HILTON WORLDWIDE HOLDINGS

Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc. is a widely held, publicly traded company, and its disclosed shareholder information reflects institutional ownership reported under United States Securities and Exchange Commission beneficial-ownership rules rather than a small, closely held share register. Under those rules, only holders whose beneficial ownership exceeds 5% of a class of stock are individually required to file Schedule 13D or 13G reports, so smaller holdings are not separately disclosed.

Based on Schedule 13G filings made with the SEC, Vanguard Capital Management LLC reported beneficial ownership of 17,180,234 shares, equal to approximately 7.49% of the company’s common stock, as of 31 March 2026, in a filing signed on 30 April 2026. This entity is distinct from The Vanguard Group, Inc., which reported a 0% beneficial stake as of 20 March 2026 following an internal reorganisation that disaggregated its reporting among affiliated Vanguard entities. Separately, FMR LLC reported beneficial ownership of approximately 11,895,424 shares, equal to approximately 5.2% of the company’s common stock, also as of 31 March 2026, in a filing signed on 5 May 2026. Both filings describe direct shareholdings held by investment managers on behalf of underlying funds and clients rather than by a single named individual.

No individual has been identified in official filings as an ultimate beneficial owner of Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc. As a widely held listed company with a dispersed institutional shareholder base, no natural person’s indirect holding has been reported at a level triggering beneficial-ownership disclosure. Blackstone, the private-equity sponsor that previously controlled the company, fully exited its remaining shareholding in 2018.

Shareholder data availability for Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc. is best described as major shareholders only: SEC rules require disclosure of holders exceeding 5% of a share class, so the complete shareholder register is not publicly available, and the figures above reflect the most recent Schedule 13G filings identified at the time of review. Institutional ownership of listed companies changes on a rolling basis and may have moved since these filing dates.

External verification against Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc.’s SEC filings confirms current roles for several of the officers appearing on the registry card and identifies one verified recent change to the company’s principal accounting officer. Kevin J. Jacobs holds the role of Chief Financial Officer and President, Global Development; he joined the company in 2008, was appointed Chief Financial Officer in 2013 and added the Global Development remit in 2020. Caroline D. Krass serves as Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary, as confirmed in the company’s 2026 annual meeting proxy statement (Form DEF 14A).

A verified change concerns the Senior Vice President, Chief Accounting Officer role. Michael W. Duffy resigned as Senior Vice President, Chief Accounting and Risk Officer, effective 7 February 2025, as disclosed in a Form 8-K filed with the SEC. He was succeeded by Misha Moylan, who had served as Senior Vice President, Internal Audit and Enterprise Risk Management since September 2019 and has been with the company since 2010; Moylan assumed the title of Senior Vice President, Chief Accounting Officer and became the company’s principal accounting officer effective the same date. The registry card’s listing of both Duffy and Moylan as active officers should be read alongside this later, effective change.

Nationality is not officially disclosed for any of the company’s officers in the sources reviewed. The country field recorded against each officer in the registry data reflects a corporate correspondence or business address in the United States, not the individual’s nationality or country of residence, and it has not been used to infer either.

Officer information for Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc. is best described as partial: the registry provides current role titles for a subset of senior officers, while the fuller set of the company’s named executive officers, appointment histories and board composition is disclosed in its periodic SEC filings, including its annual proxy statement.

Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc. is an independent, publicly traded parent company with no verified controlling shareholder or corporate parent. Blackstone, the private-equity sponsor that previously controlled the company, fully divested its remaining shareholding in 2018, and Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc. has traded on the New York Stock Exchange as a widely held public company since its 2013 initial public offering.

One verified corporate relationship, documented in the company’s SEC filings relating to its outstanding senior notes, is that Hilton Domestic Operating Company Inc. (HOC), the issuer of several series of the group’s senior notes, is an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc., held through an intermediate holding company, Hilton Worldwide Parent LLC. The notes issued by HOC are guaranteed on a joint and several basis by Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc., Hilton Worldwide Parent LLC, and substantially all of the group’s wholly owned domestic restricted subsidiaries, as described in the company’s most recent annual report on Form 10-K.

Beyond this verified financing structure, the company’s own group data lists a very large number of additional operating entities across the United States and numerous other countries in which Hilton-branded hotels are managed or franchised, consistent with the scale of a global hotel management and franchise business rather than a small, simple corporate hierarchy.

Data availability for the group structure of Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc. is best described as partial: the company’s independence from any controlling parent is well evidenced, and one subsidiary relationship (Hilton Worldwide Parent LLC and Hilton Domestic Operating Company Inc.) is independently verified through SEC filings, but the very large wider subsidiary network shown in the company’s own group data has not been independently confirmed entity by entity for this content block.