Host Hotels & Resorts Inc (NASDAQ:HST) price on Thursday, February 06, rose 1.95% above its previous day’s close as an upside momentum from buyers pushed the stock’s value to $16.69.
A look at the stock’s price movement, the close in the last trading session was $16.37, moving within a range at $16.46 and $16.7. The beta value (5-Year monthly) was 1.344 while the PE ratio in trailing twelve months stood at 16.34. Turning to its 52-week performance, $21.19 and $15.62 were the 52-week high and 52-week low respectively. Overall, HST moved -3.41% over the past month.
Host Hotels & Resorts Inc’s market cap currently stands at around $11.67 billion, with investors looking forward to this quarter’s earnings report slated for in March. The company has a Forward Dividend ratio of 0.90, with its dividend yield at 5.39%. As such, investors might be keen on an upside in the stock’s price ahead of the scheduled earnings report.
Analysts have a consensus estimate of 1.37B for the company’s revenue for the quarter, with a low and high estimate of 1.3B and 1.43B respectively. The average forecast suggests up to a 3.60% growth in sales growth compared to quarterly growth in the same period last fiscal year. Wall Street analysts have also projected the company’s year-on-year revenue to grow to 5.63B, representing a 5.99% jump on that reported in the last financial year.
Turning to the stock’s technical picture we see that short term indicators suggest on average that HST is a 100% Sell. On the other hand, the stock is on average a 50% Sell as suggested by medium term indicators while long term indicators are putting the stock in 75% Sell category.
11 analyst(s) have given their forecast ratings for the stock on a scale of 1.00-5.00 for a strong buy to strong sell recommendation. A total of 5 analyst(s) rate the stock as a Hold, 6 recommend HST as a Buy and 0 give it an Overweight rating. Meanwhile, 0 analyst(s) rate the stock as Underweight and 0 say it is a Sell. As such, the average rating for the stock is Buy which could provide an opportunity for investors keen on increasing their holdings of the company’s stock.
HST’s current price about -1.51% and -5.51% off the 20-day and 50-day simple moving averages respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently prints 41.87, while 7-day volatility ratio is 2.18% and 2.37% in the 30-day chart. Further, Host Hotels & Resorts Inc (HST) has a beta value of 1.32, and an average true range (ATR) of 0.41. Analysts have given the company’s stock an average 52-week price target of $20.5, forecast between a low of $17 and high of $22. Looking at the price targets, the low is -1.86% off current price level while to achieve the yearly target high, price needs to move -31.82%. Nonetheless, investors will most likely welcome a -22.83% jump to $20.5 which is the analysts’ median price.
If we refocus on Host Hotels & Resorts Inc (NASDAQ:HST), historical trading data shows that trading volumes averaged 9.62 over the past 10 days and 7.75 million over the past 3 months. The company’s latest data on shares outstanding shows there are 699.00 million shares.
The 1.30% of Host Hotels & Resorts Inc’s shares are in the hands of company insiders while institutional holders own 107.33% of the company’s shares. Also important is the data on short interest which shows that short shares stood at 42.19 million on 2025-01-15, giving us a short ratio of 6.34. The data shows that as of 2025-01-15 short interest in Host Hotels & Resorts Inc (HST) stood at 852.0000399999999 of shares outstanding, with shares short rising to 35.57 million registered in 2024-12-13. Current price change has pushed the stock -4.74% YTD, which shows the potential for further growth is there. It is this reason that could see investor optimism for the HST stock continues to rise going into the next quarter.
