Currently, there are 699.10M common shares owned by the public and among those 689.00M shares have been available to trade.
The company’s stock has a 5-day price change of -1.83% and -13.93% over the past three months. HST shares are trading -14.27% year to date (YTD), with the 12-month market performance down to -27.31% lower. It has a 12-month low price of $14.25 and touched a high of $21.15 over the same period. HST has an average intraday trading volume of 8.46 million shares. The stock is trading above its simple moving averages at the SMA20, SMA50, and SMA200, as the current price level is off by -3.19%, -7.81%, and -13.01% respectively.
Institutional ownership of Host Hotels & Resorts Inc (NASDAQ: HST) shares accounts for 107.17% of the company’s 699.10M shares outstanding.
It has a market capitalization of $10.50B and a beta (3y monthly) value of 1.27. The stock’s trailing 12-month PE ratio is 15.18, while the earnings-per-share (ttm) stands at $0.99. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio at 0.85. Price movements for the stock have been influenced by the stock’s volatility, which stands at 2.27% over the week and 2.76% over the month.
Earnings per share for the fiscal year are expected to decrease by -27.15%, and 12.48% over the next financial year. EPS should grow at an annualized rate of -3.85% over the next five years, compared to -4.68% over the past 5-year period.
Looking at the support for the HST, a number of firms have released research notes about the stock. Morgan Stanley stated their Equal-Weight rating for the stock in a research note on March 21, 2025, with the firm’s price target at $16-$15. Compass Point coverage for the Host Hotels & Resorts Inc (HST) stock in a research note released on March 10, 2025 offered a Neutral rating with a price target of $18. Compass Point was of a view on October 17, 2024 that the stock is Buy, while Compass Point gave the stock Neutral rating on August 01, 2024, issuing a price target of $25- $18. JP Morgan on their part issued Underweight rating on July 19, 2024.
