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Domino's Pizza Inc.
DPZ NASDAQDomino's Pizza Inc. is a leading global quick-service restaurant company specializing in pizza delivery and carryout. The company operates and franchises a large network of stores, with the vast majority run by independent franchisees across the United States and international markets. Domino's focuses on a streamlined menu centered on pizzas, chicken side products, desserts, and beverages, supported by an integrated supply chain that manufactures and distributes dough and other food products to its franchised and company-owned locations. A significant portion of revenue is generated through this supply chain segment, complemented by royalties and fees from franchisees and sales at company-operated stores. The brand is recognized for its emphasis on digital ordering channels, including web and mobile platforms, and for its data-driven approach to delivery efficiency and customer convenience. Headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Domino's Pizza Inc. plays a prominent role in the global restaurant industry as a scaled, predominantly franchised pizza delivery platform.
Price Overview
Price History (1 Year)
Revenue & Net Income Trend
| Period | Revenue | Net Income | Net Margin | YoY/QoQ |
|---|
Key Metrics
EPS (Diluted): 17.57
Total Equity: -$3.90B
Shares: 34,237,646
Total Debt: $14.70M
Cash: $125.68M
EBITDA: $1.04B
Total Debt: $14.70M
Cash: $125.68M
Revenue: $4.94B
Revenue: $4.94B
Revenue: $4.94B
Total Equity: -$3.90B
Tax Rate: 21.9%
Equity: -$3.90B
Total Debt: $14.70M
Cash: $125.68M
Current Liabilities: $541.62M
Long-Term Debt: $14.60M
Total Debt: $14.70M
Total Equity: -$3.90B
Shares: 34,237,646
Shares: 34,237,646
CapEx: -$120.56M
Shares: 34,237,646
Stock Price: $346.27
Net Income: $601.70M
Industry Benchmarks
Income Statement (Annual)
Last updated: Aug 15, 2026 10:50am (8d ago)| Metric | 2022 | 2023 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | — | $4.5B | $4.5B | $4.7B | $4.9B |
| Cost of Revenue | — | $2.9B | $2.8B | $2.9B | $3.0B |
| Gross Profit | — | $1.6B | $1.7B | $1.8B | $2.0B |
| Operating Expenses | — | $880.7M | $907.9M | $969.5M | $1.0B |
| Operating Income | $767.9M | $767.9M | $819.5M | $879.0M | $954.0M |
| Net Income | — | $452.3M | $519.1M | $584.2M | $601.7M |
| EBITDA | $848.2M | $848.2M | $900.2M | $966.7M | $1.0B |
| EPS | — | $12.66 | $14.80 | $16.83 | $17.69 |
| EPS (Diluted) | — | $12.53 | $14.66 | $16.69 | $17.57 |
Balance Sheet (Annual)
Last updated: Aug 15, 2026 10:30am (8d ago)| Metric | 2022 | 2023 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cash & Equivalents | $148.2M | $60.4M | $114.1M | $186.1M | $125.7M |
| Total Current Assets | $860.5M | $790.7M | $817.3M | $905.3M | $894.2M |
| Total Assets | $1.7B | $1.6B | $1.7B | $1.7B | $1.7B |
| Current Liabilities | $590.7M | $536.6M | $547.4M | $1.6B | $541.6M |
| Long-Term Debt | — | — | — | $14.7M | $14.6M |
| Total Liabilities | $5.9B | $5.8B | $5.7B | $5.7B | $5.6B |
| Total Equity | -$4.2B | -$4.2B | -$4.1B | -$4.0B | -$3.9B |
| Retained Earnings | -$4.2B | -$4.2B | -$4.1B | -$4.0B | -$3.9B |
Cash Flow (Annual)
Last updated: Aug 15, 2026 10:50am (8d ago)| Metric | 2022 | 2023 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operating Cash Flow | — | $475.3M | $590.9M | $624.9M | $792.1M |
| Capital Expenditure | — | -$87.2M | -$105.4M | -$112.9M | -$120.6M |
| Free Cash Flow | — | $388.1M | $485.5M | $512.0M | $671.5M |
| Acquisitions (net) | — | — | — | — | — |
| Net Debt Issued / (Repaid) | — | -$55.7M | -$40.8M | -$17.6M | -$149.5M |
| Dividends Paid | — | -$157.5M | -$169.8M | -$209.9M | -$236.9M |
