Host Hotels & Resorts Inc (NASDAQ:HST) price on current trading day, fall -3.74% below its previous day’s close as a downside momentum from buyers pushed the stock’s value to $14.40.
A look at the stock’s price movement, the level at last check in today’s session was $14.96, moving within a range at $14.25 and $14.8. The beta value (5-Year monthly) was 1.328 while the PE ratio in trailing twelve months stood at 14.56. Turning to its 52-week performance, $21.15 and $14.47 were the 52-week high and 52-week low respectively. Overall, HST moved -14.08% over the past month.
Host Hotels & Resorts Inc’s market cap currently stands at around $10.07 billion, with investors looking forward to this quarter’s earnings report slated for on 2025-Feb-18. The company has a Forward Dividend ratio of 0.90, with its dividend yield at 6.25%. 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 1.55B for the company’s revenue for the quarter, with a low and high estimate of 1.41B and 1.6B respectively. The average forecast suggests up to a 5.24% 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 5.9B, representing a 3.82% 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 100% Sell as suggested by medium term indicators while long term indicators are putting the stock in 100% 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 -7.47% and -11.80% off the 20-day and 50-day simple moving averages respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently prints 32.26, while 7-day volatility ratio is 2.13% and 2.85% in the 30-day chart. Further, Host Hotels & Resorts Inc (HST) has a beta value of 1.26, and an average true range (ATR) of 0.46. Analysts have given the company’s stock an average 52-week price target of $18, forecast between a low of $18 and high of $18. Looking at the price targets, the low is -25.0% off recent price level in today’s trading while to achieve the yearly target high, it has to move -25.0%. Nonetheless, investors will most likely welcome a -25.0% jump to $18 which is the analysts’ median price.
If we refocus on Host Hotels & Resorts Inc (NASDAQ:HST), historical trading data shows that trading volumes averaged 9.98 over the past 10 days and 8.27 million over the past 3 months. The company’s latest data on shares outstanding shows there are 699.10 million shares.
The 1.45% of Host Hotels & Resorts Inc’s shares are in the hands of company insiders while institutional holders own 107.11% of the company’s shares. Also important is the data on short interest which shows that short shares stood at 41.58 million on 2025-02-28, giving us a short ratio of 4.51. The data shows that as of 2025-02-28 short interest in Host Hotels & Resorts Inc (HST) stood at 840.0 of shares outstanding, with shares short rising to 40.38 million registered in 2025-01-31. Current price change has pushed the stock -17.81% 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.
