Wendy’s Co (WEN) is ready for next Episode as it posted an annual sales of 2,182 M

On Friday, Wendy’s Co (NASDAQ: WEN) was -3.12% drop from the session before settling in for the closing price of $14.76. A 52-week range for WEN has been $13.72 – $20.65.

Annual sales at Consumer Cyclical sector company grew by 5.68% over the past five years. When this article was written, the company’s average yearly earnings per share was at 0.54%. With a float of $185.70 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $203.83 million.

Let’s look at the performance matrix of the company that is accounted for 15300 employees. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 27.84%, operating margin of 16.18%, and the pretax margin is 12.17%.

Wendy’s Co (WEN) Insider Updates

Also, it is sometimes useful to examine the sentiment of large-scale investors toward Wendy’s Co stocks. The insider ownership of Wendy’s Co is 8.80%, while institutional ownership is 84.01%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Nov 07 ’24, was worth 496,089. In this transaction Director of this company sold 24,462 shares at a rate of $20.28, taking the stock ownership to the 63,789 shares. Before that another transaction happened on Nov 05 ’24, when Company’s Chf Corp Affrs & Sustnblty Ofc sold 52,009 for $19.63, making the entire transaction worth $1,020,937. This insider now owns 83,492 shares in total.

Wendy’s Co (WEN) Performance Highlights and Predictions

Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 0.28 per share during the current fiscal year.

According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 0.54% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 7.22% during the next five years compared to 12.95% growth over the previous five years of trading.

Wendy’s Co (NASDAQ: WEN) Trading Performance Indicators

You can see what Wendy’s Co (WEN) is doing with its current performance indicators. In the most recent quarter, the stock posted a quick ratio of 1.83. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 1.30. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 11.17.

For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 0.94, a number that is poised to hit 0.20 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 1.12 in one year’s time.

Technical Analysis of Wendy’s Co (WEN)

Wendy’s Co (NASDAQ: WEN) saw its 5-day average volume 6.99 million, a positive change from its year-to-date volume of 4.83 million. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 37.59%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 0.43.

During the past 100 days, Wendy’s Co’s (WEN) raw stochastic average was set at 8.43%, which indicates a significant decrease from 39.73% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 27.37% in the past 14 days, which was higher than the 27.17% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.

At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $15.71, while its 200-day Moving Average is $17.24. Nevertheless, the first resistance level for the watch stands at $14.83 in the near term. At $15.37, the stock is likely to face the second major resistance level. The third major resistance level sits at $15.64. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $14.02, it is likely to go to the next support level at $13.75. Assuming the price breaks the second support level, the third support level stands at $13.21.

Wendy’s Co (NASDAQ: WEN) Key Stats

There are 203,845K outstanding shares of the company, which has a market capitalization of 2.91 billion. As of now, sales total 2,182 M while income totals 204,440 K. Its latest quarter income was 566,740 K while its last quarter net income were 50,220 K.