Hilton Worldwide Management Service Incentive — Revenue decreased by 24.8% to $76.00M in Q1 2026 compared to the prior quarter. Year-over-year, this metric grew by 5.6%, from $72.00M to $76.00M. Over 4 years (FY 2021 to FY 2025), Management Service Incentive — Revenue shows an upward trend with a 33.7% CAGR. This decline may warrant attention — for this metric, higher values are generally preferred.
An increase indicates that the managed hotel portfolio is achieving strong profitability and exceeding performance benchmarks, while a decrease suggests weaker property-level financial performance or a failure to meet contractual profit hurdles.
Incentive management fees represent performance-based compensation earned by the company for managing hotel properties o...
Peers in the hospitality industry, such as Marriott or Hyatt, report similar performance-based management fees, which are highly correlated with RevPAR growth and overall hotel operating margins.
hlt_segment_incentive_management_fees_revenues| Q2 '21 | Q3 '21 | Q4 '21 | Q1 '22 | Q2 '22 | Q3 '22 | Q4 '22 | Q1 '23 | Q2 '23 | Q3 '23 | Q4 '23 | Q1 '24 | Q2 '24 | Q3 '24 | Q4 '24 | Q1 '25 | Q2 '25 | Q3 '25 | Q4 '25 | Q1 '26 | |
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| Value | $21.00M | $26.00M | $38.00M | $34.00M | $46.00M | $52.00M | $64.00M | $65.00M | $69.00M | $63.00M | $77.00M | $70.00M | $68.00M | $66.00M | $86.00M | $72.00M | $75.00M | $65.00M | $101.00M | $76.00M |
| QoQ Change | — | +23.8% | +46.2% | -10.5% | +35.3% | +13.0% | +23.1% | +1.6% | +6.2% | -8.7% | +22.2% | -9.1% | -2.9% | -2.9% | +30.3% | -16.3% | +4.2% | -13.3% | +55.4% | -24.8% |
| YoY Change | — | — | — | — | +119.0% | +100.0% | +68.4% | +91.2% | +50.0% | +21.2% | +20.3% | +7.7% | -1.4% | +4.8% | +11.7% | +2.9% | +10.3% | -1.5% | +17.4% | +5.6% |