| Stock Buybacks | — | -$293.7M | -$269.0M | -$329.6M | -$357.7M |
| Net Change in Cash | — | -$95.3M | $7.9M | $59.3M | -$28.4M |
Growth Trends (YoY %)
Last updated: Aug 15, 2026 10:50am (8d ago)| Metric | 2023 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue Growth | — | -1.3% | +5.1% | +5.0% |
| Gross Profit Growth | — | +4.8% | +7.0% | +6.8% |
| Operating Income Growth | +0.0% | +6.7% | +7.3% | +8.5% |
| Net Income Growth | — | +14.8% | +12.5% | +3.0% |
| EBITDA Growth | +0.0% | +6.1% | +7.4% | +7.9% |
Dividend History (Last 20)
Last updated: Aug 15, 2026 10:31am (8d ago)| Date | Dividend | Declaration | Record | Payment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-15 | $1.99 | — | — | — |
| 2026-06-15 | $1.99 | — | — | — |
| 2026-03-13 | $1.99 | — | — | — |
| 2025-12-15 | $1.74 | — | — | — |
| 2025-09-15 | $1.74 | — | — | — |
| 2025-06-13 | $1.74 | — | — | — |
| 2025-03-14 | $1.74 | — | — | — |
| 2024-12-13 | $1.51 | — | — | — |
| 2024-09-13 | $1.51 | — | — | — |
| 2024-06-14 | $1.51 | — | — | — |
| 2024-03-14 | $1.51 | — | — | — |
| 2023-12-14 | $1.21 | — | — | — |
| 2023-09-14 | $1.21 | — | — | — |
| 2023-06-14 | $1.21 | — | — | — |
| 2023-03-14 | $1.21 | — | — | — |
| 2022-12-14 | $1.10 | — | — | — |
| 2022-09-14 | $1.10 | — | — | — |
| 2022-06-14 | $1.10 | — | — | — |
| 2022-03-14 | $1.10 | — | — | — |
| 2021-12-14 | $0.94 | — | — | — |
Deep Analysis
Narrative Economics
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AI Lens 4th lens · how AI reaches this business · 5-yr
2026-08-15Voice/AI order-taking, labor scheduling, demand forecasting and delivery-routing cut store-level and supply-chain-center cost; because corporate is paid a royalty on sales plus a markup on dough and food, healthier franchisee four-wall margins convert into unit growth and a bigger royalty base rather than a one-time saving.
If AI assistants and aggregator agents become the default way food gets ordered, Domino's direct app/loyalty relationship — its single biggest cost advantage versus commission-paying competitors — degrades into a listing inside someone else's agent, with take rates and customer data leaking out.
Whether direct-channel mix (own app/web + loyalty actives) holds as agentic and marketplace ordering scales. Watch the disclosed split of US retail sales between owned digital channels and third-party marketplaces, and the incremental margin on marketplace orders.
~7,000 US stores inside 10 minutes of most households, 20+ owned supply-chain centers with dough capacity, and a franchisee base whose unit economics are anchored by that vertical integration — none of which cheaper software reproduces.
AI Lens thesis
The underlying need (fast, cheap, hot food delivered) is physical and untouched by cheap intelligence; the monetized unit — royalties on franchise sales plus supply-chain gross margin — sits behind that physical reality. AI reaches Domino's on two channels: cost, where it shaves order-taking labor, scheduling, forecasting error, dough plant throughput and delivery routing, with most of the benefit accruing first to franchisees and then to corporate via unit count and royalty base; and interface, where it can dissolve the branded ordering funnel into an agent's option set, commoditizing the brand into price/ETA and handing the customer relationship plus a take rate to DoorDash, Uber or an assistant. The first mechanism is high-probability and modest in magnitude; the second is lower-probability, slower, but strikes exactly the asset that justifies the premium narrative. Net: a mature earner whose cash flows AI helps at the margin while creating one genuine tail risk to its distribution moat.
