Choice Hotels Intnl. (CHH)

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Choice Hotels Intnl.'s filings since 2017 show no warning events in the scan: no bankruptcy or receivership notice, no debt default notice, no exchange listing notice, no restatement warning, no auditor change, no material cyber incident and no late-report notice (its current reports).

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Choice Hotels Intnl.'s 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $808 million in fiscal 2016 to $1.6 billion in fiscal 2025, up 7.9% a year; it rose in 8 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 31% from fiscal 2019 to fiscal 2020; net income was positive in 10 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

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Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, Choice Hotels Intnl.'s diluted share count shrank about 5.5% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 100% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 16 sales (15 under scheduled 10b5-1 plans) and 0 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-11-05 (their Form 4 filings).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, Choice Hotels Intnl. earned about 204 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money. Leverage: it owed about 94 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count shrank 3.1% over the year (the filed statements).

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Choice Hotels Intnl.'s standing among 27 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $1.6 billion in fiscal 2025 ranks in the bottom 33% by size; a net margin of 23.2% ranks in the top 6%; revenue growth of 4.4% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the bottom 31% (its annual reports).

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Choice Hotels Intnl.'s leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Dragisich, Dominic (President & CEO, as filed), filing under that title since 2026-05-22, 6 months (bottom 3% of its family); the 21 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 12.6 years (top 7%); 8 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 21 people in charge now (bottom 43%; fewer changes for each person reads higher) (the Form 4 record, its Form 8-K reports). Years count from a person's first filing in the SEC's data sets, which begin in 2006, so each is a floor.

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Choice Hotels Intnl.'s room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $45 million against debt of $1.9 billion leaves -63.8% of its assets as net cash, bottom 28% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 16.9% of revenue (top 25%) (its annual report).

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Choice Hotels Intnl.'s growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew 4.4% a year over the last three filed years against 7.9% over all 10, slowing (bottom 20% of its family); the newest year grew 0.8% (bottom 20%); capital spending grew 31.6% a year (top 19%) (its annual reports). Choice Hotels Intnl. reported 5 product lines in fiscal 2025: Franchise and Management Fees at $673 million (42%), Revenue for Reimbursable Costs From Franchised and Managed Properties at $616 million (39%), Owned Hotels at $121 million (8%), and 2 more; 4 of 5 grew against the year before (its annual report).

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Choice Hotels Intnl.'s newest year against its own record: revenue of $1.6 billion in fiscal 2025 came in 5.2% below the $1.7 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (top 50% of its family); net income of $370 million against a prior three-year average of $297 million (top 31%); a net margin of 23.2% against 19.8% before (top 28%) (its annual reports).