Host Hotels and Resorts, Inc (HST) stock analysis
Host Hotels and Resorts, Inc (HST) clears 5 of this site's 8 mechanical value filters, 5 of 8 Buffett-style checks and 3 of 5 Lynch-style checks. A free-cash-flow DCF does not fit real estate companies, so no margin of safety is shown. Its earnings quality rates Strong and it returns +4.7% to shareholders net of dilution. Figures are as of October 23, 2026, from SEC filings and market data refreshed weekly; this is educational analysis, not investment advice.
Data as of October 23, 2026. Refreshed weekly from SEC filings and market data.
What does Host Hotels and Resorts do?
Host Hotels & Resorts is a real estate investment trust that owns upscale hotels and resorts operated under major brands.
What stands out about Host Hotels and Resorts?
- Misses 1 of the 8 value filters. It fails Market Cap > $25B ($17.0B); the other 5 pass and 2 were not evaluated. See every filter.
- Close to its 52-week high. At $24.87, HST is within 2.6% of its high of $25.54, 57.2% above its low of $15.82. See the range.
- Strongest against peers: P/E ratio. At 16.6× (peer median 31.5×) it ranks 3rd of 29 among real estate stocks this site tracks. See the ranking.
- Short interest is elevated. 5.8% of the float is sold short, 4.4 days to cover, above this site's 5% flag. See the figures.
How has Host Hotels and Resorts' share price moved?
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Is Host Hotels and Resorts undervalued? The value diligence check
Every value-investing signal this site computes for this stock, gathered in one place: the same real numbers from the tools below, not a new score.
- Margin of safety (DCF) n/a (Real Estate)
- P/E vs. its own history 16.6x · near the cheap end Real range: 16.1x–18.8x over 4 years (net income per diluted share from each fiscal year's 10-K, paired with the real closing price at that fiscal year-end).
- Wall St. analyst rating Buy · 3.92/5 25 analysts this month: 8 strong buy, 7 buy, 10 hold, 0 sell, 0 strong sell (Finnhub).
- Altman Z″-Score (bankruptcy risk) n/a (Real Estate)
- Earnings quality (is the profit real?) Strong · all 5 checks clean accruals −5.7% of assets · 202% of profit arrived as cash · stock comp 0.4% of revenue · share count −1.3% a year. From the latest 10-K (year to Dec 2025) - see the Earnings Quality Screener for how each check is scored.
- Shareholder yield (cash back to owners) +4.7% net Latest fiscal year (2025): dividends 3.7% + buybacks 1.2% − stock comp 0.2%, as a share of today's market cap. Over 14 years its split-adjusted share count rose 0%. See Shareholder Yield Leaders.
- Capital needed to grow (See's test) n/a (bank, insurer, lender or REIT)
- PEG (growth at a reasonable price) 0.29 · Well under fair P/E 16.6× ÷ 57.0% a year of growth behind it. 24th lowest of 447 stocks with a usable PEG. Lynch's fair value is a PEG of 1; a very high PEG usually means almost no growth, a very low one a profit spike. See PEG Ratio Ranking.
- Compounder lenses (4) 3 of 4 · misses capital-light (n/a) Capital-light growth: cannot be measured (bank, insurer, lender or REIT); Profit is real: cleared; Cash to owners: cleared; Fair price (PEG): cleared. See Compounders at a Fair Price, which also lets you move the PEG bar.
- Munger's Inversion Check 1 flag
- Standing vs. sector peers 2 of 4 measures above the median Compared with the 29 other real estate stocks this site tracks: 2 in the top third, 0 in the bottom third.
- Dividend payout sustainability 0/6 · clean
How does Host Hotels and Resorts compare with its peers?
2 of 4 measures sit above the median of the 29 other real estate stocks tracked here, 2 in the top third.
