Hilton Worldwide
HLT NYSE· Hotels, Resorts & Cruise Lines
Last close · Oct 27, 2026
$344.65
KIRA · Stoqly’s AI analyst, in plain words
- Hilton Worldwide had $12.0B of revenue in fiscal 2025, up 7.7% on the year before. Over five years, revenue changed +22.8% a year on average.
- Its operating margin was 22.4%, up 1.2 pts: of every 100 in sales, about 22 is left after running the business.
- Hilton Worldwide made $1.5B of net profit in fiscal 2025. From fiscal 2016 to 2025, diluted EPS grew 21.9% a year.
- Free cash flow was $2.0B in fiscal 2025, 16.9% of revenue.
- Hilton Worldwide returned $3.3B to shareholders in fiscal 2025, 164% of free cash flow. The diluted share count fell 4.8%.
- Hilton Worldwide owes $11.4B more than it holds in cash, about 4.0 years of operating profit.
Market cap
$78.9B
P/E
50.5x
Revenue
$12.0B
Net income
$1.5B
Free cash flow
$2.0B
Operating margin
22.4%
Hilton Worldwide in 30 seconds · fiscal 2025
Are sales growing?
+7.7%
Yes. Sales grew 7.7% last year.
Does it make a profit?
12.1%
Yes. It keeps 12.1% of every sale as profit.
Does profit turn into cash?
16.9%
Yes. 16.9% of sales ends up as free cash.
Is debt under control?
4.0x
Heavy. Repaying its debt would take 4.0 years of operating profit.
How healthy are the accounts?
5 / 8
Mixed. It passes 5 of 8 health tests.
How is the share priced?
50.5x
One share costs 50.5 times its yearly profit per share. Typical for its sector: 17.7x.
What Hilton Worldwide does
Hilton is a hotel company with 9,158 properties and 1,351,351 rooms in 143 countries and territories at the end of 2025. Its brands range from luxury and lifestyle hotels to full-service, focused-service and all-suites hotels, plus timeshare (vacation ownership) brands. Hilton Grand Vacations has the exclusive right to use its timeshare brands under a license. Hilton reports two segments. The management and franchise segment covers hotels run for outside owners or licensed to use Hilton's brand and booking channels. It earns fees from those owners, license fees from partners such as co-branded credit card providers, and fees for managing its own hotels. The ownership segment earns money from room sales, food and drink, and other services at hotels it consolidates. It lists competitors brand by brand, including Marriott, Hyatt and Four Seasons. Hilton runs a guest loyalty program, Hilton Honors, which had 243 million members at the end of 2025.
Biggest risks, in its own words
- A weak economy or low travel demand cutting its revenue and slowing its growth.
- Damage to the reputation or quality of its brands, or poor relationships with the hotel owners who sign its contracts.
- Owners being unable to get financing or invest in their hotels, or the hotels in its development pipeline never getting built.
- Competition from other hotel brands and from internet booking channels.
- Fiscal year ends
- December 31, 2025
- Latest annual report
- 10-K · Feb 11, 2026
- Legal name
- Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc.
- CIK
- 0001585689
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Results and finances
The last 5 fiscal years. Amounts in USD.
| Fiscal year | FY21 | FY22 | FY23 | FY24 | FY25 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sales and profit | |||||
| Revenue | $5.8B | $8.8B | $10.2B | $11.2B | $12.0B |
| Revenue growth | 34.4% | 51.6% | 16.7% | 9.2% | 7.7% |
| Operating margin | 17.5% | 23.9% | 21.7% | 21.2% | 22.4% |
| Net income | $410M | $1.3B | $1.1B | $1.5B | $1.5B |
| Net margin | 7.1% | 14.3% | 11.2% | 13.7% | 12.1% |
| Diluted EPS | $1.46 | $4.53 | $4.33 | $6.14 | $6.12 |
| Cash | |||||
| Cash from operations | $109M | $1.7B | $1.9B | $2.0B | $2.1B |
| Capital expenditure | $35.0M | $39.0M | $151M | $96.0M | $101M |
| Free cash flow | $74.0M | $1.6B | $1.8B | $1.9B | $2.0B |
| FCF margin | 1.3% | 18.7% | 17.5% | 17.2% | 16.9% |
| Dividends paid | $0.0M | $123M | $158M | $150M | $143M |
| Share buybacks | $0.0M | $1.6B | $2.3B | $2.9B | $3.2B |
| Share count change | 1.4% | −1.4% | −4.7% | −5.3% | −4.8% |
| Debt and strength | |||||
| Cash and short-term investments | $1.4B | $1.2B | $800M | $1.3B | $918M |
| Debt incl. finance leases | $8.8B | $8.7B | $9.2B | $11.2B | $12.4B |
| Shareholders' equity | −$821M | −$1.1B | −$2.4B | −$3.7B | −$5.4B |
| Net debt / EBITDA | 6.1x | 3.3x | 3.5x | 3.9x | 4.0x |
| Current ratio | 1.0x | 0.9x | 0.7x | 0.7x | 0.7x |
| Interest coverage | 2.5x | 5.1x | 4.8x | 4.2x | 4.3x |
| Returns and quality | |||||
| Return on capital | 11.9% | 23.4% | 24.2% | 33.6% | 31.1% |
| Piotroski F-score | 5 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 5 |
| Altman Z'' | −1.0 | −0.5 | −0.5 | −0.4 | −0.1 |
Insiders bought, 12 months
$0.0M
0 insiders
Insiders sold, 12 months
$38.7M
3 insiders
Of sales under plans
0%
$0.0M
How to read these numbers
- Revenue:
- Total sales reported in the income statement.
- Operating margin:
- Operating income as a share of revenue.
- Net income:
- Profit after all expenses, interest and tax.
- Free cash flow:
- Cash from operations minus capital spending.
- Net debt / EBITDA:
- Years of EBITDA needed to pay off net debt. Below zero means more cash than debt.
- Return on capital:
- After-tax operating income as a share of the money invested in the business: debt plus equity, minus cash.
Hilton Worldwide · HLT
Charts and comparison
Ten years at a glance, and how it stacks up against similar companies.
Revenue
Net income
Margins, % of revenue
Cash vs debt (incl. leases)
Free cash flow
Dividends and buybacks
Similar companies
Each company’s latest fiscal year. Fiscal years end in different months, so periods don’t line up exactly.
| Company | Market cap | Growth | Op. margin | FCF margin | ROIC | P/E | F-score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hilton Worldwide HLT | $78.9B | 7.7% | 22.4% | 16.9% | 31.1% | 50.5x | 5 |
| Airbnb ABNB | $100.8B | 10.3% | 20.8% | — | — | 38.4x | 6 |
| Expedia Group EXPE | $34.1B | 7.6% | 12.7% | 21.1% | 40.5% | 17.3x | 8 |
| Norwegian Cruise Line NCLH | $7.3B | 3.7% | 15.9% | −11.9% | 9.8% | 9.7x | 7 |
| Royal Caribbean Group RCL | $79.3B | 8.8% | 27.4% | 6.9% | 16.6% | 18.3x | 9 |
Price compared with profit (P/E)
How many times its yearly profit per share one share costs. Higher means investors pay more for each unit of profit.
KIRA
At $344.65 a share, the company is worth $78.9B: 50.5 times its earnings of the last four quarters.
Hilton Worldwide grew sales faster than 2 of its 4 similar companies. Its P/E is higher than 4 of 4.
Source: SEC EDGAR XBRL filings (CIK 0001585689). Data updated October 9, 2026. For information only — not investment advice. Check the original filings before relying on any figure.