The Wendy's Co
Company Profile
Business description
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.
Contact
One Dave Thomas Boulevard
DublinOH43017
USAT: +1 614 764-3100
Sector
Consumer Cyclical
Stock type
Cyclical
Industry
Restaurants
Fiscal Year End
31 December 2025
Employees
14,500
The Wendy's Co News & Analysis
stocks
7 charts on the AI stock boom one year after ChatGPT’s launch
stocks
7 charts on the AI stock boom one year after ChatGPT’s launch
stocks
Fast food on the menu as cost of living bites
Morningstar Investment Ideas
Markets
Index | Last price | Change | % Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| All Ordinaries | 9,128.70 | 18.10 | 0.20% |
| CAC 40 | 7,825.24 | 1.72 | 0.02% |
| DAX 40 | 23,698.15 | 5.50 | -0.02% |
| Dow JONES (US) | 45,834.22 | 273.78 | -0.59% |
| FTSE 100 | 9,283.29 | 14.29 | -0.15% |
| HKSE | 26,388.16 | 301.84 | 1.16% |
| NASDAQ | 22,141.10 | 98.03 | 0.44% |
| Nikkei 225 | 44,768.12 | 395.62 | 0.89% |
| NZX 50 Index | 13,227.90 | 1.25 | -0.01% |
| S&P 500 | 6,584.29 | 3.18 | -0.05% |
| S&P/ASX 200 | 8,864.90 | 22.00 | 0.25% |
| SSE Composite Index | 3,870.60 | 4.71 | -0.12% |