What the market may be underestimating
Upside Domino's already owns a captive delivery fleet and dense store grid; if autonomous or AI-dispatched last-mile economics improve, it captures the savings directly instead of paying an aggregator's commission — the opposite of the dine-in chains that outsourced delivery.
Downside Cheap AI lowers the cost of running a small food operation — menu design, ordering, scheduling, marketing copy, delivery dispatch — narrowing the operational gap that made Domino's franchise system uniquely competent versus fragmented independents and regional chains.
Outcome range spread 39
Growth Outlook
Analyzed 2026-08-17 16:31The question every valuation on this page silently assumes: is this company likely to grow? Judged forward — the business, its category, the world — against what's already printed.
Claude Reading
Looking at the raw quarterly cadence first: Q2 2026 revenue of $1.19B vs Q2 2025 $1.15B is roughly 3.5% YoY — decelerating from the 5% full-year 2025 print and well below the 7.7% earnings CAGR. Net income $135.8M vs $131.1M is +3.6%, and margins have drifted from 13.5-13.6% in early 2024/2025 quarters to 11.4-12.2% in the last four. That's not a rounding error — it's ~150-200 bps of compression on a business the market has been pricing as a platform. Meanwhile FCF CAGR of 17.6% looks impressive but is flattered by working capital and low capex intensity ($120M on $4.94B rev); it will converge toward earnings growth over time. The negative $3.9B equity is a buyback artifact, not distress — $792M OCF against $14.7M debt is fine, but it does mean there's no book cushion and every dollar of margin compression flows straight to equity holders.
On the prior models: the synthesis fair value of $240 (composite $279 signal-adjusted down) and the Market Forces "value trap" framing are directionally right but the language is overwrought. Domino's is not a "deteriorating asset" — it's a mature franchisor with 3-5% organic growth and slightly compressing margins, trading at 19.7x earnings when the 10-year average is closer to 28-30x. The re-rating has already happened; the stock is down 33% from highs. The narrative layer's $106 premium calculation assumes DCF fair value of $240 is right, but a 19.7x P/E on $16-17 forward EPS gets you to roughly $320-340, not $240 — the DCF is probably too punitive on terminal growth. The pre-flight note that the market is pricing in *deceleration concerns* contradicts the synthesis claim that the market is *pricing in more growth than projected*. Both can't be true; I side with pre-flight — the multiple compression from 28x to 19.7x has already absorbed a lot of skepticism.
The contrarian case against the bear synthesis: DPZ at 19.7x with 2.2% dividend, $671M FCF (5.9% FCF yield), international franchise runway still meaningful, and a franchisee ecosystem that — labor pressures notwithstanding — remains among the most profitable in QSR. Insider selling is entirely option-exercise-and-sell mechanics, not conviction signaling; flagging it as meaningful is noise. The real risk isn't franchisee revolt or Uber Eats disintermediation (bear tropes) — it's that same-store sales growth has genuinely slowed and the 11.4% net margin print may be the new normal rather than a trough. If margins stabilize here and growth stays 4-5%, $16.50 EPS × 20x = $330, roughly where the stock is. If margins recover to 13%+ on scale leverage, you get $18-19 EPS and $360-400. If margins keep sliding another 100 bps, $14 EPS × 17x = $238 — which is basically the synthesis fair value. So the synthesis isn't wrong, it's just assuming continued margin decay.
Where the data is thin: we have no explicit US vs international same-store sales split here, no franchisee health metrics, no commentary on the ~150 bps margin compression trajectory — is it commodity input costs, tech investment, franchisee support? That matters enormously. The 2022 annual line is also broken (missing revenue and NI), which makes the 5-year CAGR construction slightly suspect. My verdict: I partially dissent from the synthesis's aggressive $240 fair value but agree DPZ isn't cheap here. Fair value is $290-310 on realistic assumptions — modestly overvalued at $346, not egregiously so. The "platform-monopoly" narrative premium the story-layer flags is real but has already partially deflated; buying below $300 makes sense, shorting at $346 doesn't. This is a hold-and-wait, not a table-pound short. The Q4 2026 print and any color on margin trajectory is the catalyst that resolves the setup.
