By Mark Kalinowski
Published on February 26, 2019 at 12:00 AM
With this report, we introduce our data-driven Kalinowski Quick-Service Burger Index for Q1E of +2.5%. This figure is based on our latest proprietary checks/data as regards same-store sales performance for this segment during January 2019 and the first half of February 2019.
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By Mark Kalinowski
Published on January 25, 2019 at 12:00 AM
With this report, we update our data-driven Kalinowski Quick-Service Burger Index for Q4E from +1.2% to +1.8%. Our key takeaway: we believe that U.S. quick-service burgers chains in aggregate enjoyed their best same-store sales month during December 2018 since February 2016. The 60 basis-point increase in this index of ours is based on our latest proprietary checks/data as regards same-store sales performance for this segment during the last half of November and all of December.
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By Mark Kalinowski
Published on January 25, 2019 at 12:00 AM
Based on our data-driven checks regarding Wendy’s (WEN; Neutral) and the burger sector regarding December, we bump up our Q4E same-store sales forecast for Wendy’s North America by +50 basis points to +0.5%. While we still believe Wendy’s had a rough go of it in November (our Wendy’s checks for November 2018 were the worst of any month since those we did for February 2012), December appeared to be a meaningful bounce-back month sequentially — better than we expected. Our Q4E EPS estimate remains at $0.15.
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