STEL vs WEN Comparison

Stellar Bancorp Inc is a U.S. based bank holding company. Through its subsidiary, Stellar Bank, the company provides a diversified range of commercial banking services predominantly to small to medium sized businesses, professionals, and individual customers. Its offerings include different types of loans, such as mortgage loans, home equity loans, automobile loans, etc.; deposit products, such as checking accounts, commercial accounts, money market accounts, savings accounts, etc.; and other banking services like mobile banking, debit cards, cash management and wire transfer services, letters of credit, and others.

The Wendy's Company is the second-largest burger quick-service restaurant, or QSR, chain in the United States by systemwide sales, with $12.6 billion in 2024, narrowly edging Burger King ($11.5 billion) and clocking in well behind wide-moat McDonald's ($51.1 billion). After divestitures of Tim Hortons (2006) and Arby's (2011), the firm manages just the burger banner, generating sales across a footprint that spanned more than 7,200 total stores in 30 countries as of year-end 2024. Wendy's generates revenue from the sale of hamburgers, chicken sandwiches, salads, and fries throughout its company-owned footprint, through franchise royalty and marketing fund payments remitted by its franchisees, which account for roughly 94% of stores, and through franchise flipping and advisory fees.