Jack in the Box share price today

Jack in the Box Inc.'s share price was $14.37 at the close on 4 November 2026. That is 0.6% below its average price over the last 200 trading days. In the last 52 weeks it traded between $10 and $23, and at that close it sat 35% of the way up from that low.

A share price tends to move through four phases: moving sideways (stage 1), rising (stage 2), stalling near a high (stage 3) and falling (stage 4). The phase helps read everything below.

Over the past 13 weeks it has done worse than the S&P 500, and it has been behind for 8 weeks running.

Over the last 1 year the share price moved −37% while the S&P 500 moved +23%, so it is behind the index over that whole period. It was last ahead over 13 weeks in the week of 11 September 2026. The chart above shows the 13-week comparison for every week.

This page treats a rise as over when the price closes below its 200-day average on two Fridays in a row.

Jack in the Box Inc. paid $1.76 per share over the last four reported quarters. The most recent declaration was $0.44 for Apr 2025. At today's price of $14.37 that is a yield of 12.25%, based on dividends already paid, not a forecast.

A dividend is cash paid out for each share. The 12-month total is the four most recent quarters added together.

Jack in the Box is not in the Nasdaq 100, the S&P 500 or the Dow Jones 30, and is not on the US tech stocks list.

Jack in the Box Inc. earned $20.1 M of net profit in the Jul 2026 quarter, −8.6% on the same quarter a year earlier. The full FY25 year was a loss of $80.7 M. That is 7.8% of the quarter's revenue. The same quarter a year earlier earned $22.0 M. 3 of the last 12 reported quarters were loss-making.

Net profit is what is left after every cost, interest and tax. Earnings per share, dividends and book value all grow from it.

Why profit moved: revenue changed −1.8% on a year earlier and the margin moved −2.0 percentage points. Sales did the work while the margin got thinner.

On average over the last four quarters, profit changed −63.2% and revenue −4.6%. Profit is growing slower than sales: rising costs are taking part of the growth.

Jack in the Box Inc. reported $258 M of revenue in the Jul 2026 quarter, −1.8% on the same quarter a year earlier. Over 4 years it has grown 6.4% a year on average. The last full year, FY25, came in at $1.5 B. The last four reported quarters add to $1.2 B.

Revenue is everything the company billed its customers in the period.

FY25 revenue was $1.5 B, −6.7% on the year before.

Recent pace: the last four quarters grew −4.6% on average, against 6.4% a year over the longer run, so this year is growing slower than its own long-run rate.

Is growth speeding up? Revenue over the last 12 months grew −4.9%, against −13.7% a year over the last 8 quarters (accelerating).

Jack in the Box Inc.'s operating margin was 14.9% in the Jul 2026 quarter, 2.0 percentage points lower than the same quarter a year ago. Across 5 years it has been between 13.4% and 24.4%. The latest quarter is within that range.

Operating margin is what is left from every $100 of sales after the costs of running the business, before interest and tax. It shows pricing power and cost control.

Why the margin moved: operating margin changed −2.0 percentage points on the year while gross margin changed −1.6 points. So the drop came mostly from the gross margin, which means input costs and prices charged.

Over the last 3 years, 140% of Jack in the Box Inc.'s reported profit came in as cash from its operations, so the profit is backed by cash. In FY25 it brought in $162 M of operating cash against −$80.7 M of profit. After $97.0 M of spending on assets, $65.3 M was left over as free cash.

The profit and loss account shows what was earned. The cash-flow statement shows the cash that actually came in. Comparing operating cash flow with profit is one of the best checks that a profit is real.

Cash-flow figures here are yearly, because quarterly cash statements are not published, so this section changes once a year.

Why: the cash figure is clear, but the day counts behind it are not in our data, so we show it without guessing the reason.

What to look at next: the main use of cash is spending on assets. The next section checks what that spending is building.

Jack in the Box Inc. does not report the customer, stock and supplier day counts a cash cycle needs, so this section looks at its spending on assets instead. It spent $287 M on assets over the last 3 years. Averaged over those years that is 6.5% of FY25 revenue a year.

Working capital is the cash tied up between paying suppliers and getting paid. Debtor days: how long customers take to pay. Inventory days: how long stock sits. The cash cycle: the whole loop, in days of sales.

Nothing is estimated in place of the missing day counts, so no cash-cycle chart is drawn.

Spending on assets: $287 M over the last 3 years.

In short: the cash is going into new capacity, not getting stuck in the daily cycle. The question is whether the new capacity earns.

Jack in the Box Inc.'s P/E is 8.2×, with too little history to compare. Its usual P/E (the middle reading) is 7.5×, over 6 months of weekly prices. This compares the share price with the company’s own past. It does not say what the business is worth.

P/E is the share price divided by a year's profit per share: how many dollars the market pays for each dollar of yearly profit.

In short: there is too little history to say whether the multiple is high or low for this company, so the earnings trend underneath matters more than the multiple.

Jack in the Box Inc.'s business is getting worse. Revenue and profit growth are shrinking: revenue growth is −4.9% in the latest quarter, against +15.3% at its best in 12 quarters. This is based on 12 quarters of 2 measures, with some gaps.

