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Travel & Leisure Co.

TNL · Consumer discretionary (hotels & motels) · 10 years of annual accounts filed with the SEC · latest fiscal year ended 2025-12-31

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Travel & Leisure Co. reported revenue of $4.0 billion in fiscal 2025, after growing 1.0% a year over the previous 9 years. Its operating margin narrowed from 17.8% in 2016 to 13.8%, and it earned 8.2% on its invested capital in the latest year. Of the $5.7 billion its operations generated over 10 years, 57.0% went to buybacks and 28.8% to dividends; the share count fell 39.5%. On the accounting screens, it passes 6 of 8 Piotroski tests; 1 of the six cross-checks between its statements fires.

Revenue, fiscal 2025 4.0B +1.0% a year over 9 years
Operating margin 13.8% gross margin 93.2%
Return on invested capital 8.2% 10.4% on average over 5 years
Free cash flow after stock pay 466.0M 11.6% of revenue
Net debt ÷ EBITDA 7.9× net debt 5.3B
Piotroski F-score 6/8 tests of improvement passed

Is it growing?

Revenue and the operating income it turns into. Growth that does not reach operating income is growth bought with margin.

RevenueOperating income
Compound growth a year
3 yrs5 yrs9 yrs
Revenue+4.1%+13.2%+1.0%
Operating income-5.4%—-1.9%
Net income-13.6%—-10.3%
Earnings per share-6.8%—-5.1%
Free cash flow per share+19.1%+17.2%+0.2%
Dividend per share+11.6%+6.8%+1.1%
Shares-7.4%-4.9%-5.4%

Falling shares are buybacks: each remaining share owns more of the company.

Does it earn more than its capital costs?

Margins say how much of each sale is kept; return on invested capital says how much the business earns on the money it needs to operate. Growth only creates value when that return is above the cost of the capital.

GrossOperatingNetFree cash flow

Return on invested capital

Return on invested capital Cost of capital today · 3.5%

Economic profit

Economic profit

(return on capital − cost of capital) × capital invested: the profit left after paying for the money used. Today's cost of capital is applied to every year, since a past one cannot be rebuilt honestly.

Return on equity
—
Return on assets
3.4%
Asset turnover
0.59×
Overheads (SG&A)
12.4% of revenue

Is the profit cash, and where does the cash go?

Net income is an accounting opinion; free cash flow is what was left in the bank after investing. Stock-based pay does not leave the bank — shareholders pay it through dilution — so it is shown taken off as well.

Net incomeFree cash flowAfter stock-based pay

Where 10 years of operating cash went, 2016–2025

5.7B generated by the business. Each band is its share of that total.

  • Reinvested in the business 16% 881.0M
  • Acquisitions 4% 215.0M
  • Dividends 29% 1.6B
  • Share buybacks 57% 3.2B
  • More than it generated: funded with cash or new debt -5% -285.0M

Over the same years it paid 502.0M in stock. The share count fell 39.5%. 2.7B of the buybacks went beyond offsetting that dilution.

Per share

Earnings per shareFree cash flow per shareDividend per share

Shares outstanding

Diluted shares

How strong is the balance sheet?

Debt is not bad in itself; debt the business cannot service in a bad year is. Net debt is debt minus cash, and below zero the company holds more cash than it owes.

Net debt
Net debt ÷ EBITDA
7.9×
Interest coverage
2× operating income ÷ interest
Current ratio
— current assets ÷ current liabilities
Cash conversion cycle
—

Three classic screens of the accounts

Each asks a different question of the same statements — is it improving, does it look like a company heading for distress, do the accounts resemble ones that were manipulated. None is a verdict; each shows what moves it.

Piotroski F-score

Is the business improving? Nine yes-or-no tests, this year against last.

6of 8 tests passed
  • ProfitableReturn on assets above zero passed
  • Cash from operationsOperating cash flow above zero passed
  • Profitability improvedReturn on assets higher than a year before failed
  • Profit backed by cashOperating cash flow above net income (low accruals) passed
  • Less long-term debtLong-term debt as a share of assets fell passed
  • More liquidCurrent ratio higher than a year before — not reported no data
  • No new sharesShare count did not grow passed
  • Better gross marginGross margin higher than a year before failed
  • Sells more per assetAsset turnover higher than a year before passed

Where it misleads: it measures change, not level. An excellent business that stood still for a year scores low; a poor one recovering from a disaster scores high.

