Whitbread PLC
Whitbread, previously trading as Whitbread, Martineau & Co., is a British multinational hotel and restaurant company headquartered in Houghton Regis, England. The business was founded as a brewery in 1742 by Samuel Whitbread in partnership with Godfrey and Thomas Shewell, with premises in London at the junction of Old Street and Upper Whitecross Street, along with a brewery in Brick Lane, Spitalfields. Samuel Whitbread bought out his partners, expanding into porter production with the purchase of a brewery in Chiswell Street, and the company had become the largest brewery in the world by the 1780s.
If you'd bought from year…
Same habit, different start year. Each row shows what a constant habit's worth of WTB-L would be worth today, had you started buying at that point in the asset's history.
| Started | $6/day$6/day coffee | $42/wk$42/week coffee |
|---|---|---|
| Year 1 (1988) — listing | $132,114 2.3× | $187,090 2.3× |
| Year 6 (1993) | $95,293 1.9× | $135,163 1.8× |
| Year 11 (1998) | $71,071 1.6× | $101,229 1.6× |
| Year 16 (2003) | $48,867 1.4× | $70,104 1.4× |
| Year 21 (2008) | $31,740 1.1× | $45,874 1.1× |
| Year 26 (2013) | $15,655 0.8× | $22,630 0.8× |
| Year 31 (2018) | $10,086 0.8× | $14,619 0.8× |
| Year 36 (2023) | $4,199 0.8× | $6,111 0.8× |
Repeated investment, no fees, dividends reinvested. $6/day coffee = $180 / month equivalent.
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For illustration only — not investment advice. Past performance is not indicative of future results.