Wingstop Stock Price, News & Analysis (NASDAQ:WING)

20 Wall Street equities research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Wingstop in the last year. There are currently 11 hold ratings and 9 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street equities 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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20 brokerages have issued 1 year price targets for Wingstop's stock. Their WING share price targets range from $161.00 to $240.00. On average, they predict the company's share price to reach $204.21 in the next twelve months. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 16.5%.
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Wingstop's stock was trading at $137.62 at the beginning of the year. Since then, WING shares have increased by 77.6% and is now trading at $244.48.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, February 28th 2024.
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Wingstop Inc. (NASDAQ:WING) issued its earnings results on Wednesday, November, 1st. The restaurant operator reported $0.69 earnings per share for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $0.52 by $0.17. The restaurant operator earned $117.10 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $109.27 million. Wingstop had a net margin of 15.75% and a negative trailing twelve-month return on equity of 18.20%. The firm's revenue was up 26.3% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period last year, the business posted $0.45 earnings per share.

Wingstop declared a quarterly dividend on Tuesday, October 31st. Shareholders of record on Friday, November 17th will be given a dividend of $0.22 per share on Friday, December 8th. This represents a $0.88 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 0.36%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, November 16th.
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Wingstop (NASDAQ:WING) pays an annual dividend of $0.88 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 0.36%. 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 38.26%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, WING will have a dividend payout ratio of 31.43% 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 Leisure and Entertainment ETF (PEJ), BlackRock Future Innovators ETF (BFTR), Alpha Architect U.S. Quantitative Momentum ETF (QMOM), WisdomTree U.S. Growth & Momentum Fund (WGRO), First Trust Multi-Manager Small Cap Opportunities ETF (MMSC) and iShares Factors US Growth Style ETF (STLG).

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).

(WING) raised $75 million in an initial public offering (IPO) on Friday, June 12th 2015. The company issued 5,800,000 shares at $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 variety of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include American Century Companies Inc. (5.53%), Wellington Management Group LLP (3.97%), Federated Hermes Inc. (3.70%), Artisan Partners Limited Partnership (3.67%), Invesco Ltd. (2.94%) and Clearbridge Investments LLC (2.74%). Insiders that own company stock include Albert G Mcgrath, Alex Kaleida, Charles R Morrison, Charles R Morrison, Christina Clarke, Donnie Upshaw, Krishnan Anand, Mahesh Sadarangani, Marisa Carona, Michael Skipworth, Nicolas Boudet, Stacy Peterson and Wesley S Mcdonald.
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