Weddings, events to ensure investors stay checked into hotel stocks
Live MintInvestors in shares of hotel companies are enjoying a good view. “We anticipate hotel companies to post healthy growth in 2HFY25/FY26, aided by: an increase in ARR across hotels, due to a favorable demand-supply scenario, corporate rate hikes, and room upgrades through renovations; and healthy operating leverage," said Motilal Oswal analysts in a report dated 16 December. Expressing optimism about continued revenue growth, IHCL managing director & CEO Puneet Chhatwal said in the Q2 earnings call, “With 30% higher wedding dates and an increase in foreign tourist arrivals expected in H2, we remain confident of comfortably delivering double-digit revenue growth, even excluding the positive impact of TajSATS." “Valuations for IHCL are running well ahead of its historical averages, which compelled us to downgrade the stock to ‘reduce,’" said the Nuvama report earlier this month, adding, “We remain optimistic on the business though." This follows a ₹1,000 crore QIP by Chalet Hotels earlier in year and three IPOs, which cumulatively raised around ₹4000 crore," said a Jefferies India report on 10 December.