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Extended Stay America, Inc.: what insiders have been doing
This page follows insider dealings at Extended Stay America, Inc. as filed with SEC (Form 4), a company from the Retail sector based in Charlotte, United States. The group dates from 1995. No insider at Extended Stay America, Inc. has published a filing in the past twelve months. The most recent one dates from 21 June 2021.
These figures are compiled from regulatory filings published by SEC (Form 4). They describe what insiders did and are not a recommendation.
Insider Decl.
16
Thresholds
n/a
Buy Volume
n/a
n/a
Sell Volume
€5M
8 ops. · all time
This score ranks the purchase within its own market. A position size is suggested only on the venues of the backtested strategy universe; elsewhere, signals stay on watch. Not investment advice.
Financial data
as of FY 2020FY ended December 2020 · cache
Income statement
RevenueUS$897.4M
Last declaration on 21 June 2021
Declarations16 total
19,061 shares@ US$18.75100.0% of flowPaired SharesSEC:0000895345-21-000598:0
38,912 sharesPaired SharesSEC:0000895345-21-000600:0
82,951 shares0Paired SharesSEC:0000895345-21-000597:0
2,924 shares0Paired SharesSEC:0000895345-21-000605:0
34,091 shares0Paired SharesSEC:0000895345-21-000592:0
41,082 shares@ US$18.75100.0% of flowPaired SharesSEC:0000895345-21-000601:0
15,819 shares0Paired SharesSEC:0000895345-21-000603:0
61,761 shares0Paired SharesSEC:0000895345-21-000602:0
70,516 shares0Paired SharesSEC:0000895345-21-000593:0
139,116 shares0Paired SharesSEC:0000895345-21-000604:0
15,979 shares0Paired SharesSEC:0000895345-21-000599:0
153,888 shares0Paired SharesSEC:0000895345-21-000596:0
200,134 shares@ US$18.75100.0% of flowPaired SharesSEC:0000895345-21-000595:0
41,001 shares@ US$18.75100.0% of flowPaired SharesSEC:0000895345-21-000589:0
20,000 shares@ US$12.2752100.0% of flowPaired SharesSEC:0000895345-21-000516:0
16 of 16 declarations
About Extended Stay America, Inc.
Extended Stay America, Inc. (ticker: STAY) was a U.S. lodging company focused on the extended-stay hotel niche, serving guests who need accommodations for days, weeks, or longer rather than a traditional overnight hotel stay. The company was founded in 1995 as a developer, owner, and operator of extended-stay hotels, and over time built one of the best-known brands in the mid-priced extended-stay category. Its principal executive offices were in Charlotte, North Carolina, United States. Historically, STAY was listed on the NASDAQ, and although the company went private in 2021 after being acquired by Blackstone Real Estate and Starwood Capital Group, it remains a relevant historical reference for insider-transaction/Form 4 research.
From a business-model perspective, Extended Stay America was primarily an owner-operator platform. Its core economics came from owned hotels, with additional revenue streams historically tied to franchise and management arrangements. The brand’s value proposition was centered on affordability and functionality: larger guest rooms, kitchen facilities, and a home-like setup designed for business travelers, relocations, project assignments, temporary displacement, and longer leisure stays. This differentiated model allowed the company to occupy a defensible position in the economy and midscale lodging universe, where it was widely regarded as a major U.S. player in the extended-stay segment.
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Geographically, the company’s footprint was concentrated in the United States, where it operated a broad multi-state network of hotels across major metro areas and travel corridors. SEC filings from the public-company period show a nationwide presence, and some historical disclosures also referenced Canada. That domestic concentration gave the company strong exposure to U.S. labor mobility, corporate travel, housing transitions, and cost-conscious travelers, while also making performance highly sensitive to occupancy trends, room-rate discipline, and the broader cycle in travel demand.
Competitive positioning was supported by brand recognition, a specialized operating model, and scale in a niche segment. At the same time, the company faced competition from other extended-stay brands, select-service hotel operators, and alternative accommodation providers. Its appeal to investors was typically tied to the relatively resilient demand profile of extended-stay lodging versus more discretionary hotel categories, as well as to the potential to monetize real estate and operating platform value.
A major recent milestone was the 2021 take-private transaction, which removed the business from public markets and ended its NASDAQ listing. Before that transaction, management focused on portfolio optimization, brand execution, and value creation across the owned-hotel base. For investors analyzing historic insider activity, STAY should therefore be viewed as a U.S.-based, NASDAQ-listed lodging name with a specialized extended-stay model and a significant corporate-event history.
