Host Hotels & Resorts, Inc. (HST) earnings on August 5, 2026
More Host Hotels & Resorts, Inc. earnings
Prior outlook: No statistical edge
Host Hotels reported better-than-expected quarterly numbers and raised its outlook, yet the stock fell over 7%. The market reacted negatively despite the positive news.
HST price around the earnings
23.38
Change: -7.1%
2026-08-06, 20:00 UTC
- Price: green if it ends above the starting price; red if it ends below
- Start of the measured window
- End of the measured window
- Market open
- No trading (market closed)
- Starting price
Prior thesis
Prior outlook: No statistical edge
- Thesis published
- Results released
Exceptional past earnings and positive trend strength, but analyst targets imply overvaluation, with recent cooling after a rally.
Context analyzed before publication
- Trend
- Strong recent trend and rally into earnings, with some recent cooling off after reaching high scores.
Analysts
Evidence
- Analyst consensus
- Buy
- Consensus average (1-5)
- 1.9
- Analysts covering the stock
- 20
- Average price target
- 24.95
- Lowest price target
- 21
- Highest price target
- 29
- Upside to price target
- -0.7%
- Quarterly earnings growth
- 99.2%
- Revenue growth
- 2.8%
- Forward EPS
- 1.02
- Trailing EPS
- 1.47
- Analyst moves in the last 60 days
- 5
- Strong buy: 1
- Buy: 11
- Hold: 9
- Sell: 0
- Strong sell: 0
- Strong buy
- 1
- Buy
- 11
- Hold
- 9
- Sell
- 0
- Strong sell
- 0
- July 28, 2026 · Evercore ISI Group: Maintains rating (In-Line → In-Line)
- July 23, 2026 · Wells Fargo: Maintains rating (Overweight → Overweight)
- July 21, 2026 · JP Morgan: Maintains rating (Neutral → Neutral)
- July 21, 2026 · Barclays: Maintains rating (Equal-Weight → Equal-Weight)
- June 10, 2026 · Ladenburg Thalmann: Maintains rating (Buy → Buy)
News and sentiment
Evidence
Sentiment
- Sentiment
- Constructive
- Mention volume
- High
- Normalized volume
- 99%
News
Sources (4)
- Evercore ISI Group Maintains In-Line on Host Hotels & Resorts, Raises Price Target to $25 (opens in a new tab) — Benzinga
- Wells Fargo Maintains Overweight on Host Hotels & Resorts, Raises Price Target to $26 (opens in a new tab) — Benzinga
- JP Morgan Maintains Neutral on Host Hotels & Resorts, Raises Price Target to $25 (opens in a new tab) — Benzinga
- Barclays Maintains Equal-Weight on Host Hotels & Resorts, Raises Price Target to $24 (opens in a new tab) — Benzinga
Technicals
Evidence
- Price when the context was analyzed
- 24.98
- Average true range (ATR)
- 2.2%
- Distance to 52-week high
- -1.6%
- 14-day change (14d)
- +2.2%
- 30-day change (33d)
- +7.0%
- 30-day relative strength
- +3.5%
- SPY change (33d)
- +3.5%
- Nearest support
- 24.77
- Distance to nearest support
- 0.8%
- Nearest resistance
- 24.99
- Distance to nearest resistance
- 0%
- Volume accumulation ratio (14d / 46d)
- 1.01
- Mid: 24.77 (0.8% away, 0.37 ATR, 17 touches)
- Mid: 24.59 (1.6% away, 0.72 ATR, 17 touches)
- Minor: 24.47 (2% away, 0.93 ATR, 4 touches)
- Mid: 24.99 (0% away, 0.01 ATR, 23 touches)
- Mid: 25.21 (0.9% away, 0.42 ATR, 7 touches)
- Mid: 25.34 (1.4% away, 0.66 ATR, 10 touches)
Trends
Evidence
- Average earnings surprise
- +147.2%
- May 6, 2026: actual EPS 0.72 vs estimate 0.33 (surprise +116.0%)
- February 17, 2026: actual EPS 0.2 vs estimate 0.19 (surprise +4.1%)
- November 5, 2025: actual EPS 0.23 vs estimate 0.04 (surprise +428.3%)
- July 30, 2025: actual EPS 0.32 vs estimate 0.23 (surprise +40.7%)
Expected move
- Implied move
- +2.5%
- Source
- Options chain
Reactions over its last 20 earnings
- Median move
- 2.3%
- 75th percentile move
- 4.7%
- 90th percentile move
- 6.5%
- Up / down moves
- 9 / 11
- Average up move
- +3.0%
- Average down move
- -3.3%
Monitoring and close
What Host Hotels & Resorts, Inc. reported
- Status
- Finished
| Actual EPS | 0.63 |
|---|---|
| EPS estimate | 0.61 |
| EPS surprise | +3.3% |
| Revenue | $1,640 million |
| Revenue estimate | $1,613 million |
| Revenue surprise | +1.7% |
Host Hotels beat Q2 expectations with FFO of $0.63 per share and sales of $1.640B. The company raised its FY2026 FFO guidance to $2.15-$2.18 and narrowed sales guidance to $6.124B-$6.153B.
Sources (3)
- Host Hotels & Resorts Raises FY2026 FFO Guidance from $2.10-$2.16 to $2.15-$2.18 vs $2.16 Est; Narrows FY2026 Sales Guidance from $6.097B-$6.184B to $6.124B-$6.153B vs $6.124B Est (opens in a new tab) — Benzinga
- Host Hotels beat expectations with FFO of $0.63 per share and sales of $1.640B, above estimates. — Benzinga
- Host Hotels & Resorts Q2 FFO $0.63 Beats $0.61 Estimate, Sales $1.640B Beat $1.613B Estimate (opens in a new tab) — Benzinga
Pre-market second reading after the results
- Verdict
- Beat expectations
Heading into the open, results beat expectations on both earnings and revenue, and the price is indicating -1.2% pre-market, a move below the stock's usual reaction (about 2%). The figures don't confirm the prior scenario: there was no prior directional scenario to check against.
How the stock reacted
- Consolidated
- -7.1%
- Max move
- -7.6%
No verdict: the outlook took no direction, so there is nothing to score as a hit or a miss.