Choice Hotels (CHH) reported $447.34 million in revenue for the quarter ended September 2025, representing a year-over-year increase of 4.5%. EPS of $2.10 for the same period compares to $2.23 a year ago.
The reported revenue compares to the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $417.29 million, representing a surprise of +7.2%. The company delivered an EPS surprise of -3.67%, with the consensus EPS estimate being $2.18.
While investors scrutinize revenue and earnings changes year-over-year and how they compare with Wall Street expectations to determine their next move, some key metrics always offer a more accurate picture of a company's financial health.
Since these metrics play a crucial role in driving the top- and bottom-line numbers, comparing them with the year-ago numbers and what analysts estimated about them helps investors better project a stock's price performance.
Here is how Choice Hotels performed in the just reported quarter in terms of the metrics most widely monitored and projected by Wall Street analysts:
- RevPAR Growth: 0.2% versus -3.2% estimated by three analysts on average.
- RevPAR: $60.33 versus $60.64 estimated by three analysts on average.
- Rooms - Domestic Franchises: 498,307 versus the three-analyst average estimate of 500,862.
- Total Franchise Rooms: 649,677 compared to the 646,301 average estimate based on three analysts.
- Occupancy: 60.3% compared to the 60.8% average estimate based on two analysts.
- Average Daily Rate (ADR): $100.03 versus the two-analyst average estimate of $99.75.
- Revenue for reimbursable costs from franchised and managed properties: $169.43 million versus $163.78 million estimated by four analysts on average. Compared to the year-ago quarter, this number represents a -20.4% change.
- Franchise and management fees: $193.78 million compared to the $182.48 million average estimate based on four analysts.
- Revenues- Owned Hotels: $33.17 million versus $31.86 million estimated by four analysts on average. Compared to the year-ago quarter, this number represents a +3.9% change.
- Partnership services and fees: $28.87 million versus the four-analyst average estimate of $25.59 million.
- Other: $22.09 million versus $14.31 million estimated by four analysts on average. Compared to the year-ago quarter, this number represents a +59.4% change.
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Shares of Choice Hotels have returned -9.8% over the past month versus the Zacks S&P 500 composite's +1% change. The stock currently has a Zacks Rank #4 (Sell), indicating that it could underperform the broader market in the near term.
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