Marriott International
Marriott International's revenue rose 4.3% to $26.2 billion in fiscal 2025. Its operating margin was 15.8%, up from 15.0% a year earlier. Free cash flow was $2.6 billion, up 30.5%. It paid out $4.0 billion in dividends and buybacks, 154% of free cash flow. The diluted share count fell 4.1%.
Operating margin is operating income as a share of revenue. Free cash flow is cash from operations minus capital spending. Return on capital is after-tax operating income as a share of the money invested in the business: debt plus equity, minus cash. Market cap is the last closing share price times the latest diluted share count, so it is approximate. P/E is the last close divided by diluted earnings per share over the last four quarters, or the latest fiscal year where the quarters aren't available; there is none when the company made a loss.
What Marriott International does
Marriott franchises, manages and licenses hotels, along with residential, timeshare and other lodging properties, under many brands at different price and service levels. Its brands, in four quality tiers from Luxury to Midscale, include JW Marriott, The Ritz-Carlton, Sheraton and Courtyard. As of year-end 2025 its system included 9,805 properties with 1,779,936 rooms in 145 countries and territories. Marriott owns or leases less than one percent of them.
Marriott earns fees under franchise, management and license agreements. Hotel owners who franchise its brands generally pay an application fee and royalties that typically range from four to seven percent of room revenues. For hotels it manages, it typically earns a base fee tied to the hotel's revenues and an incentive fee tied to its profits. It also earns money from co-branded Marriott Bonvoy credit cards, including through agreements with JPMorgan Chase and American Express in the U.S. Members of its loyalty program booked approximately 68 percent of its global hotel room nights in 2025. It reports four segments: U.S. & Canada; Europe, Middle East & Africa; Greater China; and Asia Pacific excluding China.
Marriott names Hilton, IHG, Hyatt, Wyndham, Accor, Choice Hotels and Best Western among its competitors, along with rental platforms such as Airbnb and Vrbo. Citing industry data, it says it has an approximately 17 percent share of the U.S. hotel market by number of rooms. At year-end 2025 it managed the employment of approximately 414,000 associates, including approximately 266,000 employed by hotel owners.
Its biggest risks, as it describes them
- Hotel owners ending their agreements with Marriott early, or disagreements with owners and other partners.
- Its growth depends on attracting hotel owners, and future deals may be less favorable depending on what competitors offer.
- Changes in how hotel rooms are booked, including through online travel intermediaries.
- Hotel owners may be unable to get the money they need to buy, build and improve hotels.
- Unfavorable developments affecting its loyalty program, which plays a significant role in its business.
Charts show fiscal years, from the 10-K filings.
Revenue and margins
Net income and earnings per share
From fiscal 2016 to 2025, earnings per share grew 14.9% a year and net income 13.9% a year, as buybacks cut the share count by 7%.
Returns on capital
Cash flow
Payouts and share count
Valuation
Two ways to value Marriott International yourself, both starting from its filings: a discounted cash flow model and the price-to-earnings method.
Discounted cash flow (DCF)
A discounted cash flow (DCF) model values a business as the cash it may generate in future, discounted back to today. The starting figures come from Marriott International's 10-K (or, for net cash and shares, its latest 10-Q) and the assumptions are yours: start from one of three example scenarios, then change any figure to see what it implies for a share, and how that compares with the last share price.
Value per share on three example scenarios, from Marriott International's fiscal 2025 free cash flow of $2.6B, net cash of −$15.8B at December 31, 2025 and 274 million diluted shares, from its filings. The scenarios are fitted to Marriott International: the base scenario's growth in years 1 to 5 is its revenue growth over the last 3 years, 8.0% a year; the cautious and optimistic ones are lower and higher, and growth in years 6 to 10 is halfway to the long-run rate. The base scenario's discount rate is 11% for a cyclical or higher-risk business (Hotels, Resorts & Cruise Lines); the cautious and optimistic ones use a point more and a point less. Select one to load it into the calculator. These are the model's arithmetic on those assumptions, not a forecast or a price target.
- Last close, October 26, 2026
- $394.75
- Value on these assumptions, against the last close
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- Cash flows in years 1 to 10, valued today
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- Everything after year 10, valued today
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- Plus net cash
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- Share of value from after year 10
How the value changes with two assumptions
Price-to-earnings (P/E) method
Another common way to value a company is to multiply its earnings per share by a price-to-earnings (P/E) multiple: the number of years of today's earnings an investor pays for a share. A higher multiple usually means investors expect earnings to grow. Choose a multiple, for example from similar companies, to see the value it gives.
