The PB Ratio, or Price-to-Book ratio, or Price/Book, is a financial ratio used to compare a company's market price to its Book Value per Share. As of today (2025-03-26), The Wendy's Co's share price is $14.55. The Wendy's Co's Book Value per Share for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2024 was $1.27. Hence, The Wendy's Co's PB Ratio of today is 11.44.
The historical rank and industry rank for The Wendy's Co's PB Ratio or its related term are showing as below:
WEN'
s PB Ratio Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 1.86 Med: 8.88 Max: 15.39
Current: 11.46
During the past 13 years, The Wendy's Co's highest PB Ratio was 15.39. The lowest was 1.86. And the median was 8.88.
WEN's PB Ratio is ranked worse than 92.68% of 314
companies
in the Restaurants industry
Industry Median: 2.57
vs WEN: 11.46
During the past 12 months, The Wendy's Co's average Book Value Per Share Growth Rate was -15.60% per year.
During the past 3 years, the average Book Value Per Share Growth Rate was -14.30% per year.
During the past 5 years, the average Book Value Per Share Growth Rate was -11.60% per year.
During the past 10 years, the average Book Value Per Share Growth Rate was -8.20% per year.
During the past 13 years, the highest 3-Year average Book Value Per Share Growth Rate of The Wendy's Co was 248.40% per year. The lowest was -40.90% per year. And the median was -2.90% per year.
Back to Basics: PB Ratio
The Wendy's Co PB Ratio Historical Data
The historical data trend for The Wendy's Co's PB Ratio can be seen below:
* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD. * For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.
Competitive Comparison of The Wendy's Co's PB Ratio
For the Restaurants subindustry, The Wendy's Co's PB Ratio, along with its competitors' market caps and PB Ratio data, can be viewed below:
* Competitive companies are chosen from companies within the same industry, with headquarter located in same country, with closest market capitalization; x-axis shows the market cap, and y-axis shows the term value; the bigger the dot, the larger the market cap. Note that "N/A" values will not show up in the chart.
The Wendy's Co's PB Ratio Distribution in the Restaurants Industry
For the Restaurants industry and Consumer Cyclical sector, The Wendy's Co's PB Ratio distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where The Wendy's Co's PB Ratio falls into.
The Wendy's Co PB Ratio Calculation
The PB Ratio, or Price-to-Book ratio, or Price/Book, is a financial ratio used to compare a company's market price to its Book Value per Share. It is a ratio widely used to value stocks.
The Wendy's Co's PB Ratio for today is calculated as follows:
* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD. * For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.
It can also be calculated from the numbers for the whole company:
A closely related ratio is called Price-to-Tangible-Book. The difference between Price-to-Tangible-Book and PB Ratio is that book value other than intangibles are used in the calculation.
The PB Ratio works the best for the businesses that earn most of their profit from their assets, e.g. banks and insurance companies.
Be Aware
Some businesses have very light assets, such as software companies or insurance agencies. The PB Ratio does not work well for these companies. Some companies even have negative equity, so the PB Ratio cannot be applied to them.
The Wendy's Co PB Ratio Related Terms
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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.
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