Currently, there are 195.85M common shares owned by the public and among those 174.68M shares have been available to trade.
The company’s stock has a 5-day price change of 3.30% and -22.39% over the past three months. WEN shares are trading -28.96% year to date (YTD), with the 12-month market performance down to -32.52% lower. It has a 12-month low price of $10.98 and touched a high of $20.60 over the same period. WEN has an average intraday trading volume of 5.13 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 -1.57%, -8.91%, and -26.85% respectively.
Institutional ownership of Wendy’s Co (NASDAQ: WEN) shares accounts for 89.84% of the company’s 195.85M shares outstanding.
It has a market capitalization of $2.22B and a beta (3y monthly) value of 0.34. The stock’s trailing 12-month PE ratio is 12.36, while the earnings-per-share (ttm) stands at $0.94. The company has a PEG of 2.53 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 1.46% over the week and 2.32% over the month.
Earnings per share for the fiscal year are expected to decrease by -4.86%, and 10.50% over the next financial year. EPS should shrink at an annualized rate of 4.88% over the next five years, compared to 12.83% over the past 5-year period.
JP Morgan coverage for the Wendy’s Co (WEN) stock in a research note released on May 05, 2025 offered a Overweight rating with a price target of $15. JP Morgan was of a view on February 26, 2025 that the stock is Neutral, while Morgan Stanley gave the stock Underweight rating on January 21, 2025, issuing a price target of $22- $14. Goldman on their part issued Sell rating on June 13, 2024.
