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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001437749-25-025549"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "NATH"
cik: "0000069733"
company_name: "NATHANS FAMOUS, INC."
filed_at: "2025-08-08T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T16:53:17.349313+00:00"
event_type: "earnings"
sentiment: "negative"
materiality_score: 0.7
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Nathan's Famous Q1 net income $8.93M ($2.16 EPS); revenue up 5% but profit dips

## Summary
- Revenue $46.998M (+5% YoY); net income $8.928M ($2.16 diluted EPS) vs $9.277M ($2.27) last year.
- License royalties decreased to $12.381M from $12.921M; Smithfield royalties down 4.5%.
- Branded product sales up $2.929M to $29.075M; ops income down $224K on higher beef costs.
- Company-owned restaurant sales fell to $3.986M from $4.199M due to weather at Coney Island.
- Quarterly dividend declared at $0.50 per share (unchanged from prior period).

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001437749-25-025549
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: NATH
- cik: 0000069733
- company_name: NATHANS FAMOUS, INC.
- filed_at: 2025-08-08T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: earnings
- sentiment: negative
- materiality_score: 0.7
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 2.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/69733/000143774925025549/0001437749-25-025549-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/69733/000143774925025549/nath20250801_8k.htm

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