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 1.35. Company’s recent per share price level of $16.07 trading at $0.01 or 0.03% at last check today assigns it a market valuation of $11.14B. That most recent trading price of HST’s stock is at a discount of -19.85% from its 52-week high price of $19.26 and is indicating a premium of 23.96% 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 8.2 million shares which gives us an average trading volume of 9.61 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 1.85. 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
Host Hotels & Resorts Inc’s shares saw a change of -12.95% in year-to-date performance and have moved -2.75% in past 5-day. Host Hotels & Resorts Inc (NASDAQ:HST) showed a performance of 3.18% in past 30-days. Number of shares sold short was 36.11 million shares which calculate 3.22 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 8.17% 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 -5.79% in reaching the projected high whereas dropping to the targeted low would mean a loss of -5.79% 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 -22.81% while estimates for its earnings growth in next 5 years are of -6.47%.
HST Dividends
Host Hotels & Resorts Inc is more likely to be releasing its next quarterly report on 2025-Apr-30 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 4.97%, 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 1.37% of company’s total shares while institution are holding 110.93 percent of that, with stock having share float percentage of 112.47%. Investors also watch the number of corporate investors in a company very closely, which is 110.93% 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 Apr 30, 2025 , the former fund manager was holding 26.22 shares of worth $422.14 million or 3.72% of the total outstanding shares. The later fund manager was in possession of 22.22 shares on Mar 31, 2025 , making its stake of worth around $357.75 million in the company or a holder of 3.15% of company’s stock.
