Wyndham Worldwide
New York symbol WYN, is one of the world's largest hospitality companies. It owns 6,560 franchised hotels plus various other vacation resorts, rental properties, luxury clubs and timeshares.
WYNDHAM WORLDWIDE $42.99 (New York symbol WYN; TSINetwork Rating: Extra Risk) (973-753-6000; www.wyndhamworldwide.com; Shares outstanding: 154.0 million; Market cap: $6.6 billion; Dividend yield: 2.1%) is one of the world’s largest hospitality companies, with 7,205 franchised hotels worldwide. Aside from Wyndham and Ramada, it owns a variety of other brands, including Days Inn, Super 8, Wingate, Baymont Inn & Suites, Microtel …read more »
WYNDHAM WORLDWIDE CORP. $34.10 (New York symbol WYN; TSINetwork Rating: Extra Risk) (973-753-6000; www.wyndhamworldwide.com; Shares outstanding: 162.0 million; Market cap: $5.5 billion; Dividend yield: 1.8%) is one of the world’s largest hospitality companies, with 7,190 franchised hotels worldwide. Aside from Wyndham and Ramada, it owns a variety of other brands, including Days Inn, Super 8, Wingate, Baymont Inn & Suites, …read more »
GOODYEAR TIRE & RUBBER CO. $13.34 (New York symbol GT; TSINetwork Rating: Extra Risk) (330-796-2122; www.goodyear.com; Shares outstanding: 247.0 million; Market cap: $3.4 billion; No dividends paid) is the world’s largest tire maker. The company operates over 60 plants in 25 countries.
In the three months ended June 30, 2011, the company’s sales rose 24.1%, to a record $5.6 billion from …read more »
Wyndham Worldwide Corp., symbol WYN on New York, is the third-largest hotel company in the world with 7,190 franchised hotels. It operates under a number of brands, including Wyndham Hotels and Resorts, Ramada, Days Inn, Super 8, Wingate by Wyndham, Baymont Inn & Suites, Microtel Inns & Suites, Hawthorn Suites, Howard Johnson, Travelodge, Knights Inn and Ameri-host Inn.
We analyze Wyndham …read more »
Wyndham Worldwide, symbol WYN on New York, is the third-largest hotel company in the world, with 7,110 franchised hotels. It operates under a number of brands, including Wyndham Hotels and Resorts, Ramada, Days Inn, Super 8, Wingate by Wyndham, Baymont Inn & Suites, Microtel Inns & Suites, Hawthorn Suites, Howard Johnson, Travelodge, Knights Inn and Ameri-host Inn.
We analyze Wyndham in …read more »
WYNDHAM WORLDWIDE $29.42 (New York symbol WYN; SI Rating: Extra Risk) (973-753-6000; www.wyndhamworldwide.com; Shares
outstanding: 175.0 million; Market cap: $5.1 billion; Dividend yield: 1.9%) plans to buy privately held vacation rental company James Villa Holidays of the U.K. for about $77 million.
The purchase will give Wyndham greater exposure to the Mediterranean villa market. James Villa has more than 2,300 properties …read more »
ALIMENTATION COUCHE-TARD $23.22 (Toronto symbol ATD.B: SI Rating: Extra Risk) (1-800-361-2612; www.couche-tard.com; Shares outstanding: 183.6 million; Market cap: $4.3 billion; Dividend yield: 0.7%) has dropped its $2-billion U.S. hostile takeover bid for Casey’s General Stores (symbol CASY on Nasdaq).
Couche-Tard allowed its tender offer for all of Casey’s shares to expire at 5:00 p.m. on September 30. Couche-Tard, which was offering …read more »
WYNDHAM WORLDWIDE $16.01 (New York symbol WYN; SI Rating: Extra Risk) (973-753-6000; www.wyndhamworldwide.com; Shares outstanding: 178.6 million; Market cap: $2.9 billion) is one of the world’s largest hospitality companies, with 7,000 franchised hotels worldwide. Aside from Wyndham and Ramada, it owns a variety of other quality brands, including Days Inn, Super 8, Wingate by Wyndham, Baymont Inn & Suites, Microtel …read more »
ATLANTIC TELE-NETWORK $18.61 (Nasdaq symbol ATNI; SI Rating: Speculative) (340-777-8000; www.atni.com; Shares outstanding: 15.2 million; Market cap: $282.9 million) gets 57% of its revenue from its 80% interest in Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GT&T). The rest comes from its wireless interests in the Caribbean and its expanding telecom interests in the United States.
GT&T is the sole local, long distance …read more »
ADOBE SYSTEMS $25.94 (Nasdaq symbol ADBE; SI Rating: Average) (408-536-6000; www.adobe.com; Shares outstanding: 531.0 million; Market cap: $13.8 billion) reported earnings in the latest quarter that exceeded consensus expectations. Excluding one-time items, earnings per share in the three months ended August 29, 2008 rose 11.1%, to $0.50 from $0.45 a year earlier. That beat expectations of $0.46 a share. Revenues …read more »
