Chili's Traction Is Real, But Brinker’s Stock Needs Time to Heat Up
Chili's is delivering outsized traffic and margin recovery, driving free cash flow growth and making Brinker look cheap on conventional metrics. That said, the stock has already run, short interest is nontrivial, and macro or cost shocks could trim upside. I favor a measured long trade over a mid-term (45 trading days) horizon: enter near $138.20, …