InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) Share Price, News & Analysis

Company Overview

Our presence IHG® Hotels & Resorts is a global hospitality company, with a purpose to provide True Hospitality for Good. With a family of 20 hotel brands and IHG One Rewards, one of the world’s largest hotel loyalty programmes with over 160 million members, IHG has more than one million rooms across 6,963 open hotels in over 100 countries, and a development pipeline of a further 2,300 properties. Our ambition To deliver industry-leading growth in our scale, enterprise platform and performance, doing so sustainably for all stakeholders, including our hotel owners, guests and society as a whole. Our strategy To use our scale and expertise to create the exceptional guest experiences and owner returns needed to grow our brands in the industry’s most valuable markets and segments. Delivered through a culture that retains and attracts the best people and embraces opportunities to positively impact the world around us. Our business model By franchising our brands and managing hotels on behalf of third parties, we can focus on increasing fee revenues and fee margins, with limited capital requirements. We grow our business by ensuring our brands meet consumer demand and generate strong returns for hotel owners.

Key Stats

• Today's Range: 142.40 to 146.90
• 50-Day Range: 127.67 to 146.65
• 52-Week Range: 80.74 to 150.90
• Volume: 3.14 million shs
• Average Volume: 3.78 million shs
• Market Capitalization: £218.50 million
• P/E Ratio: 0.30
• Dividend Yield: 1.27%
• Price Target: GBX 7,025
• Consensus Rating: Hold

InterContinental Hotels Group Stock Analysis - MarketRank™

InterContinental Hotels Group scored higher than 80% of companies evaluated by MarketBeat. Scores are calculated by averaging available category scores, with extra weight given to analysis and valuation.

Analyst's Opinion

• Score: 3.6 / 5
• Analyst Rating: Hold

Consensus Rating

InterContinental Hotels Group has received a consensus rating of Hold. The company's average rating score is 2.33, and is based on no strong buy ratings, 3 buy ratings, 2 hold ratings, and 1 sell rating.

Upside Potential

InterContinental Hotels Group has a consensus price target of GBX 7,025, representing about 4,877.0% upside from its current price of GBX 141.15.

Amount of Analyst Coverage

InterContinental Hotels Group has only been the subject of 2 research reports in the past 90 days.

Earnings and Valuation

• Score: 1.3 / 5
• Proj. Earnings Growth: N/A

Price to Earnings Ratio vs. the Market

The P/E ratio of InterContinental Hotels Group is 0.29, which means that it is trading at a less expensive P/E ratio than the market average P/E ratio of about 38.28.

Price to Earnings Ratio vs. Sector

The P/E ratio of InterContinental Hotels Group is 0.29, which means that it is trading at a less expensive P/E ratio than the Consumer Cyclical sector average P/E ratio of about 70.05.

Price to Earnings Growth Ratio

InterContinental Hotels Group has a PEG Ratio of 1.69. PEG Ratios above 1 indicate that a company could be overvalued.

Short Interest

• Score: N/A
• Short Interest Level: N/A

Short Interest

There is no current short interest data available for IHG.

Dividend

• Score: 1.7 / 5
• Dividend Strength: Weak

Dividend Yield

InterContinental Hotels Group pays a meaningful dividend of 1.27%, higher than the bottom 25% of all stocks that pay dividends.

Dividend Growth

InterContinental Hotels Group does not have a long track record of dividend growth.

Dividend Coverage

The dividend payout ratio of InterContinental Hotels Group is 34.89%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%.

News and Social Media

• Score: 2.8 / 5
• News Sentiment: 0.44

News Sentiment

InterContinental Hotels Group has a news sentiment score of 0.44. This score is calculated as an average of sentiment of articles about the company over the last seven days and ranges from 2 (good news) to -2 (bad news). This news sentiment score is similar to the average news sentiment of Consumer Cyclical companies.

News Coverage This Week

MarketBeat has tracked 6 news articles for InterContinental Hotels Group this week, compared to 3 articles on an average week.

MarketBeat Follows

1 people have added InterContinental Hotels Group to their MarketBeat watchlist in the last 30 days.

Company Ownership

• Score: 3.3 / 5
• Insider Trading: Acquiring Shares

Net Insider Buying

Over the last three months, insiders have purchased a net £94,038 in company stock, which represents 0.0446% of the company's market cap.

Insider Buying vs. Insider Selling

In the past three months, InterContinental Hotels Group insiders have bought more of their company's stock than they have sold. Specifically, they have bought £94,038 in company stock and sold GBX 0 in company stock.

Percentage Held by Insiders

2.73% of the stock of InterContinental Hotels Group is held by insiders.

Percentage Held by Institutions

32.43% of the stock of InterContinental Hotels Group is held by institutions.

IHG Stock Analysis - Frequently Asked Questions

How have IHG shares performed this year?

InterContinental Hotels Group's stock was trading at £104.60 at the start of the year. Since then, IHG shares have decreased by 98.7% and is now trading at GBX 141.15.

How do I buy shares of InterContinental Hotels Group?

Shares of IHG stock and other U.K. stocks can be purchased through online brokerage accounts that support trading on the London Stock Exchange (LSX). Some U.K. companies can be purchased through major U.S. brokerages in the form of American Depository Receipts (ADRs), which are placeholder equities held in a trust by a bank that represent shares of a foreign stock.

What other stocks do shareholders of InterContinental Hotels Group own?

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some other companies that InterContinental Hotels Group investors own include Meta Platforms (META), Intel (INTC), BP (BP), HSBC (HSBA), Lloyds Banking Group (LLOY), NVIDIA (NVDA) and Bank of America (BAC).

Industry, Sector and Symbol

• Stock Exchange: LON
• Sector: Consumer Cyclical
• Industry: Lodging
• Sub-Industry: Restaurants, Hotels, Motels
• Current Symbol: LON:IHG
• CIK: N/A
• Web: www.ihgplc.com
• Phone: +44-1895-512000
• Fax: N/A
• Employees: 11,200
• Year Founded: N/A

Price Target and Rating

• Average Price Target for InterContinental Hotels Group: GBX 7,025
• High Price Target: £119
• Low Price Target: GBX 150
• Potential Upside/Downside: +4,698.5%
• Consensus Rating: Hold
• Rating Score (0-4): 2.33
• Research Coverage: 6 Analysts

Profitability

• EPS (Trailing Twelve Months): GBX 486.50
• Trailing P/E Ratio: 0.30
• Forward P/E Ratio: 0.38
• P/E Growth: 1.69
• Net Income: £775.45 million
• Net Margins: 14.04%
• Pretax Margin: N/A
• Return on Equity: -23.50%
• Return on Assets: 14.12%

Debt

• Debt-to-Equity Ratio: -181.87
• Current Ratio: 0.97
• Quick Ratio: 1.35

Sales & Book Value

• Annual Sales: £5.19 billion
• Price / Sales: 0.04
• Cash Flow: GBX 21.72 per share
• Price / Cash Flow: 6.74
• Book Value: GBX (1,334.55) per share
• Price / Book: -0.11

Miscellaneous

• Outstanding Shares: 149,252,000
• Free Float: N/A
• Market Cap: £218.50 million
• Optionable: Not Optionable
• Beta: 1.02