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      <eventDateRequiresFilingThisStatement>12/31/2025</eventDateRequiresFilingThisStatement>
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      <reportingPersonName>Baron Partners Fund</reportingPersonName>
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        <issuerName>Hyatt Hotels Corporation</issuerName>
        <issuerPrincipalExecutiveOfficeAddress>150 North Riverside Plaza, 8th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606</issuerPrincipalExecutiveOfficeAddress>
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        <filingPersonName>Baron Capital Group, Inc. ("BCG"),
BAMCO, Inc. ("BAMCO"),
Baron Capital Management, Inc. ("BCM"),
Ronald Baron,
Baron Partners Fund ("BPF")</filingPersonName>
        <principalBusinessOfficeOrResidenceAddress>767 Fifth Avenue, 49th Floor,
New York, NY 10153</principalBusinessOfficeOrResidenceAddress>
        <citizenship>BCG, BAMCO and BCM are New York corporations. Ronald Baron is a citizen of the United States. BPF is a series of a Delaware Statutory Trust.</citizenship>
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        <notApplicableFlag>Y</notApplicableFlag>
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        <ownershipMoreThan5PercentOnBehalfOfAnotherPerson>The advisory clients of BAMCO and BCM have the right to receive or the power to direct the receipt of dividends from, or the proceeds from the sale of, the Issuer's common stock in their accounts. To the best of the Filing Persons' knowledge, no such person has such interest relating to more than 5% of the outstanding class of securities.</ownershipMoreThan5PercentOnBehalfOfAnotherPerson>
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        <notApplicableFlag>N</notApplicableFlag>
        <subsidiaryIdentificationAndClassification>BAMCO and BCM are subsidiaries of BCG. BPF is an advisory client of BAMCO. Ronald Baron owns a controlling interest in BCG.</subsidiaryIdentificationAndClassification>
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        <notApplicableFlag>N</notApplicableFlag>
        <identificationAndClassificationOfGroupMembers>Please see Item 3.</identificationAndClassificationOfGroupMembers>
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        <notApplicableFlag>Y</notApplicableFlag>
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        <certifications>By signing below I certify that, to the best of my knowledge and belief, the securities referred to above were acquired and are held in the ordinary course of business and were not acquired and are not held for the purpose of or with the effect of changing or influencing the control of the issuer of the securities and were not acquired and are not held in connection with or as a participant in any transaction having that purpose or effect, other than activities solely in connection with a nomination under ?? 240.14a-11.</certifications>
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      <reportingPersonName>BAMCO INC /NY/</reportingPersonName>
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        <signature>/s/ Ronald Baron</signature>
        <title>Chairman and CEO</title>
        <date>02/17/2026</date>
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      <reportingPersonName>Baron Capital Group, Inc.</reportingPersonName>
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        <signature>/s/ Ronald Baron</signature>
        <title>Chairman and CEO</title>
        <date>02/17/2026</date>
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        <signature>/s/ Ronald Baron</signature>
        <title>Chairman and CEO</title>
        <date>02/17/2026</date>
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      <reportingPersonName>Ronald Baron</reportingPersonName>
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        <signature>/s/ Ronald Baron</signature>
        <title>Individually</title>
        <date>02/17/2026</date>
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        <signature>/s/ Ronald Baron</signature>
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    <signatureComments>Attention: Intentional misstatements or omissions of fact constitute Federal criminal violations (See 18 U.S.C. 1001)</signatureComments>
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