Marriott (NASDAQ: MAR) is a publicly listed company headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland, United States that owns 26 consumer brands, and has 1 recorded transaction.[1][2]
Marriott is the largest hotel company in the world by rooms and owns very few of the buildings its name appears on, operating instead through franchise and management agreements. Its 2016 purchase of Starwood brought thirty brands under one owner and created the largest loyalty scheme in travel.
What Marriott's annual report says about its business
Read from Marriott's latest annual filing[1]. Each line gives the sentence the filing uses, copied word for word.
Segments the filing names
U.S. & Canada, Europe, Middle East & Africa, Greater China, Asia Pacific excluding China: We discuss our operations in the following reportable business segments: (1) U.S. & Canada, (2) Europe, Middle East & Africa ("EMEA"), (3) Greater China, and (4) Asia Pacific excluding China ("APEC").
Acquisitions and disposals named in the filing
Acquired: citizenM brand (2025), $350 million. In 2025, we also had cash outflows of $350 million due to the citizenM brand acquisition, which we discuss in Note 3.
Acquired: Sheraton Grand Chicago hotel (the fourth quarter of the prior year). Owned, leased, and other revenue, net of owned, leased, and other expense increased primarily due to stronger results at our owned and leased properties, which included the results from the Sheraton Grand Chicago hotel that we acquired in the fourth quarter of the prior year.
Marriott in numbers
Marriott owns 26 consumer brands tracked here across 1 top-level categories; the largest is travel & transport with 26 brands.[1]
1 recorded acquisitions, 1 of them completed since 2015; disclosed US-dollar deal values total $13 billion.
Marriott financial history
Headline figures from Marriott's annual reports filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, in USD as reported, fiscal years ending 2020–2025.
Revenue moved from $10.6bn to $26.2bn, an average of 19.9% a year (calculated).
Source: SEC XBRL company facts. A dash means the company did not report that line in a form we could read. Figures for a year can be restated in a later filing; the latest filing's number is shown.
Who owns the shares of Marriott
Holders of more than 5% of the voting shares, as listed in Marriott's proxy statement filed 27 March 2026. Shareholdings change daily; this is the position the filing reports.
Holder
Shares
Share of class
J.W. Marriott, Jr.
30,840,908
11.62%
John W. Marriott III
23,482,150
8.85%
Juliana B. Marriott
22,443,147
8.46%
Juliana B. Marriott Marital Trust
22,429,046
8.45%
Christopher T. Harrison
22,127,138
8.34%
Elyse Foulger
22,090,885
8.32%
Jennifer R. Jackson
22,049,961
8.31%
JWM Family Enterprises, Inc.
22,027,118
8.3%
The Vanguard Group
20,978,577
7.9%
Richard E. Marriott
16,397,553
6.18%
BlackRock, Inc.
15,212,482
5.73%
Everything Marriott owns
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
Marriott acquired Starwood Hotels & Resorts for about $13 billion, creating the largest hotel company in the world with around thirty brands. A rival Chinese-led bid pushed the price up during the process before being withdrawn.
The Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) keeps an open register of legal entities. Each entity reports its own parents. We show it as a cross-check on the ownership recorded on this page, which is built from filings.
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