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BJs Restaurants Inc. BJRI

17 fiscal years on record · USD · FY2025 reported · SEC filings only
$1.4B
▲ 3.1% YoY
$48.8M
▲ 192.5% YoY
$40.9M
▲ 66.5% YoY
In brief

What this company does

BJ's Restaurants owns and operates 219 restaurants located in 31 states. Its restaurants serve a menu of approximately 90 items, including slow roasted entrees, wings and the Pizookie dessert. It produces its craft beer at four in-house brewing facilities and two standalone brewpubs, and also uses independent third-party brewers under its own recipes. As of December 30, 2025, it employed approximately 22,000 team members at its restaurants. It also employed approximately 230 team members at its Restaurant Support Center in Huntington Beach, California, and in field supervision positions across the country. Of its restaurants, 59 are located in one state, California. The first BJ's restaurant opened in 1978 in Orange County, California, as a small sit-down pizzeria featuring Chicago style deep-dish pizza.

Written from the business description in BJ'S RESTAURANTS, INC.'s annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed 2 March 2026. Every sentence was checked against that document before publication.

Growth
USD 1.4B
Revenue, FY2025 · full 17-year series below
Revenue $B Net income $B
FY2025 · Revenue 1.4 · Net income 0.0
0.5B1.0B200920112013201520172019202120232025
Compound annual growth
+2.9%
+12.4%
+4.3%
+6.9%
+128.8%
+0.7%
+5.1%
+133.3%
+2.2%
+6.7%
+189.3%
+231.6%
−3.6%
3 yrs
5 yrs
10 yrs
15 yrs

Revenue compounded at +12.4% 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
3 cents
of every revenue dollar became profit
Operating margin Net margin
FY2025 · Operating 3.3% · Net 3.5%
2%4%6%-5%-10%200920112013201520172019202120232025
ROE
FY2025 · ROE 13.3%
5%10%15%-5%-10%-15%200920112013201520172019202120232025
Gross margin74.7%
Operating margin3.3%
Net margin3.5%
Return on assets4.7%
EBITDAUSD 122.9M

Each USD of equity produced 13 cents of profit this year.

Cash & shareholders
USD 60.1M
returned in FY2025 · dividends + net buybacks
Free cash flow $M
FY2025 · FCF 40.9
25.0M50.0M-10.0M-20.0M200920112013201520172019202120232025
Net buybacks $M Dividends $M
FY2025 · Dividends 0.0 · Net buybacks 60.1
40M80M-20M-40MDividendsNet buybacks2014201620182020202220242025
Dividends paid—
Net buybacksUSD 60.1M
Share of profit123.2%
Consecutive raises2 years

USD 60.1M in buybacks — 123% of the year's profit, so the payout drew on cash built up earlier.

Total assetsUSD 1.0B
EquityUSD 366.2M
CashUSD 23.8M
Gross debtUSD 85.0M
Net debtUSD 61.2M
Current ratio0.40×

Net debt stands at 17% of equity.

The 17-year record
17 fiscal years
Every figure from documents filed with the SEC · USD
row low → row highnegative
Metric 20252024202320222021202020192018201720162015201420132012201120102009
Revenue $B1.41.41.31.31.10.81.21.11.01.00.90.80.80.70.60.50.4
Operating income $B0.00.00.0−0.0−0.0−0.10.00.10.00.10.10.00.00.00.00.00.0
EBITDA $B0.10.10.10.10.1−0.00.10.10.10.10.10.10.10.10.10.10.0
Income tax $B−0.0−0.0−0.0−0.0−0.0−0.00.00.0−0.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.0
Net income $B0.00.00.00.0−0.0−0.10.00.10.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.0
Free cash flow $B0.00.00.0−0.00.0−0.00.00.10.00.00.00.0−0.0−0.0−0.00.00.0
EPS, diluted $2.160.700.820.17−0.16−2.742.202.352.061.881.730.970.731.091.080.820.48
Dividend / sh $······0.490.450.11········
Payout %0002−3−022195········
ROE %13.34.55.51.2−1.1−19.815.117.916.815.413.67.35.48.910.28.65.2
Shares out B0.020.020.020.020.020.020.020.020.020.020.020.030.030.030.030.03·

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 66 reconciliationsAUDITED

Reconciled in 17 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 inCalifornia
Fiscal year endsJanuary 3
Data on record since2009

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