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Water Tower Research is a leading equity research firm that provides research on micro, small and mid cap companies.

Water Tower Research was founded by Wall Street veterans after witnessing a fundamental shift in the investment research industry with the result being a declining knowledge base among investors, a lack of awareness and a shrinking pool of fundamental research being conducted on companies across the small-cap and micro-cap spectrum. The same issues are now increasingly occurring in the mid-cap space. This sea change within the investment community is impacting not only the companies themselves but also current shareholders and potential investors. With significantly less active sell-side sponsorship by Wall Street, a substantial information gap has developed between companies and various constituents in the financial community. The net result is fewer channels for insight and information to flow between companies and investors.

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<ul><li>Our monthly WTR restaurant and retail report focuses on stock performance, short interest, an outlook for restaurant commodity costs, interesting themes, and companies in focus.</li><li>In this note, we highlight Texas Roadhouse (TXRH) given the 16% pullback in the stock since July and industry-leading traffic trends that are likely to continue over the foreseeable future</li><li>Restaurants perform in line and retailers underperform indexes MTD.</li></ul>

Our monthly WTR restaurant and retail report focuses on stock performance, short interest, an outlook for restaurant commodity costs, interesting themes, and companies in focus.In this note, we highlight Texas Roadhouse (TXRH) given the 16% pullback in the stock since July and industry-leading traffic trends that are likely to continue over the foreseeable futureRestaurants perform in line and retailers underperform indexes MTD.

Restaurant & Retail Roundup - Highlighting Texas Roadhouse (TXRH)

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<ul><li>Stickier For Longer? Inflation continues to be top of mind for the Federal Reserve and investors as recent economic data continues to throw a wrench in the market’s previously perceived Fed plans for them to pause and then cut interest rates in the back half of 2023.</li><li>The Fed has hiked interest rates from almost zero to nearly 5% within the past year in response to inflation running at historic highs, and it expects to lift them even higher in the coming months.</li><li>Meanwhile, Fed speakers continue to move the terminal rate goalposts by signaling 5.5% or thereabouts terminal rates will cause the “immaculate disinflation” as if this magical fed funds interest rate level and only at this level will inflation continue to moderate downward.</li></ul>

Stickier For Longer? Inflation continues to be top of mind for the Federal Reserve and investors as recent economic data continues to throw a wrench in the market’s previously perceived Fed plans for them to pause and then cut interest rates in the back half of 2023.The Fed has hiked interest rates from almost zero to nearly 5% within the past year in response to inflation running at historic highs, and it expects to lift them even higher in the coming months.Meanwhile, Fed speakers continue to move the terminal rate goalposts by signaling 5.5% or thereabouts terminal rates will cause the “immaculate disinflation” as if this magical fed funds interest rate level and only at this level will inflation continue to moderate downward.

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Texas Roadhouse, Inc. is a full-service, casual dining restaurant chain, which offers assorted seasoned and aged steaks hand-cut daily on the premises and cooked to order over open gas-fired grills. It operates restaurants under the Texas Roadhouse and Aspen Creek names. The company also offers its guests a selection of ribs, fish, seafood, chicken, pork chops, pulled pork and vegetable plates, an assortment of hamburgers, salads and sandwiches. It also provides supervisory and administrative services for other license and franchise restaurants. Texas Roadhouse was founded by W. Kent Taylor on February 17, 1993 and is headquartered in Louisville, KY.

Texas Roadhouse (TXRH US)

Restaurant & Retail Roundup - Highlighting Texas Roadhouse (TXRH)

Our monthly WTR restaurant and retail report focuses on stock performance, short interest, an outlook for restaurant commodity costs, interesting...

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The Fed has hiked interest rates from almost zero to nearly 5% within the past year in response to inflation running at historic highs

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