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Ark Restaurants Corp. (ARKR)

Nasdaq: ARKR · Retail-Eating Places · New York, NY · filing with the SEC since 1994
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Grade4.0
◀ Past 5.1● Present 4.3▶ Future 2.9
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The grade of Ark Restaurants Corp.

Nine metrics read from its own filings, by tense
Headline grade
4.0/10
◀ Past5.125% of the headline
● Present4.345% of the headline
▶ Future2.930% of the headline

All three tenses have at least two readings, so the archetype blend applies as printed.

Of the nine metrics, 8 read as filed from the record and 1 is an SI estimate, each with its reasoning, its confidence and what would change it on its card.

◀ Past

What did they actually do?

5.1/1025% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Surviving crises

as filed
7.6/10

Has it survived what it has been through?

No warning events in its filings since 2017.

weight 45% of this tense · 76th percentile among 43 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Ark Restaurants Corp.'s filings since 2017 show no warning events in the scan: no bankruptcy or receivership notice, no debt default notice, no exchange listing notice, no restatement warning, no auditor change, no material cyber incident and no late-report notice (its current reports).

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Track record

as filed
2.0/10

What has it actually done, year after year?

+0.5% a year over 8 filed years; profitable in 4 of 8.

weight 33% of this tense · 20th percentile among 42 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Ark Restaurants Corp.'s 8 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $160 million in fiscal 2018 to $166 million in fiscal 2025, up 0.5% a year; it rose in 4 of 7 years; the deepest fall was 34% from fiscal 2019 to fiscal 2020; net income was positive in 4 of 8 of those years (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue growth over the filed span0.5%bottom 15% of its family
  • the share of years revenue rosebottom 25% of its family
  • the share of filed years with a profitbottom 24% of its family
  • the deepest fall from a revenue peak34.4%bottom 15% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Shareholder treatment

as filed
4.6/10

How has it treated the people who own it?

Share count steady. 29% of cash flow returned. Insiders: 1 sales, 0 purchases.

weight 22% of this tense · 46th percentile among 37 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-09-27, Ark Restaurants Corp.'s diluted share count held steady, and dividends and buybacks returned about 29% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 1 sale and 0 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-09-30 (their Form 4 filings).

What it rests on

  • the share count over the yearsbottom 41% of its family
  • cash returned against operating cash flowtop 50% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

● Present

What are they doing right now?

4.3/1045% of the headline grade · 2 of 3 filed, 1 estimated

Financial health

as filed
3.8/10

Is it financially healthy right now?

ROE -36%: lost 36¢ per shareholder dollar. Leverage 76%: owes 76¢ per asset dollar.

weight 45% of this tense · 38th percentile among 41 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-09-27, Ark Restaurants Corp. lost about 36 cents for every dollar of shareholders' money. Leverage: it owed about 76 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count was unchanged over the year (the filed statements).

What it rests on

  • what it owes per dollar of assetstop 44% of its family
  • return on equitybottom 12% of its family
  • the share count against the year beforebottom 45% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Industry position

as filed
1.5/10

How strong is its position in its industry?

bottom 15% of 43 in its family; net margin -6.9%.

weight 33% of this tense · 15th percentile among 43 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Ark Restaurants Corp.'s standing among 43 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $166 million in fiscal 2025 ranks in the bottom 16% by size; a net margin of -6.9% ranks in the bottom 24%; revenue growth of -3.4% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the bottom 3% (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the family$166Mbottom 16% of its family
  • net margin-6.9%bottom 24% of its family
  • three-year revenue growth-3.4%bottom 3% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Leadership

SI estimate
9.6/10

What are the people in charge doing?

SI estimate 9.6/10, confidence 35 of 100 (one part).

weight 22% of this tense · 95th percentile among 37 sector filers · read for its shareholders

SI estimate Inferred, not read as filed

Why it is an estimate
Read from one part only, the chief executive's years under the title, which ranks in the top 5% of 37 in its family; fewer than two of the three parts can be read: officer and director changes against the people in charge, the years the people in charge have been filing, the chief executive's years under the title.
What the record cannot read
Fewer than two of the three parts can be read: officer and director changes against the people in charge, the years the people in charge have been filing, the chief executive's years under the title.
How it was reasoned
one part: the chief executive's years on the record, the one part on file, ranked among 37 in its family.
Confidence
35 of 100
What would change it
A filing that carries the missing parts replaces this estimate with the filed reading.

From the record

SI estimate, not a filed reading: Ark Restaurants Corp.'s leadership is put at 9.6 of 10 with a confidence of 35 of 100, because read from one part only, the chief executive's years under the title, which ranks in the top 5% of 37 in its family; fewer than two of the three parts can be read: officer and director changes against the people in charge, the years the people in charge have been filing, the chief executive's years under the title. A filing that carries the missing parts replaces this estimate with the filed reading.

▶ Future

What are they set up to do next?

2.9/1030% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Room to expand

as filed
5.8/10

How much room does it have to grow?

top 42% of 41 in its family for room to expand.

weight 22% of this tense · 58th percentile among 41 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Ark Restaurants Corp.'s room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $11 million against no long-term debt tagged leaves 8.5% of its assets as net cash, top 16% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is -0.9% of revenue (bottom 32%) (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • cash less debt against assets8.5%top 16% of its family
  • cash from operations less capital spending against revenue-0.9%bottom 32% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Growth drivers

as filed
2.3/10

What could actually drive growth from here?

bottom 23% of 42 in its family for growth drivers.

weight 45% of this tense · 23rd percentile among 42 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Ark Restaurants Corp.'s growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew -3.4% a year over the last three filed years against 0.5% over all 8, slowing (bottom 18% of its family); the newest year grew -9.7% (bottom 4%); capital spending grew 6.4% a year (bottom 46%) (its annual reports). Ark Restaurants Corp. reported 2 product lines in fiscal 2025: Food and Beverage at $163 million (99%), Other Revenue at $2 million (2%); 0 of 2 grew against the year before (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • three-year growth against the whole span-3.9 points a yearbottom 18% of its family
  • the newest year's revenue growth-9.7%bottom 4% of its family
  • three-year growth of capital spending6.4%bottom 46% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Expectations vs reality

as filed
1.7/10

Did its newest year beat what its own record pointed to?

bottom 17% of 39 in its family for expectations against reality.

weight 33% of this tense · 17th percentile among 39 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Ark Restaurants Corp.'s newest year against its own record: revenue of $166 million in fiscal 2025 came in 9.7% below the $183 million its prior three years' pace pointed to (bottom 19% of its family); net income of $11 million against a prior three-year average of $181 thousand (bottom 5%); a net margin of -6.9% against -0.1% before (bottom 27%) (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the prior three years' pace-9.7%bottom 19% of its family
  • net income against the prior three years' averagefive times below its prior average or morebottom 5% of its family
  • net margin against its prior average-6.8 pointsbottom 27% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

The grade is the company against its own industry, from its filings. It is not a view on the share price. How the grade is made

SI Assistanton ARKR · research, not advice