With 11.27 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 7.56 million shares. During the session, the REIT – Hotel & Motel company that operates in wider Real Estate sector, reached to the highest price of $16.91 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $16.59. The 52-week range on HST shows that it touched its highest point at $21.19 and its lowest point at $15.62 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $20.45. With its current market cap of 11.68 billion, HST has annualized dividend of $0.90 while the current yield stands at 5.39%. HST paid its most recent dividend on 1735603200, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1735603200. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.31.
Price Performance and Earnings:
Stock performance is one of the indicators that investors use to determine whether they will profit from a stock. The price performance of HST was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -1.36%, but this was down by -5.49% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -4.63% while six-month performance fell -4.03%. The stock lost -14.61% in the past year, while it has lost -4.62% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for HST yields 1.02 with Next year EPS estimates of 0.91. For the next quarter, that number is 0.12. This implies an EPS growth rate of -7.52% for this year and -5.70% for next year. EPS is expected to decline by -4.00% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of -6.69%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 699.00 million HST shares are outstanding with a float of 689.95 million shares on hand for trading. On 2025-01-15, short shares totaled 42.19 million, which was 603.99998 higher than short shares on 1734048000. In addition to Mr. James F. Risoleo as the firm’s President, CEO & Director, Mr. Sourav Ghosh serves as its Executive VP & CFO.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 1.07936 of HST’s outstanding shares, institutional investors have minority control over the company.
An Overview of Recent Financials:
Understanding a company as a customer does not mean you will understand it as an investor. The wise investor uses quantitative research to analyze metrics such as revenue, net income, and earnings. In its fiscal quarter reported on 2024-09-30, HST reported revenue of $1319000000.0 and operating income of $106000000.0. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was $317000000.0 and diluted EPS was $0.12.
Analysts Ratings:
Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for HST since 11 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 6 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 5 believe that the stock is worth HOLDING, 0 give it an OVERWEIGHT rating, and 0 thinks that it’s UNDERWEIGHT. In the same way, a target price assigned to a stock can also reveal much about its potential. With HST analysts setting a high price target of 23.0 and a low target of 16.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 20.575. Based on these targets, HST could surge 37.64% to reach the target high and fall by -4.25% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 23.13% from current levels.
EPS: Estimates vs Actual
It is also common to use earnings estimates to evaluate a firm’s growth potential and to determine trading strategy. Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $0.96682 being high and $0.9568 being low. For HST, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $0.96181. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $0.34 and the low estimate is $0.31. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $0.32.
#####
#####
#####
#####
