CHOICE HOTELS INTERNATIONAL INC /DE vs Hyatt Hotels Corp, two Hotels & Resorts stocks. A side-by-side on valuation, growth, margins, returns, and what each price is betting.
Choice Hotels licenses its brands to franchisees and holds few properties itself, so its margins run fat; Hyatt owns and operates more of its rooms and carries the costs that come with them. Choice books a 21.55% net margin and trades at just 15.22 times earnings, cheap for the sector. Hyatt posts near-breakeven results this year after asset sales and restructuring, leaving no usable multiple. Cash conversion splits wide, Choice at 4.37% free cash yield against Hyatt's 0.59%. Hyatt is far larger at $19.2B versus $5.2B and carries more debt at 1.03 times equity. Choice pays a 1.02% dividend, Hyatt only a token 0.08%.
Comparison updated 2026-07-11.
| Metric | CHH | H |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $109.79 | $191.18 |
| Market cap | $5.1B | $18.5B |
| Sector | Hotels & Resorts | Hotels & Resorts |
| Stage | Mature | Mature |
| Implied growth (priced in) | -0.7% | — |
| P/E | 14.8 | — |
| P/B | 36.78 | 5.22 |
| P/S | 3.15 | 2.60 |
| EV/EBITDA | 14.3 | 67.3 |
| Revenue growth | +1.2% | +7.3% |
| Operating margin | 17.6% | — |
| Net margin | 21.6% | -0.5% |
| Return on equity | 251.6% | -1.0% |
| Return on assets | 11.7% | -0.2% |
| Return on invested capital | 13.4% | — |
| FCF yield | 4.5% | 0.6% |
| Dividend yield | 1.1% | 0.1% |
| Debt / equity | 14.58 | 1.03 |
| Current ratio | 0.95 | 0.60 |
| Altman Z (solvency) | 2.79 | 1.81 |
| Piotroski F (quality) | 4 / 9 | 6 / 9 |
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