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ARK Restaurants Corp. ARKR

16 fiscal years on record · USD · FY2025 reported · SEC filings only
$165.8M
▼ 9.7% YoY
$-11.5M
$-1.5M
▼ 168.3% YoY
In brief

What this company does

As of the fiscal year ended September 27, 2025, Ark Restaurants Corp. owned and/or operated 16 restaurants and bars, 12 fast food concepts and catering operations through its subsidiaries. Three of its restaurant and bar facilities are located in New York City, one in Washington, D.C., five in Las Vegas, Nevada, one in Atlantic City, New Jersey, four on the east coast of Florida and two on the Gulf Coast of Alabama. Each restaurant is managed by a general manager and has its own chef, and food products and other supplies are purchased primarily from various unaffiliated suppliers, in some cases by its headquarters' personnel. Substantially all menu items are prepared on each restaurant's premises daily from scratch, using fresh ingredients. At November 30, 2025, the company employed 1,566 persons, including employees at managed facilities, of whom 1,047 were full-time and 519 were part-time. Ark Restaurants Corp. is a New York corporation formed in 1983.

Written from the business description in ARK RESTAURANTS CORP's annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed 18 December 2025. Every sentence was checked against that document before publication.

Growth
USD 165.8M
Revenue, FY2025 · full 16-year series below
Revenue $M Net income $M
FY2025 · Revenue 165.8 · Net income -11.5
80M160M201020122014201620182020202220242025
Compound annual growth
−3.4%
+9.3%
+1.3%
+2.3%
−10.9%
−5.6%
3 yrs
5 yrs
10 yrs
15 yrs

Revenue compounded at +9.3% a year over five years.

Compound annual rates per period — left blank where that exact year isn't on file, the series crosses a loss, or (per-share rows) a split falls inside the window.

Profitability
−6 cents
lost on every revenue dollar
Operating margin Net margin
FY2025 · Operating -2.5% · Net -5.5%
5%10%-2%-4%-6%201020122014201620182020202220242025
ROE
FY2025 · ROE -29.8%
10%20%-10%-20%201020122014201620182020202220242025

Each USD of equity lost 30 cents this year.

Cash & shareholders
returned in FY2025 · dividends + net buybacks
Free cash flow $M
FY2025 · FCF -1.5
8.0M16.0M-2.5M-5.0M201020122014201620182020202220242025
Net buybacks $M Dividends $M
FY2025 · Dividends 0.0 · Net buybacks —
2.5M5.0MDividendsNet buybacks201020122014201620182020202220242025

Total assetsUSD 133.5M
EquityUSD 32.7M
CashUSD 11.3M
Gross debtUSD 3.6M
Net debtUSD -7.7M
Current ratio0.77×

The company holds more cash than debt.

The 16-year record
16 fiscal years
Every figure from documents filed with the SEC · USD
row low → row highnegative
Metric 2025202420232022202120202019201820172016201520142013201220112010
Revenue $B0.20.20.20.20.10.10.20.20.20.20.10.10.10.10.10.1
Operating income $B−0.0−0.0−0.00.00.0−0.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.0
EBITDA $B−0.0−0.0−0.00.00.0−0.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.0·
Income tax $B0.0−0.0−0.00.00.0−0.0−0.0−0.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.0
Net income $B−0.0−0.0−0.00.00.0−0.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.0
Free cash flow $B−0.00.00.00.00.0−0.00.00.0−0.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.0
EPS, diluted $−3.18−1.08−1.652.583.58−1.340.761.311.141.151.541.431.131.650.400.74
Dividend / sh $·0.560.620.25·0.251.001.001.001.001.001.001.001.00··
Payout %−0−52−38100−3713074648579676459247268
ROE %−29.8−8.3−10.816.829.7−12.06.411.310.010.214.314.211.716.64.17.3
Shares out B0.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.00

Slide the table for earlier years · "·" marks a figure not available in our data for that year.

Provenance
Company facts, as filed
How we verify · 0 failures in 64 reconciliationsAUDITED

Reconciled in 16 of 19 fiscal years. 12 checks could not be computed.

EPS recomputationBalance-sheet identityGross profitBalance-sheet liquiditymoeda_consistente0 failures
ActivityRetail-Eating Places
Listed onNASDAQ
Incorporated inNew York
Fiscal year endsSeptember 28
SEC categorysmaller reporting company
Data on record since2010

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