Whitbread (OTCPK:WTBCF, OTCPK:WTBCY, OTCPK:WTBDY) is 75% British hotels and 25% coffee shops. The stock has two activist investors that own 10% total. The company is probably going to spin off its coffee division. There are different opinions as to the break-up value.
Whitbread’s stock trades for £40, there are 183.61 million shares, and the market cap is £7.344 billion ($9.7 billion). Earnings per share were £2.40 and the price to earnings ratio is 16.7. The dividend is £1.0115 and the dividend yield is 2.5%.
The company earned £2.6 billion ($3.4 billion)