Altman Z''-score

Does the balance sheet look like those of companies that went bankrupt?

The accounts lack a line it needs (retained earnings, current assets or liabilities).

Beneish M-score

Do the accounts resemble those of companies that manipulated their earnings?

The accounts lack too many of the lines it needs.

Where the statements disagree

Cross-checks between the income statement, the balance sheet and the cash flow for the latest year, each with the benign reading and the worrying one.

Net debt is 7.9 times EBITDA.

Benign

A stable sector with predictable cash flows and comfortable maturities.

Worrying

Little room if earnings fall; the maturity schedule is what to check.

What is it worth, under which assumptions?

A company is worth the cash it will generate, brought back to today. This model projects revenue with growth that fades over the years, applies a free cash flow margin, and discounts the result at the cost of capital. Every assumption says where it came from, and all of them can be changed.

Revenue
M $

revenue of fiscal 2025

%

revenue grew +13.2% a year over the last 5 years; it fades to the terminal rate by the last year

yrs

ten years for growth to fade to the terminal rate

Cash from each sale
%

free cash flow to the firm after stock-based pay ÷ revenue, last 3 fiscal years together

%

the margin in year ten; by default the business keeps today's

The long run
%

growth forever after year ten, below the risk-free rate: no company outgrows the economy forever

The discount rate
%

10-year US Treasury par yield (U.S. Treasury), 2026-09-25

not measured on this public page, which uses only public filings: 1.0 assumes it moves like the market. Sign in to measure it from prices

%

the extra return demanded for holding shares; it cannot be measured, and 4–6% is the common range

%

interest expense ÷ debt = 4.1%, kept between the risk-free rate and +8 points

%

effective rate in the last fiscal year, 31.8%, kept within 0–35%

The price
$

Type the price you see at your broker. It is used only for the reverse questions: what that price implies.

Back to the defaults

SEC from the filings Treasury the 10-year yield measured from prices assumption cannot be measured yours you changed it

92% of the value comes from after year 10: this valuation rests mostly on the long run, which is exactly what is least known.
Value per share, with these assumptions $1,177.07 discounted at 3.5% a year · 92% of it from after year 10
$355.6980% of 2,716 simulations$1,150.03
Cautious $291.76 9.0% growth · 11.0% margin · 4.5% discount · 2.0% forever
Your assumptions $1,177.07 13.0% growth · 12.9% margin · 3.5% discount · 2.5% forever
Generous — 17.0% growth · 14.9% margin · 2.5% discount · 3.0% forever

Type a share price on the left to ask the reverse questions: what growth, what margin or what discount rate that price implies.

What the value implies, in the usual multiples

At this model's value
Price ÷ earnings342.4×
Enterprise value ÷ EBITDA124.2×
Enterprise value ÷ revenue20.9×
Free cash flow yield0.6%

From cash flows to a value per share

10 years of cash flow, today7.1B
Everything after, today77.0B
The whole business84.1B
Minus net debt-5.3B
What belongs to shareholders78.7B

Divided among 66.9M shares: <strong>$1,177.07</strong> each.

The projection next to its history

Reported free cash flow after stock pay, then the model's. A projection that looks nothing like the past needs a reason.

ReportedProjected
Year by year
2026202720282029203020312032203320342035
Revenue4.5B5.1B5.6B6.2B6.7B7.1B7.6B7.9B8.2B8.4B
Growth13.0%11.8%10.7%9.5%8.3%7.2%6.0%4.8%3.7%2.5%
Cash margin12.9%12.9%12.9%12.9%12.9%12.9%12.9%12.9%12.9%12.9%
Free cash flow588.1M657.7M727.9M797.0M863.4M925.3M980.8M1.0B1.1B1.1B
Worth today568.1M613.6M656.0M693.8M726.0M751.5M769.4M779.1M780.2M772.4M

If the least-known inputs move

Value per share as two inputs change at a time. Neighbouring cells that differ a lot are the conclusion: the value depends on numbers nobody knows to a point.

