Forensic Analysis · Retail / Consumer Discretionary · as of Aug 12, 2026

Jack In The Box Inc (JACK)

A forensic read on Jack In The Box Inc built from its complete SEC filings — financial-health screens, earnings quality, red flags and a price-aware rating. Reproducible math, not opinion.

D · Weak — demands caution

Forensic grade

Grey Zone

Financial health

1.8

Distress distance

Clean

Earnings quality

Forensic signals

9.3

P / E (ttm)

$341M

Market cap

2.56%

Dividend yield

-6.7%

Revenue growth

This free snapshot doesn't read filing or proxy text, so the auditor-quality and governance checks that can lower a grade were not evaluated (red flags, auditor quality, say on pay, board independence). Those checks only ever lower a grade, so the full analysis can land below the grade above but never above it — treat it as the most favourable reading, not the settled one.

Jack In The Box Inc earns a D (Weak — demands caution) forensic quality grade, and its balance-sheet distress test reads 1.8, placing it in the Grey zone. 3 forensic signals were flagged in its latest SEC filings, led by return on invested capital.

What the filings flag

-0.7%

FY2025

Return on invested capital. Return on invested capital is -0.7% in the latest fiscal year and slipping from 7% — well below its ~9% cost of capital, so reinvested dollars may be destroying value, not building it.

$194M

FY2024–FY2025

Goodwill impairments. Took $194M of goodwill writedowns across 2 years (FY2024 ($163M), FY2025 ($32M)). Writedowns mean past acquisitions underperformed what was paid for them.

-50%

FY2024→FY2025

Dividend — cut. The payout was CUT ~50% in FY2025 (from FY2024). It still returns some cash, but it is NOT the dependable, rising dividend an unbroken streak implies.

Key fundamentals

Latest Revenue$1.47B

Revenue Growth YoY-6.7%

Revenue CAGR (3yr)-0.1%

Net Margin-5.5%

Free Cash Flow$74.1M

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Data from SEC EDGAR public filings · metrics as of Aug 12, 2026. Forensic signals flag probability, not certainty.