How to buy Wyndham Hotels-and-Resorts stock | 55.6

Wyndham Hotels & Resorts, Inc is a lodging business based in the US. Wyndham Hotels-and-Resorts shares (WH) are listed on the NYSE and all prices are listed in US Dollars. Wyndham Hotels-and-Resorts employs 14,200 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around USD$1.1 billion.

How to buy shares in Wyndham Hotels-and-Resorts

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2. Open and fund your brokerage account. Complete an application with your personal and financial details, like your ID and bank information. Fund your account with a bank transfer, credit card or debit card.
3. Search for Wyndham Hotels-and-Resorts. Find the stock by name or ticker symbol: WH. Research its history to confirm it's a solid investment against your financial goals.
4. Purchase now or later. Buy today with a market order or use a limit order to delay your purchase until Wyndham Hotels-and-Resorts reaches your desired price. To spread out your purchase, look into dollar-cost averaging, which smooths out buying at consistent intervals and amounts.
5. Decide on how many to buy. At last close price of USD$55.6, weigh your budget against a diversified portfolio that can minimize risk through the market's ups and downs. You may be able to buy a fractional share of Wyndham Hotels-and-Resorts, depending on your broker.
6. Check in on your investment. Congratulations, you own a part of Wyndham Hotels-and-Resorts. Optimize your portfolio by tracking how your stock — and even the business — performs with an eye on the long term. You may be eligible for dividends and shareholder voting rights on directors and management that can affect your stock.

Wyndham Hotels-and-Resorts share price

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Wyndham Hotels-and-Resorts shares at a glance

• Key figures

Information last updated 2020-11-26.

Latest market close	USD$55.6
52-week range	USD$14.4516 - USD$62.9399
50-day moving average	USD$52.0642
200-day moving average	USD$48.8679
Wall St. target price	USD$59.45
PE ratio	28.0429
Dividend yield	USD$0.32 (0.56%)
Earnings per share (TTM)	USD$1.638

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Wyndham Hotels-and-Resorts price performance over time

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Is Wyndham Hotels-and-Resorts under- or over-valued?

Valuing Wyndham Hotels-and-Resorts stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of Wyndham Hotels-and-Resorts's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.

Wyndham Hotels-and-Resorts's P/E ratio

Wyndham Hotels-and-Resorts's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 28x. In other words, Wyndham Hotels-and-Resorts shares trade at around 28x recent earnings.

That's comparable to, say, the trailing 12-month P/E ratio for the NASDAQ 100 at the end of 2019 (27.29).

Wyndham Hotels-and-Resorts's PEG ratio

Wyndham Hotels-and-Resorts's "price/earnings-to-growth ratio" can be calculated by dividing its P/E ratio by its growth – to give 2.6119. A low ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer better value, while a higher ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer worse value.

The PEG ratio provides a broader view than just the P/E ratio, as it gives more insight into Wyndham Hotels-and-Resorts's future profitability. By accounting for growth, it could also help you if you're comparing the share prices of multiple high-growth companies.

Wyndham Hotels-and-Resorts's EBITDA

Wyndham Hotels-and-Resorts's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is USD$402 million.

The EBITDA is a measure of a Wyndham Hotels-and-Resorts's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.

Wyndham Hotels-and-Resorts financials

Revenue TTM	USD$1.1 billion
Operating margin TTM	28%
Gross profit TTM	USD$982 million
Return on assets TTM	3.95%
Return on equity TTM	-5.53%
Profit margin	-5.67%
Book value	$10.336
Market capitalisation	USD$5.4 billion

TTM: trailing 12 months

Shorting Wyndham Hotels-and-Resorts shares

There are currently 2.2 million Wyndham Hotels-and-Resorts shares held short by investors – that's known as Wyndham Hotels-and-Resorts's "short interest". This figure is 0% up from 2.2 million last month.

There are a few different ways that this level of interest in shorting Wyndham Hotels-and-Resorts shares can be evaluated.

Wyndham Hotels-and-Resorts's "short interest ratio" (SIR)

Wyndham Hotels-and-Resorts's "short interest ratio" (SIR) is the quantity of Wyndham Hotels-and-Resorts shares currently shorted divided by the average quantity of Wyndham Hotels-and-Resorts shares traded daily (recently around 731438.11074919). Wyndham Hotels-and-Resorts's SIR currently stands at 3.07. In other words for every 100,000 Wyndham Hotels-and-Resorts shares traded daily on the market, roughly 3070 shares are currently held short.

