Is the business good?
How good a business is WING?
Wingstop Inc. earns 51% on the capital it employs against a 9.0% cost of capital, so the business is worth more the bigger it gets.
51%
Return on invested capital · cost of capital 9.0% · 42 points above what the capital costs: growth creates value
- Operating margin
- 28%
Operating margin · Restaurants median 8.6% · 12 months to Q2 2026
- Cash conversion
- 1.10×
Cash conversion · 0.33× a year ago · every dollar of reported profit arrived as cash, and more
- Share count, year on year
- −2.7%
Share count, year on year · bought back, each share owns more of the company
| Year | Operating margin |
|---|---|
| FY2020 | 23% |
| FY2021 | 26% |
| FY2022 | 26% |
| FY2023 | 24% |
| FY2024 | 26% |
| FY2025 | 26% |
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- Gross margin12 months to Q2 2026
- 86%
- Operating margin12 months to Q2 2026
- 28%
- Net margin12 months to Q2 2026
- 16%
- Free cash flow margin
- 18%
- Revenue, trailing twelve months
- $721M
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $128M
- Net income, trailing twelve months
- $116M
- Return on invested capitaloperating profit after tax ÷ debt + equity − cash
- 51%
Margins, capital and share counts from the statements as filed with the SEC; cash conversion from the cash flow statement.