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Arcos Dorados Holdings Inc. (ARCO)

NYSE / Consumer Cyclical / Restaurants

Share price

7.90 USD Market dataClose of Oct 14, 2026

Market capitalisation

1.66B USD Market dataClose of Oct 14, 2026
Market data
Oct 14, 2026
Filed accounts
FY2025, filed Apr 30, 2026
Ratios computed
Oct 14, 2026
Filed years
10, FY2016 to FY2025
Four kinds of sourceSEC filingCompany statementMarket dataComputedWhat each means
SEC filingFiled with the SEC
Read from a statement the company filed with the SEC, with the form, fiscal year, filing date and accession beside it.
Company statementCompany statement
What the company says about itself in a filing: an 8-K item, the auditor, its own segment names.
Market dataMarket data
Prices, market value and what analysts publish, with the date they are as of.
ComputedComputed by ValueScreener
Worked out by us from the other three, with the inputs and the formula one press away. A score is a research output, not a rating or a recommendation.
Reading

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Overview

What the business is, what it costs, and how it reads on four questions.

Market dataSEC filingComputed

Four questions, at a glance

Quality

Return on invested capital, after tax

8.6% Computed

From the FY2025 filing

Read quality

Valuation

Price to earnings

7.85x Computed

FY2025 accounts, priced at the latest close

Read valuation

Cash generation

Free cash flow yield

0.9% Computed

FY2025 accounts, priced at the latest close

Read cash generation

Revenue and net income, as filed

FY2016 Revenue: 2.93B USDFY2016 Net income: 78.8M USDFY2017 Revenue: 3.32B USDFY2017 Net income: 129.2M USDFY2018 Revenue: 3.08B USDFY2018 Net income: 36.8M USDFY2019 Revenue: 2.96B USDFY2019 Net income: 79.9M USDFY2020 Revenue: 1.98B USDFY2020 Net income: -149.5M USDFY2021 Revenue: 2.66B USDFY2021 Net income: 45.5M USDFY2022 Revenue: 3.62B USDFY2022 Net income: 140.3M USDFY2023 Revenue: 4.33B USDFY2023 Net income: 181.3M USDFY2024 Revenue: 4.47B USDFY2024 Net income: 148.8M USDFY2025 Revenue: 4.68B USDFY2025 Net income: 212.1M USD
Revenue Net income10 filed fiscal years, from the annual reports; the table in Filings names each document.
Named tests met
5 of 30 Which tests
The business, and the score behind its five axes

The reading, in brief

Is it cheap

Price to earnings is 7.85x at the close of 2026-10-14 on FY2025 figures; the lines are 15.00x (Graham's defensive ceiling) and, by market convention, 10.00x, 25.00x and 40.00x, and this sits below the lowest.

Today, against the Restaurants industry (31 companies), 7.85x sits at the 2nd percentile; the middle half of that group runs from 17.22x to 33.14x.

Is it good

Return on invested capital was 8.6% in FY2025, in the band labelled "Around the cost of capital" (8.0% to 12.0%), on lines anchored on Damodaran's cost-of-capital data.

Today, against the Consumer Cyclical sector (213 companies), 8.6% sits at the 52nd percentile; the middle half of that group runs from 3.8% to 14.9%.

Is it safe

Interest coverage was 26.68x in FY2025, in the band labelled "Comfortable" (6.00x and above), on lines anchored on Damodaran's interest-coverage table, suggesting an interest bill operating profit covers many times over.

Year by year against peers
Whether Arcos Dorados Holdings Inc.'s return on invested capital stayed above the median of the Consumer Cyclical sector, year by year. (FY2022 to FY2025, 4 fiscal years of Arcos Dorados Holdings Inc. with a comparable figure)
The direction
Which way Arcos Dorados Holdings Inc.'s return on equity has moved, and how steadily. (FY2016 to FY2025, 10 filed years of Arcos Dorados Holdings Inc.)
What could explain it
What in Arcos Dorados Holdings Inc.'s filed statements could explain the movements. (8 readings drawn from the statement lines Arcos Dorados Holdings Inc. filed)
What to check next
What to check next on Arcos Dorados Holdings Inc., and where in its filings. (7 questions for Arcos Dorados Holdings Inc.)
In one paragraph
One paragraph on Arcos Dorados Holdings Inc.'s returns, cash, balance sheet and price. (15 of sixteen figures read for Arcos Dorados Holdings Inc.)

These are ARCO’s filed figures. The research desk says what they mean, against peers and its own years, with what to check next.

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What changed

The newest filing, what it moved, and when the next one is due.

SEC filingCompany statement

The newest accounts on file are the FY2025 annual report: 20-F, filed Apr 30, 2026, accession 0001628280-26-028950.

