The Wendy's Co's yield on cost for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2024 was 25.91.
The historical rank and industry rank for The Wendy's Co's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % or its related term are showing as below:
WEN'
s 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 3.48 Med: 6.42 Max: 25.52
Current: 25.91
During the past 13 years, The Wendy's Co's highest Yield on Cost was 25.52. The lowest was 3.48. And the median was 6.42.
WEN's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % is ranked better than 98.4% of 188
companies
in the Restaurants industry
Industry Median: 2.515
vs WEN: 25.91
Competitive Comparison of The Wendy's Co's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost %
For the Restaurants subindustry, The Wendy's Co's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost %, along with its competitors' market caps and 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % 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 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Distribution in the Restaurants Industry
For the Restaurants industry and Consumer Cyclical sector, The Wendy's Co's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where The Wendy's Co's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % falls into.
Dividend Yield % and dividend growth of a stock is an important factor for income investors. But if company A raises its dividend constantly faster than company B, company A's future dividend yield might be much higher than Company B's even if their yields are the same now and their stock prices do not change.
Yield on Cost assumes that you buy and the stock today, and hold it for 5 years. If the company raises it dividends at the same rate as it did over the past 5 years, the dividends investors receive annually in 5 years relative to the stock price today.
Therefore, Yield-on-Cost of The Wendy's Co is calculated as
The Wendy's Co (NAS:WEN) 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Explanation
Of course the risk here is that the company may not raise its dividends as it did before. The key is to select the companies that can consistently raise its dividends. Usually companies with long history of raising dividends tend to do so.
The Wendy's Co 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Related Terms
Thank you for viewing the detailed overview of The Wendy's Co's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % provided by GuruFocus.com. Please click on the following links to see related term pages.
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.
Quick Browse
Personalize
Premium Gurus 
Create New Portfolio
Portfolio Contest
WEN has been successfully added to your