- P/E ratiolower is cheaper · peer median 31.5× 16.6× ✓3rd of 29
- Return on equityhigher is better · peer median 8% 16% ✓7th of 30
- Net marginhigher is better · peer median 20.9% 16.5% –19th of 30
- Dividend yieldamong dividend payers · peer median 4.08% 3.83% –18th of 28
Peers are the stocks this site tracks in the same sector group, not every listed competitor. The bar runs from the weakest peer (left) to the strongest (right); the tick is the middle. Measures that don't apply to a sector (cash-flow yield for banks, debt for financials) are left out.
What would Buffett & Lynch say?
Buffett's checklist is built around durable, profitable businesses bought at sensible prices, and HST doesn't clear enough of it yet. In its favor: HST is currently earning a strong return on shareholders' equity, converts sales into profit at healthy margins, earns many times its interest expense, so debt service isn't a worry, is trading below what a conservative discounted-cash-flow estimate says it's worth - his own "price is what you pay, value is what you get" test, not a fixed multiple ceiling, and trades at a reasonable multiple of owner earnings, his own term for the real cash a business could pay out. Where it comes up short: HST and its five-year average return on equity falls short too, so this isn't just a one-off dip, carries more debt relative to equity than he typically tolerates, and hasn't grown earnings per share fast enough over five years to impress him.
- ROE (TTM) > 11% ✓
- ROE (5yr avg) > 11% ✕
- Debt/Equity < 0.5 ✕
- Pretax margin > 15% ✓
- EPS growth (5yr) > 7% ✕
- Interest coverage > 5x ✓
- Trading below intrinsic value (DCF) ✓
- Price vs. owner earnings < 25x ✓
- Bonus: returning capital via buybacks FY2025
Lynch looked for growth stories that weren't overpriced for that growth, and HST falls short of his bar. In its favor: HST clears an even tighter PEG-under-1 bar he'd want for a stock growing this fast, isn't asking too much even by a fast grower's usual richer multiple, and is generating real cash to back up a fast grower's higher price tag. Where it comes up short: HST is growing earnings outside the 20-50% band he considered sustainable for a fast grower - either not fast enough to earn the label, or a pace he'd flag as unlikely to hold up, and is leaning on more debt than he liked a growth story to carry.
- PEG < 1 (stricter for fast growers) ✓
- EPS growth 20%-50% ✕
- Debt/Equity < 0.5 ✕
- P/E < 40 ✓
- Price/FCF < 40 ✓
Quantitative approximations of each investor's documented approach, not endorsed by either investor or their estates - commentary, not this site's actual ranking criteria. Buffett never published a numeric checklist: only 2 of his 8 checks here trace to his own documented concepts ("owner earnings," from his 1986 shareholder letter, and "price is what you pay, value is what you get," his case against fixed P/E/P/B ceilings) - the other 6 (ROE, debt, margins, growth, interest coverage) use commonly-cited thresholds that are not numbers he himself published. The 8 hard filters below (plus the Munger check and Graham margin of safety) are this site's real, mechanical screen and are computed completely independently of the checklists above.
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Which of the 8 value filters does Host Hotels and Resorts pass?
- Market Cap > $25B $17.0B
- Trailing P/E < 25 16.59
- PEG Ratio < 1.5 0.29
- Price/Book < 8 2.67
- Price/Sales < 7 2.74
- EPS Growth YoY > -5% +8.3%
- vs 50-day MA (±12%) Not evaluated †
- vs 200-day MA (±12%) Not evaluated †
What is Host Hotels and Resorts' margin of safety?
A standard free-cash-flow DCF doesn't fit how real estate companies report cash flow.
Where is Host Hotels and Resorts in its 52-week range?
What is the short interest in Host Hotels and Resorts?
39,319,368 shares short as of 2026-09-30 (FINRA settlement date). Reported twice a month, so this only changes roughly every two weeks, not daily.
What could go wrong with Host Hotels and Resorts? Munger's inversion check
"Invert, always invert." Instead of reasons to buy, these are reasons to hesitate, not a verdict, and not everything worth knowing about a business.