Value per share on three example scenarios, from Marriott International's earnings per share of $9.67 (over the last four quarters). Each grows earnings for a year at the cash flow scenarios' rates and applies a multiple to next year's earnings: 17.7×, the middle of Marriott International's own P/E today, its peers' median and its sector's median (the Consumer Discretionary median) for the base scenario, 20% less and more for the cautious and optimistic ones. The price is brought back a year at 12%, 11% and 10%. Select one to load it into the calculator. These are the model's arithmetic on those assumptions, not a forecast or a price target.
- Last close, October 26, 2026
- $394.75
- Value at this multiple, against the last close
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- Marriott International's P/E at the last close
- 40.8×
| Company | Last close | Earnings per share | P/E today |
|---|---|---|---|
| Marriott InternationalMAR | $394.75 | $9.67 | 40.8× |
| BookingBKNG | $153.14 | $6.62 | 23.1× |
| Expedia GroupEXPE | $283.97 | $16.07 | 17.7× |
| Royal Caribbean GroupRCL | $280.60 | $16.20 | 17.3× |
| CarnivalCCL | $26.86 | $2.29 | 11.7× |
Balance sheet
| Fiscal year end | FY21 | FY22 | FY23 | FY24 | FY25 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cash and short-term investments | 1.4 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 0.4 |
| Debt incl. finance leases | 10.1 | 10.1 | 11.9 | 14.4 | 16.2 |
| Net debt (negative means net cash) | 8.7 | 9.6 | 11.5 | 14.1 | 15.8 |
| Net debt to EBITDA | 4.6x | 2.5x | 2.7x | 3.4x | 3.5x |
| Debt to equity | 7.2x | — | — | — | — |
| Interest coverage | 4.2x | 8.6x | 6.8x | 5.4x | 5.1x |
| Current ratio | 0.6x | 0.5x | 0.4x | 0.4x | 0.4x |
| Quick ratio | 0.6x | 0.5x | 0.4x | 0.4x | 0.4x |
Insider trades
Over the 12 months between October 27, 2025 and October 26, 2026, no insider bought Marriott International shares on the open market, and 12 insiders sold $63.9 million.
| Date | Insider | Trade | Shares | Price | Value | Filing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 25, 2026 | J W Marriott Jr10% owner | Sold | 3,500 | $352.09 | $1.2 million | Form 4 |
| May 18, 2026 | Peggy RoeEVP & Chf. Customer Officer | Sold | 3,000 | $361.56 | $1.1 million | Form 4 |
| May 13, 2026 | Yibing MaoPres. Greater China | Sold | 4,816 | $347.72 | $1.7 million | Form 4 |
| Feb 19, 2026 | Rajeev MenonPresident, Apec | Sold | 3,492 | $354.00 | $1.2 million | Form 4 |
| Feb 18, 2026 | William P BrownGroup Pres., US and Canada | Sold | 9,456 | $358.25 | $3.4 million | Form 4 |
| Feb 18, 2026 | Rajeev MenonPresident, Apec | Sold | 6,333 | $356.61 | $2.3 million | Form 4 |
| Feb 18, 2026 | Benjamin T. BrelandCHRO & EVP, Global Ops. Serv. | Sold | 2,000 | $358.03 | $716,060 | Form 4 |
| Feb 17, 2026 | Anthony CapuanoPresident & CEO, Director | Sold | 63,000 | $359.22 | $22.6 million | Form 4 |
| Feb 17, 2026 | David S MarriottDirector | Sold | 4,747 | $360.00 | $1.7 million | Form 4 |
| Feb 17, 2026 | Drew PintoEVP, Chf. Rev & Technology | Sold | 4,000 | $359.81 | $1.4 million | Form 4 |
| Feb 13, 2026 | Rena Hozore ReissEVP & General Counsel | Sold | 2,512 | $357.00 | $896,784 | Form 4 |
| Dec 15, 2025 | Felitia LeeController and CAO | Sold | 1,617 | $305.98 | $494,769 | Form 4 |
Piotroski F-score
The F-score counts how many of nine simple tests of profitability, funding and efficiency a company passed in a year (Piotroski, 2000). The more tests passed, the stronger the year: 8 or 9 is strong, 0 to 2 weak. Companies that report no gross profit are scored on the other eight.
