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Sep 7, 2019 | 3:03 pm

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Originally Posted by HNLbasedFlyer

I don't think it is fair to compare Marriott against Tech and Airline performance from the past 10 years.

It is fair to compare to Marriott performance to Hyatt and Hilton - and Marriott blows away that competition in terms of stock performance by quite a bit - despite a difficult merger and data breaches.

While I don't think innovative is the right word - The mgmt team has certainly done something right, at least in terms of stock performance. What Arne did get right, is making the acquisition of SPG - others had the opportunity - Marriott pulled the trigger.

Marriott has performed better than its competitors ... but not sure that I'd use the term "blow away."

Give Arne an award for getting the merger through after some initial problems might make sense.

I'm just hard pressed to think of anything "innovative."

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