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Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc. (HLT)

NYSE / Consumer Cyclical / Travel Lodging

Share price

345.08 USD Market dataClose of Oct 16, 2026

Market capitalisation

77.67B USD Market dataClose of Oct 16, 2026
Market data
Oct 16, 2026
Filed accounts
FY2025, filed Feb 11, 2026
Ratios computed
Oct 16, 2026
Filed years
10, FY2016 to FY2025
Four kinds of sourceSEC filingCompany statementMarket dataComputedWhat each means
SEC filingFiled with the SEC
Read from a statement the company filed with the SEC, with the form, fiscal year, filing date and accession beside it.
Company statementCompany statement
What the company says about itself in a filing: an 8-K item, the auditor, its own segment names.
Market dataMarket data
Prices, market value and what analysts publish, with the date they are as of.
ComputedComputed by ValueScreener
Worked out by us from the other three, with the inputs and the formula one press away. A score is a research output, not a rating or a recommendation.
Reading

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Overview

What the business is, what it costs, and how it reads on four questions.

Market dataSEC filingComputed

Four questions, at a glance

Quality

Return on invested capital, after tax

26.2% Computed

From the FY2025 filing

Read quality

Valuation

Price to earnings

55.84x Computed

FY2025 accounts, priced at the latest close

Read valuation

Cash generation

Free cash flow yield

2.5% Computed

FY2025 accounts, priced at the latest close

Read cash generation

Revenue and net income, as filed

FY2016 Revenue: 6.58B USDFY2016 Net income: 338.0M USDFY2017 Revenue: 8.13B USDFY2017 Net income: 1.08B USDFY2018 Revenue: 8.91B USDFY2018 Net income: 764.0M USDFY2019 Revenue: 9.45B USDFY2019 Net income: 881.0M USDFY2020 Revenue: 4.31B USDFY2020 Net income: -715.0M USDFY2021 Revenue: 5.79B USDFY2021 Net income: 410.0M USDFY2022 Revenue: 8.77B USDFY2022 Net income: 1.25B USDFY2023 Revenue: 10.23B USDFY2023 Net income: 1.14B USDFY2024 Revenue: 11.17B USDFY2024 Net income: 1.53B USDFY2025 Revenue: 12.04B USDFY2025 Net income: 1.46B USD
Revenue Net income10 filed fiscal years, from the annual reports; the table in Filings names each document.
Named tests met
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The business, and the score behind its five axes

The reading, in brief

Is it cheap

Price to earnings is 55.84x at the close of 2026-10-16 on FY2025 figures; the lines are 15.00x (Graham's defensive ceiling) and, by market convention, 10.00x, 25.00x and 40.00x, and this sits above the highest.

Today, against the Consumer Cyclical sector (302 companies), 55.84x sits at the 90th percentile; the middle half of that group runs from 12.53x to 31.18x.

Is it good

Return on invested capital was 26.2% in FY2025, in the band labelled "Exceptional" (20.0% and above), on lines anchored on Damodaran's cost-of-capital data, suggesting returns on the capital in the business well above the usual cost of that capital.

Today, against the Consumer Cyclical sector (222 companies), 26.2% sits at the 90th percentile; the middle half of that group runs from 3.6% to 14.8%.

Is it safe

Interest coverage was 4.34x in FY2025, in the band labelled "Investment grade" (3.00x to 6.00x), on lines anchored on Damodaran's interest-coverage table.

Year by year against peers
Whether Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc.'s return on invested capital stayed above the median of the Consumer Cyclical sector, year by year. (FY2022 to FY2025, 4 fiscal years of Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc. with a comparable figure)
The direction
Which way Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc.'s operating margin has moved, and how steadily. (FY2016 to FY2025, 10 filed years of Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc.)
What could explain it
What in Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc.'s filed statements could explain the movements. (9 readings drawn from the statement lines Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc. filed)
What to check next
What to check next on Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc., and where in its filings. (5 questions for Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc.)
In one paragraph
One paragraph on Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc.'s returns, cash, balance sheet and price. (13 of sixteen figures read for Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc.)

These are HLT’s filed figures. The research desk says what they mean, against peers and its own years, with what to check next.

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What changed

The newest filing, what it moved, and when the next one is due.

SEC filingCompany statement

The newest accounts on file are the FY2025 annual report: 10-K, filed Feb 11, 2026, accession 0001585689-26-000007.

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Quality

The returns the business earns on its capital, and the margins behind them.

