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Dan Wasiolek
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InterContinental’s Brand Investment Supporting Its Long-Term Growth

InterContinental's recent brand investments (renovations and acquisitions), support our stance that its intangible advantage (source of its narrow moat) is strengthening. That said, with 2018 sales and earnings per share of $1.9 billion and $2.92, respectively, near our $1.9 billion and $2.88 forecast, we don't plan a material change to our $62 fair value estimate. We see shares as fairly valued.
2018 organic unit growth of 4.3% matched our forecast, as acquisitions added an incremental 50 basis...
Underlying
InterContinental Hotels Group PLC

InterContinental Hotels Group is a hotel companies. Co.'s hotel brands are InterContinental Hotels & Resorts, Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants, Hualuxe Hotels & Resorts, Hotel Indigo, EVEN Hotels, Crowne Plaza Hotels & Resorts, Holiday Inn, Holiday Inn Express, Staybridge Suites, Holiday Inn Club Vacations, Holiday Inn Resorts, Candlewood Suites, and Avid Hotels. As of Mar 2 2017, Co.'s had total hotels of 5,348 with 4,433 franchised, 907 managed, eight owned and leased hotels, and 1,655 total hotels in the pipeline.

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Morningstar
Morningstar

Morningstar, Inc. is a leading provider of independent investment research in North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia. The company offer an extensive line of products and services for individual investors, financial advisors, asset managers, and retirement plan providers and sponsors.

Morningstar provides data on approximately 530,000 investment offerings, including stocks, mutual funds, and similar vehicles, along with real-time global market data on more than 18 million equities, indexes, futures, options, commodities, and precious metals, in addition to foreign exchange and Treasury markets. Morningstar also offers investment management services through its investment advisory subsidiaries and had approximately $185 billion in assets under advisement and management as of June 30, 2016.

We have operations in 27 countries.

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Dan Wasiolek

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