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Quality

The returns the business earns on its capital, and the margins behind them.

SEC filingComputed

Arcos Dorados Holdings Inc: returns on capital and margins, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Return on invested capital, after tax8.6% ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Apr 30, 2026, 0001628280-26-028950
Return on equity27.5% ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Apr 30, 2026, 0001628280-26-028950
Return on capital employed, pre-tax11.9% ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Apr 30, 2026, 0001628280-26-028950
Return on assets5.5% ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Apr 30, 2026, 0001628280-26-028950
Gross margin98.1% ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Apr 30, 2026, 0001628280-26-028950
Operating margin7.8% ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Apr 30, 2026, 0001628280-26-028950
Net margin4.5% ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Apr 30, 2026, 0001628280-26-028950
ARCO 4.5%
BJRI 3.5%WEN 7.6%CBRL 0.9%FWRG 1.6%BH -9.5%
-9.5%7.6%
Net margin: ARCO against the 5 companies named under Valuation context, each as filed for its own latest year. Placement only: no average is drawn.

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Financial strength

What it owes against what it owns, and whether it can meet what falls due.

SEC filingComputedCompany statement

Arcos Dorados Holdings Inc: leverage, liquidity and distress, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Debt to equity2.91 ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Apr 30, 2026, 0001628280-26-028950
Current ratio1.03 ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Apr 30, 2026, 0001628280-26-028950
Quick ratio0.95 ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Apr 30, 2026, 0001628280-26-028950
Interest coverage26.68x ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Apr 30, 2026, 0001628280-26-028950
Altman Z-score2.14 ComputedClose of Oct 14, 2026 · FY2025 20-F, filed Apr 30, 2026, 0001628280-26-028950
Net debt1.83B ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Apr 30, 2026, 0001628280-26-028950
Total assets 3.89BTotal liabilities 3.11BShareholders' equity 770.5MOwnsOwes, and equity
Total assets Total liabilities Shareholders’ equity
The balance sheet, line by line

Financial health

What Arcos Dorados Holdings Inc owned and owed at the end of fiscal 2025, from the balance sheet it filed (20-F, filed Apr 30, 2026, 0001628280-26-028950).

Arcos Dorados Holdings Inc: balance sheet position
Total assets3.89B FiledFY2025 20-F, filed Apr 30, 2026
Total liabilities3.11B FiledFY2025 20-F, filed Apr 30, 2026
Shareholders' equity770.5M FiledFY2025 20-F, filed Apr 30, 2026
Cash422.3M FiledFY2025 20-F, filed Apr 30, 2026
Total debt2.26B FiledFY2025 20-F, filed Apr 30, 2026
Net debt1.83B
Current ratio1.03
Debt to equity2.91

Read from the filed balance sheet for each year, with the income statement of the same year supplying operating profit where a ratio needs it. Nothing here is a view on whether this company is sound.

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Valuation context

What the market charges for it, against its own record and companies like it.

Market dataSEC filingComputed

Arcos Dorados Holdings Inc: what the market charges, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Price to earnings7.85x ComputedClose of Oct 14, 2026 · FY2025 20-F, filed Apr 30, 2026, 0001628280-26-028950
P/E on trailing twelve months
Why n/a

A trailing figure needs 4 filed quarters with the dates they were filed on, and we hold 0 for this company. Nothing is drawn rather than a line built from fewer.

n/a ComputedClose of Oct 14, 2026 · Trailing four quarters, each as known on the day; the quarterly filings are listed under Filings
Price to book2.16x ComputedClose of Oct 14, 2026 · FY2025 20-F, filed Apr 30, 2026, 0001628280-26-028950
Price to sales0.36x ComputedClose of Oct 14, 2026 · FY2025 20-F, filed Apr 30, 2026, 0001628280-26-028950
Enterprise value to EBIT9.70x ComputedClose of Oct 14, 2026 · FY2025 20-F, filed Apr 30, 2026, 0001628280-26-028950
Enterprise value to EBITDA6.30x ComputedClose of Oct 14, 2026 · FY2025 20-F, filed Apr 30, 2026, 0001628280-26-028950
Price to earnings over growth
Why n/a

We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.

n/a ComputedClose of Oct 14, 2026 · FY2025 20-F, filed Apr 30, 2026, 0001628280-26-028950
Diluted earnings per share
Why n/a

The FY2025 filing carries no diluted earnings per share we could read.

n/a FiledFY2025 20-F, filed Apr 30, 2026, 0001628280-26-028950
Graham number
Why n/a

We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.

n/a ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Apr 30, 2026, 0001628280-26-028950

We publish no fair value or price target of our own. Value ARCO on your own assumptions in the DCF workbench, starting from the filed figures.

