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Choice Hotels International, Inc. (XNYS:CHH) In-Depth Stock/Fundamental/Options Analysis Today

Primary Facts

CHH

Name:

CHOICE HOTELS INTERNATIONAL, INC. (XNYS:CHH)

Sector:

35.91M

Industry:

Lodging

CEO:

Mr. Patrick Pacious

Total Employees:

1,500

Our Technological Advancement Rating

Our Rating:

A

Technological advancement compared to industry is 63.56% higher

ANALYSIS OF ALL CRITICAL FACTORS & RISKS RELATED TO THE STOCK & FUNDAMENTAL/LONG-TERM ANALYSIS OF CHOICE HOTELS INTERNATIONAL, INC.(CHH) AS PER DATA ANALYSIS OF LAST 3 YEARS AND COMPARISON WITH COMPETITORS/PEERS, AND LODGING INDUSTRY. DATE: 07/09/2022

Primary Targets/Price Insights

Previous Close ($) :

113.19

One Month Price Target:

$114.02

Six Month Price Target :

$118.2

Likely Price in One Year's Time:

Ticker:

$123.21

Likely Trading Range Today Under (Normal Volatility)
 

$112.77

Price Upper limit ($) :

$113.72

Price Lower limit ($) :

Crash Risk Prep/Key Price Levels (High Volatility/Risk)

Price, as per data analysis, isn't likely to fall below:

Today:

$107.5

                                                               This week:

$100.46

                                                        This month :

$87.72

Other Primary facts

Market Cap:

6.00B

Market Cap Classification:

Mid Cap

Number of Shares

IPO Date:

55.78M

Best/Worst Daily Performance (Last 3+ Years)
 

Highest Daily Appreciation:

18.33%

-17.%

Worst Daily Decline:

Our Options Trading Entry Points

Iron Condor entry points for options expiring in 1 week's time

Low risk (<2%) entry points

Buy Call:

Sell Call:

Buy Put:

Sell Put:

$139.61

$127.48

$86.77

$98.90

Medium risk (<10%) entry points

Buy Call

Sell Call

$123.53

Buy Put:

Sell Put:

$120.94

$102.82

$105.44

These entry points can be used for other strategies, such as butterflies, straddles, etc.

Risk-Adjusted returns (Sharpe Ratio) of

CHH

Sharpe Ratio:

1.60%

Comparison:

CHH, is amongst the top 60% stocks with highest risk-adjusted returns

Sharpe ratio is -7.77% lower than the industry

& is -29.92% lower than the market/S&P 500 average

Average Returns/Yield of

CHH

Daily returns:

0.05%

Weekly returns:

0.24%

Monthly returns:

0.97%

Yearly returns:

13.99%

Comparison of returns:

Average annual returns/yield (last 3 years) is -17.08% below industry average

Classification:

CHH, is amongst the top 60% highest yielding stocks in terms of daily returns

Results of T-Test of Returns:

0.85

Statistical test of Returns:

CHH has not yielded statistically significant higher returns when compared to the market

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Volatility (measured by Standard Deviation)

Daily Volatility:

2.47%

Weekly Volatility:

5.53%

Monthly Volatility:

11.06%

Yearly Volatility:

38.31%

Volitlilty of last five days (Measured by Standard Deviation) 

Average Volatility of this Week:

0.83%

Volatility in last five trading days has been -66.56% below long-term volatility

Value at Risk Analysis (VaR)

Daily VaR:

-5.03%

Weekly VaR:

-11.25%

Monthly VaR:

-22.50%

How Much Can the price of

CHH

Decline in a Recession?

Likely price decline in a recession: 

Base case (decline):

-19%

Worst case (decline):

-77.94%

This translates to price declining to:

$91.30

This translates to price declining to:

$24.97

Severe Crash Probability

Risk of crash in next 6/12 months: Medium (<50%)

What is Value at Risk (VaR)?

VaR explained figure

Risk Fundamentals

CHH is a 58.80% riskier investment compared to the market/S&P 500 & is 36.04% riskier than Nasdaq (IXIC)

Risk (measured by volatility) is -13.61% below industry average

Overall, it is amongst the top 50% most risky stocks

Beta Examination of

CHH

Beta in relation to market/S&P 500--1.32

Expected beta in 1 year's time:

0.896

Expected beta in 3 year's time:

1.267

Unlevered (debt free) Beta:

0.42

Beta in relation to Nasdaq (XNAS):

0.763

Beta in relation to all global stocks::

0.681

Beta Comparison & Analysis

Beta of competitors/peers::

1.397

Beta is -5.73% lower than peers

Average Industry Beta: 

1.404

Beta is -6.22% below industry average

Sustainable Growth Rate Analysis

Sustainable growth rate for this stock/firm:

244.52%

Sustainable growth rate is 118.90% above industry average

Alpha provided | Alpha Analysis 

Alpha provided:

-0.006

Alpha is -146.32% below industry average alpha yield

Alpha is -36% below the market average

Analysis of Cost of Capital of

CHH

Equity cost of capital:

