Wingstop Inc. (WING) Q1 2026 Earnings Call April 29, 2026 10:00 AM EDT
Company Participants
Sarah Niehaus – Senior Director of Investor Relations & Corporate Finance
Michael Skipworth – President, CEO & Director
Alex Kaleida – Chief Financial Officer
Conference Call Participants
David Tarantino – Robert W. Baird & Co. Incorporated, Research Division
Jeffrey Bernstein – Barclays Bank PLC, Research Division
Andrew Barish – Jefferies LLC, Research Division
Christopher O’Cull – Stifel, Nicolaus & Company, Incorporated, Research Division
Sara Senatore – BofA Securities, Research Division
Brian Harbour – Morgan Stanley, Research Division
Danilo Gargiulo – Bernstein Institutional Services LLC, Research Division
Sharon Zackfia – William Blair & Company L.L.C., Research Division
Jon Tower – Citigroup Inc., Research Division
Presentation
Operator
Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, and thank you for standing by. Welcome to Wingstop Inc.’s Fiscal First Quarter 2026 Earnings Conference Call. [Operator Instructions] Please note that this conference is being recorded today, Wednesday, April 29, 2026.
On the call today are Michael Skipworth, President and Chief Executive Officer; Alex Kaleida, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer; and Sarah Niehaus, Senior Director of Investor Relations. I would now like to turn the conference over to Sarah. Please go ahead.
Sarah Niehaus
Senior Director of Investor Relations & Corporate Finance
Thank you, and welcome to the Fiscal First Quarter 2026 Earnings Conference Call for Wingstop. Our results were published earlier this morning and are available on our Investor Relations website at ir.wingstop.com.
Our discussion today includes forward-looking statements. These statements are not guarantees of future performance and are subject to numerous risks and uncertainties that could cause our actual results to differ materially from what we currently expect. Our SEC filings describe various risks that could affect our future operating results and financial condition. We use certain non-GAAP financial measures that we believe can be useful in evaluating our performance. Presentation of