The discount rate and growth forever

discount ↓ · forever →1.5%2.0%2.5%3.0%3.5%
2.5% 1,226 2,422 — — —
3.0% 794 1,200 2,373 — —
3.5% 575 778 1,177 2,331 —
4.0% 442 562 760 1,151 2,278
4.5% 354 433 550 744 1,127

Year-one growth and the final margin

margin ↓ · growth →9.0%11.0%13.0%15.0%17.0%
10.3% 767 848 934 1,028 1,129
11.7% 869 959 1,056 1,161 1,275
12.9% 970 1,069 1,177 1,294 1,419
14.2% 1,071 1,180 1,298 1,426 1,565
15.5% 1,171 1,290 1,419 1,559 1,709

All the inputs moving at once

2,716 valuations, each with growth, final margin, discount rate and growth forever drawn at random around the values on the left (spreads of 3.0%, 2.0%, 1.0% and 0.5%). Not a probability — the spreads are assumptions too — but an honest picture of how wide the answer is.

Half of the simulations land between <b>$485.35</b> and <b>$904.47</b>; one in ten below $355.69, one in ten above $1,150.03.

Does the long run make sense?

  • 76.6×The terminal value prices the business in year 10 at 76.6 times that year's EBITDA.
  • Free growthIn year 10 free cash flow is at or above after-tax operating profit, yet the model grows 2.5% forever. Growth needs reinvestment; this assumes it comes for free, which flatters the terminal value.
  • 92%of the value comes from after year 10. The more of it, the more the answer depends on the part nobody can see.
The discount rate, taken apart
  1. What shareholders demand (CAPM): 5.17% risk-free + 1.00 beta × 5.0% premium = <strong>10.17%</strong>.
  2. What lenders charge, after the tax saving on interest: 5.17% × (1 − 31.8%) = <strong>3.53%</strong>.
  3. Weighted by how much of each the company uses (book value (no price given)): <strong>3.53%</strong>, the rate every future cash flow is discounted at.

What it has filed lately

The last twelve months at the SEC, most important first: annual and quarterly reports, events, large holders and insiders.

What its own directors and officers did

Every Form 4 filed in the last twelve months, read line by line: 6 filings by 5 people. Open-market purchases and sales are counted apart from awards, option exercises and shares withheld for taxes.

Bought on the open market—none in the period
Sold on the open market$8.6M5 sale(s) by 4 insider(s)
Under pre-arranged plans40%of the sales followed a 10b5-1 plan set months earlier
Other lines41 awards · 2 option exercises · 1 tax withholdings
DateWhoWhatSharesPriceValueHolds after
26 Aug 2026 Duncan Thomas MichaelSVP, Chief Accounting Officer Sold on the open market 20,000 $74.16 $1.5M 5,307
25 Aug 2026 Robin-Caplan AmandineSee remarks Shares withheld for taxes 1,689 $73.67 $124,429 6,645
25 Aug 2026 Robin-Caplan AmandineSee remarks Received as an award 4,291 — — 8,334
6 Aug 2026 Brown Michael DeanSee Remarks Exercised options 200 $44.38 $8,876 487,503
6 Aug 2026 Brown Michael DeanSee Remarks Sold on the open market · pre-arranged plan 200 $79.00 $15,800 487,303
5 Aug 2026 Brown Michael DeanSee Remarks Exercised options 4,150 $44.38 $184,177 491,453
5 Aug 2026 Brown Michael DeanSee Remarks Sold on the open market · pre-arranged plan 4,150 $79.24 $328,846 487,303
4 Aug 2026 Esfahani SyChief Technology Officer Sold on the open market 52,617 $78.00 $4.1M 0
4 Aug 2026 Myers JeffreySee Remarks Sold on the open market 34,000 $77.76 $2.6M 67,787

A Form 4 says what happened, when, how many shares and at what price. It does not say why: a sale can be diversification, a tax bill or a plan fixed months earlier, and an award is pay, not a purchase. Nothing here is a reason to buy or sell anything.

Which large funds report holding it

From the Form 13F of the 28 institutions followed on this site, as of the end of their last reported quarter. A 13F is filed up to 45 days later and shows only long positions in US-listed shares.

FundSharesValueShare of the fundSince the quarter before
Norges Bank (Norway's sovereign fund) 30 Jun 2026 1.2M $90.5M 0.0% New
Bridgewater Associates 30 Jun 2026 17,782 $1.4M 0.0% Reduced

All the funds and what they reported ›

Companies like this one

Same SEC industry (hotels & motels) first, then the rest of consumer discretionary.

