Wingstop - WING Stock Forecast, Price & News

18 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Wingstop in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 5 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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18 brokerages have issued 1-year target prices 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 $156.00 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 6.0%.
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Wingstop's stock was trading at $137.62 at the start of the year. Since then, WING stock has increased by 20.6% and is now trading at $165.96.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, February 22nd 2023.
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Wingstop will be holding an earnings conference call on Wednesday, February 22nd at 10:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link or dial in at 412-317-0088 with passcode "1996778".

Wingstop Inc. (NASDAQ:WING) issued its earnings results on Wednesday, November, 3rd. The restaurant operator reported $0.29 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing analysts' consensus estimates of $0.35 by $0.06. The restaurant operator had revenue of $65.78 million for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $74.86 million. Wingstop had a negative trailing twelve-month return on equity of 11.46% and a net margin of 13.01%. Wingstop's revenue for the quarter was up 2.8% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the previous year, the company posted $0.34 earnings per share.

Wingstop declared a quarterly dividend on Tuesday, October 25th. Investors 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 annualized dividend and a yield of 0.46%. 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 0.47%. 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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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 IPO on Friday, June 12th 2015. The company issued 5,800,000 shares at a price of $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 institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Stephens Investment Management Group LLC (2.36%), Allspring Global Investments Holdings LLC (1.64%), Copeland Capital Management LLC (1.54%), New York State Common Retirement Fund (0.61%), Kornitzer Capital Management Inc. KS (0.22%) and Bank of Montreal Can (0.13%). 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 $165.96.

Wingstop (NASDAQ:WING) has a market capitalization of $4.96 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.