---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-25-176017"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "WEN"
cik: "0000030697"
company_name: "Wendy's Co"
filed_at: "2025-08-08T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T16:51:59.681060+00:00"
event_type: "earnings"
sentiment: "negative"
materiality_score: 0.7
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
confidence: "medium"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Wendy's Q2 2025: global systemwide sales down 1.8%, adjusted EPS $0.29 (+7.4%)

## Summary
- Global systemwide sales fell 1.8% to $3.66B; US same-restaurant sales dropped 3.6%, International up 1.8%.
- Reported and adjusted EPS both $0.29, up 7.4% YoY from $0.27.
- Added 26 net new restaurants in Q2; YTD net adds 94; on track for 2-3% unit growth in 2025.
- Returned $88.7M to shareholders via dividends and buybacks in Q2.
- Company says updated full-year 2025 outlook; specific guidance figures not provided in release snippet.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-25-176017
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: WEN
- cik: 0000030697
- company_name: Wendy's Co
- filed_at: 2025-08-08T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: earnings
- sentiment: negative
- materiality_score: 0.7
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
- confidence: medium
- sec_items: 2.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/30697/000119312525176017/0001193125-25-176017-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/30697/000119312525176017/d41595d8k.htm

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