Wingstop Stock Forecast, Price & News

18 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Wingstop in the last year. There are currently 5 hold ratings and 13 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street analysts is that investors should "buy" Wingstop stock.
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Wingstop is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, May 5th 2021.
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Wingstop Inc. (NASDAQ:WING) posted its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, February, 17th. The restaurant operator reported $0.18 earnings per share for the quarter, missing analysts' consensus estimates of $0.23 by $0.05. Wingstop had a net margin of 12.73% and a negative trailing twelve-month return on equity of 14.61%.
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Wingstop's stock was trading at $71.57 on March 11th, 2020 when Coronavirus reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization. Since then, WING shares have increased by 68.4% and is now trading at $120.53.
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Wingstop announced a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, February 17th. Stockholders of record on Friday, March 5th will be given a dividend of $0.14 per share on Friday, March 26th. This represents a $0.56 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 0.46%. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, March 4th.
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Wingstop pays an annual dividend of $0.56 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 0.46%. Wingstop has been increasing its dividend for 3 consecutive year(s), indicating that it does not yet have a strock track record of dividend growth. The dividend payout ratio of Wingstop is 76.71%. Payout ratios above 75% are not desirable because they may not be sustainable. Based on earnings estimates, Wingstop will have a dividend payout ratio of 37.84% next year. This indicates that Wingstop will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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18 Wall Street analysts have issued 1 year price targets for Wingstop's stock. Their forecasts range from $105.00 to $187.00. On average, they anticipate Wingstop's share price to reach $158.57 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 31.6% from the stock's current price.
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132 employees have rated Wingstop CEO Charles Morrison on Glassdoor.com. Charles Morrison has an approval rating of 61% among Wingstop'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 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 a variety of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include BlackRock Inc. (11.62%), Federated Hermes Inc. (4.26%), Alliancebernstein L.P. (2.11%), Dimensional Fund Advisors LP (1.91%), Northern Trust Corp (1.71%) and Stephens Investment Management Group LLC (1.54%). Company insiders that own Wingstop stock include Charles R Morrison, Donnie Upshaw, Lawrence Kruguer, Madison Jobe, Mahesh Sadarangani, Marisa Carona, Maurice Cooper, Michael J Hislop, Michael Skipworth and Nicolas Boudet.
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WING stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Renaissance Technologies LLC, Dimensional Fund Advisors LP, Federated Hermes Inc., Artemis Investment Management LLP, Bank of New York Mellon Corp, Wells Fargo & Company MN, Engineers Gate Manager LP, and Jennison Associates LLC. Company insiders that have sold Wingstop company stock in the last year include Charles R Morrison, Donnie Upshaw, Madison Jobe, Mahesh Sadarangani, Marisa Carona, and Nicolas Boudet.
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WING stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Norges Bank, MARSHALL WACE ASIA Ltd, Epoch Investment Partners Inc., Artisan Partners Limited Partnership, Copeland Capital Management LLC, Alliancebernstein L.P., Lord Abbett & CO. LLC, and Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan Trust Fund.
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Shares of WING 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 $120.53.

Wingstop has a market capitalization of $3.58 billion and generates $199.68 million in revenue each year. The restaurant operator earns $20.48 million in net income (profit) each year or $0.73 on an earnings per share basis.

Wingstop employs 209 workers across the globe.

The official website for Wingstop is www.wingstop.com.

Wingstop is headquartered at 5501 LBJ FREEWAY 5TH FLOOR, DALLAS TX, 75240.

Wingstop's mailing address is 5501 LBJ FREEWAY 5TH FLOOR, DALLAS TX, 75240. The restaurant operator can be reached via phone at 972-686-6500.