ILG, Inc. (ILG, Financial) is a provider of non-traditional lodging, encompassing a portfolio of leisure businesses, from exchange and vacation rental to vacation ownership. A year ago, the stock price was suffering under the combined weight of both a general market swoon and a share overhang from ILG’s imminent merger with Starwood’s timeshare business. That merger ultimately put over half (70+ million shares) of this small-cap company’s stock in the hands of large-cap hotel investors. One year later, the market has marched steadily higher, and the bulk of those shares have likely found homes in the portfolios of more appropriate investors. As such, the stock price has rebounded and reclaimed much of what it had lost in the year prior. We continue to like the prospects and valuation of the newly combined entity.
From Weitz Funds' first-quarter 2017 Hickory Fund shareholder letter.
