Highwoods Properties, Inc (NYSE:HIW) shares, rose in value on Friday, July 11, with the stock price up by 0.51% to the previous day’s close as strong demand from buyers drove the stock to $31.46.
Actively observing the price movement in the last trading, the stock closed the session at $31.3, falling within a range of $31.02 and $31.58. The value of beta (5-year monthly) was 1.222 whereas the PE ratio was 19.69 over 12-month period. Referring to stock’s 52-week performance, its high was $36.78, and the low was $24.18. On the whole, HIW has fluctuated by -0.19% over the past month.
With the market capitalization of Highwoods Properties, Inc currently standing at about $3.39 billion, investors are eagerly awaiting this quarter’s results, scheduled for on 2025-Apr-29. The company’s Forward Dividend Ratio is 2.00, with its dividend yield at 6.36%.
Technical indicators serve as essential tools for traders, offering insights into market sentiment and potential price movements. We see that HIW’s technical picture suggests that short-term indicators denote the stock is a 100% Buy 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 50% Buy.
The stock’s technical analysis shows that the price of HIW currently trading nearly 0.51% and 3.24% away from the simple moving averages for 20 and 50 days respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently indicates a reading of 57.56, while the 7-day volatility ratio is showing 1.91% which for the 30-day chart, stands at 2.08%. Furthermore, Highwoods Properties, Inc (HIW)’s beta value is 1.23.
A comparison of Highwoods Properties, Inc (HIW) with its peers suggests the former has fared considerably weaker in the market. HIW showed an intraday change of 0.51% in last session, and over the past year, it grew by 2.88%%.
Data on historical trading for Highwoods Properties, Inc (NYSE:HIW) indicates that the trading volumes over the past 10 days have averaged 0.8 and over the past 3 months, they’ve averaged 907.64K. According to company’s latest data on outstanding shares, there are 107.81 million shares outstanding.
Nearly 1.82% of Highwoods Properties, Inc’s shares belong to company insiders and institutional investors own 106.72% of the company’s shares. The data on short interest also indicates that stock shorts accounted for 6.04 million shares as on 2025-06-13, resulting in a short ratio of 6.98. According to the data, the short interest in Highwoods Properties, Inc (HIW) stood at 1121.00 of shares outstanding as of 2025-06-13; the number of short shares registered in 2025-05-15 reached 3.63 million. The stock has risen by 18.27% since the beginning of the year, thereby showing the potential of a further growth. This could raise investors’ confidence to be optimistic about the HIW stock heading into the next quarter.
