Overview
- Marriott reported adjusted EPS of $3.19 for the quarter, beating analyst estimates but missing on reported revenue of $7.07 billion.
- More than $5 billion of the reported revenue is cost reimbursement that the company passes to hotel owners, and adjusted revenue excluding those pass-throughs rose 11% to $2.01 billion.
- Management gave Q3 adjusted EPS guidance of $2.74 to $2.82 and trimmed full-year profit growth expectations, signaling a clear deceleration from the second quarter.
- Regional weakness was driven by a 43% drop in Middle East RevPAR while Europe rose about 5% and Greater China showed modest gains, and the quarter included a $68 million hotel-sale impairment plus a $27 million litigation accrual.
- Investors sold shares in pre-market trading after the report, a reaction made harder by Marriott’s more than 40% share-price gain over the past year and the company’s slower near-term outlook.