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Texas Roadhouse: A Rare Triple Play After a Pullback

A recent pullback has pushed Texas Roadhouse's PAR into our sweet spot at 19.2%, with quality at 82.6 and all three Triple Play conditions flagged.

Texas Roadhouse (TXRH) was Manifest Investing's In the Sweet Spot daily stock pick for September 18, 2026. At the time of the pick, Texas Roadhouse carried a quality percentile of 83 and a projected annual return (PAR) of 19.2% against a MIPAR of 9.6%, placing it inside the sweet spot of 14.6% to 19.6%.

Key metrics at the time of the pick

Quality percentile
83
Projected annual return (PAR)
19.2%
MIPAR (median PAR of coverage)
9.6%
PROVE
11.7%
Core score (of 300)
235
Financial strength (of 100)
72
EPS stability (of 100)
80.3
Sales growth forecast
11.5%
P/E ratio
24.3
Price at pick
$166.79
52-week low
$153.83
52-week high
$216.30
Above 52-week low
8.4%
Below 52-week high
22.9%
Dividend yield
1.4%
Projected yield
1.5%
In the sweet spot
Yes
Triple play
Yes

Texas Roadhouse (TXRH) has slid to $166.79, sitting 22.9% below its 52-week high of $216.30 and only 8.4% above its 52-week low of $153.83. That decline is why we’re taking a closer look today.

The pullback matters for how we read this company through our own lens. Our projected annual return (PAR) — our five-year total return estimate combining projected price appreciation and dividend yield — sits at 19.2%, which lands inside our sweet spot: the band running from MIPAR (the median PAR across all stocks we follow, currently 9.6%) plus 5 to plus 10 percentage points, or 14.6% to 19.6%. PAR moves inversely to price, so the recent weakness is a meaningful part of why the return outlook looks as attractive as it does today.

TXRH also carries our Triple Play flag, George Nicholson’s concept of three conditions occurring together: a depressed price (reflected in the elevated PAR), room for the current P/E to expand toward our projected P/E, and room for the current net margin to expand toward our projected margin. All three are flagged for TXRH right now, a combination we don’t see every day.

The quality picture supports the case for closer study rather than dismissal as simply “cheap.” Quality ranks at 82.6 (a percentile versus all covered stocks; above 80 is considered excellent), built on a financial strength score of 72.1 (out of 100) and EPS stability of 80.3 (also out of 100, meaning historically smooth and predictable earnings). Sum those three components — quality percentile, financial strength, and EPS stability — and you get a core score of 235 (out of 300), above the 225 threshold we associate with core-holding candidates.

Texas Roadhouse’s next earnings report is scheduled for November 5, 2026, which will be the first real test of whether recent trends are holding. The Wall Street consensus 12-month price target is $212.50 per our data aggregator — a separate, shorter-horizon figure from our own 5-year PAR-based outlook, not something we’d blend with it or treat as confirming it.

None of this is a recommendation to buy, sell, or hold. It’s a look at how a real pullback, filtered through our quality, PAR, and Triple Play framework, can put a familiar name back in a place worth studying.

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Manifest Investing's daily stock pick: one high-quality company whose projected annual return (PAR) sits in the sweet spot above the market median (MIPAR). Each pick pairs Manifest Investing's quality percentile with its projected annual return (PAR); the sweet spot runs from MIPAR + 5 to MIPAR + 10 percentage points. Browse every pick in the archive.

In the Sweet Spot is educational and is not investment advice or a recommendation to buy or sell any security. Figures reflect Manifest Investing's methodology as of the pick date.