- InterContinental Hotels Group
- 07 August 2025 07:29:06
Source: Sharecast
Operating profits from reportable segments rose 13% to $604m, while total revenue climbed 8% to $2.52bn. Fee business revenue increased 7% to $908m, helping push fee margins up 3.9 percentage points to 64.7%. Adjusted earnings per share jumped 19% to USD 242.5 cents.
Global revenue per available room edged up 1.8%, with its Europe, Middle East and Africa unit leading the way at 4.1%, offsetting a 3.2% decline in Greater China.
InterContinental said it had opened a record 31,400 rooms across 207 hotels in the period, a 75% year-on-year increase, bringing its total estate to 999,000 rooms, and noted that its development pipeline had also expanded, with 51,200 rooms in the works, up 15% year-on-year excluding acquisitions.
However, IHG also said net debt had ballooned 21% to $3.36bn, even as it looked to returning over $1.1bn to shareholders, citing long-term growth drivers and strategic progress across key markets.
Chief executive Elie Maalouf said: "Our momentum continued in the first half of 2025, with further achievements in accelerating the growth of our brands, expanding in key geographies, strengthening hotel owner returns, driving ancillary fee streams, delivering cost efficiencies, and returning surplus capital to shareholders.
We remain on track to meet FY consensus profit and earnings expectations. While some shorter-term macro-economic uncertainties remain, many are subsiding, and we are confident in the ongoing successful delivery of our growth algorithm, driven by the strength of IHG's enterprise platform and our ability to further capitalise on our scale, leading positions and the attractive long-term demand drivers for our markets."
Reporting by Iain Gilbert at Sharecast.com