Insider trade

CFO received an award of 14K CAKE shares

Traded Feb 11, 2026 · Filed Feb 13, 2026

The Cheesecake Factory, Inc.CAKE

14K
Shares

Why it stands out

Compensation award — excluded from discretionary-purchase analysis.

Written from the filing's own figures. OQRO describes what was reported and never tells you what to buy or sell

View the official recordSEC Form 4 — Statement of Changes in Beneficial Ownership

All the details

Dates, kept separate

Transaction date: Feb 11, 2026
Reporting period: Not applicable
Filed with the SEC: Feb 13, 2026

CFOGrant / award

Context

Classification

grant award

Code A — grant or award

Planned / mechanical clue

Footnote references vesting of compensation awards

Only flagged when a footnote says so; never inferred

Source receipt

Record ID: 0001451763-26-000004
Filed / recorded

Feb 13, 2026, 11:03 PM UTC

Added to OQRO

Oct 6, 2026, 10:14 PM UTC

Parser

form4-xml-v2

Data quality

Verified: identifiers matched exactly

Issuer

CHEESECAKE FACTORY INC

Issuer CIK

887596

Ticker

CAKE

Reporting person

Matthew Eliot Clark

Relationship

Officer

Officer title

EXEC VP, CFO

Security

Common Stock

Table

Non-derivative (Table I)

Transaction date

Feb 11, 2026

Transaction code

A

Shares / units

14,087

Price per share

$0.00

Acquired / disposed

Acquired (A)

Shares owned after

46,751

Ownership form

Direct

Amendment

No

Footnotes from the filing

On February 11, 2026, the Compensation Committee certificated to the attainment of the performance goals underlying the February 2023 grants of performance share awards and determined that 91% of the performance share awards were eligible to vest based on continued service-vesting conditions, with 60% of the shares underlying the award service vesting on February 16, 2026, 20% on February 16, 2027 and 20% on February 16, 2028, subject to the Reporting Person's continued service.
Shares of restricted stock subject to forfeiture.