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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

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

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
0.5B1.0B
2009201220152018202120242025
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 the five years to FY2025.

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%
200920172025
ROE
FY2025 · ROE 13.3%
5%10%15%-5%-10%-15%
200920172025
Three returns, three denominators.
Gross margin74.7%
Operating margin3.3%
Net margin3.5%
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
30M60M-10M-20M
200920172025
Net buybacks $M Dividends $M
FY2025 · Dividends 0.0 · Net buybacks 60.1
40M80M-20M-40MDividendsNet buybacks
2014201620182020202220242025
Dividends paidUSD 0.00
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—not applicable◌not available in our data
BJRI, 17-year financial record
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◌

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Provenance

Company facts, as filed

How we verify · 0 failures in 66 reconciliationsAUDITED

Reconciled in 17 of the 17 fiscal years we could check. Six checks were skipped: the balance sheet is not tagged before 2010. Two checks were skipped: EPS is not tagged before 2009. Two checks were skipped: revenue is not tagged before 2009.

EPS recomputationBalance-sheet identityGross profitBalance-sheet liquidityCurrency consistency0 failures
ActivityRetail-Eating Places
Listed onNASDAQ
Incorporated inCalifornia
Fiscal year endsJanuary 3
Data on record since2009

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