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Wyndham Hotels & Resorts (Wyndham Hotels & Resorts) Free Cash Flow per Share : $3.86 (TTM As of Mar. 2024)


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What is Wyndham Hotels & Resorts Free Cash Flow per Share?

Wyndham Hotels & Resorts's Free Cash Flow per Share for the three months ended in Mar. 2024 was $0.82. Its Free Cash Flow per Share for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Mar. 2024 was $3.86.

During the past 12 months, the average Free Cash Flow per Share Growth Rate of Wyndham Hotels & Resorts was 0.70% per year. During the past 3 years, the average Free Cash Flow per Share Growth Rate was 122.20% per year. During the past 5 years, the average Free Cash Flow per Share Growth Rate was 45.70% per year. Please click Growth Rate Calculation Example (GuruFocus) to see how GuruFocus calculates Wal-Mart Stores Inc (WMT)'s revenue growth rate. You can apply the same method to get the FCF Growth Rate using Free Cash Flow per Share data.

The historical rank and industry rank for Wyndham Hotels & Resorts's Free Cash Flow per Share or its related term are showing as below:

WH' s 3-Year FCF Growth Rate Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: -46.1   Med: 12.65   Max: 122.2
Current: 122.2

During the past 9 years, Wyndham Hotels & Resorts's highest 3-Year average Free Cash Flow per Share Growth Rate was 122.20% per year. The lowest was -46.10% per year. And the median was 12.65% per year.

WH's 3-Year FCF Growth Rate is ranked better than
95.18% of 477 companies
in the Travel & Leisure industry
Industry Median: 12.4 vs WH: 122.20

Wyndham Hotels & Resorts Free Cash Flow per Share Historical Data

The historical data trend for Wyndham Hotels & Resorts's Free Cash Flow per Share can be seen below:

* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD.
* For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.

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Wyndham Hotels & Resorts Free Cash Flow per Share Chart

Wyndham Hotels & Resorts Annual Data
Trend Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Free Cash Flow per Share
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only 0.52 0.36 4.14 3.97 3.99

Wyndham Hotels & Resorts Quarterly Data
Jun19 Sep19 Dec19 Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23 Mar24
Free Cash Flow per Share Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 0.96 0.86 0.79 1.38 0.82

Competitive Comparison of Wyndham Hotels & Resorts's Free Cash Flow per Share

For the Lodging subindustry, Wyndham Hotels & Resorts's Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow, along with its competitors' market caps and Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow data, can be viewed below:

* Competitive companies are chosen from companies within the same industry, with headquarter located in same country, with closest market capitalization; x-axis shows the market cap, and y-axis shows the term value; the bigger the dot, the larger the market cap. Note that "N/A" values will not show up in the chart.


Wyndham Hotels & Resorts's Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow Distribution in the Travel & Leisure Industry

For the Travel & Leisure industry and Consumer Cyclical sector, Wyndham Hotels & Resorts's Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Wyndham Hotels & Resorts's Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow falls into.



Wyndham Hotels & Resorts Free Cash Flow per Share Calculation

Free Cashflow per Share is the amount of Free Cashflow per outstanding share of the company's stock.

Free Cash Flow is considered one of the most important parameters to measure a company's earnings power by value investors because it is not subject to estimates of Depreciation, Depletion and Amortization (DDA). However, when we look at the Free Cash Flow, we should look from a long term perspective, because any year's Free Cash Flow can be drastically affected by the spending on Property, Plant, & Equipment (PPE) of the business in that year. Over the long term, Free Cash Flow should give pretty good picture on the real earnings power of the company.

Note: GuruFocus does not calculate Free Cash Flow Per Share when Capital Expenditure is 0.

Wyndham Hotels & Resorts's Free Cash Flow Per Share for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2023 is calculated as

Free Cash Flow Per Share(A: Dec. 2023 )
=(Cash Flow from Operations+Capital Expenditure)/Shares Outstanding (Diluted Average)
=(376+-37)/84.900
=339/84.900
=3.99

Wyndham Hotels & Resorts's Free Cash Flow Per Share for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 is calculated as

Free Cash Flow Per Share(Q: Mar. 2024 )
=(Cash Flow from Operations+Capital Expenditure)/Shares Outstanding (Diluted Average)
=(76+-9)/81.800
=67/81.800
=0.82

Free Cash Flow per Share for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Mar. 2024 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $3.86

* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD.
* For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.


Wyndham Hotels & Resorts  (NYSE:WH) Free Cash Flow per Share Explanation

Free Cash Flow is very close to Warren Buffett's definition of Owner's Earnings, except that in Warren Buffett's Owner's Earnings, the spending for Property, Plant, and Equipment is only for maintenance (replacement), while in the Free Cash Flow calculation, the cost of new Property, Plant, and Equipment due to business expansion is also deducted. There, Free Cash Flow is more conservative than Owner's Earnings.