0.122

Equity cost of capital is -4.69% below industry mean WACC

Unlevered (without debt) cost of capital:  

3.88%

Before-tax cost of debt:

4.24%

After-tax cost of debt:

3.35%

Overall debt rating:

Lower BB medium grade (Fifth highest grade)

Weighted average cost of capital (WACC):

3.35%

WACC is -11.31% below industry mean WACC

Key Per-Share Metrics & Analysis

Revenue per share:

$20.51

Revenue growth rate per share of (3Y):

20.07

Annual revenue growth rate is -124.83% below industry average

EPS:

$5.94

Expected Annual growth rate of  EPS (3Y):

8.79%

Expected future EPS growth rate is -4633.00% lower than the Lodging industry

Free cash flow (FCF) per share:

$6.29

Balance sheet equity growth per share: -47.61%

Equity growth rate per share is -40.59% lower than the industry

Debt per share

$15.72

EBITDA per share

$9.28

Valuation Analysis Today of

CHH

P/E Ratio:

17.97

P/E Ratio of Competitors/Peers:

11.54

P/E ratio is 55.63% higher than main peers & is -67.17% lower than the industry

Stock price/value with industry average P/E ratio: $325.02

CHH is -65.17% undervalued if valued using industry average P/E ratio

Share value as per dividend discount (DDM) model: $18.06

Present value of the expected future dividends only: $8.37

P/S (Price to Sales ratio):

5.52

Price to sales ratio is -2.69% below the industry mean

P/B (Price to book value ratio):

20.07

Price to free cash flow: 17.99

Price to free cash flow ratio is -88.50% lower than the industry

Net income growth rate (3Y):

36.12%

Net income growth rate is -252.78% lower than the industry average net income growth rate

Dividend Analysis

Dividend payout rate: 3.95%

Dividend yeild: 0.83%

Previous Dividend: $0.24

Previous adjusted dividend: $0.24

Previous Dividend: $0.94

Expected next dividend best case: $0.24

Expected next dividend worst case: $0.23

Average dividend payment (long-term): $0.23

Average dividend increase/decrease (growth rate) % per period: 0.89%

Expected next dividend payment date: 10/12/2022

Expected next dividend record date: 29/09/2022

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Previous dividend payment date: 14/07/2022

Previous dividend record date: 07/01/2022

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Dividend History:

2022-06-30--$0.24

2022-01-03--$0.24

2021-06-30--$0.23

2022-03-31--$0.24

2021-09-30--$0.23

2020-04-01--$0.23

Dividend growth rate is -101.81% lower than the industry average

In-depth Debt & Leverage Analysis

Debt to equity ratio:

278.72%

Net debt to equity ratio:

179.97%

Debt to assets ratio:

44.47%

Net debt to assets ratio:

28.71%

Debt-to-asset ratio is -34.16% below industry average

Ability to repay debt:

Interest coverage ratio:

11.16

Interest coverage ratio is -730.74% less than industry average

Looking forward:

Debt growth rate:

3.61%

Annual debt growth is 496% higher than industry average debt growth rate

Debt repayment rate in last quarter: 0.00%

Analysis of Key Statistics  

Correlation of price movement with the market:

0.652

Statistical significance of correlation:

CHH has a statistically significant correlation with the market

Average Correlation of  the industry with the market:

0.611

Stock price is 6.75% more correlated with the market, compared to the industry average correlation

R Squared (percentage of price movement explained by movement of the market): 

0.611

Correlation of price movement with Nasdaq (^IXIC):

0.039

Covariance  of price movement with the market:

0.056

Kurtosis 

10.757

Returns have a significant fat-tails (leptokurtic), i.e., returns considerably higher or lower than the mean returns are more probable, compared to assets with normally distributed returns

Skewness of returns:

0.418

Returns are, approximately, symmetrical

Fundamental Analysis & Dupont Analysis of

CHH

Gross Profit Margin Ratio:

228%

Operating Profit Margin Ratio:

42.33%

Operating profit margin is 754.43% higher than the industry

Net Profit Margin Ratio:

228%

Effective Tax Rate:

23.31%

Effective tax rate is -74.93% lower than the industry

Dupont Method

Net Profit Margin

Return on Equity Ratio (ROE):

×

ROA

=

×

106.15%

Return on equity (ROE) is 46.21% higher than the industry

Financial Leverage

Asset Turnover Ratio (ROA):

16.94%

Return on assets (ROA) is 471.56% higher than the industry

Financial Leverage:

1.8x

Current Ratio:

1.4

Current ratio is -12.86% below industry average

Cash Conversion Cycle (days):

5.8

Cash conversion cycle is -85.65% below industry average

The remaining useful life of property plant & equipment is: 0.0 years

Stock based compensation to net income ratio:

2.26%

In-depth Efficiency  Analysis

Revenue generated per employee:

762.7K

Each employee generates 209% more revenue than industry average revenue per employee

