Host Hotels & Resorts, Inc. (HST): Price and Financial Metrics

HST POWR Grades

• Growth is the dimension where HST ranks best; there it ranks ahead of 94.8% of US stocks.
• HST's strongest trending metric is Momentum; it's been moving up over the last 179 days.
• HST ranks lowest in Stability; there it ranks in the 14th percentile.

HST Stock Summary

• With a one year PEG ratio of 1,151.56, Host Hotels & Resorts Inc is expected to have a higher PEG ratio (a measure of how expensive a stock is relative to its expected earnings growth) than 97.4% of US stocks.
• Host Hotels & Resorts Inc's stock had its IPO on January 1, 1986, making it an older stock than 92.84% of US equities in our set.
• Of note is the ratio of Host Hotels & Resorts Inc's sales and general administrative expense to its total operating expenses; merely 4.42% of US stocks have a lower such ratio.
• Stocks with similar financial metrics, market capitalization, and price volatility to Host Hotels & Resorts Inc are TRGP, PDM, CVEO, SWN, and IRDM.
• Visit HST's SEC page to see the company's official filings. To visit the company's web site, go to www.hosthotels.com.

HST Valuation Summary

• In comparison to the median Real Estate stock, HST's price/earnings ratio is 153.26% lower, now standing at -20.
• HST's price/earnings ratio has moved down 29.5 over the prior 243 months.
• Over the past 243 months, HST's price/sales ratio has gone up 6.8.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for HST.

HST Growth Metrics

The 2 year cash and equivalents growth rate now stands at 765.63%.
• Its 3 year price growth rate is now at 25.66%.
• Its year over year price growth rate is now at 58.5%.

HST's revenue has moved up $203,000,000 over the prior 15 months.

The table below shows HST's growth in key financial areas (numbers in millions of US dollars).

Date	Revenue	Operating Cash Flow	Net Income to Common Stock
2021-12-31	2,890	292	-11
2021-09-30	2,159	-65	-395
2021-06-30	1,513	-332	-589
2021-03-31	967	-513	-881
2020-12-31	1,620	-307	-732
2020-09-30	2,687	172	-588

HST's Quality Factors

The “Quality” component of the POWR Ratings focuses on 31 different factors of a companies fundamentals and operational strength. Here are some key insights as we drill into the specifics of these quality attributes.

• HST has a Quality Grade of D, ranking ahead of 8.48% of graded US stocks.
• HST's asset turnover comes in at 0.118 -- ranking 171st of 444 Trading stocks.
• DRH, CBLAQ, and RLJ are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with HST.

The table below shows HST's key quality metrics over time.