Wingstop (WING) Stock Price, News & Analysis

18 Wall Street research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Wingstop in the last twelve months. There are currently 10 hold ratings and 8 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street research analysts is that investors should "hold" WING shares. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in WING, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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18 Wall Street analysts have issued 1-year price objectives for Wingstop's stock. Their WING share price targets range from $190.00 to $461.00. On average, they predict the company's stock price to reach $330.39 in the next twelve months. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 15.0%.
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Wingstop's stock was trading at $256.58 on January 1st, 2024. Since then, WING shares have increased by 51.4% and is now trading at $388.55.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, August 7th 2024.
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Wingstop Inc. (NASDAQ:WING) released its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, May, 1st. The restaurant operator reported $0.98 earnings per share for the quarter, topping analysts' consensus estimates of $0.76 by $0.22. The restaurant operator had revenue of $145.70 million for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $136.34 million. Wingstop had a net margin of 16.75% and a negative trailing twelve-month return on equity of 19.64%. The company's revenue was up 34.0% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the previous year, the firm earned $0.59 EPS.

Wingstop declared a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, May 1st. Shareholders of record on Friday, May 17th will be paid a dividend of $0.22 per share on Friday, June 7th. This represents a $0.88 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 0.23%. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, May 16th.
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Wingstop (NASDAQ:WING) pays an annual dividend of $0.88 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 0.23%. The company has been increasing its dividend for 6 consecutive years, indicating the company has a new, but growing committment to grow its dividend. The dividend payout ratio is 31.32%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, WING will have a dividend payout ratio of 23.16% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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ETFs with the largest weight of Wingstop (NASDAQ:WING) stock in their portfolio include AdvisorShares Restaurant ETF (EATZ), AdvisorShares Vice ETF (VICE), Invesco Dorsey Wright Consumer Cyclicals Momentum ETF (PEZ), Pinnacle Focused Opportunities ETF (FCUS), Innovator IBD 50 ETF (FFTY), Invesco Leisure and Entertainment ETF (PEJ), Invesco Food & Beverage ETF (PBJ) and Texas Capital Texas Equity Index ETF (TXS).

132 employees have rated Wingstop Chief Executive Officer Charles Morrison on Glassdoor.com. Charles Morrison has an approval rating of 61% among the company's employees. This puts Charles Morrison in the bottom 25% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies.

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Wingstop investors own include NVIDIA (NVDA), Netflix (NFLX), Tesla (TSLA), Walt Disney (DIS), Alibaba Group (BABA), PayPal (PYPL), Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Salesforce (CRM), Block (SQ) and Intel (INTC).

Wingstop (WING) raised $75 million in an initial public offering on Friday, June 12th 2015. The company issued 5,800,000 shares at a price of $12.00-$14.00 per share. Morgan Stanley, Jefferies and Baird served as the underwriters for the IPO and Goldman Sachs, Barclays and Wells Fargo Securities were co-managers.

Wingstop's stock is owned by a number of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include Allspring Global Investments Holdings LLC (0.70%), Allspring Global Investments Holdings LLC (0.70%), Principal Financial Group Inc. (0.38%), Portman Square Capital LLP (0.00%), WCM Investment Management LLC (0.16%) and Retirement Systems of Alabama (0.13%). Insiders that own company stock include Albert G Mcgrath, Alex Kaleida, Charles R Morrison, Charles R Morrison, Donnie Upshaw, Kilandigalu Madati, Krishnan Anand, Mahesh Sadarangani, Marisa Carona, Michael Skipworth, Nicolas Boudet, Stacy Peterson and Wesley S Mcdonald.
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