- Margin of safety, even in the bull case n/a (Real Estate)
- Short interest under 5% of float 5.8%
- Passes most of the 6 fundamental filters 5/6 passed
Doesn't cover circle of competence, management quality, or accounting concerns: those need judgment, not data.
How much have Host Hotels and Resorts shareholders gained per year?
Not enough clean earnings history to compute this for HST yet - a loss year in the window breaks the growth math rather than faking a number through it.
An earnings-based proxy, not a stock-price total return - it doesn't capture multiple expansion/contraction or reinvested dividends. EPS from HST's own 10-K filings; dividend yield is the current trailing yield on today's price, from the same weekly fetch as the rest of this site.
What do Host Hotels and Resorts' 10-year financials show?
From HST's own 10-K filings (SEC EDGAR): up to the last 10 fiscal years. Press any year's bars for the exact figures.
Frequently asked questions about Host Hotels and Resorts
What kind of company is Host Hotels and Resorts?
Host Hotels & Resorts is a real estate investment trust that owns upscale hotels and resorts operated under major brands. This site groups it with Real Estate stocks.
Why does Host Hotels and Resorts have no margin of safety on this site?
This site's DCF values a company from its free cash flow, and that does not fit real-estate companies, which are valued on property income rather than on free cash flow. So HST gets no margin of safety; judge it on the other checks on this page, such as its filters, shareholder yield and ranking against its peers. The method is in the Intrinsic Value Calculator.
How many of this site's 8 value filters does Host Hotels and Resorts pass?
HST passes 5 of 8. It passes Trailing P/E < 25 (16.59), PEG Ratio < 1.5 (0.29), Price/Book < 8 (2.67), Price/Sales < 7 (2.74) and EPS Growth YoY > -5% (+8.3%). It misses Market Cap > $25B ($17.0B). vs 50-day MA (±12%) and vs 200-day MA (±12%) were not evaluated, because the moving-average checks only run on stocks that clear the fundamentals first. The 8-filter list shows every stock that passes all of them.
Where is Host Hotels and Resorts trading compared with its 52-week range?
At $24.87, HST trades 57.1% above its 52-week low of $15.82 and 2.6% below its 52-week high of $25.54.
When does Host Hotels and Resorts report earnings next?
Host Hotels and Resorts's next earnings report is expected on November 4, 2026, with analysts expecting earnings of $0.10 per share. Dates come from the Finnhub earnings calendar and can move. In its last 4 quarters it beat the estimate 3 times, by an average of +147.7%.
How heavily is Host Hotels and Resorts stock sold short?
As of September 30, 2026, 5.8% of HST's float was sold short (39,319,368 shares, 4.4 days to cover), down 4.4% from the prior reporting period. FINRA publishes short interest twice a month, so it changes about every two weeks; this site flags anything above 5% of the float.
Where do these numbers come from?
- Financial statements: Host Hotels and Resorts's 10-K annual report for the year ended Dec 31, 2025, filed Feb 25, 2026 (filing index). Every earlier year in the 10-year financials comes from the company's older 10-K filings, all listed on SEC EDGAR.
- Prices and market data: quotes, P/E and analyst ratings from Finnhub; daily price history and the 52-week range from Twelve Data, both refreshed weekly. Short interest comes from FINRA, reported twice a month.
- How to check a figure: click any number in the card above to see its exact source, and read the Editorial Standards for every rule behind the checks.
About this Host Hotels and Resorts, Inc analysis
This page shows every value-investing check the site runs on Host Hotels and Resorts, Inc (HST) in one place: the 8 mechanical filters, the Buffett and Lynch checklists, a margin of safety from a disclosed DCF, earnings quality, shareholder yield and how it ranks against its sector peers. The numbers come from SEC filings and public market data, refreshed weekly, and the same rules apply to every stock on the stock list. See Editorial Standards for the sources and the rules, or run your own filters in the stock screener.