Ark Restaurants Corp. (ARKR)

Ark Restaurants Corp. (ARKR) — VMCI valuation read

ARKR prints VMCI 43/100 inside the Consumer Cyclical sector, where the median sits at 50. The 7-point below-median delta is the cleanest single-number summary of Ark Restaurants Corp.'s composite stance, and in the mid-cap bucket it places the share behind the typical peer on the five-pillar mix.

On ARKR, the SEC EDGAR Form 4 stream shows no insider buys or sells in the past 30 days. Quiet tapes happen; they just remove a signal that bull and bear cases sometimes lean on for confirmation.

**Investor frame.** ARKR trades at 16.0x earnings, 11% below the Consumer Cyclical median of 18.0x; that is the value line. ROIC of 18.0% sits 8.0pp above the Consumer Cyclical median (10.0%); that is the quality line. net debt to EBITDA of 2.6x is the rate-sensitivity line to watch; that is the risk line for Ark Restaurants Corp. on the trailing financials.

ARKR rose 3.4% over the trailing 7 days, with a +0.8% read on a 30-day basis.