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Wyndham Hotels & Resorts, Inc. trades under the ticker symbol WH on the NYSE. This page brings together its live stock price, an interactive price chart, and key fundamentals like market capitalization, 52-week range, dividend yield, and the next earnings date, with plain-English context to help you understand what the numbers mean.
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Wyndham Hotels & Resorts is the largest hotel franchisor in the world by number of hotels. It owns brands concentrated in the economy and midscale segments, including Days Inn, Super 8, Ramada, and La Quinta, and licenses them to independent owners.
Wyndham runs an asset-light franchise model: it generally does not own the hotels themselves but collects fees from the owners who operate under its brands. That makes revenue largely fee-based and high-margin, with less capital tied up in real estate.
The company was spun off from Wyndham Worldwide in 2018 as a stand-alone franchising business, separate from the timeshare operations that became a different company.
Source: Wyndham Hotels & Resorts SEC filings (10-K) and investor relations · Last reviewed July 2026
Wyndham Hotels & Resorts, Inc. scores 76 out of 100 (grade B) across the 4 measures we can read from its filings. Its strongest measure is cash generation (grade A); its weakest is balance-sheet health (grade D).
Rule-based grades derived from annual figures reported to the SEC. Descriptive, not a rating of the investment.
Wyndham Hotels & Resorts saw its revenue decline (about -3.8% a year) over the 7 years through FY2025, and profit grew even faster, so the business became more profitable as it grew. Its profit margin widened over the period. Free cash flow grew alongside profit.
Volatile. Revenue went from $1.9B in FY2018 to $1.4B in FY2025, about -3.8% a year. Revenue has been shrinking, which puts pressure on everything below it.
Volatile. Profit went from $162M in FY2018 to $193M in FY2025, about 2.5% a year. The business is keeping more profit over time, not less.
operating margin went from 15.1% to 28.1% (volatile); net margin went from 8.7% to 13.5% (volatile). Each dollar of sales is turning into more profit over time, often a sign of pricing power or scale.
Rising. Free cash flow went from $158M in FY2018 to $321M in FY2025, about 10.7% a year. The profit is showing up as real cash, which is what you want to see.
Over the last 8 years the company returned about $1.9B through buybacks and $807M through dividends to shareholders. Whether that cash was spent well depends on the price paid for the stock, which this section does not judge. It shows the choices, not a verdict.
Derived from the annual figures this company reported to the SEC. What is described already happened; it is not a forecast.
Not reported here. We cannot measure this for Wyndham Hotels & Resorts from its filings: it does not separately report the direct cost of its product, which is an accounting choice, not a sign of weak pricing. Its competitive advantages are covered below.
Widening. Wyndham Hotels & Resorts's sales grew about -3.8% a year, and its operating margin went from 15.1% to 28.1% over the same period.
Variable. Wyndham Hotels & Resorts's operating margin swung widely over the last 7 years (from 15.1% to 28.1%).
The Investment Case describes Wyndham Hotels & Resorts's competitive advantages, and the risks that could erode them.
These are the quality measures the financial statements support. Several others, such as brand strength and customer concentration, need human judgment and are not measured automatically.
Historically, the company has used a mix of reinvestment, buybacks, and dividends.
On average, capital spending used about 24% of operating cash flow across 8 fiscal years (FY2018-FY2025) - a moderate share of the cash the business generated went back into it.
Reported share repurchases in 8 of the 8 fiscal years shown, totaling about $1.9B (FY2018-FY2025). The reported share count fell about 23% from FY2018 to FY2025.
Paid a per-share dividend in each of the 8 fiscal years shown (FY2018-FY2025). The annual per-share dividend did not decline year over year within FY2020-FY2025 (comparable per-share basis), rising in 5 straight year-over-year changes into FY2025. In FY2025, dividends paid totaled about $127M.
The total debt balance rose over the window: about $2.1B in FY2018 vs about $2.5B in FY2025. This describes the balance's direction, not repayments.
As of FY2025, held about $64M in cash and equivalents vs about $2.5B of total debt - more total debt than cash at that date.
Derived from annual figures this company reported to the SEC (EDGAR XBRL company facts). Descriptive history only: not a forecast, not a rating, not investment advice.
What has varied in Wyndham Hotels & Resorts, Inc.'s past filings, and what to keep an eye on. Descriptive, not a forecast and not a rating.
Wyndham Hotels & Resorts is the largest hotel franchisor in the world by property count, and the key to understanding it is the asset-light franchise model. Rather than owning hotels and carrying the cost and risk of the real estate, Wyndham licenses its brands, mostly economy and midscale names like Days Inn, Super 8, and La Quinta, to independent owners and collects recurring fees based on their room revenue. That structure turns the business into a high-margin, fee-based royalty stream with modest capital needs, which is attractive, but it also ties results to travel demand and to how many owners choose and stay with Wyndham's brands rather than a competitor's. Since being spun off from Wyndham Worldwide in 2018, it has been a focused franchising company. The long-term question is whether Wyndham can keep growing its franchised room count, especially internationally, and hold onto franchisees while defending fee economics in competitive budget segments.
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Sources: Wyndham Hotels & Resorts 10-K (SEC EDGAR), Wyndham Hotels & Resorts Investor Relations · Last reviewed July 2026
Wyndham Hotels & Resorts is the largest hotel franchisor in the world by property count, and the key to understanding it is the asset-light franchise model. Rather than owning hotels and carrying the cost and risk of the real estate, Wyndham licenses its brands, mostly economy and midscale names like Days Inn, Super 8, and La Quinta, to independent owners and collects recurring fees based on their room revenue.
Scale as the largest hotel franchisor, a recognizable brand portfolio, and a loyalty program give owners reasons to sign and stay, which supports recurring fee revenue.
The asset-light royalty model produces steady, high-margin fees with limited real-estate risk.
Franchise fees are calculated from franchisees' room revenue, so travel downturns flow straight through to results.
Travel downturns reduce the room revenue that franchise fees are calculated from. Franchisees can leave for competing brands, so retention and new signings matter.
Wyndham is an asset-light franchisor, so its margins and returns on capital look very different from a hotel owner's, and trailing multiples should be read with that fee-based model in mind. Because the company has only traded on its own since 2018, there is less multi-cycle history behind any single year's figures than there is for longer-established names.
Net room growth and new franchise-agreement signings, especially internationally.
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