Why Marriott, Canadian Pacific, Vodafone Are About to Skyrocket

There’s a colossal rally taking shape in some of the biggest stocks on the market – but you’ve got to look beneath the surface of the big indices to see it. That’s because, while the S&P 500 has already managed to generate a respectable 2.5% gain year-to-date, the best-performing segment of the index is on fire right now.

Why Shares of Hyatt Hotels Rose 23% in 2016

The hotel sector looks to be in a good state right now, which helped Wall Street reward the company along with its peers. During the most recent quarter, Hyatt’s sales increased just 3.3% year over year, but its earnings rose 148% to $61 million.

Rain at J.P. Morgan Health Meeting Is a Tonic for Hotel Revenue

At this year’s annual meeting of health-care executives and investors in San Francisco, an industry criticized over the high prices of its drugs got a taste of its own medicine. The four-day J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference, known more for speed-date meetings and deals than actual presentations, this year packed thousands of investors, bankers and executives into the rain-soaked Union Square neighborhood.

Marriott Stock: Is It Too Late to Buy In?

The hotel industry is not a high-growth segment of the market with a lot of surprises, particularly not at the top, where companies have thousands of properties and forecast low-single-digit changes in sales. Yet Marriott International shares have grown 25% so far in 2016.