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Dan Wasiolek
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Wyndham, Spin That Record One More Time: Solid Quarter Supports Its Brand Advantage

We do not find narrow-moat Wyndham’s announcement that it plans to spin its lodging and timeshare segments into separately traded and managed companies too surprising, given narrow-moat Marriott, Starwood (now part of Marriott), and narrow-moat Hilton took similar actions over the last few years. That said, we do expect the enhanced ability for each segment to focus on opportunities within their industries to likely create some incremental value. Therefore, we plan to revise our lodging and time...
Underlying
Travel + Leisure Co.

Wyndham Destinations is a vacation ownership and exchange company. The company provides everyday travelers the opportunity to own, exchange or rent their vacation experience. The company's operations are grouped into two segments: Vacation Ownership, which is a timeshare business with resorts and owners that develops and markets vacation ownership interests (VOIs) to individual consumers, provide consumer financing in connection with the sale of VOIs, and provides property management services at resorts; and Vacation Exchange, which operates the vacation exchange network with members, and has relationships with vacation ownership resorts located in various countries and territories.

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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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