Whitbread plc (LON:WTB) Stock Now Rated “Moderate Buy” by Wall Street Brokerages

Posted by Jeff Wilder on Nov 10th, 2026

Whitbread plc (LON:WTB – Get Free Report) has been assigned a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” from the eight ratings firms that are presently covering the firm, Marketbeat Ratings reports. Four analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and four have issued a buy rating on the company. The average twelve-month price target among brokerages that have covered the stock in the last year is GBX 2,925.62.

Several research firms recently weighed in on WTB. Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft boosted their target price on Whitbread from GBX 2,530 to GBX 2,730 and gave the stock a “hold” rating in a research note on Thursday, October 29th. Jefferies Financial Group reissued a “hold” rating and issued a GBX 2,250 price objective on shares of Whitbread in a research note on Thursday, October 29th. Berenberg Bank restated a “hold” rating and issued a GBX 2,250 target price on shares of Whitbread in a research note on Thursday, October 29th. Finally, Citigroup lifted their target price on shares of Whitbread from GBX 3,100 to GBX 3,300 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a report on Friday, August 21st.

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Whitbread Stock Performance

LON WTB opened at GBX 2,770 on Tuesday. The company has a market cap of £4.64 billion, a P/E ratio of 76.31, a P/E/G ratio of -3.09 and a beta of 0.65. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 179.41, a current ratio of 0.33 and a quick ratio of 1.74. The stock has a 50-day moving average of GBX 2,503.04 and a two-hundred day moving average of GBX 2,472.15. Whitbread has a 1-year low of GBX 2,098 and a 1-year high of GBX 2,909.

Whitbread (LON:WTB – Get Free Report) last issued its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, October 13th. The company reported GBX 125.10 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter. Whitbread had a net margin of 1.96% and a return on equity of 1.85%. As a group, analysts anticipate that Whitbread will post 227.19 EPS for the current year.

Whitbread Company Profile

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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.