Wendy’s Co (NASDAQ:WEN) shares, rose in value, with the stock price down by -2.23% to the previous day’s close as strong demand from buyers drove the stock to $14.43.
Actively observing the price movement in the recent trading, the stock is buoying the session at $14.76, falling within a range of $14.39 and $15.09. The value of beta (5-year monthly) is 0.783 whereas the PE ratio is 15.29 over 12-month period. Referring to stock’s 52-week performance, its high was $20.65, and the low was $13.72. On the whole, WEN has fluctuated by -4.62% over the past month.
With the market capitalization of Wendy’s Co currently standing at about $2.94 billion, investors are eagerly awaiting this quarter’s results, scheduled for in March. The company’s Forward Dividend Ratio is 1.00, with its dividend yield at 6.93%.
Projections by analysts suggest varying estimates for the company’s quarterly revenue. Analysts have estimated the company’s revenue for the quarter at 2.26B, with a low estimate of 524.05M and a high estimate of 551M. Wall Street analysts also predicted that the company’s y-o-y revenues would reach 534.56M.
Technical indicators serve as essential tools for traders, offering insights into market sentiment and potential price movements. We see that WEN’s technical picture suggests that short-term indicators denote the stock is a 100% Sell on average. However, medium-term indicators have put the stock in the category of 100% Sell while long-term indicators on average have been pointing out that it is a 100% Sell.
The stock’s technical analysis shows that the PEG ratio is about 2.11, with the price of WEN currently trading nearly -1.03% and -8.18% away from the simple moving averages for 20 and 50 days respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently indicates a reading of 39.15, while the 7-day volatility ratio is showing 3.55% which for the 30-day chart, stands at 2.61%. Furthermore, Wendy’s Co (WEN)’s beta value is 0.74, and its average true range (ATR) is 0.42.
A comparison of Wendy’s Co (WEN) with its peers suggests the former has fared considerably weaker in the market. WEN showed an intraday change of -2.23% in today’s session so far, and over the past year, it shrunk by -24.53%%.
Data on historical trading for Wendy’s Co (NASDAQ:WEN) indicates that the trading volumes over the past 10 days have averaged 4.83 and over the past 3 months, they’ve averaged 4.01 million. According to company’s latest data on outstanding shares, there are 203.83 million shares outstanding.
Nearly 8.80% of Wendy’s Co’s shares belong to company insiders and institutional investors own 79.69% of the company’s shares. The data on short interest also indicates that stock shorts accounted for 9.49 million shares as on 2025-01-31, resulting in a short ratio of 2.13. According to the data, the short interest in Wendy’s Co (WEN) stood at 643.00 of shares outstanding as of 2025-01-31; the number of short shares registered in 2024-12-31 reached 12.19 million. The stock has fallen by -11.47% since the beginning of the year, thereby showing the potential of a further growth. This could raise investors’ confidence to be optimistic about the WEN stock heading into the next quarter.