Wendy’s Co (NASDAQ:WEN)’s traded shares stood at 1.19 million during the latest session, with the company’s beta value hitting 0.40. At the last check today, the stock’s price was $12.60, to imply an increase of 0.81% or $0.1 in intraday trading. The WEN share’s 52-week high remains $20.65, putting it -63.89% down since that peak but still an impressive 4.37% since price per share fell to its 52-week low of $12.05. The company has a valuation of $2.47B, with an average of 4.14 million shares in intraday trading volume over the past 10 days and average of 5.45 million shares over the past 3 months.
Analysts have given a consensus recommendation of Buy for Wendy’s Co (WEN), translating to a mean rating of 2.73. Of 23 analyst(s) looking at the stock, 1 analyst(s) give WEN a Sell rating. 0 of those analysts rate the stock as Overweight while 7 advise Hold as 15 recommend it as a Buy. 0 analyst(s) have given it an Underweight rating. Estimates put the company’s current-quarter earnings per share at 0.2.
Wendy’s Co (NASDAQ:WEN) trade information
After registering a 0.81% upside in the latest session, Wendy’s Co (WEN) has traded red over the past five days. The 5-day price performance for the stock is -1.79%, and -14.40% over 30 days. With these gigs, the year-to-date price performance is -22.69%. Short interest in Wendy’s Co (NASDAQ:WEN) saw shorts transact 16.8 million shares and set a 3.21 days time to cover.
The extremes give us $14 and $17 for target low and target high price respectively. As such, WEN has been trading -34.92% off suggested target high and -11.11% from its likely low.
Wendy’s Co (WEN) estimates and forecasts
The rating firms project that company’s revenue will shrink -0.07% compared to the previous financial year.
Revenue forecast for the current quarter as set by 19 analysts is 526.63M. Meanwhile, for the current quarter, a total of 19 analyst(s) estimate revenue growth to 575.2M.Earnings reports from the last fiscal year show that sales brought in 534.75M and 570.73M respectively in the corresponding quarters. In this case, analysts estimate current quarter sales to fall -1.52% before jumping 0.78% in the following quarter.
An assessment of the company’s 5-year growth patterns shows that annual earnings grew an estimated 12.83% for the past 5-year period. While 2025 is set for a -0.20% return in earnings, projections for the next 5 years are at 7.17% annually.
WEN Dividends
Wendy’s Co has its next earnings report out on 2025-Feb-12. However, it is important to take into account that this dividend yield ratio is just an indicator to only serve the purpose of guidance. Investors interested to invest in the stock should ponder company’s other fundamental and operations related aspects too. Wendy’s Co has a forward dividend ratio of 1.00, with the share yield ticking at 7.94% to continue the rising pattern observed over the past year. The company’s average dividend yield trailing the past 5-year period is 3.31%.
Wendy’s Co (NASDAQ:WEN)’s Major holders
Wendy’s Co insiders hold 9.18% of total outstanding shares, with institutional holders owning 96.60% of the shares at 106.37% float percentage. In total, 96.60% institutions holds shares in the company, led by TRIAN FUND MANAGEMENT, L.P.. As of 2024-06-30, the company held over 31.51 million shares (or 15.3758% of shares), all amounting to roughly $534.37 million.
The next major institution holding the largest number of shares is VANGUARD GROUP INC with 21.73 million shares, or about 10.6058% of shares outstanding. As of the market price on 2024-06-30, these shares were worth $368.6 million.
We also have iShares Trust-iShares Core S&P Mid-Cap ETF and HARRIS ASSOCIATES INVESTMENT TRUST-Oakmark Equity and Income Fund as the top two Mutual Funds with the largest holdings of the Wendy’s Co (WEN) shares. Going by data provided on Mar 31, 2025 , iShares Trust-iShares Core S&P Mid-Cap ETF holds roughly 5.59 shares. This is just over 2.85% of the total shares, with a market valuation of $70.47 million. Data from the same date shows that the other fund manager holds a little less at 5.56, or 2.83% of the shares, all valued at about 70.03 million.
