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PBPB (Potbelly) Profitability Rank : 5 (As of Mar. 2025)


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What is Potbelly Profitability Rank?

Potbelly has the Profitability Rank of 5.

GuruFocus Profitability Rank ranks how profitable a company is and how likely the company's business will stay that way. It is rated on a scale of 1 to 10 and is based on these factors:

1. Operating Margin %
2. Piotroski F-Score
3. Trend of the Operating Margin % (5-year average). The company with an uptrend profit margin has a higher rank.
4. Consistency of the profitability
5. Predictability Rank

A higher score indicates superior profitability, with companies rated 7 or above considered to have more robust and sustainable profit generation. Conversely, a score of 3 or lower suggests challenges in generating consistent profits.

Potbelly's Operating Margin % for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2025 was 0.37%. As of today, Potbelly's Piotroski F-Score is 7.


Competitive Comparison of Potbelly's Profitability Rank

For the Restaurants subindustry, Potbelly's Profitability Rank, along with its competitors' market caps and Profitability Rank data, can be viewed below:

* Competitive companies are chosen from companies within the same industry, with headquarter located in same country, with closest market capitalization; x-axis shows the market cap, and y-axis shows the term value; the bigger the dot, the larger the market cap. Note that "N/A" values will not show up in the chart.


Potbelly's Profitability Rank Distribution in the Restaurants Industry

For the Restaurants industry and Consumer Cyclical sector, Potbelly's Profitability Rank distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Potbelly's Profitability Rank falls into.


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Potbelly Profitability Rank Calculation

GuruFocus Profitability Rank ranks how profitable a company is and how likely the company's business will stay that way.

The rank is rated on a scale of 1 to 10. A higher score indicates superior profitability, with companies rated 7 or above considered to have more robust and sustainable profit generation. Conversely, a score of 3 or lower suggests challenges in generating consistent profits.

Potbelly has the Profitability Rank of 5.

Profitability Rank is not directly related to the Financial Strength. But if a company is consistently profitable, its financial strength will be stronger.

Profitability Rank is based on these factors:

1. Operating Margin %

Operating Margin % - also known as operating income margin, operating profit margin and return on sales (ROS) - is the ratio of Operating Income divided by net sales or Revenue, usually presented in percent.

Potbelly's Operating Margin % for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2025 is calculated as:

Operating Margin %=Operating Income (Q: Mar. 2025 ) / Revenue (Q: Mar. 2025 )
=0.424 / 113.681
=0.37 %

* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD.
* For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.

2. Piotroski F-Score

Good Sign:

Piotroski F-Score is 7, indicates a very healthy situation.

The zones of discrimination were as such:

Good or high score = 8 or 9
Bad or low score = 0 or 1

Potbelly has an F-score of 7. It is a good or high score, which usually indicates a very healthy situation.

3. Trend of the Operating Margin % (5-year average). The company with an uptrend profit margin has a higher rank.

4. Consistency of the profitability

5. Predictability Rank


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Potbelly Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
111 North Canal Street, Suite 325, Chicago, IL, USA, 60606
Potbelly Corp owns and franchises hundreds of limited-service restaurants specializing in sandwiches and salads, shakes. The menu includes toasty sandwiches, signature salads, soups, chili, sides, desserts, and, in breakfast locations it serves breakfast sandwiches and steel-cut oatmeal. majority of its locations are company-owned and located in the United States, with Illinois and Texas housing far more locations than any other state. The company has franchise partners in a number of countries. Excluding the United States, its franchises are in the Middle East.
Executives
Adam Noyes officer: SVP, Chief Operations Officer 111 N CANAL ST, SUITE 850, CHICAGO IL 60601
Karen Lynette Mckee officer: SVP, Franchising C/O POTBELLY CORPORATION, 111 N. CANAL STREET, SUITE 325, CHICAGO IL 60606
Robert D. Wright officer: President and CEO 111 N. CANAL STREET, SUITE 850, CHICAGO IL 60606
Steven Cirulis officer: SVP, Chief Financial Officer 111 N. CANAL ST., SUITE 850, CHICAGO IL 60606
Jeffrey Douglas officer: SVP, Chief Information Officer 111 N. CANAL STREET, SUITE 850, CHICAGO IL 60606
Adiya Dixon officer: SVP, CLO and Secretary 111 N CANAL, SUITE 850, CHICAGO IL 60606
David Near director 111 N CANAL ST, SUITE 850, CHICAGO IL 60601
Patrick James Walsh officer: Chief People Officer 410 N. MICHIGAN AVENUE, SUITE 400, CHICAGO IL 60611
David T. Pearson director C/O VONAGE HOLDINGS CORP, 23 MAIN STREET, HOLMDEL NJ 07733
Jill Sutton director 313 IRON HORSE WAY, PROVIDENCE RI 02908
David Scott Daniels officer: CHIEF MARKETING OFFICER C/O POTBELLY CORPORATION, 111 N. CANAL STREET, SUITE 325, CHICAGO IL 60606
Larry Strain officer: CHIEF DEVELOPMENT OFFICER C/O POTBELLY CORPORATION, 111 N. CANAL STREET, SUITE 325, CHICAGO IL 60606
Adrian M Butler director 111 NORTH CANAL STREET, SUITE 850, CHICAGO IL 60606
Todd Whitney Smith director 300 JOHNNY BENCH DRIVE, OKLAHOMA CITY OK 73104
Joseph Boehm director 111 NORTH CANAL, SUITE 850, CHICAGO IL 60606