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80% of World Cup Host City Hotels Are Below Forecast. The Rate Strategy Made It Worse. IHG Has Spent $3.9 Billion Buying Back Its Own Stock Since 2022. That's Capital That Didn't Build Hotels. Barry Diller Wants to Take MGM Private at $48.30. The Stock Says He's Lowballing. Curator Just Handed 120 Independents an Enterprise Tech Stack. Most Won't Use Half of It. Gas Prices Dipped. You've Got Maybe Three Weeks Before the Window Closes. Your Housekeepers Got a Raise This Year. They Still Took a Pay Cut. 4.2% Inflation on a 3.4% Wage Budget. Your Margin Is Shrinking in Three Places at Once. 80% of World Cup Host City Hotels Are Below Forecast. The Rate Strategy Made It Worse. IHG Has Spent $3.9 Billion Buying Back Its Own Stock Since 2022. That's Capital That Didn't Build Hotels. Barry Diller Wants to Take MGM Private at $48.30. The Stock Says He's Lowballing. Curator Just Handed 120 Independents an Enterprise Tech Stack. Most Won't Use Half of It. Gas Prices Dipped. You've Got Maybe Three Weeks Before the Window Closes. Your Housekeepers Got a Raise This Year. They Still Took a Pay Cut. 4.2% Inflation on a 3.4% Wage Budget. Your Margin Is Shrinking in Three Places at Once.

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IHG Has Spent $3.9 Billion Buying Back Its Own Stock Since 2022. That's Capital That Didn't Build Hotels.

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IHG Has Spent $3.9 Billion Buying Back Its Own Stock Since 2022. That's Capital That Didn't Build Hotels.

IHG just crossed $240 million into a $950 million buyback program, part of nearly $4 billion in repurchases over four years. The per-share math looks clean until you ask what an asset-light franchisor is optimizing for when it's spending more on financial engineering than system growth.

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