Currently, there are 195.85M common shares owned by the public and among those 178.59M shares have been available to trade.
The company’s stock has a 5-day price change of -2.19% and -16.70% over the past three months. WEN shares are trading -23.19% year to date (YTD), with the 12-month market performance down to -36.19% lower. It has a 12-month low price of $12.05 and touched a high of $20.60 over the same period. WEN has an average intraday trading volume of 5.67 million shares. The stock is trading above its simple moving averages at the SMA20, SMA50, and SMA200, as the current price level is off by -1.79%, -11.57%, and -23.47% respectively.
Institutional ownership of Wendy’s Co (NASDAQ: WEN) shares accounts for 87.15% of the company’s 195.85M shares outstanding.
It has a market capitalization of $2.40B and a beta (3y monthly) value of 0.38. The stock’s trailing 12-month PE ratio is 13.36, while the earnings-per-share (ttm) stands at $0.94. The company has a PEG of 2.56 and a Quick Ratio of 1.47 with the debt-to-equity ratio at 31.30. Price movements for the stock have been influenced by the stock’s volatility, which stands at 3.19% over the week and 4.17% over the month.
Earnings per share for the fiscal year are expected to decrease by -3.85%, and 10.58% over the next financial year. EPS should shrink at an annualized rate of 5.22% over the next five years, compared to 12.83% over the past 5-year period.
Looking at the support for the WEN, a number of firms have released research notes about the stock. JP Morgan stated their Overweight rating for the stock in a research note on May 05, 2025, with the firm’s price target at $15. JP Morgan coverage for the Wendy’s Co (WEN) stock in a research note released on February 26, 2025 offered a Neutral rating with a price target of $17. Morgan Stanley was of a view on January 21, 2025 that the stock is Underweight, while Goldman gave the stock Sell rating on June 13, 2024, issuing a price target of $16. Stephens on their part issued Equal-Weight rating on April 12, 2024.
