Whitbread PLC (LON: WTB) Share Price on 3 December 2025: Budget Hit, Buybacks and 2026 Stock Forecast
Whitbread PLC, the Premier Inn owner and one of the FTSE 100’s most cyclically exposed consumer stocks, is trading in the aftermath of a brutal late‑November sell‑off driven by the UK Budget’s business‑rates shock and a flurry of analyst revisions. As of the morning of 3 December 2025, Whitbread shares are trading around 2,415p, roughly 14% lower than a year ago and well below their early‑October peak. FT Markets+1 Despite the hit, most broker models still point to sizeable upside over the next 12 months – but that upside now comes with a clearly higher dose of policy and cost‑inflation