Whitbread (WTB)

Sector:

Tourism and Leisure Services

Index:

FTSE 100

2,895.00p
   
  • Change Today:
    -17.00p
  • 52 Week High: 3,678.00p
  • 52 Week Low: 2,855.00p
  • Currency: UK Pounds
  • Shares Issued: 181.85m
  • Volume: 204,030
  • Market Cap: £5,265m
  • RiskGrade: 219

Canaccord Genuity lowers target price on Whitbread

By Iain Gilbert

Date: Friday 17 Jan 2020

LONDON (ShareCast) - (Sharecast News) - Analysts at Canaccord Genuity lowered their target price on Premier Inn operator Whitbread to 4,250p from 4,500p on Friday following the group's "disappointing" third-quarter update in the previous session.
Whitbread, which Canaccord kept at 'hold', now expects to end 2020 in line with expectations after enjoying a "marginally better quarter", with group total sales growth of 1.0% in the third quarter.

Canaccord left its full-year 2020 forecasts unchanged following the update, but moved to downgrade its earnings per share forecasts by 8% to 201.1p for 2021 to reflect increased cost guidance from the grocer's management team.

The Canadian broker said Whitbread's "get-out-of-jail card" was a recovery in UK regional business travel driven by recovering business confidence which it feels "should" act to underpin to the group's share price.

Canaccord highlighted that Whitbread now has 80,000 UK rooms, with another 20,000 in the pipeline and "line of sight" to more than 110,000.

"We assume 3,000 gross new UK rooms in FY20E with the majority (once again) opening in Q4," said Canaccord.

Over in Germany, Whitbread now has three hotels open, with a further 20 hotels due to open by end 2020 as the result of the Foremost Hospitality acquisition and the second acquisition of a package of three hotels, however, Canaccord noted that the firm had guided to an operating loss of £12m for Germany in 2020.

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Whitbread Market Data

Currency UK Pounds
Share Price 2,895.00p
Change Today -17.00p
% Change -0.58 %
52 Week High 3,678.00p
52 Week Low 2,855.00p
Volume 204,030
Shares Issued 181.85m
Market Cap £5,265m
RiskGrade 219

Whitbread Star Ratings

Compare performance with the sector and the market.
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Key: vs Market vs Sector
Value
51.32% below the market average51.32% below the market average51.32% below the market average51.32% below the market average51.32% below the market average
46.15% below the sector average46.15% below the sector average46.15% below the sector average46.15% below the sector average46.15% below the sector average
Price Trend
19.4% below the market average19.4% below the market average19.4% below the market average19.4% below the market average19.4% below the market average
25% below the sector average25% below the sector average25% below the sector average25% below the sector average25% below the sector average
Income
10.72% above the market average10.72% above the market average10.72% above the market average10.72% above the market average10.72% above the market average
Sector averageSector averageSector averageSector averageSector average
Growth
78.71% above the market average78.71% above the market average78.71% above the market average78.71% above the market average78.71% above the market average
47.17% above the sector average47.17% above the sector average47.17% above the sector average47.17% above the sector average47.17% above the sector average

What The Brokers Say

Strong Buy 7
Buy 8
Neutral 3
Sell 1
Strong Sell 0
Total 19
buy
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Whitbread Dividends

  Latest Previous
  Final Interim
Ex-Div 23-May-24 02-Nov-23
Paid 05-Jul-24 08-Dec-23
Amount 62.90p 34.10p

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Whitbread Key Personnel

Chair Adam Crozier
CFO Hemant Patel
CEO Dominic Paul

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