NASDAQ:WEN - Wendy's Stock Price, Price Target & More

Wendy's trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "WEN."

Wendy's announced a quarterly dividend on Tuesday, May 8th. Stockholders of record on Friday, June 1st will be paid a dividend of $0.085 per share on Friday, June 15th. This represents a $0.34 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 2.10%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, May 31st. View Wendy's' Dividend History.

Wendy's announced that its Board of Directors has authorized a stock buyback plan on Wednesday, February 21st 2018, which allows the company to buyback $175,000,000.00 in shares, according to EventVestor. This buyback authorization allows the company to purchase up to 4.3% of its shares through open market purchases. Shares buyback plans are typically an indication that the company's board believes its stock is undervalued.

Wendy's (NASDAQ:WEN) announced its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, February, 21st. The restaurant operator reported $0.11 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing analysts' consensus estimates of $0.12 by $0.01. The restaurant operator earned $309.25 million during the quarter. Wendy's had a net margin of 14.55% and a return on equity of 23.01%. The business's quarterly revenue was down .2% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the prior year, the company posted $0.08 earnings per share. View Wendy's' Earnings History.

Wendy's is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, August, 8th 2018. View Earnings Estimates for Wendy's.

Wendy's updated its FY18 earnings guidance on Tuesday, May, 8th. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of $0.55-0.57 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus estimate of $0.55.

19 equities research analysts have issued 12 month price targets for Wendy's' stock. Their predictions range from $14.50 to $22.00. On average, they anticipate Wendy's' stock price to reach $17.6965 in the next year. View Analyst Ratings for Wendy's.

Wendy's saw a decline in short interest in April. As of April 30th, there was short interest totalling 21,967,329 shares, a decline of 6.3% from the April 13th total of 23,439,446 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 3,187,318 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 6.9 days. Approximately 9.9% of the shares of the company are sold short.

Some companies that are related to Wendy's include Dunkin' Brands (DNKN), Greene King (GKNGY), Shake Shack (SHAK), Cannae (CNNE), Empire Resorts (NYNY), Jamba (JMBA), IPic Entertainment (IPIC) and Giggles N Hugs (GIGL).

News stories about WEN stock have trended somewhat positive this week, Accern Sentiment Analysis reports. Accern rates the sentiment of media coverage by analyzing more than 20 million blog and news sources in real-time. Accern ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative one to positive one, with scores closest to one being the most favorable. Wendy's earned a news sentiment score of 0.14 on Accern's scale. They also assigned media stories about the restaurant operator an impact score of 45.98 out of 100, meaning that recent media coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an effect on the company's share price in the near term.

Wendy's' stock is owned by many different of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include TRIAN FUND MANAGEMENT, L.P. (20.57%), TRIAN FUND MANAGEMENT, L.P. (20.57%), TRIAN FUND MANAGEMENT, L.P. (19.82%), Trian Fund Management L.P. (14.23%), BlackRock Inc. (6.23%) and Wells Fargo & Company MN (3.65%). Company insiders that own Wendy's stock include Edward P Garden, EJ Wunsch, Emil J Brolick, Gunther Plosch, Matthew H Peltz, Nelson Peltz, Scott A Weisberg and Trian Partners Parallel Fund I. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Wendy's.

WEN stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Trian Fund Management L.P., Point72 Asset Management L.P., JPMorgan Chase & Co., Maplelane Capital LLC, Victory Capital Management Inc., Allianz Asset Management GmbH, Hsbc Holdings PLC and Millennium Management LLC. Company insiders that have sold Wendy's company stock in the last year include Edward P Garden, EJ Wunsch, Emil J Brolick, Matthew H Peltz, Nelson Peltz and Trian Partners Parallel Fund I. View Insider Buying and Selling for Wendy's.

WEN stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including OppenheimerFunds Inc., Landscape Capital Management L.L.C., RWC Asset Management LLP, Seven Eight Capital LP, Russell Investments Group Ltd., Impax Asset Management LLC, Intrinsic Edge Capital Management LLC and BlackRock Inc.. Company insiders that have bought Wendy's stock in the last two years include Edward P Garden, Gunther Plosch and Scott A Weisberg. View Insider Buying and Selling for Wendy's.

Shares of WEN can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Scottrade, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of WEN stock can currently be purchased for approximately $16.20.

Wendy's has a market capitalization of $3.94 billion and generates $1.22 billion in revenue each year. The restaurant operator earns $194.02 million in net income (profit) each year or $0.43 on an earnings per share basis. Wendy's employs 12,100 workers across the globe.

Wendy's' mailing address is ONE DAVE THOMAS BLVD, DUBLIN OH, 43017. The restaurant operator can be reached via phone at 614-764-3100 or via email at [email protected]