Wendy's Company (WEN)

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Wendy's Company's filings since 2017 show no warning events in the scan: no bankruptcy or receivership notice, no debt default notice, no exchange listing notice, no restatement warning, no auditor change, no material cyber incident and no late-report notice (its current reports).

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Wendy's Company's 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $1.4 billion in fiscal 2017 to $2.2 billion in fiscal 2025, up 4.7% a year; it rose in 7 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 15% from fiscal 2017 to fiscal 2017; net income was positive in 10 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

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Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-28, Wendy's Company's diluted share count shrank about 3.5% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 97% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 0 sales and 2 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-10-01, buying about $18 thousand (their Form 4 filings).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-28, Wendy's Company earned about 141 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 28 cents per dollar of everything the company owns (revenue less the cost of revenue). Leverage: it owed about 98 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count shrank 5.6% over the year (the filed statements).

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Wendy's Company's standing among 8 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $2.2 billion in fiscal 2025 ranks in the top 21% by size; a net margin of 7.6% ranks in the top 19%; revenue growth of 1.3% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the bottom 19% (its annual reports).

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Wendy's Company's leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Wright, Robert D. (President & CEO, as filed), filing under that title since 2026-05-26, 6 months (bottom 8% of its family); the 22 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 3.7 years (top 25%); 16 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 22 people in charge now (top 50%; fewer changes for each person reads higher) (the Form 4 record, its Form 8-K reports). Years count from a person's first filing in the SEC's data sets, which begin in 2006, so each is a floor.

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Wendy's Company's room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $301 million against debt of $2.8 billion leaves -49.6% of its assets as net cash, bottom 19% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 11.1% of revenue (top 6%); a gross margin of 63.6% (top 12%) (its annual report).

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Wendy's Company's growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew 1.3% a year over the last three filed years against 4.7% over all 10, slowing (bottom 44% of its family); the newest year grew -3.1% (bottom 31%); capital spending grew 6% a year (top 44%) (its annual reports). Wendy's Company reported 5 product lines in fiscal 2025: Product at $916 million (42%), Royalty at $505 million (23%), Advertising at $422 million (19%), and 2 more; 1 of 5 grew against the year before (its annual report).

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Wendy's Company's newest year against its own record: revenue of $2.2 billion in fiscal 2025 came in 6.4% below the $2.3 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (bottom 25% of its family); net income of $165 million against a prior three-year average of $192 million (top 42%); a net margin of 7.6% against 8.8% before (top 42%) (its annual reports).