Hilton’s QQ3 2024 results show a resilient revenue trajectory amid a still-challenging macro backdrop for travel, with YoY growth of 7.3% and a QoQ decline of 2.9% driven by seasonality and seasonality-adjusted timing. The company delivered solid profitability metrics, including gross margin of approximately 27.5%, operating margin of about 21.7%, and a net margin near 12.0%, supported by a strong EBITDA contribution of $668 million (EBITDA margin ~23.3%). EBITDA and operating income benefited from favorable pricing and occupancy in core markets, even as the company continued to invest modestly in growth and returned capital through debt repayment and share repurchases. On the cash flow front, Hilton generated $664 million of operating cash flow and $617 million of free cash flow, while deploying capital to debt reduction ($986 million of debt repayments) and share repurchases ($725 million). The balance sheet remains highly leveraged with total debt of $11.96 billion and net debt of $10.38 billion, while stockholders’ equity sits in negative territory at roughly $(3.47) billion. Despite negative equity, Hilton’s asset-light model continues to drive meaningful free cash flow, providing a potential path to deleveraging through ongoing cash generation. Absent an earnings-call transcript in this dataset, management commentary could not be quoted directly; investors should monitor occupancy trends, ADR realization, capital allocation policy, and debt maturation risk going forward.