Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc.
In the published model solve dated 2026-Q2, anchored at $321.85, Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc. (HLT) is priced for +24.7% growth. boothcheck publishes no house fair value, target price, or buy/sell rating; individual model outputs and user-controlled scenarios are analytical inputs, not Boothcheck targets. The narrative was composed July 3, 2026 from SEC EDGAR filings.
• Hilton is mostly a fee business, not a hotel owner: it collects management and franchise fees that the 10-K describes as ⟦generally based on a percentage of the hotel's monthly gross operating revenue⟧, so the single number that drives it is net unit growth, which ran 6.3% in Q1 2026 against a development pipeline of 527,000 rooms. [Source: Q1 2026 earnings release] • The biggest risk is the price: at about 33 times operating income the stock sits at the very top of its lodging peer group and
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1,150 institutional managers reported holding HLT in 13F filings for the quarter ended 2026-03-31. Together they hold about 89% of the company; the top 10 hold 44%. 140 opened new positions that quarter. Held by Vanguard Group, BlackRock, FMR (Fidelity), among others. On the short side, 6.3M shares were sold short as of the 2026-06-15 count, about 3% of shares outstanding (4.4 days of typical volume to cover).
Quarterly 13F filings arrive up to 45 days after quarter end, so the picture is never current (filed through 2026-05-29). Nothing here is investment advice.
HLT has cut its share count 17.9% over the past five years, spending $10.89B on repurchases. It pays a dividend, and has for 4 years running; the current rate is $0.60 a share annually. Cash returned over the past three years: $405.00M in dividends and $8.36B in repurchases.
Share counts are split-adjusted; repurchase totals are gross of share issuance. Nothing here is investment advice.
Open-market insider buys at HLT over the trailing three years: 2024: 4 buys totaling $1.41M. 17 officers and directors are on file.
Code P open-market purchases from SEC Form 4 filings, non-derivative, excluding scheduled 10b5-1 plans. Nothing here is investment advice.
HLT's recent reports: the day-one move, then what the following quarter actually did.
| report | day one | next quarter |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-07-27 | +1.0% | +0.7% |
| 2023-10-26 | -0.8% | +22.4% |
| 2024-02-08 | -0.0% | +8.3% |
| 2024-04-25 | +3.5% | +5.5% |
Day-one is the close-to-close move around the filing. Nothing here is investment advice.
HLT's latest 8-K filings: 2026-07-28 (items 2.02, 9.01); 2026-05-18 (items 5.02, 5.07, 9.01); 2026-05-11 (items 1.01, 2.03, 8.01, 9.01); 2026-05-05 (items 5.02); 2026-04-28 (items 2.02, 9.01).
Item codes are the SEC's own classification of what each report discloses. Dates link to the filing on EDGAR. Nothing here is investment advice.
Model solve date: 2026-Q2
Narrative composed: July 3, 2026
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