How does Wingstop Inc (WING) change from a tortoise to a hare?

With 0.54 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 0.58 million shares. During the session, the Restaurants company that operates in wider Consumer Cyclical sector, reached to the highest price of $289.05 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $280.46. The 52-week range on WING shows that it touched its highest point at $433.86 and its lowest point at $266.45 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $369.14. With its current market cap of 8.43 billion, WING has annualized dividend of $0.98 while the current yield stands at 0.34%. WING paid its most recent dividend on 1731628800, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1731628800. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.80.

Price Performance and Earnings:

Stock performance is one of the indicators that investors use to determine whether they will profit from a stock. The price performance of WING was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 5.86%, but this was down by -0.63% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -21.69% while six-month performance fell -25.09%. The stock gained 2.38% in the past year, while it has gained 1.52% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for WING yields 3.42 with Next year EPS estimates of 4.44. For the next quarter, that number is 0.88. This implies an EPS growth rate of 47.75% for this year and 21.16% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 20.00% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of 26.21%.

Float and Shares Shorts:

At present, 29.21 million WING shares are outstanding with a float of 29.13 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-12-31, short shares totaled 1.74 million, which was 596.0 higher than short shares on 1732838400. In addition to Mr. Michael J. Skipworth CPA as the firm’s President, CEO & Director, Mr. Alex R. Kaleida serves as its CFO & Senior VP.

Institutional Ownership:

Through their ownership of 1.03606 of WING’s outstanding shares, institutional investors have minority control over the company.

An Overview of Recent Financials:

Understanding a company as a customer does not mean you will understand it as an investor. The wise investor uses quantitative research to analyze metrics such as revenue, net income, and earnings. In its fiscal quarter reported on 2024-09-28, WING reported revenue of $162498000.0 and operating income of $39818000.0. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was $45672000.0 and diluted EPS was $0.88.

Analysts Ratings:

Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for WING since 16 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 8 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 8 believe that the stock is worth HOLDING, 0 give it an OVERWEIGHT rating, and 0 thinks that it’s UNDERWEIGHT. In the same way, a target price assigned to a stock can also reveal much about its potential. With WING analysts setting a high price target of 468.0 and a low target of 180.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 362.65738. Based on these targets, WING could surge 62.2% to reach the target high and fall by -37.61% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 25.69% from current levels.

Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $3.74575 being high and $3.59592 being low. For WING, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $3.66584.