Service Properties Trust (NASDAQ: SVC) Has Dropped -56.85% So Far This Year. Does That Mean Trouble Ahead?

During the last session, Service Properties Trust (NASDAQ:SVC)’s traded shares were 1.66 million, with the beta value of the company hitting 1.79. At the end of the trading day, the stock’s price was $2.90, reflecting an intraday loss of -0.68% or -$0.02. The 52-week high for the SVC share is $6.85, that puts it down -136.21 from that peak though still a striking 21.03% gain since the share price plummeted to a 52-week low of $2.29. The company’s market capitalization is $483.25M, and the average trade volume was 3.32 million shares over the past three months.

Service Properties Trust (SVC) received a consensus recommendation of Buy from analysts. That translates to a mean rating of 3.67. SVC has a Sell rating from 0 analyst(s) out of 2 analysts who have looked at this stock. 1 analyst(s) recommend to Hold the stock while 0 suggest Overweight, and 1 recommend a Buy rating for it. 0 analyst(s) has rated the stock Underweight. Company’s earnings per share (EPS) for the current quarter are expected to be 0.

Service Properties Trust (NASDAQ:SVC) trade information

Service Properties Trust (SVC) registered a -0.68% downside in the last session and has traded in the green over the past 5 sessions. The stock plummet -0.68% in intraday trading to $2.90, hitting a weekly high. The stock’s 5-day price performance is 9.02%, and it has moved by 5.84% in 30 days. Based on these gigs, the overall price performance for the year is -56.85%.

The consensus price target of analysts on Wall Street is $5.25, which implies an increase of 44.76% to the stock’s current value. The extremes of the forecast give a target low and a target high price of $2.5 and $8 respectively. As a result, SVC is trading at a discount of -175.86% off the target high and 13.79% off the low.

Service Properties Trust (SVC) estimates and forecasts

In the rating firms’ projections, revenue will decrease -5.19% compared to the previous financial year.

As companies strive to predict their financial trajectories, we turn our attention to the forthcoming financial quarter. Here are the insights gathered from industry analysts. Revenue for the current quarter is expected to be 432.1M as predicted by 1 analyst(s). Meanwhile, a consensus of 1 analyst(s) estimates revenue growth to 502.7M by the end of current fiscal year. As per earnings report from last fiscal year’s results, sales for the corresponding quarters totaled 436.25M and 512.95M respectively. In this case, analysts expect current quarter sales to shrink by -0.95% and then drop by -2.00% in the coming quarter.

While earnings are projected to return 36.23% in 2025, the next five years will return 6.62% per annum.

SVC Dividends

Service Properties Trust is due to release its next quarterly earnings in April. However, it is important to remember that the dividend yield ratio is merely an indicator meant to only serve as guidance. Investors should also take the other fundamental and operational aspects into account before investing in the stock. The forward dividend ratio for Service Properties Trust is 0.42, with the dividend yield indicating at 14.48 percent, continuing the trend of increasing dividends in recent years.

The next largest institutional holding, with 26.46 million shares, is of VANGUARD GROUP INC’s that is approximately 16.0197% of outstanding shares. At the market price on 2024-06-30, these shares were valued at $135.99 million.

Also, the Mutual Funds coming in first place with the largest holdings of Service Properties Trust (SVC) shares are Vanguard Specialized-Real Estate Index Fund and Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund . Data provided on Oct 31, 2024 indicates that Vanguard Specialized-Real Estate Index Fund owns about 6.54 shares. This amounts to just over 3.93 percent of the company’s overall shares, with a $18.98 million market value. The same data shows that the other fund manager holds slightly less at 5.48, or about 3.29% of the stock, which is worth about $15.89 million.