Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc (HLT) concluded trading on Wednesday at a closing price of $218.65, with 6.64 million shares of worth about $1.45 billion changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained negative as price took a plunge of -5.96% during that period and on April 09, 2025 the price saw a gain of about 8.63%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 241.81M shares, out of which, 234.16M shares are available for trading.
Stock saw a price change of -5.50% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of -5.69%. Year-to-date (YTD), HLT shares are showing a performance of -11.54% which increased to 3.34% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $193.86 but also hit the highest price of $275.22 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc shares is 2.09 million. The stock is currently trading -2.90% below its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is down -10.94% for SMA50 and it goes to -7.06% lower than SMA200.
Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc (NYSE: HLT) currently have 241.81M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 97.99% of that.
The stock has a current market capitalization of $52.39B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 1.22. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 35.59, while it has posted earnings per share of $6.14 in the same period. Volatility of a stock is a metric used to know how much the price of that stock is under influence and for HLT, volatility over the week remained 6.74% while standing at 3.78% over the month.
Analysts are in expectations that Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc (HLT) stock would likely to be making an EPS of 1.62 in the current quarter, while forecast for next quarter EPS is 2.13 and it is 9.3 for next year. For the current quarter EPS, analysts have given the company a lowest target 1.57 which is 1.65 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 1.53 in the same quarter a year ago. Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to rise by 12.69% while it is estimated to increase by 15.52% in next year. EPS is likely to shrink at an annualized rate of 15.04% for next 5-years, compared to annual growth of 15.11% made by the stock over the past 5-years.
Digging deeper we find that several firms have released their research notes about the support levels of the stock. Most recent of them is a note released by Mizuho on February 05, 2025 offering a Neutral rating for the stock and assigned a target price range of between $243 and $263 to it. On September 18, 2024, Goldman Initiated their recommendations, while on June 21, 2024, Susquehanna Initiated their ratings for the stock with a price target of $215. Stock get a Buy rating from Mizuho on March 26, 2024.
