In recent trading session, Host Hotels & Resorts Inc (NASDAQ:HST) saw 0.76 million shares changing hands at last check today with its beta currently measuring 1.30. Company’s recent per share price level of $13.80 trading at $0.03 or 0.20% at last check today assigns it a market valuation of $9.57B. That most recent trading price of HST’s stock is at a discount of -43.19% from its 52-week high price of $19.76 and is indicating a premium of 11.45% from its 52-week low price of $12.22. Taking a look at company’s average trading volume for last 10-days demonstrates a volume of 10.17 million shares which gives us an average trading volume of 10.57 million if we extend that period to 3-months.
For Host Hotels & Resorts Inc (HST), analysts’ consensus is at an average recommendation of Buy while assigning it a mean rating of 1.75. Splitting up the data highlights that, out of 11 analysts covering the stock, 0 rated the stock as a Sell while 0 recommended an Overweight rating for the stock. 5 suggested the stock as a Hold whereas 6 see the stock as a Buy. 0 analyst(s) advised it as an Underweight.
Host Hotels & Resorts Inc (NASDAQ:HST) trade information
Upright in the green today for gaining 0.20%, in the last five days HST remained trading in the green while hitting it’s week-highest on Wednesday, 04/23/25 when the stock touched $13.80 price level, adding 4.7% to its value on the day. Host Hotels & Resorts Inc’s shares saw a change of -21.25% in year-to-date performance and have moved 2.89% in past 5-day. Host Hotels & Resorts Inc (NASDAQ:HST) showed a performance of -6.77% in past 30-days. Number of shares sold short was 46.41 million shares which calculate 4.61 days to cover the short interests.
Wall Street analysts have assigned a consensus price target of 17.5 to the stock, which implies a rise of 21.14% to its recent value today. Analysts have been projecting 17 as a low price target for the stock while placing it at a high target of 18. It follows that stock’s current price would drop -23.19% in reaching the projected high whereas dropping to the targeted low would mean a loss of -23.19% for stock’s current value.
Weighing up company’s earnings over the past 5-year and in the next 5-year periods, we find the company posting an annual earnings growth rate of -4.68% during past 5 years. In 2025, company’s earnings growth rate is likely to be around -27.01% while estimates for its earnings growth in next 5 years are of -4.96%.
HST Dividends
Host Hotels & Resorts Inc is more likely to be releasing its next quarterly report on 2025-Feb-18 and investors are confident in the company announcing better current-quarter dividends despite the fact that it has been facing issues arising out of mounting debt. With an annual yield of 5.78%, the share has a forward dividend of 0.80 which implies that company’s dividend yield remained growing in trailing twelve months while having a 5 year average dividend yield of 4.49%.
Host Hotels & Resorts Inc (NASDAQ:HST)’s Major holders
Insiders are in possession of 1.36% of company’s total shares while institution are holding 106.08 percent of that, with stock having share float percentage of 107.54%. Investors also watch the number of corporate investors in a company very closely, which is 106.08% institutions for Host Hotels & Resorts Inc that are currently holding shares of the company. VANGUARD GROUP INC is the top institutional holder at HST for having 113.95 million shares of worth $2.05 billion. And as of 2024-06-30, it was holding 16.1797 of the company’s outstanding shares.
The second largest institutional holder is BLACKROCK INC., which was holding about 76.58 million shares on 2024-06-30. The number of shares represents firm’s hold over 10.8732 of outstanding shares, having a total worth of $1.38 billion.
On the other hand, VANGUARD SPECIALIZED FUNDS-Vanguard Real Estate Index Fund and VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund are the top two Mutual Funds which own company’s shares. As of Jan 31, 2025 , the former fund manager was holding 27.11 shares of worth $374.75 million or 3.84% of the total outstanding shares. The later fund manager was in possession of 21.83 shares on Dec 31, 2024 , making its stake of worth around $301.84 million in the company or a holder of 3.10% of company’s stock.