SEC filingComputed

Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc: returns on capital and margins, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Return on invested capital, after tax26.2% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 11, 2026, 0001585689-26-000007
Return on equity
Why n/m

Book equity is zero or negative. Return on equity computed over it flips sign and can read as a strong positive on a loss-making company, so we will not show a number.

n/m ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 11, 2026, 0001585689-26-000007
Return on capital employed, pre-tax21.9% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 11, 2026, 0001585689-26-000007
Return on assets8.7% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 11, 2026, 0001585689-26-000007
Gross margin
Why n/a

Our archived statements for this filer carry no gross profit line, so there is nothing to compute a gross margin from and trace back to source. That may be because the filer presents no cost of revenue, or because we have not captured the concept. We do not guess which.

n/a ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 11, 2026, 0001585689-26-000007
Operating margin22.4% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 11, 2026, 0001585689-26-000007
Net margin12.1% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 11, 2026, 0001585689-26-000007
HLT 12.1%
MAR 9.9%H -0.7%IHG 14.6%HTHT 20.1%
-0.7%20.1%
Net margin: HLT against the 4 companies named under Valuation context, each as filed for its own latest year. Placement only: no average is drawn.

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Financial strength

What it owes against what it owns, and whether it can meet what falls due.

SEC filingComputedCompany statement

Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc: leverage, liquidity and distress, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Debt to equity
Why n/m

Filed shareholders equity is zero or below, so debt measured against it is not a measurement (n/m).

n/m ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 11, 2026, 0001585689-26-000007
Current ratio0.66 ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 11, 2026, 0001585689-26-000007
Quick ratio0.66 ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 11, 2026, 0001585689-26-000007
Interest coverage4.34x ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 11, 2026, 0001585689-26-000007
Altman Z-score3.24 ComputedClose of Oct 16, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 11, 2026, 0001585689-26-000007
Net debt12.64B ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 11, 2026, 0001585689-26-000007
Total assets 16.77BTotal liabilities 22.12BOwnsOwes, and equity
Total assets Total liabilities Shareholders’ equity (zero or below, not drawn)
The balance sheet, line by line

Financial health

What Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc owned and owed at the end of fiscal 2025, from the balance sheet it filed (10-K, filed Feb 11, 2026, 0001585689-26-000007).

Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc: balance sheet position
Total assets16.77B FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 11, 2026
Total liabilities22.12B FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 11, 2026
Shareholders' equity-5.39B FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 11, 2026
Cash918.0M FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 11, 2026
Total debt13.55B FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 11, 2026
Net debt12.64B
Current ratio0.66
Debt to equityn/m
  • Debt to equity: FY2025: Filed shareholders equity is zero or below, so debt measured against it is not a measurement (n/m).

Read from the filed balance sheet for each year, with the income statement of the same year supplying operating profit where a ratio needs it. Nothing here is a view on whether this company is sound.

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Valuation context

What the market charges for it, against its own record and companies like it.

Market dataSEC filingComputed

Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc: what the market charges, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Price to earnings55.84x ComputedClose of Oct 16, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 11, 2026, 0001585689-26-000007
P/E on trailing twelve months50.68x ComputedClose of Oct 16, 2026 · Trailing four quarters, each as known on the day; the quarterly filings are listed under Filings
Price to book
Why n/m

Book equity is zero or negative, so a ratio measured against it (debt to equity, price to book) is not a measurement, and we will not show a number.

n/m ComputedClose of Oct 16, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 11, 2026, 0001585689-26-000007
Price to sales6.82x ComputedClose of Oct 16, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 11, 2026, 0001585689-26-000007
Enterprise value to EBIT35.19x ComputedClose of Oct 16, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 11, 2026, 0001585689-26-000007
Enterprise value to EBITDA33.02x ComputedClose of Oct 16, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 11, 2026, 0001585689-26-000007
Price to earnings over growth
Why n/a

We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.

n/a ComputedClose of Oct 16, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 11, 2026, 0001585689-26-000007
Diluted earnings per share6.12 USD FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 11, 2026, 0001585689-26-000007
Graham number
Why n/a

We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.

n/a ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 11, 2026, 0001585689-26-000007

We publish no fair value or price target of our own. Value HLT on your own assumptions in the DCF workbench, starting from the filed figures.

Its own record, and companies like it

Valuation

What the market charges for Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc today, and the multiples it has carried. No value of ours: the figures are the filings’ and the market’s.

Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc: valuation
Share price345.08 USD
Market capitalisation77.67B USD
Enterprise value to EBITDA33.02x
Graham numbern/a
Diluted earnings per share, FY20256.12 USD

Price to earnings on trailing twelve months, a different basis from the fiscal-year P/E above, since Jul 26, 2017: low 15.99x, median 37.70x, high 1215.38x, latest 50.68x. 2,074 trading days with a meaningful ratio, 246 more on a loss and left out. Each close over the trailing twelve months of earnings as known that day: a quarter counts from the day it was filed.

