---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000807882-24-000049"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "JACK"
cik: "0000807882"
company_name: "JACK IN THE BOX INC"
filed_at: "2024-11-20T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-29T22:14:24.677353+00:00"
event_type: "earnings"
sentiment: "negative"
materiality_score: 0.75
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Jack in the Box Q4 SSS down 2.1%; FY2025 EPS guidance $5.05-$5.45

## Summary
- Q4 same-store sales: Jack in the Box -2.1%, Del Taco -3.9%; FY2024 SSS -1.3% and -1.5%.
- Q4 diluted EPS $1.12, operating EPS $1.16; FY2025 operating EPS guidance $5.05-$5.45.
- Board declared $0.44 dividend payable Dec 30; $180M buyback remaining; repurchased 1.1M shares in FY2024.
- Jack in the Box opened 30 new units in FY2024 (highest since 2012); plans for Chicago, Florida, Detroit.
- Bylaws amended to allow 25% shareholders to call special meetings effective Nov 14, 2024.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000807882-24-000049
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: JACK
- cik: 0000807882
- company_name: JACK IN THE BOX INC
- filed_at: 2024-11-20T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: earnings
- sentiment: negative
- materiality_score: 0.75
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 2.02, 5.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/807882/000080788224000049/0000807882-24-000049-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/807882/000080788224000049/jack-20241114.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000807882-24-000049.txt

## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  JACK IN THE BOX INC: Amended Section 2.02 of Bylaws to add the right for holders of at least 25% of outstanding shares to call a special meeting of stockholders (effective 2024-11-14).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2024-11-14
  source text: Effective November 14, 2024, the Board of Directors of the Company amended Section 2.02 of its Bylaws to add the right for holders of at least twenty-five percent (25%) of outstanding shares of the Company to call a special meeting of stockholders.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/807882/000080788224000049/0000807882-24-000049-index.htm

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