Wingstop (WING) Stock Price, News & Analysis

18 Wall Street equities research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Wingstop in the last twelve months. There are currently 10 hold ratings and 8 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street equities 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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18 brokers have issued 1-year target prices for Wingstop's shares. Their WING share price targets range from $190.00 to $425.00. On average, they predict the company's stock price to reach $290.83 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 18.5%.
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Wingstop's stock was trading at $256.58 on January 1st, 2024. Since then, WING shares have increased by 39.0% and is now trading at $356.72.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, May 1st 2024.
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Wingstop will be holding an earnings conference call on Wednesday, May 1st 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 "3920698".

Wingstop Inc. (NASDAQ:WING) issued its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, February, 21st. The restaurant operator reported $0.64 EPS for the quarter, topping analysts' consensus estimates of $0.57 by $0.07. The restaurant operator earned $127.06 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $120.47 million. Wingstop had a negative trailing twelve-month return on equity of 17.66% and a net margin of 15.25%. The firm's quarterly revenue was up 21.2% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the prior year, the company earned $0.60 EPS.

Wingstop announced a quarterly dividend on Tuesday, February 20th. Stockholders of record on Friday, March 8th will be given a dividend of $0.22 per share on Friday, March 29th. This represents a $0.88 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 0.25%. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, March 7th.
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Wingstop (NASDAQ:WING) pays an annual dividend of $0.88 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 0.24%. The company has been increasing its dividend for 6 consecutive years, indicating the company has a new, but growing committment to grow its dividend. The dividend payout ratio is 37.45%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, WING will have a dividend payout ratio of 23.98% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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ETFs with the largest weight of Wingstop (NASDAQ:WING) stock in their portfolio include AdvisorShares Restaurant ETF (EATZ), AdvisorShares Vice ETF (VICE), Innovator IBD Breakout Opportunities ETF (BOUT), Invesco Dorsey Wright Consumer Cyclicals Momentum ETF (PEZ), Invesco Leisure and Entertainment ETF (PEJ), Invesco Food & Beverage ETF (PBJ), Texas Capital Texas Equity Index ETF (TXS) and Amplify AI Powered Equity ETF (AIEQ).

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.

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Wingstop investors own include NVIDIA (NVDA), Netflix (NFLX), Tesla (TSLA), Walt Disney (DIS), Alibaba Group (BABA), PayPal (PYPL), Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Salesforce (CRM), Block (SQ) and Intel (INTC).

Wingstop (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 served as the underwriters for the IPO and Goldman Sachs, Barclays and Wells Fargo Securities were co-managers.

Wingstop's stock is owned by a number of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Allspring Global Investments Holdings LLC (0.70%), Portman Square Capital LLP (0.00%), Congress Asset Management Co. MA (0.04%), State of Michigan Retirement System (0.02%), Park Avenue Securities LLC (0.01%) and Wealth Enhancement Advisory Services LLC (0.01%). Insiders that own company stock include Albert G Mcgrath, Alex Kaleida, Charles R Morrison, Charles R Morrison, Donnie Upshaw, Kilandigalu Madati, Krishnan Anand, Mahesh Sadarangani, Marisa Carona, Michael Skipworth, Nicolas Boudet, Stacy Peterson and Wesley S Mcdonald.
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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 Charles Schwab, E*TRADE, Fidelity, and Vanguard Brokerage Services.
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