Choice Hotels International, Inc.

CHH Consumer Cyclical Lodging

Choice Hotels International, Inc.’s revenue for fiscal 2025 (year ended December 2025) was $1.6 billion, up 0.75% from fiscal 2024.

Revenue
+2.46%
EPS
−66.7%
Free cash flow
−60.4%
Total debt
+13.5%

Quarter to September 2026, against a year earlier

117.45 2.88 −2.39%
Market cap
$5.2B
P/E
25.9×
Fwd P/E
21.1×
Dividend yield
0.98%
F-score
6/9
Altman Z
3.11
Beneish M
−2.10
Dividend safety
71/100

Choice Hotels International, Inc. (CHH) Operating margin

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Choice Hotels International, Inc.'s operating margin over the twelve months to 30 September 2026 was 22.8%, down 5.2 percentage points from fiscal 2025 (28.1%). Over the past ten years it has ranged from 15.7% (fiscal 2020) to 40.1% (fiscal 2021); the current reading is higher than 45% of that period. That is above the Lodging industry median of 16.0% and above the Consumer Cyclical sector median of 3.88%.

Operating margin, annual

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Annual newest first

Period Operating margin Change (points)
FY2025 28.1% (1.18)
FY2024 29.3% 4.97
FY2023 24.3% (9.85)
FY2022 34.1% (5.97)
FY2021 40.1% 24.39
FY2020 15.7% (12.85)
FY2019 28.6% (2.01)
FY2018 30.6% (0.19)
FY2017 30.8% 7.62
FY2016 23.2% (3.05)

Quarterly newest first

Period Operating margin Change (points)
Sep 2026 23.2% (0.40)
Jun 2026 23.6% 6.00
Mar 2026 17.6% (8.37)
Dec 2025 26.0% (5.84)
43 more quarters

Against its own ten years

Low 15.7% High 40.1%
Ten-year median 28.6%
Current reading's percentile 9

Operating margin against peers

What Operating margin is

EBIT Margin tells an investor how much operating profit, before interest and taxes, a company keeps from each unit of revenue.

EBIT ÷ Revenue

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