Wingstop - WING Stock Forecast, Price & News

19 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Wingstop in the last twelve months. 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 brokerages have issued 12 month price objectives for Wingstop's shares. Their WING share price forecasts range from $70.00 to $186.00. On average, they expect the company's share price to reach $140.11 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 11.9% from the stock's current price.
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Wingstop's stock was trading at $172.80 on January 1st, 2022. Since then, WING shares have decreased by 27.5% and is now trading at $125.25.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, November 2nd 2022.
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Wingstop Inc. (NASDAQ:WING) posted its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, July, 28th. The restaurant operator reported $0.45 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.35 by $0.10. The restaurant operator had revenue of $83.78 million for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $86.11 million. Wingstop had a negative trailing twelve-month return on equity of 10.82% and a net margin of 13.49%. Wingstop's revenue for the quarter was up 13.2% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the prior year, the company posted $0.38 earnings per share.

Wingstop declared a quarterly dividend on Thursday, July 28th. Investors of record on Friday, August 12th will be paid a dividend of $0.19 per share on Friday, September 2nd. This represents a $0.76 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 0.61%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, August 11th. This is a boost from the stock's previous quarterly dividend of $0.17.
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Wingstop (NASDAQ:WING) pays an annual dividend of $0.76 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 0.61%. 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 56.72%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, WING will have a dividend payout ratio of 41.30% 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 Thursday, August, 4th. The company provided EPS guidance of $1.55-$1.57 for the period, compared to the consensus earnings per share estimate of $1.53. 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 (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 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 Price T Rowe Associates Inc. MD (11.24%), Federated Hermes Inc. (3.32%), State Street Corp (3.07%), Stephens Investment Management Group LLC (2.81%), Allspring Global Investments Holdings LLC (2.79%) and Clearbridge Investments 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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Shares of WING stock can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include WeBull, Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity, and Charles Schwab.
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One share of WING stock can currently be purchased for approximately $125.25.

Wingstop (NASDAQ:WING) has a market capitalization of $3.75 billion and generates $282.50 million in revenue each year. The restaurant operator earns $42.66 million in net income (profit) each year or $1.34 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.