Six years after Blackstone paid $26.7bn to LBO this hotel chain (and pretty much marked the top of the last cycle), Hilton is back with the largest ever lodging IPO. Pricing at $20 per share, the largest hotel oeprator in the world is not enjoying the kind of post-IPO euphoria that the likes of ‘real’ companies like Facebook and Twitter had… for now HLT is up a mere 7%… the question is will the largest hotel IPO also mark the top of this cycle? Finally, with the “dot com 2.0 mentality” raging, will the fact that HLT actually has PE multiple expansion-limiting earnings, be its biggest curse?
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