Takeaway: Please note we are removing CAKE (short) from Investing Ideas today.

"With the US stock market giving us an opportunity to book some big gains on the short side today (these opportunities have been infrequent in 2017!), I want to ring the register on what has been a great fundamental research call by Restaurants analyst Howard Penney," writes Hedgeye CEO Keith McCullough. "No one ever went broke booking gains. I may revisit CAKE on a big bounce."

There is no change to Penney's fundamental research view. Click here to read the Cheesecake Factory stock report.

We Are Removing Cheesecake Factory (CAKE) from Investing Ideas - cheesecake factory