Monday January 31, 2022, 07:00:00

DIN: Updating Our Q1E Same-Store Sales Projections

By Mark Kalinowski

Dine Brands — the owner and franchisor of the Applebee’s casual-dining concept and the IHOP family-dining concept — likely plans to report its fourth quarter earnings in late February or early March. There is the possibility that the company may choose to provide an update on Q1-to-date same-store sales trends on its related conference call that afternoon.

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Monday January 3, 2022, 07:01:00

DIN: Updating Our Same-Store Sales and EPS Projections

By Mark Kalinowski

We believe that family-dining segment same-store sales in the U.S. likely came in worse than the Street expected for Q4 2021. This seems to have been caused in part by consumer concerns about rising U.S. Covid cases (particularly in December), as well as concerns about the Omicron variant (also primarily in December).

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Monday December 20, 2021, 07:00:00

DIN: Conference Call with CFO Highlights Advantages and Opportunities

By Mark Kalinowski

This past Thursday, Kalinowski Equity Research hosted a conference call featuring Dine Brands. We thank for their participation on the call Dine Brands’ CFO Vance Chang, and Executive Director, Investor Relations Ken Diptee. A replay of this call is available upon request. Here are some of the highlights of the conference call:

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