Its own record, and companies like it

Valuation

What the market charges for Arcos Dorados Holdings Inc today, and the multiples it has carried. No value of ours: the figures are the filings’ and the market’s.

Arcos Dorados Holdings Inc: valuation
Share price7.90 USD
Market capitalisation1.66B USD
Enterprise value to EBITDA6.30x
Graham numbern/a
Diluted earnings per sharen/a

Price to earnings on trailing twelve months: A trailing figure needs 4 filed quarters with the dates they were filed on, and we hold 0 for this company. Nothing is drawn rather than a line built from fewer.

Companies like Arcos Dorados Holdings Inc

  1. BJ's Restaurants, Inc. (BJRI)Market cap 1.27B USD
  2. The Wendy's Company (WEN)Market cap 1.23B USD
  3. Cracker Barrel Old Country Store, Inc. (CBRL)Market cap 1.40B USD
  4. First Watch Restaurant Group, Inc. (FWRG)Market cap 730.1M USD
  5. Biglari Holdings Inc. (BH)Market cap 1.27B USD

Same industry (Restaurants) and size band (Small, 300M to 2B), nearest in market value, net margin and current ratio. Each of those counts equally, by how many of the companies considered sit between the two on it. Closest first: the order is likeness and nothing else.

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Cash generation

Whether profit arrives as cash, and what is paid back to shareholders.

SEC filingComputed

Arcos Dorados Holdings Inc: cash generation and what is paid out, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Free cash flow yield0.9% ComputedClose of Oct 14, 2026 · FY2025 20-F, filed Apr 30, 2026, 0001628280-26-028950
Free cash flow15.0M USD ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Apr 30, 2026, 0001628280-26-028950
Free cash flow margin0.3% ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Apr 30, 2026, 0001628280-26-028950
Dividend yield3.0% ComputedClose of Oct 14, 2026 · FY2025 20-F, filed Apr 30, 2026, 0001628280-26-028950
Payout ratio23.8% ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Apr 30, 2026, 0001628280-26-028950
FY2016 Free cash flow: 71.9M USDFY2016 Net income: 78.8M USDFY2017 Free cash flow: 80.4M USDFY2017 Net income: 129.2M USDFY2018 Free cash flow: -17.3M USDFY2018 Net income: 36.8M USDFY2019 Free cash flow: -41.8M USDFY2019 Net income: 79.9M USDFY2020 Free cash flow: -70.3M USDFY2020 Net income: -149.5M USDFY2021 Free cash flow: 143.0M USDFY2021 Net income: 45.5M USDFY2022 Free cash flow: 128.3M USDFY2022 Net income: 140.3M USDFY2023 Free cash flow: 21.9M USDFY2023 Net income: 181.3M USDFY2024 Free cash flow: -60.8M USDFY2024 Net income: 148.8M USDFY2025 Free cash flow: 15.0M USDFY2025 Net income: 212.1M USD
Free cash flow Net incomeProfit that arrives as cash stands level with net income; a gap year after year is worth reading about.

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Filings

Every figure, the year it is for and the document it was read from.

SEC filing

The filed figures

Computed from the accounts this company filed with the SEC and, in a ratio with a price in it, the last close, dated on this page. Every filed figure below carries the fiscal year and the filing date its accounts were read from, and every blank carries the reason it is blank. Nothing here is a view on this company.

Arcos Dorados Holdings Inc.: the eight ratios, with the fiscal year and filing date behind each.
FigureValueYearAs of
7.85xFY2025Oct 14, 2026
2.16xFY2025Oct 14, 2026
9.70xFY2025Oct 14, 2026
0.9%FY2025Oct 14, 2026
8.6%FY2025Apr 30, 2026
3.0%FY2025Oct 14, 2026
2.91FY2025Apr 30, 2026
1.03FY2025Apr 30, 2026
0.36xFY2025Oct 14, 2026
n/aFY2025Oct 14, 2026
n/a The filed income statement reports no earnings per share.
2.14FY2025Oct 14, 2026
-2.29FY2025Apr 30, 2026
5/9FY2025Apr 30, 2026

The figures are computed from the accounts for fiscal 2025, the newest full year on file. 10 filed fiscal years on record, FY2016 to FY2025, from SEC EDGAR. Prices as of Oct 14, 2026. Ratios recomputed Oct 14, 2026. Two facts, because a recompute is not a fresh quote.

The year and the filing date name the statement each figure’s accounts are read from, and they stand even where the figure itself could not be computed: the line beneath a blank says what that statement did not carry. A figure’s name opens its formula and the filings behind it; a statement that names no SEC filing has no filing date, and reads n/a.

