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Wyndham's EBITDA Grew 8%. Strip Out the Marketing Fund and It Shrank.

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Wyndham's EBITDA Grew 8%. Strip Out the Marketing Fund and It Shrank.

Wyndham's Q1 headline looks strong until you pull apart the $156 million adjusted EBITDA and find $13 million of it came from marketing fund timing, not operations. The raised revenue outlook has a similar asterisk worth reading before you celebrate.

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Jordan Chen 2 min read · 6h ago