What is The Wendy's Co 3-Year Share Buyback Ratio?
Shares Outstanding (EOP) are shares that have been authorized, issued, and purchased by investors and are held by them.
3-Year Share Buyback Ratio measures the average annual proportion of a company's outstanding shares repurchased over the past three years. It is calculated as the annualized percentage change in shares outstanding from three years ago to the current year. A positive ratio may indicate share buybacks over the period, while a zero or negative ratio may reflect no repurchases or potential share issuance. The Wendy's Co's current 3-Year Share Buyback Ratio was 1.90%.
The historical rank and industry rank for The Wendy's Co's 3-Year Share Buyback Ratio or its related term are showing as below:
WEN'
s 3-Year Share Buyback Ratio Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: -83.1 Med: 1.9 Max: 14.4
Current: 1.9
During the past 13 years, The Wendy's Co's highest 3-Year Share Buyback Ratio was 14.40%. The lowest was -83.10%. And the median was 1.90%.
WEN's 3-Year Share Buyback Ratio is ranked better than 91.06% of 235
companies
in the Restaurants industry
Industry Median: -0.5
vs WEN: 1.90
Competitive Comparison of The Wendy's Co's 3-Year Share Buyback Ratio
For the Restaurants subindustry, The Wendy's Co's 3-Year Share Buyback Ratio, along with its competitors' market caps and 3-Year Share Buyback 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 3-Year Share Buyback Ratio Distribution in the Restaurants Industry
For the Restaurants industry and Consumer Cyclical sector, The Wendy's Co's 3-Year Share Buyback Ratio distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where The Wendy's Co's 3-Year Share Buyback Ratio falls into.
The Wendy's Co 3-Year Share Buyback Ratio Calculation
This is the annualized percentage change in shares outstanding from three years ago to the current year. The annualized percentage change is calculated with expontential compound based on the latest four years of annual data on Shares Outstanding (EOP).
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The Wendy's Co (NAS:WEN) 3-Year Share Buyback Ratio Explanation
A negative number means the company might be issuing new shares. A positive number indicates that the company is buying back shares.
Be Aware
Investors usually like share buybacks. But as pointed by Warren Buffett, only if a company buys back shares at the prices below the stock's intrinsic value, it rewards remaining shareholders. If a company buys its overvalued stocks back, it destroys shareholder value.
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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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