Sound shipMarriott International $MAR
Grew revenue 4.3% in FY2025 to $26.2 billion, operating margin 15.8%, in line with the 15.8% median for hotels & motels, equity -13.7% of assets, and dividend per share up 4 years running.
Last filing8-K · Item 1.01 Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement, 24 Sept 2026
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🫧 Edgar looked up MARRIOTT INTERNATIONAL INC /MD/ ($MAR). Last filing: 8-K (1.01 Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement), 2026-09-24. 10 event filings (8-K) in the past twelve months.
🔖 Exposure: revenue $26.2B (FY2025), total debt $16.2B. Experience: revenue up 4.3% on the year, up 17.2% a year over 4 years; operating margin 15.8%, up from 15.0%. Soundness: equity -13.7% of assets (liabilities exceed assets), payout 27.6% of profit, dividend per share up 4 years running. Credibility: four or more audited years, reasonable weight. Range: 80% of past cases like this landed between $22.5B and $31.9B next year (method v4.1: its own 4-year record of growth weighed at 50% against $10B+ filers; across 2019–2025, 69.0% landed inside, 83.4% on the one year the method never saw). In a shock year the stress range is $19.3B to $36.6B. A statistical range, not company guidance. Against peers (19 filers, $50M+ revenue, hotels & motels): operating margin 15.8% against a 15.8% median; growth 4.3% against 3.8%.
Read from its own SEC filings · nothing written, nothing inferred
Gold paid out, navy kept. Kept share × return on equity = the growth it can fund itself. Facts from the filings, not a recommendation.
Speed and cash · fiscal 2025
Both views must agree for a label · a description, not advice.
| Cash flow (op · inv · fin · free) | $3.2B · −$948M · −$2.3B · $2.6B |
| Investment book (cash · short · long) | $358M · — · — · current ratio 0.43 |
| Revenue swing · equity of assets | 16.9% · -13.7% |
Marriott International is growing faster than its size class, with revenue that swings more. Its own audited SEC figures.
The figures, as filed
| Fiscal year end | 2025-12-31 |
| Revenue | $26.2B |
| Revenue, on the year | 4.3% |
| Revenue, a year over the record | 17.2% |
| Operating margin | 15.8% |
| Operating margin, prior year | 15.0% |
| Net margin | 9.9% |
| Research and development | not filed separately |
| Total debt | $16.2B |
| Equity of assets | −13.7% |
| Return on equity | — |
| Payout of profit | 27.6% |
| Dividend per share | $2.64 · up 4 years running |
| Earnings per share | $9.53 |
| Book value per share | $-13.78 |
| Revenue per share | $95.71 |
| Shares outstanding | 273,600,000 |
| Audited years read | 5 |
Peers: the median of 19 filers with $50M+ revenue in hotels & motels.
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What a terminal subscription used to buy, a filing and arithmetic now give anyone. Published method, from the same filings. Display only: nothing here moves the range or its receipt. Why? →
Health HarborMarriott International sails as: Sound ship
Health watch · 12 monthsDirector or officer change ×2
Sailing speed follows growth: 8.0% a year crosses the harbor in 56 seconds.
🌊 Visit the Bay →- liabilities exceed assets (often from years of share buybacks, not always distress)
Boat condition = number of warning signs: a serious warning filing in 12 months; liabilities over assets; slow and jumpy; negative operating cash; an operating loss; negative free cash flow outside regulated utilities; an 80% revenue range of ±25% or wider. A picture of the signs, not a rating and not investment advice.
Brand success factors · calendar 2025
The Trillion Score: 497
Exponential Success Score
Built on over $200 trillion of sworn revenue, 13 years of data, 770,002 figures. Sealed by Edgarette.
How The Trillion Score works. We read eight measures of success from Marriott International's own SEC filings and test each one against the public companies in its field, here hotels & motels. The longer and fuller the record, the more weight those results carry. A model built on past filings then turns them into the odds of thriving, which means outgrowing the field for three years without a severe decline. A score of 500 is about average, and every 100 points doubles the odds. Every company is ranked on this same scale.
What it says here. At 497, Marriott International's odds of thriving come to 36%, against about 37% for the typical filer. It meets 1 of 5 success points.
What the score means
The higher the score, the more often companies went on to thrive. At this level, about 35 of every 100 did.
Share of companies that beat their field for three years with no severe decline, tested on 2019 to 2022 filings.
Fall Risk: Medium
Separate from the score, this asks what could go wrong: the odds of sales falling 30% or the filings stopping within three years. In the tests, about 22 of every 100 companies in the Medium band did. That is the group's history, not a forecast for this company.
| Money | It keeps about 10 cents of free cash from each sales dollar after paying for its plants and equipment. It holds more cash than debt. | moderate |
| Swings | In its worst fifth of years, sales fell about 69% a year. | -68.5% a year |
| Filed events | In the last two years it told the SEC about 3 filings on leadership or auditor changes. | 3 |
The eight success points
| Point | What it means | Place in field | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Speed | Sales grew faster than most of its field. | 61 of 100 | Met |
| Steadiness | Growth swung a lot for what it delivered. | 50 of 100 | Not yet |
| Price premium | It keeps less of each sales dollar than the leaders in its field. | 47 of 100 | Not yet |
| Margin stays above the field | Its margin has not held above the field for long. | 47 of 100 | Not yet |
| Moat half-life | Not filed. | ||
| Brand spend yield | Not filed. | ||
| Learning curve | Not filed. | ||
| Climb in the field | It has not been moving up the size ranks in its field. | 43 of 100 | Not yet |
The actuarial view
| Credibility | With 8 years of filings, the record earns 44% of the weight. The rest stays at the middle of the field. | 0.44 |
| Severe decline, class D | About 34 of every 100 companies with this many points fell 30% or stopped reporting within three years. | 34.3% |
| Actual vs expected | Sales are 9% higher than if it had simply kept pace with its field. | 1.09 |
Top of its field: #1 H World · #2 Full House Resorts · #3 Las Vegas Sands · #4 Choice Hotels International · #5 Red Rock Resorts
Ranked by The Trillion Score. See the method and score your own brand. Tested on 2019 to 2022 filings. Odds, class and Fall Risk figures are the experience of similar filers, not a forecast for this company. A statistical description of past filings, not a rating or advice.
- 8-K · 2026-09-24 · 1.01 Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement; 2.03 Creation of a Direct Financial Obligation; 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits
- 8-K · 2026-08-13 · 8.01 Other Events; 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits
- 10-Q · 2026-08-03
- 8-K · 2026-08-03 · 2.02 Results of Operations and Financial Condition; 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits
- 8-K · 2026-05-13 · 5.07 Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders
- 10-Q · 2026-05-06
Figures are as filed in audited 10-K reports and can move with restatements, acquisitions, disposals or a change in fiscal year. A range set from how past company-years turned out is not a promise about the next one, and says nothing about the share price. Reporting, not investment advice. No price targets and no trading recommendations. Figures from the SEC’s own data · every filing · this page as JSON · ask about another company