WTB vs. IHG, MLC, DAL, PPH, EZH, SSTY, PHO, BARK, AHCG, and NXT
Should you be buying Whitbread stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Whitbread include InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG), Millennium & Copthorne Hotels plc (MLC), Dalata Hotel Group (DAL), PPHE Hotel Group (PPH), Easyhotel (EZH), Safestay (SSTY), Peel Hotels (PHO), Barkby Group (BARK), Action Hotels (AHCG), and NEXT (NXT).
Whitbread vs. Its Competitors
Whitbread (LON:WTB) and InterContinental Hotels Group (LON:IHG) are both consumer cyclical companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, profitability, earnings, risk, media sentiment, valuation, dividends and analyst recommendations.
Whitbread pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.99 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.0%. InterContinental Hotels Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 1.65 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.0%. Whitbread pays out 0.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. InterContinental Hotels Group pays out 34.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Whitbread is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Whitbread has a beta of 1.11, meaning that its stock price is 11% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, InterContinental Hotels Group has a beta of 0.98, meaning that its stock price is 2% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Whitbread presently has a consensus price target of GBX 3,425, suggesting a potential upside of 16.70%. InterContinental Hotels Group has a consensus price target of GBX 7,179, suggesting a potential downside of 19.70%. Given Whitbread's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Whitbread is more favorable than InterContinental Hotels Group.
InterContinental Hotels Group has a net margin of 14.94% compared to Whitbread's net margin of 8.08%. Whitbread's return on equity of 6.83% beat InterContinental Hotels Group's return on equity.
55.1% of Whitbread shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 32.4% of InterContinental Hotels Group shares are held by institutional investors. 0.4% of Whitbread shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.7% of InterContinental Hotels Group shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
InterContinental Hotels Group has higher revenue and earnings than Whitbread. Whitbread is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than InterContinental Hotels Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Whitbread had 31 more articles in the media than InterContinental Hotels Group. MarketBeat recorded 41 mentions for Whitbread and 10 mentions for InterContinental Hotels Group. Whitbread's average media sentiment score of 0.52 beat InterContinental Hotels Group's score of 0.50 indicating that Whitbread is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Whitbread beats InterContinental Hotels Group on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:WTB) was last updated on 10/20/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
