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Marriott International, Inc.Evidence as of 2026-09-03
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Overview · Marriott International, Inc.

Marriott International, Inc. operates, franchises, and licenses hotel, residential, timeshare, and other lodging properties worldwide. The company operates through U.S. and Canada, and International segments. It operates its properties under the JW Marriott, The Ritz-Carlton, Ritz-Carlton Reserve, W Hotels, The Luxury Collection, St. Regis, EDITION, Bvlgari, Renaissance, Le Méridien, Marriott, Sheraton, Westin, Four…

SectorConsumer Cyclical
IndustryLodging
Typeequity
ExchangeNASDAQ
Employees377,000
www.marriott.com

Management team

  • Mr. William P. Brown · Group President of United States & CanadaFind on LinkedIn
  • Mr. Benjamin T. Breland · Chief Human Resources Officer & Executive VP of Global Operations ServicesFind on LinkedIn
  • Ms. Rena Hozore Reiss J.D. · Executive VP & General CounselFind on LinkedIn
  • Ms. Kathleen Kelly Oberg · CFO & Executive VP of DevelopmentFind on LinkedIn

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Moneyta sentiment

Where the published evidence leans after the desk debated it — not a rating or a recommendation.

Mixedhigh confidence
−2 · strongly unfavorable0 · balanced+2 · strongly favorable

+0.2 on a −2 to +2 scale.

What builds the score

Fundamentals
+0.6
Market signals
+0.1
Ownership and flow
+0.0

Solid bars are analyst rubric scores; faded bars are computed directly from data. Claims dropped in debate count for nothing; weakened claims count at half weight.

News tonecontext · not scored+0.4 observed
4 favorable0 neutral1 unfavorableacross 4 outlets · 6 stories deduped to 5 storylines

Editor's note

Written after the debate settled — the rest of the page is the evidence behind it.

GoodwinAI editor

The evidence balance is Mixed (+0.2 of a possible +2; was +0.2 before debate) · confidence high. Revenues rose from $ 6,654,000,000 in fiscal Q1 2026 (2026-04-29) to $ 7,071,000,000 in fiscal Q2 2026 (2026-07-27), a quarter-over-quarter gain of $ 417,000,000 (≈ 6.3%). Operating income increased by $ 165,000,000 (≈ 15.5%) to $ 1,229,000,000 and net income rose by $ 118,000,000 (≈ 18.2%) to $ 766,000,000 over the same interval; diluted EPS moved from $ 2.43 to $ 2.90.

Balance-sheet and market data show mixed signals. Cash was $ 454,000,000 as of 2026-03-31 and $ 462,000,000 as of 2026-06-30 while total assets edged from $ 27,857,000,000 to $ 28,085,000,000; stockholders’ equity became more negative sequentially (− $ 4,092,000,000 as of 2026-03-31 to − $ 4,525,000,000 as of 2026-06-30). Market measures include a golden cross aged 289 days, 30-day annualized volatility at 31.2%, a trailing twelve-month P/E of 30.9, EV/EBITDA of 17.79, market cap of $ 86,871,681,184 and implied FCF growth priced at 0.2133 (21.33%).

How this note was made

every stage ran before the note was written
Analystsread the evidence
Debatebull ⇄ bear ×2
Chairrules on every claim
Riskstress-tests the read
Sentimentweighs what survived
Editorwrites the note

Analyst desk

Mercer, Oakes, Nash, Ellis, Yates, Talbot and Archer. The desk: named AI agents, not people. Each reads one slice of the evidence and nothing else — no outside knowledge, no browsing — so every finding traces to a source you can open.

MercerAI fundamentals analyst
+1.0

Reads the XBRL figures companies file with the SEC — revenue, margins, income, debt and share count, quarter by quarter — and reports which way the trend is running.

Revenues increased from $6,654,000,000 in fiscal Q1 2026 (2026-01-01 to 2026-03-31, 3mo) to $7,071,000,000 in fiscal Q2 2026 (2026-04-01 to 2026-06-30, 3mo), a quarter-over-quarter rise of $417,000,000 (≈6.3%).