EBITDA generated per employee: 

345.0K

Each employee generates 269% more EBITDA than industry average revenue per employee

Profit generated per employee: 

222.7K

Each employee generates 296% more net income/profit than industry average revenue per employee

Free cash flow (FCF) generated per employee: 

23.9K

Each employee generates 155% more free cash flow than industry average revenue per employee

Assets/Capital per employee

789.3K

Each employee generates 155% more free cash flow than industry average revenue per employee

Research & Development (R&D) Analysis

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Competitors/Peer firms of 

CHH

TEMPUR SEALY INTERNATIONAL, INC. (XNYS:TPX)

RALPH LAUREN CORPORATION (XNYS:RL)

UNDER ARMOUR, INC. (XNYS:UA)

PENSKE AUTOMOTIVE GROUP, INC. (XNYS:PAG)

QUANTUMSCAPE CORPORATION (XNYS:QS)

WYNDHAM HOTELS & RESORTS, INC. (XNYS:WH)

APTARGROUP, INC. (XNYS:ATR)

LITHIA MOTORS, INC. (XNYS:LAD)

GILDAN ACTIVEWEAR INC. (XNYS:GIL)

Current Analyst Ratings

Strong buy�8%

Buy�0%

Hold�29%

Sell�8%

Strong sell�0%

Overall analyst sentiment is: Hold

Income Statement

Period:

TTM

Date:

3/31/22

Revenue:

1.14B

Cost of Revenue:

Gross Profit:

R&D Expense

General & Admin Expenses:

Selling, General & Admin Expenses

Sales and Marketing Expenses

Other Expenses :

Operating Expenses :

Cost & Expenses :

Interest Income:

Interest Expenses:

Depreciation & Amortization:

EBITDA:

Operating Income:

Other Income Expenses:

Income Before Tax:

Income Tax Expense:

Net Income:

Balance Sheet

Date:

Calendar Year:

Period:

Cash & Cash Equivalents:

Short Term Investments:

Cash & Short Term Investments:

Net Receivables:

Inventory:

Other Current Assets:

Total Current Assets:

PP&E:

Goodwill: 

Intangible Assets: 

Long Term Investments: 

Tax Assets: 

Other Non-Current Assets: 

Total Non-Current Assets: 

Other Assets: 

Total Assets: 

Accounts Payable: 

Short Term Debt:

Tax Payables:

Deferred Revenue:

Other Current Liabilities:

Total Current Liabilities:

Long Term Debt:

Other Non-Current Liabilities:

Total Non Current Liabilities:

Other Liabilities:

Total Liabilities:

Common Stock:

Retained Earnings:

Accumulated Other Comprehensive Loss:

Other Total Stockholders' Equity:

Total Stockholders' Equity:

Total Liabilities and Stockholders' Equity:

Total Investments:

Total Debt:

Net Debt:

489.18M

654.89M

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145.68M

144.46M

24.64M

170.32M

4.98M

46.37M

35.58M

517.47M

484.33M

334.01M

435.52M

101.51M

334.01M

Statement of Cash Flow

Date:

Period:

17.17M

Differed Income Tax :

- 3119.00K

Stock Based Compensation :

7.56M

Change in Working Capital :

- 14747.00K

Accounts Receivables:

-

Other Working Capital:

-

Other Non-Cash Items:

- 10325.00K

Net Cash Provided by Operating Activities:

63.92M

Investments in PP&E:

- 26809.00K

Net Acquisitions:

- 268.00K

Purchases of Investments:

- 2818.00K

Sales/Maturities of Investments:

Other Investing Activities:

​Net Cash Used for Investing Activities:

Debt Repayment:

Common Stock Issued:

Common Stock Repurchased:

Dividend Paid:

Other Financing Activities:

Net Cash Used Provided by Financing Activities:

Effect of FOREX on Changes in Cash:

Net Changes in Cash:

Cash at End of Period:

Cash at Beginning of Period:

Operating Cash Flow:

Capital Expenditure:

Free Cash Flow (FCF):

3/31/22

2022

Q1

527.21M

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527.21M

234.01M

-

26.80M

788.02M

426.82M

159.20M

311.08M

62.30M

71.80M

152.82M

1.18B

-

1.97B

89.83M

216.49M

-

89.72M

167.48M

563.51M

876.98M

108.73M

1.09B

-

1.66B

951.00K

1.33B

- 4708.0K

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March 31, 2022 at 6:00:00 AM

659.51M

314.65M

1.97B

-

1.09B

566.3M

1.85M

5.58M

- 22467.00K

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- 14802.00K

- 13204.00K

2.21M

- 25795.00K

- 58.00K

15.60M

527.21M

511.61M

63.92M

- 28017.00K

35.91M

Our Proprietary Portfolio Rating

Our Rating:

A

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Price Forecast/Expected Price in Next 5 Years of

CHH

2023

2024

2025

2026

2027

$124.68

$135.71

$147.73

$160.80

$175.03

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