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Wingstop (WING) FCF Payout Ratio (2015 - 2026)

Wingstop posted quarterly FCF Payout Ratio of 0.14 for Q1 2026, down 66.89% year-on-year from 0.43 in Q1 2025, and down 66.7% on a QoQ basis from 0.43 in Q4 2025.

Wingstop (WING) has 12 years of FCF Payout Ratio data on file, last reported at 0.14 in Q1 2026.

  • For the quarter ending Q1 2026, FCF Payout Ratio fell 66.89% year-over-year to 0.14; the trailing twelve-month figure through Mar 2026 stood at 0.22 (down 39.19% YoY), and the FY2025 full-year result was 0.31, up 12.23% from the prior year.
  • FCF Payout Ratio for Q1 2026 stood at 0.14, down from 0.43 in the prior quarter.
  • Across five years, FCF Payout Ratio topped out at 78.27 in Q2 2022 and bottomed at 0.83 in Q2 2025.
  • The 5-year median for FCF Payout Ratio is 0.19 (2023), against an average of 4.98.
  • The widest annual swing landed in 2022, when FCF Payout Ratio surged 21193.38%; it then tumbled 547.58% in 2025.
  • A 5-year view of FCF Payout Ratio shows it stood at 0.31 in 2022, then jumped by 1153.06% to 3.94 in 2023, then plunged by 105.13% to 0.2 in 2024, then soared by 312.56% to 0.43 in 2025, then sank by 66.7% to 0.14 in 2026.
  • The last three FCF Payout Ratio figures came in at 0.14 (Q1 2026), 0.43 (Q4 2025), and 0.11 (Q3 2025), per Business Quant data.

Peer Comparison

# Company Market Cap Enterprise Value Gross Profit (Qtr) FCF Cover (Qtr)
1 Starbucks 110.27 Bn 108.58 Bn 9.40 Bn 7.69
2 Yum Brands 40.90 Bn 40.21 Bn 1.38 Bn 0.61
3 Chipotle Mexican Grill 39.62 Bn 38.75 Bn 2.61 Bn -
4 Restaurant Brands International 25.25 Bn 25.79 Bn 2.14 Bn 1.67
5 Darden Restaurants 23.41 Bn 23.17 Bn 3.31 Bn 0.39
6 Yum China Holdings 15.07 Bn 13.64 Bn 3.24 Bn 0.04
7 Texas Roadhouse 11.59 Bn 11.39 Bn 1.40 Bn 0.01
8 Dominos Pizza 10.51 Bn 10.27 Bn 464.51 Mn 0.01
9 Cava 8.67 Bn 8.28 Bn 797.57 Mn -
10 Wingstop 4.35 Bn 4.20 Bn 159.01 Mn 0.14

Historic Data

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DateValue
Mar 28, 2026 0.14
Dec 27, 2025 0.43
Sep 27, 2025 0.11
Jun 28, 2025 -0.83
Mar 29, 2025 0.43
Dec 28, 2024 -0.20
Sep 28, 2024 0.12
Jun 29, 2024 0.19
Mar 30, 2024 0.16
Dec 30, 2023 3.94
Sep 30, 2023 0.19
Jul 1, 2023 0.46
Apr 1, 2023 0.19
Dec 31, 2022 0.31
Sep 24, 2022 0.33
Jun 25, 2022 78.27
Mar 26, 2022 0.35
Dec 25, 2021 -0.31
Sep 25, 2021 0.47
Jun 26, 2021 0.37
Mar 27, 2021 0.34
Dec 26, 2020 6.81
Sep 26, 2020 0.21
Jun 27, 2020 0.27
Mar 28, 2020 0.30
Dec 28, 2019 0.11
Sep 28, 2019 -2.10
Jun 29, 2019 28.89
Mar 30, 2019 0.29
Dec 29, 2018 12.95
Sep 29, 2018 0.23
Jun 30, 2018 0.29
Mar 31, 2018 10.50
Dec 30, 2017 0.30
Sep 30, 2017 0.23
Sep 24, 2016 14.90
Mar 28, 2015 19.83