Host Hotels & Resorts Inc (NASDAQ: HST) kicked off on Monday, up 1.03% from the previous trading day, before settling in for the closing price of $15.53. Over the past 52 weeks, HST has traded in a range of $12.22-$19.26.
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During the last 5-year period, the sales drop of Real Estate Sector giant was -4.68%. While this was happening, its average annual earnings per share was recorded -17.43%. With a float of $684.39 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $687.50 million.
Let’s determine the extent of company efficiency that accounts for 165 employees. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 41.59%, operating margin of 14.41%, and the pretax margin is 11.73%.
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 1.34%, while institutional ownership is 109.91%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on May 19 ’25, was worth 71,434. In this transaction Director of this company sold 4,644 shares at a rate of $15.38, taking the stock ownership to the 71,425 shares. Before that another transaction happened on May 19 ’25, when Company’s Director proposed sale 4,644 for $15.56, making the entire transaction worth $72,261.
Host Hotels & Resorts Inc (HST) Earnings and Forecasts
Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 0.15 per share during the current fiscal year.
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around -17.43% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will plunge by -8.58% during the next five years compared to -4.68% 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. Last quarter, stock had a quick ratio of 2.79. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 1.84. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 13.66.
For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 0.94, a number that is poised to hit 0.03 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 0.78 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 16.47 million, which is a jump from its year-to-date volume of 9.84 million. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 18.35%.
During the past 100 days, Host Hotels & Resorts Inc’s (HST) raw stochastic average was set at 75.33%, which indicates a significant increase from 29.70% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 0.38 in the past 14 days, which was lower than the 0.42 volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $15.86, while its 200-day Moving Average is $16.27.