Wingstop - WING Stock Forecast, Price & News

19 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Wingstop in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 6 hold ratings and 12 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street analysts is that investors should "buy" WING shares.
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19 brokers have issued 1-year price targets for Wingstop's shares. Their WING share price forecasts range from $70.00 to $186.00. On average, they expect the company's stock price to reach $156.82 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 1.9% from the stock's current price.
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Wingstop's stock was trading at $172.80 at the beginning of 2022. Since then, WING stock has decreased by 11.0% and is now trading at $153.84.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, February 15th 2023.
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Wingstop Inc. (NASDAQ:WING) announced its earnings results on Wednesday, October, 26th. The restaurant operator reported $0.45 earnings per share for the quarter, topping analysts' consensus estimates of $0.36 by $0.09. The restaurant operator earned $92.67 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $89.81 million. Wingstop had a net margin of 13.01% and a negative trailing twelve-month return on equity of 11.46%.

Wingstop announced a quarterly dividend on Tuesday, October 25th. Stockholders of record on Friday, November 11th will be given a dividend of $0.19 per share on Friday, December 2nd. This represents a $0.76 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 0.49%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Wednesday, November 9th.
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Wingstop (NASDAQ:WING) pays an annual dividend of $0.76 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 0.51%. The company has been increasing its dividend for 5 consecutive years, indicating the company has a new, but growing committment to grow its dividend. The dividend payout ratio is 53.90%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, WING will have a dividend payout ratio of 39.58% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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Wingstop issued an update on its FY 2022 earnings guidance on Wednesday, November, 2nd. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of $1.61-$1.63 for the period, compared to the consensus earnings per share estimate of $1.58. The company issued revenue guidance of -.

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.

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

Wingstop trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "WING."

Wingstop's stock is owned by many different retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include BlackRock Inc. (11.82%), Price T Rowe Associates Inc. MD (9.61%), Vanguard Group Inc. (9.47%), Federated Hermes Inc. (3.22%), State Street Corp (3.11%) and Stephens Investment Management Group LLC (2.56%). Insiders that own company stock include Albert G Mcgrath, Alex Kaleida, Charles R Morrison, Charles R Morrison, Christina Clarke, Donnie Upshaw, Madison Jobe, Mahesh Sadarangani, Marisa Carona, Michael Skipworth, Nicolas Boudet and Stacy Peterson.
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One share of WING stock can currently be purchased for approximately $153.84.

Wingstop (NASDAQ:WING) has a market capitalization of $4.60 billion and generates $282.50 million in revenue each year. The restaurant operator earns $42.66 million in net income (profit) each year or $1.41 on an earnings per share basis.

The company employs 240 workers across the globe.

Wingstop's mailing address is 5501 LBJ FREEWAY 5TH FLOOR, DALLAS TX, 75240. The official website for the company is www.wingstop.com. The restaurant operator can be reached via phone at (972) 686-6500 or via email at ir@wingstop.com.