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Bear Sterns Analyst Says Lodging May Sour as Banking Firm Itself Sees Income Reduction

NEW YORK CITY-Bear Stearns analyst warns of potential lodging industry drop-off amid a drop in the mid-size investment banking firm's own reduction in income, reflecting shift in the economy.

By Amy Vaughn | Updated on September 15, 2000

NEW YORK CITY-Jason Ader, a lodging analyst for Bear Sterns, a mid-size investment banking firm on Wall Street, warns investors that surging oil prices, the weak Euro and other signs of economic trouble to come may soon adversely impact the travel and hospitality industries, leading to decreased hotel occupancy rates.

The warning comes amid Bear Stern’s own decrease in net income for the third-quarter of 5.7%. While the company’s revenue rose 6% and its earnings per share also rose, the company had 9% fewer shares than last year’s third-quarter because of stock buyouts, and its investment banking revenues decreased 11%. Stock shares, however, have gone up 41% since late July. Bear Stearns is becoming one of an increasingly shrinking number of mid-size firms here in New York, as the trend in takeovers grows.

Ader says of the lodging industry that, while he had upgraded the lodging sector in January and the Bear Stearns Large Cap Hotel Index has risen more than 25% since then, the industry may top out. He explains, “The lodging industry is very dependent on the overall economy and if there is any slow down it won’t be long before it trickles down to the hotels’ bottom line.”

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