Host Hotels & Resorts Inc (HST) concluded trading on Wednesday at a closing price of $20.21, with 13.09 million shares of worth about $264.51 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained positive as price took a surge of 28.30% during that period and on Wednesday the price saw a gain of about 2.80%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 713.40M shares, out of which, 696.75M shares are available for trading.
According to filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), insiders took part in trade of the company’s stock for 3 times over the past 12 months. They bought 18,442 shares in 2 of the transactions. In 1 selling transactions, insiders dumped 3,688 shares.
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However, the stock later moved at a day high price of 20.31, or with a gain of 2.80%. Stock saw a price change of 5.43% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of 1.46%. Year-to-date (YTD), HST shares are showing a performance of 3.80% which increased to 20.80% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $14.33 but also hit the highest price of $20.39 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for Host Hotels & Resorts Inc shares is 6.47 million. The stock is currently trading 3.51% above its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is up 4.07% for SMA50 and it goes to 17.30% higher than SMA200.
Host Hotels & Resorts Inc (NASDAQ: HST) currently have 713.40M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 103.16% of that.
The stock has a current market capitalization of $14.26B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 1.32. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 19.13, while it has posted earnings per share of $1.06 in the same period. Its PEG reads 0.67 while making debt-to-equity ratio of 0.70. Volatility of a stock is a metric used to know how much the price of that stock is under influence and for HST, volatility over the week remained 2.08% while standing at 2.00% over the month.
Analysts are in expectations that Host Hotels & Resorts Inc (HST) stock would likely to be making an EPS of $0.2 in the current quarter, while forecast for next quarter EPS is $0.29 and it is $0.94 for next year. For the current quarter EPS, analysts have given the company a lowest target $0.18 which is $0.22 at the higher side of the target for the same. When we compare those targets with actual EPS, we find that company posted an EPS of $0.2 in the same quarter a year ago. Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to drop by -10.64% while it is estimated to increase by 4.82% in next year. EPS is likely to grow at an annualized rate of 28.40% for next 5-years, compared to annual growth of 2.94% made by the stock over the past 5-years.
Coverage by JP Morgan stated Host Hotels & Resorts Inc (HST) stock as a Neutral in their note to investors on December 14, 2023, suggesting a price target of $15 for the stock. On October 23, 2023, HSBC Securities Initiated their recommendations, while on October 03, 2023, Wedbush Initiated their ratings for the stock with a price target of $19. Stock get an Outperform rating from Wolfe Research on September 28, 2023.
