Host Hotels & Resorts Inc (NASDAQ:HST) shares, rose in value on Wednesday, January 22, with the stock price up by 0.46% to the previous day’s close as strong demand from buyers drove the stock to $17.29.
Actively observing the price movement in the last trading, the stock closed the session at $17.21, falling within a range of $17.01 and $17.37. The value of beta (5-year monthly) was 1.344 whereas the PE ratio was 16.92 over 12-month period. Referring to stock’s 52-week performance, its high was $21.19, and the low was $15.62. On the whole, HST has fluctuated by -0.92% over the past month.
With the market capitalization of Host Hotels & Resorts Inc currently standing at about $12.09 billion, investors are eagerly awaiting this quarter’s results, scheduled for in February. The company’s Forward Dividend Ratio is 0.90, with its dividend yield at 5.21%.
Projections by analysts suggest varying estimates for the company’s quarterly revenue. Analysts have estimated the company’s revenue for the quarter at 5.63B, with a low estimate of 1.3B and a high estimate of 1.43B. Wall Street analysts also predicted that the company’s y-o-y revenues would reach 1.37B.
Technical indicators serve as essential tools for traders, offering insights into market sentiment and potential price movements. We see that HST’s technical picture suggests that short-term indicators denote the stock is a 100% Sell on average. However, medium-term indicators have put the stock in the category of 50% Buy while long-term indicators on average have been pointing out that it is a 100% Sell.
The stock’s technical analysis shows that the PEG ratio is about 25.88, with the price of HST currently trading nearly -0.87% and -3.12% away from the simple moving averages for 20 and 50 days respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently indicates a reading of 44.54, while the 7-day volatility ratio is showing 1.95% which for the 30-day chart, stands at 2.20%. Furthermore, Host Hotels & Resorts Inc (HST)’s beta value is 1.32, and its average true range (ATR) is 0.39.
A comparison of Host Hotels & Resorts Inc (HST) with its peers suggests the former has fared considerably weaker in the market. HST showed an intraday change of 0.46% in last session, and over the past year, it shrunk by -12.89%%.
Data on historical trading for Host Hotels & Resorts Inc (NASDAQ:HST) indicates that the trading volumes over the past 10 days have averaged 5.7 and over the past 3 months, they’ve averaged 6.89 million. According to company’s latest data on outstanding shares, there are 699.00 million shares outstanding.
Nearly 1.30% of Host Hotels & Resorts Inc’s shares belong to company insiders and institutional investors own 107.05% of the company’s shares. The data on short interest also indicates that stock shorts accounted for 38.69 million shares as on 2024-12-31, resulting in a short ratio of 5.54. According to the data, the short interest in Host Hotels & Resorts Inc (HST) stood at 782.00 of shares outstanding as of 2024-12-31; the number of short shares registered in 2024-11-29 reached 39.09 million. The stock has fallen by -1.31% since the beginning of the year, thereby showing the potential of a further growth. This could raise investors’ confidence to be optimistic about the HST stock heading into the next quarter.