GPT Reading
Domino’s looks like a classic case where the raw business is better than the scarier narrative, but the stock is not obviously cheap enough to ignore execution risk. The operating record is sturdy: annual revenue has climbed from $4.48B in 2023 to $4.94B in 2025, operating income from $819.5M to $954.0M, and net income from $519.1M to $601.7M. That is not a deteriorating asset. The margin structure is also remarkably stable for a restaurant-linked business: gross margin was 39.9% in 2025, operating margin 19.3%, net margin 12.2%, and quarterly net margins have mostly sat in an 11.4%-13.6% band. Free cash flow of $671.5M against a $11.46B market cap is a roughly 5.9% FCF yield, which is respectable for a branded franchisor with this level of consistency. The business is still growing, still converting earnings to cash, and still showing the resilience you want from a mature consumer compounder.
What stands out most is that the valuation inputs and the balance-sheet presentation are pulling in opposite directions, and the market seems to be reacting too much to the scary-looking side. Negative equity of $3.90B reads alarming, but with only $14.7M of reported debt and $125.7M of cash, this is not a solvency story in the usual sense; it is much more likely an artifact of aggressive capital returns and accumulated buybacks shrinking book value below zero. For a franchise-heavy model, book equity is close to useless as a valuation anchor anyway. Meanwhile, the actual enterprise-level multiples are not stretched: 11.2x EV/EBITDA and 2.36x EV/revenue are not “platform” valuations, and a 19.7x P/E for a business growing revenue about 5% and earnings about 7.7% with double-digit margins is closer to fair-to-modestly-attractive than outright expensive. If anything, the data say Domino’s has already been de-rated from the premium pedestal it used to enjoy.
The quarterly trend does show why the market no longer awards it a richer multiple. Revenue growth has been positive but unspectacular: from $1.08B in the 2024-09 quarter to $1.15B in 2025-09, then flat at $1.15B in 2025-06 and 2025-09 before reaching $1.19B in 2026-06. Earnings are even less linear: net income was $146.9M in 2024-09, $149.7M in 2025-03, dipped to $131.1M in 2025-06, then recovered to $139.3M and $181.6M seasonally in Q4, with the latest quarter at $135.8M versus $131.1M a year earlier. So yes, the recent earnings growth rate of 3% is softer than the multi-year CAGR, and the “mature earner” label is right. But that cuts against the most bearish interpretation too: this is not a collapsing chain, it is a stable royalty-and-supply-chain machine whose multiple should probably sit around the market, not at a massive discount.
The best argument against my read is straightforward: if this is merely a mid-single-digit grower in a competitive, mature category, then even 19.7x earnings may be full. The latest annual net income of $601.7M against an $11.46B market cap gives you that same earnings multiple directly, and for a restaurant-adjacent company facing delivery competition, labor pressure, franchisee economics risk, and no obvious step-change in growth, a bear can reasonably argue for 15x-17x instead. On that math, fair value could indeed fall somewhere around $270-$310, especially if recent 3%-5% growth persists and margins stop expanding. The recent insider activity is not a positive tell either; it is mostly option exercises followed by sales, not conviction buying. And while the debt figure shown is tiny, if the data understate economic leverage from lease-like obligations or other financing structures, then the apparent cheapness on EV/EBITDA could be flattering.
What would change my mind is not another narrative about Domino’s being a tech platform or a value trap; it is the next few hard numbers. If quarterly revenue growth slips below 3% while net margin breaks under 11% for two straight quarters, that would suggest the mature-growth thesis is giving way to stagnation and I would move bearish quickly, especially above $340. On the other hand, if Domino’s can keep annual revenue growing 5%-6%, sustain operating margin near 19%, and convert that into another $700M+ of free cash flow, then the current price is not demanding and a re-rating toward the low $400s would be justified. At $346, I do not see a screaming bargain, but I do think the more apocalyptic overvaluation call overstates the fragility in the underlying numbers.
