drop. Not advice.
Price ladder
| All-time closing high Dec 6, 2024 |
150.88 +176.2% |
| Highest analyst target | 110.00 +101.4% |
| 52-week closing high Apr 20, 2026 |
97.39 +78.3% |
| Mean analyst target | 83.67 +53.2% |
| 200-day average | 72.11 +32.0% |
| 50-day average | 59.33 +8.6% |
| Stretch, next 5 sessions | 54.82 +0.4% |
| Now | 54.62 |
| Previous close Oct 14, 2026 |
51.59 -5.6% |
| Bargain, next 5 sessions | 48.55 -11.1% |
| 52-week closing low Nov 20, 2025 |
43.59 -20.2% |
| Lowest analyst target | 18.00 -67.0% |
Closing prices (all-time = the 3 years Yahoo has). Percentages are the distance from now. These are levels people watch, not levels the price has to respect. Not advice.