| Test | FY23 | FY24 | FY25 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Net income is positive | Pass | Pass | Pass |
| Cash from operations is positive | Pass | Pass | Pass |
| Return on assets rose | Pass | Fail | Pass |
| Cash from operations exceeds net income | Pass | Pass | Pass |
| Debt fell relative to assets | Fail | Fail | Fail |
| Current ratio rose | Fail | Fail | Pass |
| Share count didn't rise | Pass | Pass | Pass |
| Gross margin rose | — | — | — |
| Revenue rose relative to assets | Pass | Pass | Pass |
| F-score | 6 of 8 | 5 of 8 | 7 of 8 |
| Accruals ratio | −0.3% | −1.4% | −2.3% |
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10 years of figures
| Fiscal year | FY16 | FY17 | FY18 | FY19 | FY20 | FY21 | FY22 | FY23 | FY24 | FY25 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Income statement | ||||||||||
| Revenue | 15.4 | 20.5 | 20.8 | 21.0 | 10.6 | 13.9 | 20.8 | 23.7 | 25.1 | 26.2 |
| Revenue growth | 6.4% | 32.7% | 1.5% | 1.0% | −49.6% | 31.1% | 49.9% | 14.2% | 5.8% | 4.3% |
| Gross profit | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Research and development | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Operating income | 1.4 | 2.5 | 2.4 | 1.8 | 0.1 | 1.8 | 3.5 | 3.9 | 3.8 | 4.1 |
| Net income | 0.8 | 1.5 | 1.9 | 1.3 | −0.3 | 1.1 | 2.4 | 3.1 | 2.4 | 2.6 |
| Diluted EPS (US$) | 2.73 | 3.84 | 5.38 | 3.80 | −0.82 | 3.34 | 7.24 | 10.18 | 8.33 | 9.51 |
| Diluted shares (millions) | 296 | 380 | 354 | 336 | 326 | 329 | 326 | 303 | 285 | 274 |
| Cash flow | ||||||||||
| Cash from operations | 1.6 | 2.2 | 2.4 | 1.7 | 1.6 | 1.2 | 2.4 | 3.2 | 2.7 | 3.2 |
| Capital expenditure | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.6 | 0.7 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.5 | 0.8 | 0.6 |
| Free cash flow | 1.4 | 2.0 | 1.8 | 1.0 | 1.5 | 1.0 | 2.0 | 2.7 | 2.0 | 2.6 |
| Dividends paid | 0.4 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 0.6 | 0.7 | 0.7 |
| Share buybacks | 0.6 | 3.0 | 2.9 | 2.3 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 2.6 | 4.0 | 3.8 | 3.3 |
| Acquisitions | 2.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Stock-based compensation | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 |
| Balance sheet at fiscal year end | ||||||||||
| Cash and short-term investments | 0.9 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.9 | 1.4 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 0.4 |
| Debt incl. finance leases | 8.5 | 8.2 | 9.3 | 10.9 | 10.4 | 10.1 | 10.1 | 11.9 | 14.4 | 16.2 |
| Total assets | 24.1 | 23.8 | 23.7 | 25.1 | 24.7 | 25.6 | 24.8 | 25.7 | 26.2 | 27.5 |
| Total liabilities | 19.0 | 20.3 | 21.5 | 24.3 | 24.3 | 24.1 | 24.2 | 26.4 | 29.2 | 31.3 |
| Shareholders' equity | 5.1 | 3.6 | 2.2 | 0.7 | 0.4 | 1.4 | 0.6 | −0.7 | −3.0 | −3.8 |
| Margins and ratios | ||||||||||
| Gross margin | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Operating margin | 9.2% | 12.2% | 11.4% | 8.6% | 0.8% | 12.6% | 16.7% | 16.3% | 15.0% | 15.8% |
| Net margin | 5.2% | 7.1% | 9.2% | 6.1% | −2.5% | 7.9% | 11.3% | 13.0% | 9.5% | 9.9% |
| Free cash flow margin | 9.2% | 9.7% | 8.7% | 4.9% | 14.2% | 7.2% | 9.8% | 11.5% | 8.0% | 10.0% |
| Return on capital | 14.1% | 10.3% | 17.0% | 12.6% | 0.6% | 16.2% | 25.9% | 33.6% | 25.9% | 27.4% |
| Return on equity | 105.5% | 33.5% | 65.7% | 87.0% | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Return on assets | 5.3% | 6.1% | 8.0% | 5.2% | −1.1% | 4.4% | 9.4% | 12.2% | 9.2% | 9.7% |
| Net debt to EBITDA | 4.6x | 2.7x | 3.4x | 5.0x | 23.4x | 4.6x | 2.5x | 2.7x | 3.4x | 3.5x |