However Wyndham Hotels-and-Resorts's short interest can also be evaluated against the total number of Wyndham Hotels-and-Resorts shares, or, against the total number of tradable Wyndham Hotels-and-Resorts shares (the shares that aren't held by "insiders" or major long-term shareholders – also known as the "float"). In this case Wyndham Hotels-and-Resorts's short interest could be expressed as 0.02% of the outstanding shares (for every 100,000 Wyndham Hotels-and-Resorts shares in existence, roughly 20 shares are currently held short) or 0.0244% of the tradable shares (for every 100,000 tradable Wyndham Hotels-and-Resorts shares, roughly 24 shares are currently held short).

Such a low SIR usually points to an optimistic outlook for the share price, with fewer people currently willing to bet against Wyndham Hotels-and-Resorts.

Find out more about how you can short Wyndham Hotels-and-Resorts stock.

Wyndham Hotels-and-Resorts share dividends

Dividend payout ratio: 43.5% of net profits

Recently Wyndham Hotels-and-Resorts has paid out, on average, around 43.5% of net profits as dividends. That has enabled analysts to estimate a "forward annual dividend yield" of 0.56% of the current stock value. This means that over a year, based on recent payouts (which are sadly no guarantee of future payouts), Wyndham Hotels-and-Resorts shareholders could enjoy a 0.56% return on their shares, in the form of dividend payments. In Wyndham Hotels-and-Resorts's case, that would currently equate to about $0.32 per share.

While Wyndham Hotels-and-Resorts's payout ratio might seem fairly standard, it's worth remembering that Wyndham Hotels-and-Resorts may be investing much of the rest of its net profits in future growth.

Wyndham Hotels-and-Resorts's most recent dividend payout was on 30 September 2020. The latest dividend was paid out to all shareholders who bought their shares by 14 December 2020 (the "ex-dividend date").

Wyndham Hotels-and-Resorts share price volatility

Over the last 12 months, Wyndham Hotels-and-Resorts's shares have ranged in value from as little as $14.4516 up to $62.9399. A popular way to gauge a stock's volatility is its "beta".

Beta is a measure of a share's volatility in relation to the market. The market (NYSE average) beta is 1, while Wyndham Hotels-and-Resorts's is 1.7415. This would suggest that Wyndham Hotels-and-Resorts's shares are more volatile than the average for this exchange and represent, relatively-speaking, a higher risk (but potentially also market-beating returns).

Wyndham Hotels-and-Resorts overview

Wyndham Hotels & Resorts, Inc. operates as a hotel franchisor worldwide. The company licenses its hotel brands, including Super 8, Days Inn, Ramada, Microtel Inn & Suites, La Quinta, Baymont, Wingate, AmericInn, Hawthorn Suites, The Trademark Collection, and Wyndham to hotel owners in approximately 90 countries. Its Hotel Franchising segments licenses its lodging brands and provides related services to third-party hotel owners and others. The company's Hotel Management segment provides hotel management services for full-service and limited service hotels. As of June 25, 2020, it operated a portfolio of 20 hotel brands with approximately 9,300 hotels with approximately 828,000 rooms in approximately 90 countries. Wyndham Hotels & Resorts, Inc. is also involved in the loyalty program business. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is headquartered in Parsippany, New Jersey.

Frequently asked questions

• What percentage of Wyndham Hotels-and-Resorts is owned by insiders or institutions?

  Currently 1.951% of Wyndham Hotels-and-Resorts shares are held by insiders and 96.256% by institutions.

• How many people work for Wyndham Hotels-and-Resorts?

  Latest data suggests 14,200 work at Wyndham Hotels-and-Resorts.

• When does the fiscal year end for Wyndham Hotels-and-Resorts?

  Wyndham Hotels-and-Resorts's fiscal year ends in December.

• Where is Wyndham Hotels-and-Resorts based?

  Wyndham Hotels-and-Resorts's address is: 22 Sylvan Way, Parsippany, NJ, United States, 07054

• What is Wyndham Hotels-and-Resorts's ISIN number?

  Wyndham Hotels-and-Resorts's international securities identification number is: US98311A1051

• What is Wyndham Hotels-and-Resorts's CUSIP number?

  Wyndham Hotels-and-Resorts's Committee on Uniform Securities Identification Procedures number is: 98311A105