WEN Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (Wendy's Company | NASDAQ:WEN)

The Wendy's Company is the second-largest burger quick-service restaurant, or QSR, chain in the United States by systemwide sales, with $12.6 billion in 2024, narrowly edging Burger King ($11.5 billion) and clocking in well behind wide-moat McDonald's ($51.1 billion). After divestitures of Tim Hortons (2006) and Arby's (2011), the firm manages just the burger banner, generating sales across a footprint that spanned more than 7,200 total stores in 30 countries as of year-end 2024. Wendy's generates revenue from the sale of hamburgers, chicken sandwiches, salads, and fries throughout its company-owned footprint, through franchise royalty and marketing fund payments remitted by its franchisees, which account for roughly 94% of stores, and through franchise flipping and advisory fees.

Wendy's Company trades on the NASDAQ stock market under the symbol WEN.

As of January 7, 2026, WEN stock price declined to $8.22 with 4,511,018 million shares trading.

WEN has a beta of 0.52, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. WEN has a correlation of 0.10 to the broad based SPY ETF.

WEN has a market cap of $1.57 billion. This is considered a Small Cap stock.

Last quarter Wendy's Company reported $550 million in Revenue and $.24 earnings per share. This beat revenue expectation by $13 million and exceeded earnings estimates by $.04.

In the last 3 years, WEN traded as high as $23.90 and as low as $7.83.

The top ETF exchange traded funds that WEN belongs to (by Net Assets): IJR, VTI, SCHD, VB, DVY.

WEN has underperformed the market in the last year with a price return of -42.2% while the SPY ETF gained +18.4%. WEN has also underperformed the stock market ETF in the last 3 month and 2 week periods returning -8.2% and -0.8%, respectively, while the SPY returned +3.4% and -0.1%, respectively.

WEN support price is $8.27 and resistance is $8.61 (based on 1 day standard deviation move). This means that using the most recent 20 day stock volatility and applying a one standard deviation move around the stock's closing price, stastically there is a 67% probability that WEN shares will trade within this expected range on the day.