Wall Street is overwhelmingly bullish on the stocks in this article, with price targets suggesting significant upside potential.
However, it’s worth remembering that analysts rarely issue sell ratings, partly because their firms often seek other business from the same companies they cover.
As the Q3 earnings season wraps, let’s dig into this quarter’s best and worst performers in the modern fast food industry, including Sweetgreen (NYSE:SG) and its peers.
Restaurants increase convenience and give many people a place to unwind. But it’s not all sunshine and rainbows as they’re notoriously hard to run thanks to perishable ingredients, labor shortages, or volatile consumer spending.
Unfortunately, these factors have spelled trouble for the industry as it has shed 14.4% over the past six months. This performance is a stark contrast from the S&P 500’s 17.2% gain.
Shares of fast-food chain Wingstop (NASDAQ:WING)
jumped 11.7% in the morning session after the company reported third-quarter results that beat profit expectations, driven by strong earnings and continued rapid expansion.
Fast-food chain Wingstop (NASDAQ:WING) missed Wall Street’s revenue expectations in Q3 CY2025, but sales rose 8.1% year on year to $175.7 million. Its non-GAAP profit of $1.09 per share was 18.6% above analysts’ consensus estimates.
New York, NY – November 1, 2025 – Domino's Pizza (NASDAQ:DPZ), the global pizza giant, experienced a significant downturn this week, with its stock plummeting to a new 52-week low of $396.34 on October 31, 2025. This fresh low, just one day prior to the current date, signals immediate concern
Small-cap stocks can be incredibly lucrative investments because their lack of analyst coverage leads to frequent mispricings.
However, these businesses (and their stock prices) often stay small because their subscale operations make it harder to expand their competitive moats.
While profitability is essential, it doesn’t guarantee long-term success.
Some companies that rest on their margins will lose ground as competition intensifies - as Jeff Bezos said, "Your margin is my opportunity".
A stock with low volatility can be reassuring, but it doesn’t always mean strong long-term performance.
Investors who prioritize stability may miss out on higher-reward opportunities elsewhere.
Every stock tells a story. This week we gather around the campfire for five fresh tales -- from silicon driving the AI era to supply chain software that keeps retail humming; from a Latin American marketplace that became a fintech/logistics flywheel to a spicy franchiser scaling flavor by the bucket.
