ST. LOUIS, Mo. — The Wall Street Journal included Panera Bread to its 2006 'Shareholder Scoreboard.' Across the 1,000 largest companies evaluated, Panera was the 28th best performer as measured by shareholder return over the last 10 years.
The Wall Street Journal 'Shareholder Scoreboard' evaluates the Dow Jones U.S. Total Market Index's 1,000 largest companies, based primarily on the total value of a company's publicly traded common stock at year-end 2005. Companies are ranked relative to others in their own industries and overall.
Panera demonstrated industry-leading stock performance in three of the four time periods evaluated by the Journal. The company topped the list for the Restaurants and Bars category for one-year returns (63 percent return), five-year returns (42 percent return) and 10-year returns (32 percent return) to shareholders over that time period. Panera bested notable restaurant companies including Starbucks, Darden Restaurants, Wendy's, Cheesecake Factory, McDonald's and Outback Steakhouse.
The company was also one of only twenty companies to be recognized for industry leading performance in as many as three of the four time periods evaluated – a testament to the company's historical success and recent investor outlook.
