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Consumer cyclical companies and projects

Explore consumer-facing companies across retail, media, travel, leisure, clothing, automotive products and household goods. Use Orbitrum's industry groups to narrow your research and discover the evaluations available for each project.

Projects in Consumer Cyclicals

1,234 projects

Choice HotelsChoice Hotels International, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates as a hotel franchisor in the United States and internationally. It operates through Hotel Franchising & Management and Corporate & Other segments. The company franchises lodging properties under the Comfort Inn, Comfort Suites, Quality, Clarion, Clarion Pointe, Sleep Inn, Ascend Collection, Econo Lodge, Rodeway Inn, MainStay Suites, Suburban Studios, WoodSpring Suites, Everhome Suites, Cambria Hotels, Radisson Blu, Radisson RED, Radisson, Park Plaza, Country Inn & Suites by Radisson, Radisson Inn & Suites, Park Inn by Radisson, Radisson Individuals, and Radisson Collection brand names. The company was founded in 1939 and is headquartered in North Bethesda, Maryland.Web2
Churchill DownsChurchill Downs Incorporated operates live and historical racing entertainment venues, online wagering businesses, and regional casino gaming properties in the United States. It operates through three segments: Live and Historical Racing, Wagering Services and Solutions, and Gaming. The Live and Historical Racing segment engages in live and historical pari-mutuel racing related activities at Churchill Downs Racetrack and its historical racing properties in Kentucky, Virginia, and New Hampshire; provides racing event-related services, including admissions, personal seat licenses, sponsorships, television rights, and other miscellaneous services, as well as food and beverages services. The Wagering Services and Solutions engages in pari-mutuel wagers through TwinSpires, which operates the online horse racing wagering business for TwinSpires.com, BetAmerica.com, and other white-label platforms; facilitates dollar wagering; provides the Bloodstock Research Information Services platform for horse racing statistical data; offers streaming video of live horse races, replays, and an assortment of racing and handicapping information; and provides technology services to third parties. This segment also operates retail and online sports betting businesses, United Tote, which manufactures and operates pari-mutuel wagering systems for racetracks, OTBs, and other pari-mutuel wagering businesses, and Exacta, which provides central determinant system technology in HRMs. The Gaming segment operates the casino properties and associated racetracks, which include slot machines, table games, video lottery terminals, video poker, HRMs, ancillary food and beverage services, hotel services, commission on pari-mutuel wagering, racing event-related services, and other miscellaneous operations. Churchill Downs Incorporated was founded in 1875 and is headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky.Web2
Cirsa EnterprisesCirsa Enterprises, S.A. is a gaming company, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the operation of slot machines, casinos, and gaming halls in Panama, Mexico, Colombia, Spain, Peru, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, and Morocco. The company also involved in online betting and gambling activities, as well as providing arcade machines. Cirsa Enterprises, S.A. was founded in 1978 and is based in Terrassa, Spain. Cirsa Enterprises, S.A. operates as a subsidiary of LHMC Midco S.à r.l.Web2

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About this sector

Consumer Cyclicals includes specialty and diversified retail, media and publishing, hotels and entertainment, apparel, leisure products, automobiles, household goods and homebuilding-related supplies. These categories describe different parts of the consumer economy; they do not imply identical customers or business models.

How to compare projects

Begin with what the company sells and how it reaches customers. A retailer, a manufacturer and a leisure operator can appear in the same sector while offering very different research contexts. Compare the specific activity and the author's reasoning, not just the sector label.

Projects follow the categories assigned in the Orbitrum application. This collection supports research and discovery; it is not an investment ranking.

Industry definitions

Media & Publishing (1,053)

Media and publishing businesses.

Specialty Retailers (890)

Retailers classified around specialized product categories.

Hotels & Entertainment Services (1,234)

Hotel operators and entertainment-service businesses.

Textiles & Apparel (1,469)

Companies involved in textiles or apparel.

Leisure Products (237)

Companies supplying leisure products.

Automobiles & Auto Parts (1,236)

Automobile and automotive-parts businesses.

Household Goods (452)

Companies supplying household goods.

Homebuilding & Construction Supplies (656)

Homebuilding businesses and suppliers of construction-related products.

Diversified Retail (256)

Retail businesses classified as diversified retailers.

Questions to guide your research

  • What product or experience does the company sell?
  • How does it reach customers, according to its profile and published research?
  • Which demand or operating assumptions are discussed in the evaluation?

Questions about this sector

Which retail companies belong in this collection?

The application includes Specialty Retailers and Diversified Retail under Consumer Cyclicals. Food & Drug Retailing is represented separately under Consumer Non-Cyclicals.

Where can I see an expert's view of a consumer company?

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