Service Properties Trust (SVC) Is A Buy Stock For Small Caps – Analysts

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Service Properties Trust (NASDAQ:SVC) has a beta value of 1.83 and has seen 1.69 million shares traded in the last trading session. The SVC stock price is -250.82% off its 52-week high price of $6.42 and 6.56% above the 52-week low of $1.71. If we look at the company’s 10-day average daily trading volume, we find that it stood at 2.74 million shares traded. The 3-month trading volume is 2.18 million shares.

The consensus among analysts is that Service Properties Trust (SVC) is Buy stock at the moment, with a recommendation rating of 2.50. 0 analysts rate the stock as a Sell, while 0 rate it as Overweight. 1 out of 2 have rated it as a Hold, with 1 advising it as a Buy. 0 have rated the stock as Underweight. The expected earnings per share for the stock is -0.49.

Service Properties Trust (NASDAQ:SVC) trade information

Over the past 30 days, the shares of Service Properties Trust (NASDAQ:SVC) have changed -37.76%. Short interest in the company has seen 5.22 million shares shorted with days to cover at 2.15.

Wall Street analysts have a consensus price target for the stock at $2.5, which means that the shares’ value could jump 26.8% from current levels. The projected low price target is $2.5 while the price target rests at a high of $2.5. In that case, then, we find that the current price level is -36.61% off the targeted high while a plunge would see the stock gain -36.61% from current levels.

Service Properties Trust (SVC) estimates and forecasts

The company’s shares have lost -54.02% over the past 6 months. Revenue growth from the last financial year stood is estimated to be -5.46%.

3 analysts offering their estimates for the company have set an average revenue estimate of 431.98M for the current quarter. 3 have an estimated revenue figure of 503.86M for the next ending quarter. Year-ago sales stood 436.25M and 512.95M respectively for this quarter and the next, and analysts expect sales will shrink by -0.98% for the current quarter and -5.46% for the next.

Earnings growth for 2025 is a modest 36.23% while over the next 5 years, the company’s earnings are expected to increase by 6.62%.

SVC Dividends

Service Properties Trust is expected to release its next earnings report on 2025-Feb-25 this year, and investors are excited at the prospect of better dividends despite the company’s debt issue. The forward dividend is 0.22 at a share yield of 12.02%. The company’s dividend yield has gone up over the past 12 months, with a 5 Year Average Dividend Yield of 8.03%.

Service Properties Trust (NASDAQ:SVC)’s Major holders

Insiders own 6.70% of the company shares, while shares held by institutions stand at 75.26% with a share float percentage of 80.67%. Investors are also buoyed by the number of investors in a company, with Service Properties Trust having a total of 308.0 institutions that hold shares in the company. The top two institutional holders are BLACKROCK INC. with over 30.85 million shares worth more than $158.59 million. As of 2024-06-30, BLACKROCK INC. held 18.6776% of shares outstanding.

The other major institutional holder is VANGUARD GROUP INC, with the holding of over 26.46 million shares as of 2024-06-30. The firm’s total holdings are worth over $135.99 million and represent 16.0158% of shares outstanding.

Also the top two Mutual Funds that are holding company’s shares are VANGUARD SPECIALIZED FUNDS-Vanguard Real Estate Index Fund and VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund . As of Jan 31, 2025 , the former fund manager holds about 3.66% shares in the company for having 6.1 shares of worth $11.16 million while later fund manager owns 5.22 shares of worth $9.55 million as of Dec 31, 2024 , which makes it owner of about 3.13% of company’s outstanding stock.