XBRL companyfacts · 0001048286-26-000014

Operating income rose from $1,064,000,000 in fiscal Q1 2026 (2026-01-01 to 2026-03-31, 3mo) to $1,229,000,000 in fiscal Q2 2026 (2026-04-01 to 2026-06-30, 3mo), an increase of $165,000,000 (≈15.5%).

XBRL companyfacts · 0001048286-26-000014
OakesAI filings and risk analyst
+0.0

Reads the filings themselves, above all the year-over-year diff of Item 1A risk factors: which risks a company added, dropped or quietly reworded since its last annual report.

Nothing in this slice of the evidence rose to a claim — a quiet read, which itself is information.

Which filings the desk reads

The desk reads the annual 10-K in full — its risk factors, and how they changed since last year. Quarterly 10-Qs and event filings (8-Ks, insider Form 4s) are listed for context but not read line by line: the 10-K is where the material risk disclosures live. A brand-new company, or one we have only just begun tracking, may have no annual report on file yet — its risk analysis fills in once that lands.

NashAI market signals analyst
+0.0

Reads the signal panel above — momentum, volatility, drawdown, relative strength and beta — and ranks each against the whole research universe rather than judging it in isolation.

Short-term momentum over the most recent 3 months is -11.6%.

Moneyta signal set · 2026-09-02weakened in debate

Intermediate momentum over the most recent 6 months is -0.6% and ranks in the 36th percentile of the 547-stock research universe.

Moneyta signal set · 2026-09-02weakened in debate
EllisAI ownership and flow analyst
+0.0

Reads which funds hold the name and at what weight, plus insider Form 4 filings, to show the exposure you may already carry through index funds.

Marriott is listed as a member of the ETF with symbol IVV at a weight of 0.13% of the fund as of 2026-09-02T13:45:47.228469+00:00.

ETF constituents · market data

The provided ETF membership record for Marriott contains a single entry (IVV) with the timestamp 2026-09-02T13:45:47.228469+00:00.

ETF constituents · market data
YatesAI news analyst
+1.0

Reads recent headlines that are genuinely about this company, ignoring rating chatter and market-wide stories. Findings argue in the debate but never move the sentiment score.

Headlines on 2 September 2026 questioned why Marriott (MAR) was down 3.1% since its last earnings report, a theme carried by finance.yahoo.com.

News · finance.yahoo.com · 2026-09-02

The same 'down 3.1%' earnings-following coverage also appeared on zacks.com the same day, indicating the item was carried by multiple distinct outlets.

News · zacks.com · 2026-09-02
TalbotAI insider activity analyst
no data on file

Reads parsed Forms 3/4/5 — who bought or sold, at what size, and whether a 10b5-1 plan was involved. Flags clustered open-market officer buying; treats plan sales as routine and never counts a fund or 10%-holder as an officer.

No insider transactions on file in the trailing 180 days.

ArcherAI valuation analyst
+0.0

Reads the implied-expectations math built from the company's own filings (the growth rate today's price would justify, and the multiples beside it) and argues whether the market's bar looks high or low for this business. Never turns the math into a target.

The model-calculated implied free cash flow (FCF) growth rate that today's price would justify, under the stated discount and terminal assumptions, is 0.2133 (21.33%).

Valuation inputs · SEC XBRL + stored EOD close

Trailing twelve-month free cash flow (FCF) is $2,702,000,000 and FCF per share is $10.2155, producing a price-to-FCF multiple of 32.61 based on the provided price.

Valuation inputs · SEC XBRL + stored EOD close

Debate and risk review

A bull and a bear contest the claims and the chair rules on each; the risk review stress-tests what survived.

Debate1 round · 6 claims contested

A bull and a bear argue the analysts' claims across two rounds, then a chair rules on each one. Only what survives feeds the score — the argument is shown, not hidden, so you can judge the reasoning yourself.

The bull case

The set of fundamentals shows sequential operational improvement: revenues, operating income, net income, and diluted EPS each rose meaningfully between fiscal Q1 and Q2 2026 (fundamentals-0 through fundamentals-3). That earnings improvement occurred while weighted-average diluted shares declined and the company reported $700M of share repurchases (fundamentals-4 and fundamentals-7), implying EPS gains were supported by both higher profits and fewer shares outstanding. Market momentum signals provide mixed context, but the 12_1 momentum ranks in the 73rd percentile and a long-standing golden cross is recorded (market-2 and market-3), which, together with positive trailing FCF, EPS and EV/EBITDA metrics (valuation-1 and valuation-2), strengthen the operational-and-valuation read. The bear points — short-term negative momentum, elevated recent volatility, and worsening stockholders’ equity (market-0, market-4, fundamentals-6) — represent either shorter-horizon market noise or a balance-sheet snapshot that lacks the cash-flow and buyback context shown in the reporting period (fundamentals-5, fundamentals-7, valuation-4).

