HLTHilton Worldwide
Is it safe?
Strong, no red flags: a safe balance sheet and steady price behavior.
Financially healthy, low distress risk Altman Z-score, a bankruptcy-risk model from five balance-sheet ratios.
Insiders were net sellers (-$2.4M, 90 days to Oct 8, 2026), selling is often routine.
Investment-grade balance sheet. A rule of thumb on leverage, not a credit rating.
Relatively steady, low volatility. Worst drawdown -51% · now 7% below its 52-week high.
Unless marked, from SEC EDGAR, as of Dec 31, 2025.
Against the whole market›
Percentile against every name Ryufin tracks. Higher is better; the tick marks the middle of the market. Context, not one of the checks above.
Where this answer is blind. Altman sits structurally low for utilities and pipelines; Beneish runs high for fast growers, since sales growth alone lifts it; banks and REITs are excluded.
Can HLT take a bad year?
Hilton Worldwide carries $12.3B of net debt at 3.97× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
Net debt · as at Q2 2026 · between two and four years of EBITDA, normal for a stable business
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 3.97×
Net debt / EBITDA · 4.09× a year ago · the load is coming down
- Altman Z-score
- 3.17
Altman Z-score · safe zone, above 3
- Interest cover
- 4.36×
Interest cover · operating profit covers the interest bill, with room to spare
Details›
- Total debtQ2 2026
- $13.3B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $1.01B
- Net debt
- $12.3B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $3.11B
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $2.92B
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 4.29×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 25%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −51%
- Below its 52-week high
- 6.8%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.