Host Hotels & Resorts Inc (NASDAQ: HST) kicked off on Friday, up 0.52% from the previous trading day, before settling in for the closing price of $17.24. Over the past 52 weeks, HST has traded in a range of $15.10-$21.31.
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During the last 5-year period, the sales growth of Real Estate Sector giant was 17.01%. While this was happening, its average annual earnings per share was recorded -4.68%. With a float of $693.36 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $703.60 million.
Let’s determine the extent of company efficiency that accounts for 163 employees. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 39.93%, operating margin of 15.09%, and the pretax margin is 14.6%.
Host Hotels & Resorts Inc (HST) Insider Activity
Our next focus will be how large-scale investors are participating in this stock of the REIT – Hotel & Motel Industry. The insider ownership of Host Hotels & Resorts Inc is 1.29%, while institutional ownership is 105.61%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on May 16 ’24, was worth 72,636. In this transaction Director of this company sold 3,896 shares at a rate of $18.64, taking the stock ownership to the 64,457 shares. Before that another transaction happened on Mar 21 ’24, when Company’s President and CEO sold 28,136 for $21.04, making the entire transaction worth $591,959. This insider now owns 2,225,577 shares in total.
Host Hotels & Resorts Inc (HST) Earnings and Forecasts
In the latest quarterly report, which was put into the public domain on 6/30/2024, the organization reported 0.16 earnings per share (EPS), higher than consensus estimate (set at 0.11) by 0.05. Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 0.17 per share during the current fiscal year.
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around -4.68% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will plunge by -2.34% during the next five years compared to -6.69% drop over the previous five years of trading.
Host Hotels & Resorts Inc (NASDAQ: HST) Trading Performance Indicators
Take a look at Host Hotels & Resorts Inc’s (HST) current performance indicators. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 2.24. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 13.81.
For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 1.06, a number that is poised to hit 0.10 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 0.96 in one year’s time.
Technical Analysis of Host Hotels & Resorts Inc (HST)
Looking closely at Host Hotels & Resorts Inc (NASDAQ: HST), its last 5-days average volume was 4.23 million, which is a drop from its year-to-date volume of 6.66 million. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 38.26%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 0.38.
During the past 100 days, Host Hotels & Resorts Inc’s (HST) raw stochastic average was set at 50.00%, which indicates a significant increase from 22.61% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 17.31% in the past 14 days, which was lower than the 24.84% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $17.61, while its 200-day Moving Average is $18.51. However, in the short run, Host Hotels & Resorts Inc’s stock first resistance to watch stands at $17.52. Second resistance stands at $17.71. The third major resistance level sits at $17.87. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $17.17, it is likely to go to the next support level at $17.01. Should the price break the second support level, the third support level stands at $16.82.
Host Hotels & Resorts Inc (NASDAQ: HST) Key Stats
The company with the Market Capitalisation of 12.24 billion has total of 702,440K Shares Outstanding. Its annual sales at the moment are 5,311 M in contrast with the sum of 740,000 K annual income. Company’s last quarter sales were recorded 1,466 M and last quarter income was 239,000 K.