Grok Reading
Domino’s prints cash with a discipline that the decelerating top line does not fully advertise. Annual revenue climbed from $4.48B in 2023 to $4.71B in 2024 to $4.94B in 2025—steady mid-single-digit compounding—while free cash flow reached $671.5M on only $120.6M of capex, a conversion rate that leaves net income of $601.7M looking conservative. Operating margin held at 19.3% and net margin at 12.2%, with quarterly net margins oscillating in a tight 11.4–13.5% band even as the two most recent quarters slowed to roughly 3.5% year-over-year revenue growth versus the mid-6% pace of late 2025. The 5% revenue CAGR and 7.7% earnings CAGR are unspectacular, but the 17.6% FCF CAGR and 35% ROA reveal an asset-light franchise-and-supply-chain machine that still throws off roughly a 5.9% FCF yield at the current $11.46B enterprise. Negative equity of $3.9B is the deliberate residue of years of buybacks, not distress; the balance-sheet optics are ugly by design and have been for a long time.
What the multiples actually say is more mundane than the competing narratives. A 19.7x P/E, 11.2x EV/EBITDA and 2.4x sales are a clear compression from the 25–30x earnings range the stock enjoyed when the market still paid for “tech-enabled QSR” scarcity. At $346 the shares are no longer priced like a platform monopoly; they are priced like a high-quality mature earner whose domestic unit growth is maturing and whose near-term same-store trajectory is soft. Insider activity is pure option-exercise-and-sale noise, offering no signal. The dividend (2.2% yield, 39% payout) is comfortably covered and incidental to the real return engine, which remains FCF and repurchase capacity.
The strongest counter-argument is that 19.7x still embeds too much residual narrative premium for a business now growing revenue at 3–5% with visible consumer and aggregator pressure. A hard-nosed DCF anchored only to mid-single-digit growth and stable margins can be made to spit out something near $280, implying 20%+ downside; franchisee health, labor inflation, and delivery-app take-rates are real threats that could compress the 19% operating margin that currently underwrites the entire thesis. I weigh that case seriously but ultimately discount it because the observed margin stability, FCF conversion above 100% of net income, and still-positive unit economics have not yet validated the “deteriorating asset” framing. The market has already deflated a large part of the platform multiple; further derating from here requires actual earnings disappointment, not just slower comps.
I would reverse to a clear undervalued stance if the next two print quarters re-accelerate revenue growth above 6% year-over-year while holding operating margin at or above 19%, or if FCF tracks above $700M on the full year with no franchisee distress signals. A sustained break below ~$290 on no fundamental news would also force a reassessment that the residual multiple is too pessimistic rather than still slightly rich.
Big-3 Panel — where each AI stands
Advanced Analysis Forensic deep-dive · separate lenses
The business is a mature, high-return franchisor showing quiet but consistent improvement: revenue grew from $4.54B to $4.94B across the shown years while gross margin expanded from 36.3% to 40.0% and operating margin from 16.9% to 19.3%. Net income rose to $601.7M and FCF stepped up to $671.5M in the latest year, an OCF/NI of 1.14x and accruals of -4.8% of assets indicating earnings are backed by cash, not accounting. Beneish M of -2.99 and Altman Z of 3 corroborate clean books. Capital returns are disciplined: diluted shares shrank at a -1.7% CAGR to 34.2M, SBC is only 0.9% of revenue, and buybacks run at 684% of SBC - per-share value is being concentrated rather than diluted. Liquidity is thin in absolute terms ($125.7M cash, 1.1% of market cap) but that is normal for an asset-light franchisor that self-funds off $671M of FCF. Insider activity is routine option-exercise-and-sell with no open-market buying; a mildly negative tell but not unusual for a mature large cap. The primary structural caveat not visible here is the well-known negative book equity from years of levered buybacks - the mechanical Altman Z still reads safe, but the balance sheet is engineered, not fortress-like.
Verify before trusting this (5)
- Actual stockholders' equity and total debt load in the latest 10-K (Altman Z can mask negative book equity)
- Debt maturity schedule and covenants given asset-light franchisor leverage model
- US same-store-sales and international unit growth trend to confirm durability of top-line
- Franchisee health metrics (store closures, franchisee profitability) which underpin royalty stream
- Details of buyback financing - are repurchases funded from FCF or incremental debt?
