Wingstop - WING Stock Forecast, Price & News

19 Wall Street research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Wingstop in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 9 hold ratings and 9 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street 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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19 Wall Street research analysts have issued 1 year target prices for Wingstop's shares. Their WING share price forecasts range from $70.00 to $205.00. On average, they predict the company's stock price to reach $172.82 in the next twelve months. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 6.2%.
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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 33.9% and is now trading at $184.26.
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Wingstop saw a drop in short interest in the month of February. As of February 28th, there was short interest totaling 2,760,000 shares, a drop of 12.4% from the February 13th total of 3,150,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 596,500 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 4.6 days. Approximately 9.5% of the company's shares are short sold.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, May 3rd 2023.
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Wingstop Inc. (NASDAQ:WING) posted its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, February, 22nd. The restaurant operator reported $0.60 EPS for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.42 by $0.18. The restaurant operator had revenue of $104.90 million for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $100.96 million. Wingstop had a net margin of 14.81% and a negative trailing twelve-month return on equity of 13.52%. The company's revenue for the quarter was up 45.7% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter last year, the firm posted $0.24 EPS.

Wingstop announced a quarterly dividend on Tuesday, February 21st. Shareholders of record on Friday, March 10th will be given a dividend of $0.19 per share on Friday, March 31st. This represents a $0.76 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 0.41%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, March 9th.
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ETFs with the largest weight of Wingstop (NASDAQ:WING) stock in their portfolio include AdvisorShares Restaurant ETF (EATZ), Innovator IBD Breakout Opportunities ETF (BOUT), Innovator IBD 50 ETF (FFTY), BlackRock Future Innovators ETF (BFTR), QRAFT AI-Enhanced U.S. Large Cap Momentum ETF (AMOM), Pacer Lunt MidCap Multi-Factor Alternator ETF (PAMC), First Trust Multi-Manager Small Cap Opportunities ETF (MMSC) and Invesco S&P MidCap 400 Pure Growth ETF (RFG).

Wingstop (NASDAQ:WING) pays an annual dividend of $0.76 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 0.41%. 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 42.94%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, WING will have a dividend payout ratio of 32.90% 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 $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 institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Price T Rowe Associates Inc. MD (7.75%), American Century Companies Inc. (6.80%), Alliancebernstein L.P. (3.01%), Clearbridge Investments LLC (2.59%), Stephens Investment Management Group LLC (2.36%) and Artisan Partners Limited Partnership (2.32%). Insiders that own company stock include Albert G Mcgrath, Alex Kaleida, Charles R Morrison, Charles R Morrison, Christina Clarke, Donnie Upshaw, Krishnan Anand, 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 $184.26.

Wingstop (NASDAQ:WING) has a market capitalization of $5.51 billion and generates $357.52 million in revenue each year. The restaurant operator earns $52.95 million in net income (profit) each year or $1.77 on an earnings per share basis.

The company employs 1,031 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.