Food & BeverageBurger KingWendy's®
Food & BeverageBurger KingWendy's®

Battle for Number Two

Will Burger King or Wendy's grow sales faster this week?

Burger King just took back the number two spot and Wendy's answered by pulling its outlook and cutting its dividend. The filings said one thing. The registers say whether the gap keeps widening.

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Early Pool
Burger King—
Wendy's—
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Graduation Progress14%
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$7of $50 to graduate

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Early Pool
Burger King—
Wendy's—
$
Graduation Progress14%
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$7of $50 to graduate

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MARKET WINDOW

August 17 to 23, compared against the August 10 to 16 prior week.

DEFINITIONS & SCOPE

Sales are total verified consumer dollars processed under each merchant's descriptor during the window, all channels. Growth is the percentage change in each merchant's sales versus the prior week.

RESOLUTION METHOD

The merchant with the higher week-over-week sales growth rate wins. Resolution requires a minimum of 10,000 qualifying transactions per side. In the event of a tie, all positions are refunded in full.

DATA SOURCE Powered by verified transaction data from American Spend's oracle. Anonymized, aggregated, and secured. Real, objective, verified proof of spend sourced from a representative sample of consumer spending.
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