Investor’s Toolkit: Key Ratios for Assessing Wingstop Inc (WING)’s Performance

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Wingstop Inc (NASDAQ: WING) closed the day trading at $364.73 up 2.81% from the previous closing price of $354.75. In other words, the price has increased by $2.81 from its previous closing price. On the day, 0.51 million shares were traded. WING stock price reached its highest trading level at $365.93 during the session, while it also had its lowest trading level at $355.0.

Ratios:

For a better understanding of WING, let’s look at its different ratios. It provided that stocks Price–to–Cash (P/C) ratio for the trailing twelve months (TTM) is standing at 84.27 whereas its Price-to-Free Cash Flow (P/FCF) for the term is 132.49. For the most recent quarter (mrq), Quick Ratio is recorded 2.03 and its Current Ratio is at 2.03.

On February 14, 2024, Bernstein started tracking the stock assigning a Outperform rating and target price of $340.

Insider Transactions:

The insider trade also gives investors a glimpse into the future direction of stock prices, which can be beneficial to investors. A recent insider transaction in this stock occurred on Mar 08 ’24 when Carona Marisa sold 2,586 shares for $371.96 per share. The transaction valued at 961,882 led to the insider holds 1,646 shares of the business.

Skipworth Michael sold 10,843 shares of WING for $3,658,438 on Feb 23 ’24. The President and CEO now owns 17,107 shares after completing the transaction at $337.40 per share. On Feb 23 ’24, another insider, Madati Kilandigalu, who serves as the Director of the company, sold 1,472 shares for $339.87 each. As a result, the insider received 500,281 and left with 5,450 shares of the company.

Valuation Measures:

Investors should consider key stock statistics when deciding whether to invest or divest. In the wake of the recent closing price, WING now has a Market Capitalization of 10712047616 and an Enterprise Value of 11049924608. As of this moment, Wingstop’s Price-to-Earnings (P/E) ratio for their current fiscal year is 155.06, and their Forward P/E ratio for the next fiscal year is 98.18. The expected Price-to-Earnings-to-Growth (PEG) calculation for the next 5 years is 8.91. For the stock, the TTM Price-to-Sale (P/S) ratio is 23.26. Its current Enterprise Value per Revenue stands at 24.019 whereas that against EBITDA is 84.3.

Stock Price History:

Over the past 52 weeks, WING has reached a high of $379.00, while it has fallen to a 52-week low of $150.08. The 50-Day Moving Average of the stock is 4.85%, while the 200-Day Moving Average is calculated to be 49.91%.

Shares Statistics:

Over the past 3-months, WING traded about 485.87K shares per day on average, while over the past 10 days, WING traded about 427910 shares per day. A total of 29.34M shares are outstanding, with a floating share count of 28.60M. Insiders hold about 2.50% of the company’s shares, while institutions hold 105.40% stake in the company. Shares short for WING as of 1711584000 were 1863871 with a Short Ratio of 3.84, compared to 1709164800 on 1488968. Therefore, it implies a Short% of Shares Outstanding of 1863871 and a Short% of Float of 6.370000000000001.

Dividends & Splits

WING’s forward annual dividend rate is 0.85, up from 0.82 a year ago. Against a Trailing Annual Dividend Yield of 0.002311487The stock’s 5-year Average Dividend Yield is 0.42.

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