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DineEquity (DIN)

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Dine Equity, formerly IHOP Corp (IHP), engages exclusively in the food-service industry, in the United States, as a franchisor and operator of Applebee's and IHOP restaurants.

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Distressed (1597), Hotels, Restaurants and Leisure (141), Aggressive Growth (860), Consumer Discretionary (795), Micro Cap (4701), Growth (1902), Cyclical (3415)
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DineEquity At A Glance

Current Price: $25.35
Last Trade Time: 2/9/2010 4:01 PM
Open: $24.37
Previous Close: $24.02
Daily Range: $24.32 - $25.43
52-Week Range: $5.24 - $34.71
Volume: 271,286
Market Cap: $445.67M
P/E Ratio: 28.99
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Avatar JumperLee (< 20) Submitted: 10/13/07 10:45 PM

Personally, I don't eat there anymore. I'd rather go to Cracker Barrel (don't stop reading this yet, I'm a southern boy & enjoy my biscuits and gravy). Their (hopeful) aquisition (no spell check on CAPS...ARGH!!!) of Applebees is my driving force. I don't eat there anymore either. I'd rathe...More

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Avatar EclecticRecluse (74.33) Submitted: 1/25/10 9:24 AM

Relative Bounce Likely Complete, Fall to Resume

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Avatar EclecticRecluse (74.33) Submitted: 1/25/10 9:24 AM : Underperform Start Price: $24.47 DIN Score: -6.31

Relative Bounce Likely Complete, Fall to Resume

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Avatar venison (< 20) Submitted: 9/16/09 2:44 PM : Underperform Start Price: $28.07 DIN Score: 10.27

The stock is way ahead of itself. At the core of the turnaround plan is re-franchising corporately owned/operated Applebee’s. While the outlook for the credit markets is uncertain, the restaurant franchise finance market has shut down. GE Capital, the primary lender to restaurant franchisees, has all but stopped lending to the industry by increasing interest rates beyond acceptable levels. Other major players, Merrill and BofA, have discontinued lending money to the industry. Due to the loan size and franchisee net worth requirements, the SBA is not an option. There are no lenders with enough industry knowledge to finance the acquisition of stores.





Julia Stewart is the darling of the industry and is probably the reason why people by the stock. She was in charge of operations at Applebee's when the Applebee's brand was growing strong and worked her magic as CEO of IHOP when the IHOP system desperately needed to elevate the consistency of operations (quality service cleanliness).





Applebee's has hit a ceiling as far as the ability to open new units that will generate above average sales and the casual dining segment has way too much capacity. Applebee's franchisees are strong, professional restaurant management companies that will resist any initiatives that do not provide a good return on investment.





IHOP has driven out franchisees with poor operations, raised the bar for the overall system, and strengthened the brands awareness through advertising. The low hanging fruit has been picked and sales/profit growth will happen slowly over multiple years.





I believe management’s hands are tied for the next twelve months or so and won’t be able to engineer the earnings improvement.


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Avatar volt121575 (< 20) Submitted: 9/09/09 3:30 AM : Underperform Start Price: $24.39 DIN Score: 0.53

Garbage stock and garbage company. Applebee's has been deteriorating for years and will continue to.

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Avatar Chemdawg (87.69) Submitted: 7/28/09 10:45 AM : Outperform Start Price: $27.30 DIN Score: -17.87

ok...total debt is ridiculous.short term debt is extremely manageable though. I like IHOP actually as far as food goes.

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Avatar PopsDaniecki (94.27) Submitted: 7/10/09 3:23 PM : Underperform Start Price: $31.57 DIN Score: 41.70

While there are many good issues involving the Applebee's purchase and restructuring of the (now) subsidiary into a mostly 'franchise' paradigm, (AND I like the management decisions of the last year plus...) there is still a good deal of pain that the market over-all is going to suffer and I believe that DIN is going to suffer it by association before a real recovery comes across. IF the Obamanation that we are becoming doesn't pull some REAL ideas out the hat and show some REAL results for the money being promised (can you say double digit unemployment AND inflation???) we are in for a bit more 'pain' before someone slaps us out of all this fooliSh (with a small F/big S for SPENDING)-ness.

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