Cramer Calls Wyndham a Winner

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Cramer also said tonight on CNBC’s MAD MONEY that the old Cendant value is a up a combined 32% higher than its break-up last year.  There is a laggard there, and that is Wyndam Worldwide Corporation (WYN-NYSE) which owns Ramada and timeshares.  Cramer said this is a much better value than it used to be and WYN makes more money than other timeshare companies.  Cramer said even with the housing bust that timeshares aren’t imploding like they would have before.  Cramer thinks this one is the value out of the Cendant break-up.  It trades at 17-times forward earnings and every part of the old Cendant is attractive to a buyer.  Cramer said you can’t call it the same as a Four Seasons value to buy, but it doesn’t deserve a multiple less than half of that buyout.  He thinks it’s too cheap and could be bought.

Jon C. Ogg
April 10, 2007

Jon Ogg can be reached at [email protected]; he does not own securities in the companies he covers.

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Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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