Ten years of filed figures, year by year

Ten years of filed figures

10 filed fiscal years, FY2016 to FY2025, read from the annual reports Arcos Dorados Holdings Inc filed with the SEC. Each year names its filing. Amounts in USD, as filed.

Arcos Dorados Holdings Inc: revenue, earnings, free cash flow and returns, by fiscal year, with the filing each year was read from
YearRevenueOperating incomeNet incomeEPS, dilutedFree cash flowOperating marginReturn on equityFiling
FY20254.68B364.4M212.1Mn/a15.0M7.8%27.5%20-F, Apr 30, 20260001628280-26-028950
FY20244.47B324.5M148.8Mn/a-60.8M7.3%29.3%20-F, Apr 29, 20250001628280-25-020727
FY20234.33B314.0M181.3Mn/a21.9M7.3%35.2%20-F, Apr 29, 20240001628280-24-019077
FY20223.62B264.4M140.3Mn/a128.3M7.3%43.4%20-F, Apr 28, 20230001628280-23-014221
FY20212.66B139.5M45.5Mn/a143.0M5.3%20.6%20-F, Apr 29, 20220001628280-22-011552
FY20201.98B-66.8M-149.5Mn/a-70.3M-3.4%-75.7%20-F, Apr 29, 20210001628280-21-008225
FY20192.96B159.9M79.9Mn/a-41.8M5.4%19.0%20-F, Apr 29, 20200001628280-20-005849
FY20183.08B123.5M36.8Mn/a-17.3M4.0%9.4%20-F, Apr 26, 20190000950103-19-005187
FY20173.32B272.9M129.2Mn/a80.4M8.2%26.1%20-F, Apr 27, 20180000950103-18-005331
FY20162.93B178.6M78.8Mn/a71.9M6.1%22.4%20-F, Apr 27, 20170000950103-17-003973
  • Revenue, compound annual growth FY2016 to FY2025: 5.3%
  • Earnings, compound annual growth FY2016 to FY2025: 11.6%
  • Earnings per share: Fewer than two filed years carry earnings per share.
  • Free cash flow, compound annual growth FY2016 to FY2025: -16.0%

Every figure in this section is a line of a filed annual statement or a ratio of two of them. Nothing here is estimated or smoothed. Earnings per share filed before a share split are put on today's share count, and say so. Nothing here is a verdict on the company.

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Risks and guardrails

The accounting screens, the published tests, and the lines you can set to be told.

ComputedCompany statement

Arcos Dorados Holdings Inc: accounting screens and published tests, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Beneish M-score-2.29 ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Apr 30, 2026, 0001628280-26-028950
Piotroski F-score5/9 ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Apr 30, 2026, 0001628280-26-028950
Named tests met5 of 30 Computed
Beta0.59 ComputedClose of Oct 14, 2026

The named tests

Of 30 tests value investors published: 5 met, 23 not met, 2 we could not complete. Counts, never a score: a single figure would have to decide that meeting one investor’s criteria and meeting another’s are worth the same.

Which tests, by name(all 30)
Meets
Gross margin, turnover (Robert Novy-Marx); EV/EBITDA and coverage; ROIC at or above WACC; Low P/S, rising earnings (James O'Shaughnessy); Cheapest quarter on P/E (David Dreman)
Does not
Defensive investor (Benjamin Graham); Deep value; Large cap, low P/E; Earnings yield and ROIC (Joel Greenblatt); High F-score, low P/B (Joseph Piotroski); Three forensic scores; Low PEG, low debt (Peter Lynch); High returns and growth; High yield, low payout; Dividends and buybacks; Low beta, profitable; Near the 52-week low; Z-score and coverage (Edward Altman); Two thirds of NCAV (Benjamin Graham); High returns, low debt; Owner earnings yield; High return on tangibles; Book or below, low debt (Walter Schloss); Cash-covered dividend; Tangible book or below; Cash-flow yield and ROIC; Clean books, high ROIC; Cheapest quarter on P/B (David Dreman)
Not measured
P/E times P/B (Benjamin Graham); Low P/E, growth, yield (John Neff). A test with a figure we could not read is incomplete, never met and never failed.
Figures we could not read(5)
  • Positive Earnings Streak: The latest filed year has no per-share earnings we can read; the test needs 10.
  • PEG Ratio: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.
  • Eps Growth 5Y: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.
  • Share Count Change Yoy: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.
  • Price To Graham: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.

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Declared positions

Whether anybody here owns this company.

Positions declared by Javier Sanz Alvarez: no holding in any company shown here, as of October 3, 2026.

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What this cannot tell you

  • 5 figures could not be read on this company, among them Positive Earnings Streak, PEG Ratio, Eps Growth 5Y. Each blank in the table above names the rest, with its reason. 2 named tests come back incomplete because of them, which is neither met nor missed.

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