The bear case

Chair's verdict, claim by claim

Headlines on 2 September 2026 questioned why Marriott (MAR) was down 3.1% since its last earnings report, a theme carried by finance.yahoo.com.The cited headlines questioning the post-earnings price move and the 'down 3.1%' phrasing were reported by the named outlet and are correctly summarized.upheld
The same 'down 3.1%' earnings-following coverage also appeared on zacks.com the same day, indicating the item was carried by multiple distinct outlets.The same post-earnings coverage appearing on an additional outlet is a factual distributional observation about media coverage.upheld
Short-term momentum over the most recent 3 months is -11.6%.The short-term 3-month momentum figure is a valid signal, but base-rate notes indicate similar 12-1 momentum behavior across the universe, so this company-level observation should be treated with caution.weakened
Risk review

Fragility · computed, not argued

balanced0.43

31 surviving claims rest on 11 distinct sources; the heaviest analyst carries 32% of them, and 95% of what the desk raised survived the debate.

The read rests on a moderate breadth of sources (11) but many claims are clustered around a few filings and computed signals; with one analyst responsible for roughly a third of the surviving claims and a 95% survival rate in the debate, the desk’s conclusions show low internal disagreement and moderate source concentration. That combination means the findings are reasonably coherent but somewhat brittle to errors or omissions in the dominant sources (company filings and a small set of market-signal feeds).

Disconfirming evidence · base rates · falsifiers

Context

Outside consensus, and where this name already sits in your own portfolio.

The street's viewAnalyst consensus · third-party · 2026-09-02
Buy Hold Sell Target

Third-party consensus shown for context. It never enters Moneyta sentiment — when the two diverge, the debate above is where the why lives.

What this was built from

Every figure on this page traces to one of these. The desk reads only what is listed here — no outside knowledge, no browsing — and each card shows who read it and what it contributed to the score.

13 filings· 1 cited

SEC XBRL filings

Quarterly figures as filed with the SEC, read straight from EDGAR's structured data — not retyped or estimated.

Read by Mercer+0.6 to the score

1 signal set

Moneyta signal set

Computed from our own end-of-day price history and ranked against the whole research universe. No AI involved.

Read by Nash+0.1 to the score

1 holdings record

Fund holdings

Which funds hold this name and at what weight, plus insider Form 4 filings.

Read by Ellis+0.0 to the score

8 headlines· 2 cited

News coverage

Recent headlines about this company, rating chatter excluded and nothing published after the report date.

Read by Yatesnothing survived

1 computation

Valuation inputs

TTM cash-flow figures from the company's own XBRL filings, priced with the stored closing price. Implied growth and multiples only; no fair-value dollar figure reaches the desk, by design.

Read by Archercontext only

1 record· 0 cited

Company profile

Sector, industry and company details.

1 record· 0 cited

Analyst consensus

Third-party consensus, shown for context only — it never enters Moneyta sentiment.

Read means we pulled and handed it to an analyst; cited means a claim on this page points at it. Reading twelve quarters to state one trend is normal — the gap is shown rather than hidden.

Social sentiment

Crowd chatter as an evidence stream.

Coming soon

Aggregated tone from public social feeds will join the desk as its own evidence stream — read by its own analyst, contested in the same debate, and shown with the same sourcing as every other claim. Until it earns that bar, nothing renders here.

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Written by AI, checked against sources

The analysts, the bull–bear debate and the editor's note are AI agents reading only the evidence listed on this page. They can misread a filing or a headline, which is why every claim cites a source you can open and check yourself. The sentiment score is arithmetic over the claims that survived the debate, not a language model's opinion.

Educational analysis of published data. Moneyta does not give investment advice or make recommendations. Past patterns do not indicate future results.

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