In last trading session, Wendy’s Co (NASDAQ:WEN) saw 6.88 million shares changing hands with its beta currently measuring 0.32. Company’s recent per share price level of $10.45 trading at -$0.06 or -0.57% at ring of the bell on the day assigns it a market valuation of $2.01B. That closing price of WEN’s stock is at a discount of -97.13% from its 52-week high price of $20.60 and is indicating a discount of -0.48% from its 52-week low price of $10.50. Taking a look at company’s average trading volume for last 10-days demonstrates a volume of 7.27 million shares which gives us an average trading volume of 6.04 million if we extend that period to 3-months.
For Wendy’s Co (WEN), analysts’ consensus is at an average recommendation of Buy while assigning it a mean rating of 2.67. Splitting up the data highlights that, out of 23 analysts covering the stock, 1 rated the stock as a Sell while 0 recommended an Overweight rating for the stock. 7 suggested the stock as a Hold whereas 15 see the stock as a Buy. 0 analyst(s) advised it as an Underweight.
Wendy’s Co (NASDAQ:WEN) trade information
Upright in the red during last session for losing -0.57%, in the last five days WEN remained trading in the red while hitting it’s week-highest on Thursday, 07/10/25 when the stock touched $10.45 price level, adding 8.73% to its value on the day. Wendy’s Co’s shares saw a change of -37.43% in year-to-date performance and have moved -6.95% in past 5-day. Wendy’s Co (NASDAQ:WEN) showed a performance of -6.53% in past 30-days. Number of shares sold short was 17.9 million shares which calculate 3.54 days to cover the short interests.
Wall Street analysts have assigned a consensus price target of 14 to the stock, which implies a rise of 25.36% to its current value. Analysts have been projecting 11 as a low price target for the stock while placing it at a high target of 17. It follows that stock’s current price would drop -5.26% in reaching the projected high whereas dropping to the targeted low would mean a loss of -5.26% for stock’s current value.
Weighing up company’s earnings over the past 5-year and in the next 5-year periods, we find the company posting an annual earnings growth rate of 12.83% during past 5 years. In 2025, company’s earnings growth rate is likely to be around -5.28% while estimates for its earnings growth in next 5 years are of 3.96%.
WEN Dividends
Wendy’s Co is more likely to be releasing its next quarterly report on 2025-May-02 and investors are confident in the company announcing better current-quarter dividends despite the fact that it has been facing issues arising out of mounting debt. With an annual yield of 8.52%, the share has a forward dividend of 0.89 which implies that company’s dividend yield remained growing in trailing twelve months while having a 5 year average dividend yield of 3.53%.
Wendy’s Co (NASDAQ:WEN)’s Major holders
Insiders are in possession of 9.43% of company’s total shares while institution are holding 92.96 percent of that, with stock having share float percentage of 102.64%. Investors also watch the number of corporate investors in a company very closely, which is 92.96% institutions for Wendy’s Co that are currently holding shares of the company. TRIAN FUND MANAGEMENT, L.P. is the top institutional holder at WEN for having 31.51 million shares of worth $534.37 million. And as of 2024-06-30, it was holding 15.3758 of the company’s outstanding shares.
The second largest institutional holder is VANGUARD GROUP INC, which was holding about 21.73 million shares on 2024-06-30. The number of shares represents firm’s hold over 10.6058 of outstanding shares, having a total worth of $368.6 million.
On the other hand, iShares Trust-iShares Core S&P Mid-Cap ETF and HARRIS ASSOCIATES INVESTMENT TRUST-Oakmark Equity and Income Fund are the top two Mutual Funds which own company’s shares. As of May 31, 2025 , the former fund manager was holding 5.57 shares of worth $58.22 million or 2.90% of the total outstanding shares. The later fund manager was in possession of 5.56 shares on Mar 31, 2025 , making its stake of worth around $58.08 million in the company or a holder of 2.89% of company’s stock.