In Don Yacktman's calculation of forward rate of return, he uses Free Cash Flow for the calculation. Yacktman explained the forward rate of return concept in detail in his interview with GuruFocus. Yacktman defines forward rate of return as the normalized free cash flow yield plus real growth plus inflation.

This is what Yacktman said in his March 2012 interview - when the S&P 500 was at 1400:

If the business is stable, this calculation is fairly straightforward. For instance, on the S&P 500 we would normalize earnings. We would then calculate what percentage of those earnings are not reinvested in the underlying businesses and are therefore free. Historically, for the S&P 500, this has been just under 50% of earnings. Currently, we expect the S&P to earn about 70 on a normalized basis, a number which is far below reported earnings due to our adjusting for record high profit margins. $70 X ½ / 1400 gives you a normalized free cash flow yield of approximately 2.5%.

The historical real growth rate of the S&P 500 (companies) is about 1.5%. Assuming an inflation rate of 2.5%, the forward rate of return on an investment in the S&P 500 is about 6.5% today (2.5% free cash flow yield plus 1.5% real growth plus 2.5% inflation).

For the growth part of the Forward Rate of Return calculation, GuruFocus uses the 5-year average growth rate of EBITDA per share as the growth rate, and the growth rate is always capped at 20%. For the Free Cash Flow we use per share data averaged over seven years. The reason we use seven years is because research shows that seven years is the length of the typical business cycle.

Therefore, as of Dec23, Wyndham Hotels & Resorts's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % is

Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % (Dec23)=Normalized Free Cash Flow/Price+5-Year EBITDA Growth Rate
=2.62990476/0+0.2
=0 %

* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD.
* For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.


Be Aware

Free Cash Flow within a report period can be affected by management's decisions of capital spending. Therefore, it is important to look at long term when it comes to Free Cash Flow.


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Wyndham Hotels & Resorts (Wyndham Hotels & Resorts) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
22 Sylvan Way, Parsippany, NJ, USA, 07054
As of Dec. 31, 2022, Wyndham Hotels & Resorts operates 843,000 rooms across more than 20 brands predominantly in the economy and midscale segments. Super 8 is the largest brand, representing around 19% of all rooms, with Days Inn (14%) and Ramada (14%) the next two largest brands. During the past several years, the company has expanded its extended stay/lifestyle brands, which appeal to travelers seeking to experience the local culture of a given location. Wyndham launched a new extended stay economy scale segment concept, ECHO, in the spring of 2022. The United States represents roughly 60% of total rooms. The company closed its La Quinta acquisition in the second quarter of 2018, adding around 90,000 rooms at the time the deal closed.
Executives
Nicola Rossi officer: Chief Accounting Officer WYNDHAM WORLDWIDE CORPORATION, 7 SYLVAN WAY, PARSIPPANY NJ 07054
Lisa Checchio officer: Chief Marketing Officer 22 SYLVAN WAY, PARSIPPANY NJ 07054
Michele Allen officer: Chief Financial Officer 22 SYLVAN WAY, PARSIPPANY NJ 07054
Paul F Cash director, officer: Gen. Counsel & Corp. Sec. C/O WYNDHAM HOTELS & RESORTS, INC., 22 SYLVAN WAY, PARSIPPANY NJ 07054
Scott R. Strickland officer: Chief Info. Officer C/O WYNDHAM HOTELS & RESORTS, INC., 22 SYLVAN WAY, PARSIPPANY NJ 07054
Scott Lepage officer: President, the Americas WYNDHAM HOTELS & RESORTS, INC., 22 SYLVAN WAY, PARSIPPANY NJ 07054
Stephen P Holmes director C/O CENDANT, 9 WEST 57TH, NEW YORK NY 10019
Monica Melancon officer: Chief Human Resource Officer WYNDHAM HOTELS & RESORTS, INC., 22 SYLVAN WAY, PARSIPPANY NJ 07054
Ronald L Nelson director
Mary R Falvey officer: Chief Admin. Officer WYNDHAM WORLDWIDE CORPORATION, 7 SYLVAN WAY, PARSIPPANY NJ 07054
Geoffrey A Ballotti director, officer: President & Chief Exec Officer 36 S. PENNSYLVANIA STREET, SUITE 500, INDIANAPOLIS IN 46204
Thomas Hunter Barber officer: Chief Stra & Dev Officer C/O WYNDHAM HOTELS & RESORTS, INC., 22 SYLVAN WAY, PARSIPPANY NJ 07054
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