Every figure, year by year

10 fiscal years · 30 measures
2016201720182019202020212022202320242025
Size
Revenue3.7B3.8B3.9B4.0B2.2B3.1B3.6B3.8B3.9B4.0B
Revenue growth—+3.1%+3.3%+2.8%-46.6%+45.1%+13.8%+5.1%+3.0%+4.1%
Operating income658.0M439.0M523.0M812.0M-105.0M618.0M653.0M720.0M733.0M553.0M
Net income611.0M854.0M672.0M507.0M-255.0M308.0M357.0M396.0M411.0M230.0M
Margins
Gross margin—96.1%95.3%95.4%99.9%95.0%95.6%96.5%97.6%93.2%
Operating margin17.8%11.5%13.3%20.1%-4.9%19.7%18.3%19.2%19.0%13.8%
Net margin16.5%22.4%17.1%12.5%-11.8%9.8%10.0%10.6%10.6%5.7%
Free cash flow margin22.9%23.1%8.7%8.5%14.1%16.3%10.9%7.4%9.9%13.0%
R&D ÷ revenue——————————
SG&A ÷ revenue15.4%15.2%13.1%12.1%18.4%13.8%13.4%12.1%12.3%12.4%
Cash
Free cash flow846.0M879.0M343.0M344.0M305.0M511.0M390.0M276.0M383.0M523.0M
Stock-based pay57.0M59.0M129.0M24.0M20.0M32.0M45.0M38.0M41.0M57.0M
Free cash flow after stock pay789.0M820.0M214.0M320.0M285.0M479.0M345.0M238.0M342.0M466.0M
Free cash flow to the firm482.3M-723.8M323.3M676.9M-204.8M648.9M568.3M676.5M482.1M483.4M
Free cash flow ÷ net income1.4×1.0×0.5×0.7×-1.2×1.7×1.1×0.7×0.9×2.3×
Capex ÷ revenue3.2%2.8%2.5%2.7%3.2%1.8%1.5%2.0%2.1%2.9%
Returns
Return on invested capital58.1%-1.6%—11.6%-2.1%10.0%10.1%12.3%11.5%8.2%
Return on equity85.6%111.1%————————
Return on assets6.2%8.2%9.4%6.8%-3.3%4.7%5.3%5.9%6.1%3.4%
Asset turnover0.4×0.4×0.5×0.5×0.3×0.5×0.5×0.6×0.6×0.6×
Economic profit401.4M-44.6M—405.9M-305.8M291.7M311.5M413.6M373.9M214.5M
Per share
Earnings per share$5.52$8.24$6.77$5.49$-2.96$3.53$4.24$5.28$5.81$3.44
Free cash flow per share$7.65$8.48$3.46$3.72$3.54$5.85$4.63$3.68$5.42$7.82
Dividend per share$2.02$2.33$1.96$1.80$1.60$1.25$1.60$1.81$2.01$2.23
Payout ratio36.5%28.3%28.9%32.7%—35.4%37.8%34.3%34.5%64.8%
Book value per share$6.46$7.42$-5.79$-5.74$-11.32$-9.18$-10.84$-12.24$-12.46$-14.66
Diluted shares110.6M103.7M99.2M92.4M86.1M87.3M84.2M75.0M70.7M66.9M
Balance sheet
Net debt-91.0M56.0M—5.2B5.2B4.9B5.1B5.4B5.4B5.3B
Net debt ÷ EBITDA-0.1×0.1×—5.6×248.7×6.7×6.6×6.4×6.4×7.9×
Interest coverage4.9×2.8×3.1×5.0×-0.5×3.1×3.3×2.9×2.9×2.4×
Current ratio0.9×1.2×————————
Cash conversion cycle (days)—2,4932,321———————
Scores
Piotroski F-score—654467686
Altman Z''1.041.41————————
Beneish M—-3.06-2.65———————

Accounts from the company's own SEC filings; lines some companies do not report are shown as a dash rather than estimated. The risk-free rate is the 10-year US Treasury yield. A DCF is a way of making assumptions explicit, not a forecast: it states what the company would be worth if the assumptions held. The scores are screens that point where to look, not verdicts. Nothing here is a recommendation to buy or sell.