Wendy's (WEN)

• Market cap: $1.58B
• 1 day: 5.34%
• 5 days: -4.16%
• 1 month: -11.15%
• 3 months: -19.9%
• 6 months: -28.66%
• Year to date: -48.57%
• 1 year: -54.22%
• 5 years: -62.27%
• 10 years: -21.64%
• Sector: Consumer Discretionary
• Industry: Restaurants

About: 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.

Employees: 14,500