Whitbread (LON:WTB) Insider Purchases £209,715 in Stock

Posted by Tyrone Williams on Feb 17th, 2026

Whitbread plc (LON:WTB – Get Free Report) insider Christine Mary Hodgson bought 7,750 shares of Whitbread stock in a transaction dated Monday, February 16th. The shares were bought at an average cost of GBX 2,706 per share, for a total transaction of £209,715.

Whitbread Stock Up 0.3%

Shares of LON WTB opened at GBX 2,698 on Tuesday. The stock has a market capitalization of £4.53 billion, a P/E ratio of 18.85, a PEG ratio of -3.09 and a beta of 1.11. The stock’s fifty day moving average is GBX 2,626.20 and its 200 day moving average is GBX 2,870.73. Whitbread plc has a 52 week low of GBX 2,253 and a 52 week high of GBX 3,302. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 33.18, a quick ratio of 1.74 and a current ratio of 0.96.

Wall Street Analyst Weigh In

Several equities analysts have recently commented on the stock. JPMorgan Chase & Co. boosted their target price on shares of Whitbread from GBX 2,450 to GBX 2,550 and gave the company a “neutral” rating in a research report on Thursday, January 29th. Citigroup boosted their price objective on shares of Whitbread from GBX 3,100 to GBX 3,300 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research report on Thursday, January 15th. Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft cut Whitbread to a “hold” rating and cut their target price for the stock from GBX 3,375 to GBX 2,815 in a research note on Wednesday, December 3rd. Panmure Gordon reaffirmed a “buy” rating and issued a GBX 3,700 target price on shares of Whitbread in a report on Tuesday, November 25th. Finally, Berenberg Bank cut Whitbread to a “hold” rating and set a GBX 2,900 price target for the company. in a report on Monday, January 19th. Four analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating and three have issued a Hold rating to the company’s stock. According to data from MarketBeat, Whitbread currently has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus price target of GBX 3,127.50.

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About Whitbread

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Whitbread is the owner of Premier Inn, the UK’s biggest
hotel brand, with 86,000 rooms in over 850 hotels
and a growing presence in Germany with 10,500 rooms in
59 hotels, offering quality accommodation at affordable
prices in great locations.

People are at the heart of our business. We employ over
38,000 team members in over 900 Premier Inn hotels
across the UK and Germany.