Companies like Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc

  1. Marriott International, Inc. (MAR)Market cap 101.20B USD
  2. Hyatt Hotels Corporation (H)Market cap 15.97B USD
  3. InterContinental Hotels Group PLC (IHG)Market cap 24.54B USD
  4. H World Group Limited (HTHT)Market cap 14.28B USD

Same industry (Travel Lodging) and size band (Large, 10B to 200B), nearest in market value, net margin and current ratio. Each of those counts equally, by how many of the companies considered sit between the two on it. Closest first: the order is likeness and nothing else.

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Cash generation

Whether profit arrives as cash, and what is paid back to shareholders.

SEC filingComputed

Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc: cash generation and what is paid out, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Free cash flow yield2.5% ComputedClose of Oct 16, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 11, 2026, 0001585689-26-000007
Free cash flow2.03B USD ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 11, 2026, 0001585689-26-000007
Free cash flow margin16.9% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 11, 2026, 0001585689-26-000007
Dividend yield0.2% ComputedClose of Oct 16, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 11, 2026, 0001585689-26-000007
Payout ratio9.8% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 11, 2026, 0001585689-26-000007
FY2016 Free cash flow: 993.0M USDFY2016 Net income: 338.0M USDFY2017 Free cash flow: 791.0M USDFY2017 Net income: 1.08B USDFY2018 Free cash flow: 1.18B USDFY2018 Net income: 764.0M USDFY2019 Free cash flow: 1.30B USDFY2019 Net income: 881.0M USDFY2020 Free cash flow: 662.0M USDFY2020 Net income: -715.0M USDFY2021 Free cash flow: 74.0M USDFY2021 Net income: 410.0M USDFY2022 Free cash flow: 1.64B USDFY2022 Net income: 1.25B USDFY2023 Free cash flow: 1.79B USDFY2023 Net income: 1.14B USDFY2024 Free cash flow: 1.92B USDFY2024 Net income: 1.53B USDFY2025 Free cash flow: 2.03B USDFY2025 Net income: 1.46B USD
Free cash flow Net incomeProfit that arrives as cash stands level with net income; a gap year after year is worth reading about.

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Filings

Every figure, the year it is for and the document it was read from.

SEC filingMarket data

The filed figures

Computed from the accounts this company filed with the SEC and, in a ratio with a price in it, the last close, dated on this page. Every filed figure below carries the fiscal year and the filing date its accounts were read from, and every blank carries the reason it is blank. Nothing here is a view on this company.

Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc.: the eight ratios, with the fiscal year and filing date behind each.
FigureValueYearAs of
55.84xFY2025Oct 16, 2026
n/mFY2025Oct 16, 2026
n/m Not meaningful for this company, such as a P/E on negative earnings or a bank's EV/EBIT.
35.19xFY2025Oct 16, 2026
2.5%FY2025Oct 16, 2026
26.2%FY2025Feb 11, 2026
0.2%FY2025Oct 16, 2026
n/mFY2025Feb 11, 2026
n/m Not meaningful for this company, such as a P/E on negative earnings or a bank's EV/EBIT.
0.66FY2025Feb 11, 2026
6.82xFY2025Oct 16, 2026
n/aFY2025Oct 16, 2026
n/a This figure compares a year against the one before it, and we hold one filed year for this company.
3.24FY2025Oct 16, 2026
-2.36FY2025Feb 11, 2026
5/9FY2025Feb 11, 2026

The figures are computed from the accounts for fiscal 2025, the newest full year on file. 10 filed fiscal years on record, FY2016 to FY2025, from SEC EDGAR. Prices as of Oct 16, 2026. Ratios recomputed Oct 16, 2026. Two facts, because a recompute is not a fresh quote.

The year and the filing date name the statement each figure’s accounts are read from, and they stand even where the figure itself could not be computed: the line beneath a blank says what that statement did not carry. A figure’s name opens its formula and the filings behind it; a statement that names no SEC filing has no filing date, and reads n/a.

Ten years of filed figures, year by year

Ten years of filed figures

10 filed fiscal years, FY2016 to FY2025, read from the annual reports Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc filed with the SEC. Each year names its filing. Amounts in USD, as filed.

Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc: revenue, earnings, free cash flow and returns, by fiscal year, with the filing each year was read from
YearRevenueOperating incomeNet incomeEPS, dilutedFree cash flowOperating marginReturn on equityFiling
FY202512.04B2.69B1.46B6.122.03B22.4%n/m10-K, Feb 11, 20260001585689-26-000007
FY202411.17B2.37B1.53B6.141.92B21.2%n/m10-K, Feb 6, 20250001585689-25-000008
FY202310.23B2.23B1.14B4.331.79B21.7%n/m10-K, Feb 7, 20240001585689-24-000027
FY20228.77B2.09B1.25B4.531.64B23.9%n/m10-K, Feb 9, 20230001585689-23-000036
FY20215.79B1.01B410.0M1.4674.0M17.4%n/m10-K, Feb 16, 20220001585689-22-000013
FY20204.31B-418.0M-715.0M-2.58662.0M-9.7%n/m10-K, Feb 17, 20210001585689-21-000016
FY20199.45B1.66B881.0M3.041.30B17.5%n/m10-K, Feb 11, 20200001585689-20-000013
FY20188.91B1.43B764.0M2.501.18B16.1%138.7%10-K, Feb 13, 20190001585689-19-000034
FY20178.13B1.13B1.08B3.32791.0M13.9%64.2%10-K, Feb 14, 20180001585689-18-000033
FY20166.58B868.0M338.0M1.03993.0M13.2%5.7%10-K, Feb 15, 20170001585689-17-000038
  • Revenue, compound annual growth FY2016 to FY2025: 7.0%
  • Earnings, compound annual growth FY2016 to FY2025: 17.6%
  • Earnings per share, compound annual growth FY2016 to FY2025: 21.9%
  • Free cash flow, compound annual growth FY2016 to FY2025: 8.3%

Every figure in this section is a line of a filed annual statement or a ratio of two of them. Nothing here is estimated or smoothed. Earnings per share filed before a share split are put on today's share count, and say so. Nothing here is a verdict on the company.

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Risks and guardrails

The accounting screens, the published tests, and the lines you can set to be told.

ComputedCompany statement

Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc: accounting screens and published tests, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Beneish M-score-2.36 ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 11, 2026, 0001585689-26-000007
Piotroski F-score5/9 ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 11, 2026, 0001585689-26-000007
Named tests met2 of 30 Computed
Beta0.78 ComputedClose of Oct 16, 2026

The named tests

Of 30 tests value investors published: 2 met, 21 not met, 7 we could not complete. Counts, never a score: a single figure would have to decide that meeting one investor’s criteria and meeting another’s are worth the same.

Which tests, by name(all 30)
Meets
ROIC at or above WACC; Cash-covered dividend
Does not
Defensive investor (Benjamin Graham); Large cap, low P/E; Earnings yield and ROIC (Joel Greenblatt); High F-score, low P/B (Joseph Piotroski); Three forensic scores; Gross margin, turnover (Robert Novy-Marx); EV/EBITDA and coverage; High yield, low payout; Dividends and buybacks; Near the 52-week low; Z-score and coverage (Edward Altman); Two thirds of NCAV (Benjamin Graham); High returns, low debt; Owner earnings yield; High return on tangibles; Low P/S, rising earnings (James O'Shaughnessy); Tangible book or below; Cash-flow yield and ROIC; Clean books, high ROIC; Cheapest quarter on P/E (David Dreman); Low P/E, growth, yield (John Neff)
Not measured
Deep value; Low PEG, low debt (Peter Lynch); High returns and growth; Low beta, profitable; P/E times P/B (Benjamin Graham); Book or below, low debt (Walter Schloss); Cheapest quarter on P/B (David Dreman). A test with a figure we could not read is incomplete, never met and never failed.
Figures we could not read(8)
  • Debt to Equity: Filed shareholders equity is zero or below, so debt measured against it is not a measurement (n/m).
  • P/B Ratio: Book equity is zero or negative, so a ratio measured against it (debt to equity, price to book) is not a measurement, and we will not show a number.
  • PEG Ratio: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.
  • Eps Growth 5Y: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.
  • Return on Equity: Book equity is zero or negative. Return on equity computed over it flips sign and can read as a strong positive on a loss-making company, so we will not show a number.
  • Gross Margin: Our archived statements for this filer carry no gross profit line, so there is nothing to compute a gross margin from and trace back to source. That may be because the filer presents no cost of revenue, or because we have not captured the concept. We do not guess which.
  • Price To Graham: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.
  • Price Tangible Book: Book equity is zero or negative, so a ratio measured against it (debt to equity, price to book) is not a measurement, and we will not show a number.

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Declared positions

Whether anybody here owns this company.

Positions declared by Javier Sanz Alvarez: no holding in any company shown here, as of October 3, 2026.

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What this cannot tell you

  • 8 figures could not be read on this company, among them Debt to Equity, P/B Ratio, PEG Ratio. Each blank in the table above names the rest, with its reason. 7 named tests come back incomplete because of them, which is neither met nor missed.

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