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Net unit growth

2 stories · First covered Mar 1, 2026 · Latest Mar 9
Net unit growth Coverage
The Hotel Industry Built 130 Brands Nobody Can Tell Apart. Now What?

The Hotel Industry Built 130 Brands Nobody Can Tell Apart. Now What?

Major hotel companies doubled their brand counts in a decade chasing Wall Street's favorite metric: net unit growth. The problem isn't that they built too many brands. It's that they built too many brands that don't mean anything.

A "Watchlist" Built on Trading Volume Is Not Investment Analysis

A "Watchlist" Built on Trading Volume Is Not Investment Analysis

MarketBeat's algorithm flagged five hotel stocks for high dollar volume and called it a watchlist. The actual fundamentals tell a more complicated story.