The price sits meaningfully above the deserved-value stack: DCF $246, EPV floor $216, composite $280, signal-adjusted $240. Only the anchored-PE method ($411) supports today's $346, and that method is essentially extrapolating the current premium multiple - a circular sanity check, not independent evidence. Strip that out and the cash-flow-based methods cluster in the $216-$246 range, roughly 29-38% below spot. That is a real gap, not a rounding error.
Verify before trusting this (4)
- US same-store-sales trajectory in the next print - deceleration validates the bear multiple-compression thesis
- International unit growth and royalty rate durability
- Franchisee-level profitability commentary (cheese, labor) - the moat depends on franchisees staying happy
- Buyback pace vs incremental leverage - is the equity shrink still self-funding from FCF?
The macro tape is mildly supportive: VIX at 14.3, S&P within a whisker of highs, and a risk-on regime that has held for ten days. But DPZ's 0.95 beta and defensive-consumer profile mean it neither surfs the risk-on rally hard nor gets crushed if it fades - the tape is close to neutral for this name specifically. Higher rates (10y 4.63%) and a 26x market PE are a mild drag on any multiple-expansion story, and DPZ is explicitly one of those (44% premium to DCF on a platform narrative). The active narrative is the dominant force here: platform-monopoly with strong intensity but only moderate durability and low cult factor. That combination has been powering the stock (5% CAGR, low-vol revenue, healthy cash gen momentum - the tape is rewarding the story), but the same setup makes it fragile - a couple of soft same-store comps or a labor-cost print can crack a 'restaurant-as-logistics-platform' thesis fast. News flow is quiet and constructive at the edges: the India master franchisee guiding 5-7% LFL and China master franchisee earnings upcoming - both narrative-supportive, neither a catalyst. Net: a modest tailwind from tape and story, offset by a rate-sensitive premium multiple and a narrative that is more 'holding' than 'accelerating.' Pressure is roughly balanced, tilting a touch positive.
Verify before trusting this (5)
- Next DPZ same-store sales print - a soft US comp would puncture the platform narrative fast
- DPC Dash 1H results on Aug 26 - a beat reinforces international growth leg; a miss undermines it
- Any move in 10y above 4.75-5.00% that would pressure premium-multiple defensives
- Sell-side target revisions - watch for tone shifting from 'platform' to 'mature' language
- Sector rotation out of quality-defensive consumer if risk-on broadens into higher-beta names
The underlying need (fast, cheap, hot food delivered) is physical and untouched by cheap intelligence; the monetized unit — royalties on franchise sales plus supply-chain gross margin — sits behind that physical reality. AI reaches Domino's on two channels: cost, where it shaves order-taking labor, scheduling, forecasting error, dough plant throughput and delivery routing, with most of the benefit accruing first to franchisees and then to corporate via unit count and royalty base; and interface, where it can dissolve the branded ordering funnel into an agent's option set, commoditizing the brand into price/ETA and handing the customer relationship plus a take rate to DoorDash, Uber or an assistant. The first mechanism is high-probability and modest in magnitude; the second is lower-probability, slower, but strikes exactly the asset that justifies the premium narrative. Net: a mature earner whose cash flows AI helps at the margin while creating one genuine tail risk to its distribution moat.
Verify before trusting this (8)
- third-party channel share of US sales
- commission drag on franchisee margin
- agent-integration or API partnerships announced
- royalty rate stability in renewals
- supply-chain volume per store
- technology fee per store trajectory
- net US unit growth
- supply-chain center capacity additions
Pizza delivery is the most mature, most penetrated corner of a category still being reshaped by third-party aggregation. Domino's historic edge — owning the last mile and the order interface — is being partially commoditized as marketplaces become the default discovery layer, so incremental volume increasingly arrives on someone else's economics. Offsetting that, a value-seeking consumer under macro headwinds favors the cheapest hot-food occasion, which is structurally Domino's ground. Net: the world neither breaks nor supercharges this business; it slowly converts a share-gain story into a share-defense story, with growth carried by international unit count and franchisee capital rather than domestic frequency.
Prediction unavailable. valuation-synthesis has no result for DPZ — the prediction needs its fair-value anchors.