Host Hotels & Resorts Inc (NASDAQ:HST) has a beta value of 1.35 and has seen 10.37 million shares traded in the last trading session. The company, currently valued at $10.87B, closed the last trade at $15.67 per share which meant it lost -$0.1 on the day or -0.63% during that session. The HST stock price is -22.91% off its 52-week high price of $19.26 and 22.02% above the 52-week low of $12.22. If we look at the company’s 10-day average daily trading volume, we find that it stood at 9.72 million shares traded. The 3-month trading volume is 10.81 million shares.
The consensus among analysts is that Host Hotels & Resorts Inc (HST) is Buy stock at the moment, with a recommendation rating of 1.78. 0 analysts rate the stock as a Sell, while 0 rate it as Overweight. 5 out of 11 have rated it as a Hold, with 6 advising it as a Buy. 0 have rated the stock as Underweight.
Host Hotels & Resorts Inc (NASDAQ:HST) trade information
Sporting -0.63% in the red in last session, the stock has traded in the green over the last five days, with the highest price hit on recent trading when the HST stock price touched $15.67 or saw a rise of 2.06%. Year-to-date, Host Hotels & Resorts Inc shares have moved -12.74%, while the 5-day performance has seen it change 0.19%. Over the past 30 days, the shares of Host Hotels & Resorts Inc (NASDAQ:HST) have changed 5.66%. Short interest in the company has seen 49.45 million shares shorted with days to cover at 4.23.
Wall Street analysts have a consensus price target for the stock at $17.5, which means that the shares’ value could jump 10.46% from current levels. The projected low price target is $17.0 while the price target rests at a high of $18.0. In that case, then, we find that the current price level is -14.87% off the targeted high while a plunge would see the stock gain -8.49% from current levels.
Host Hotels & Resorts Inc (HST) estimates and forecasts
The company’s shares have lost -10.21% over the past 6 months.
If we evaluate the company’s growth over the last 5-year and for the next 5-year period, we find that annual earnings growth was -4.68% over the past 5 years. Earnings growth for 2025 is a modest -21.73% while over the next 5 years, the company’s earnings are expected to decrease by -7.25%.
HST Dividends
Host Hotels & Resorts Inc is expected to release its next earnings report on 2025-Apr-30 this year, and investors are excited at the prospect of better dividends despite the company’s debt issue. The forward dividend is 0.80 at a share yield of 5.09%. The company’s dividend yield has gone up over the past 12 months, with a 5 Year Average Dividend Yield of 4.49%.
Host Hotels & Resorts Inc (NASDAQ:HST)’s Major holders
Insiders own 1.37% of the company shares, while shares held by institutions stand at 111.10% with a share float percentage of 112.64%. Investors are also buoyed by the number of investors in a company, with Host Hotels & Resorts Inc having a total of 950.0 institutions that hold shares in the company. The top two institutional holders are VANGUARD GROUP INC with over 113.95 million shares worth more than $2.05 billion. As of 2024-06-30, VANGUARD GROUP INC held 16.1797% of shares outstanding.
The other major institutional holder is BLACKROCK INC., with the holding of over 76.58 million shares as of 2024-06-30. The firm’s total holdings are worth over $1.38 billion and represent 10.8732% 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 3.84% shares in the company for having 27.11 shares of worth $424.76 million while later fund manager owns 22.22 shares of worth $348.16 million as of Mar 31, 2025 , which makes it owner of about 3.15% of company’s outstanding stock.