Every business is somewhere on a path of getting better or worse, and this section names where. The last 12 quarters of growth in revenue, profit and earnings per share, plus the return the business earns on its capital, are read as lines. Getting worse: the lines are falling. Turning around: a low point has just formed and the last few quarters are rising from it. Getting better: the rise from the low has lasted. Growing steadily: steady growth with healthy returns. Slowing from a peak: still high, but slowing. When the lines disagree the result is mixed; too little history means no reading. CAGR (compound annual growth rate) is the steady yearly rate that would turn the starting value into the latest one. It is the fairest way to compare growth over different periods. If the 1-year figure is much bigger than the 10-year one, recent growth is running faster than the long-run trend. A dash means there is no figure for that period, or the starting year was a loss, where a growth rate means nothing.

Why it matters: falling lines mean any ratio below that looks low should be read with that direction in mind.

The return-on-capital line is not shown: net worth is negative, so a return on capital means nothing. The balance sheet is in distress, and this reading uses the growth lines alone.

One or more growth lines have an extreme jump caused by comparing with a near-zero or loss-making quarter. Those jumps are capped before reading and drawn at the edge of the chart, so one odd quarter does not decide the result.

This reading has some gaps: at least one line is short, or the return line is not the quarterly series, so treat it with a little more caution.

Compound annual growth rate (%)

Compound annual growth rate over each period, %. Revenue, profit and EPS come from yearly figures; the stock price row is price growth over the same periods. A dash means no figure for that period, or the starting year was a loss.

Jack in the Box Inc. earned a ROE of 9% in FY25. That is up from a low of −20% in FY21. Its return on capital used (ROIC) is 6.0 percentage points above its cost of capital, so growth here adds value, not just size. It comes from a −5.5% net margin and 0.57× asset turnover (sales divided by assets).

Return on equity (ROE) is the profit the business earns on its shareholders’ money. We do not have the full capital split, so ROE is the longest history we can draw here.

Why the return is what it is (FY25): a −5.5% net margin × 0.57× asset turnover × −2.76× leverage (assets divided by equity) ≈ 8.7% on equity. The margin does its share; borrowing plays a small part, so this return is earned, not borrowed.

The key test, return on capital used minus the cost of capital: 9.5% − 3.5% = +6.0 percentage points. The 3.5% is an estimate of this company's own cost of capital. Read the sign and size of the gap, not the decimals. A gap this wide means each dollar put back into the business creates more than a dollar of value.

Jack in the Box Inc.'s net worth is negative: it owes more than it owns, so a debt-to-equity ratio means nothing here. Year by year, that ratio went from −2.73 in FY21 to −3.33 in FY25. So the returns on this page come from the business, not from borrowed money.

Debt-to-equity shows how much of the business is paid for with borrowed money. Lower is safer, and the direction matters as much as the level.

49.4% of Jack in the Box Inc.'s tradable shares are in short positions, which are bets that the price will fall, so a large group of traders is betting against it. At normal trading volumes, closing those positions would take about 11.8 days. US companies do not publish a quarter-by-quarter list of owners, so this page uses short interest instead.

There is no quarter-by-quarter list of owners here, so we look at short interest: the share of tradable shares held in short positions, which gain if the price falls.

It is a single reading at one point in time; we do not have its history.

Why it is at this level: the figure does not say who has the short positions or why, so we show the level without guessing the story.

For Jack in the Box Inc., the Z-score is 2.31. A Z-score above about 3 is safe and below about 1.8 signals danger, so this is in the grey area between the two. It estimates how far the balance sheet is from trouble; it is not a forecast of failure.

The Z-score estimates how far a company is from balance-sheet trouble. Above about 3 is safe; below about 1.8 is the danger zone. It was built for manufacturers, so it is not used for banks and lenders.

Why it matters: a Z-score of 2.31 is in the grey area, neither clearly safe nor clearly in trouble.

There is no score against its industry: Jack in the Box Inc. is not among the largest members shown in this industry comparison for Restaurants.

The score ranks a company within its industry: each measure is scored against the other members. Without that group there is no score, so none is shown.

No sector comparison is shown here, not among the largest members shown in this industry comparison.

Jack in the Box is the 35th largest of 36 Restaurants companies on Sector Alpha by market value (scores of 4 November 2026). Just above it: El Pollo Loco Holdings, Inc., Dine Brands Global, Inc., Kura Sushi USA, Inc., Nathan's Famous, Inc. and Portillo's Inc. Just below it: RCI Hospitality Holdings, Inc.

Restaurants companies close in size

30. El Pollo Loco Holdings, Inc. $501 million
31. Dine Brands Global, Inc. $462 million
32. Kura Sushi USA, Inc. $459 million
33. Nathan's Famous, Inc. $418 million
34. Portillo's Inc. $414 million
35. Jack in the Box Inc. $276 million
36. RCI Hospitality Holdings, Inc. $230 million

All 36 Restaurants companies, largest first

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