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HST to gain from its luxury hotel portfolio, strategic capital recycling and a healthy balance sheet. Macroeconomic uncertainty and high interest expenses ail.

According to the analysts at Goldman Sachs,

Host Hotels & Resorts is trading at a significant discount to its intrinsic value, offering a compelling investment opportunity despite its capital-intensive business model. The company has a solid balance sheet, investment-grade ratings, and a well-covered dividend yield of roughly 6%. Recession risks are mitigated by geographic diversification, a focus on affluent customers, and a share price that appears to be already partially discounting an economic downturn.

BETHESDA, Md., March 13, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Host Hotels & Resorts, Inc. (NASDAQ: HST) (the “Company”), the nation's largest lodging real estate investment trust, will report first quarter 2025 financial results on Wednesday, April 30, 2025, after the market close.

Host Hotels & Resorts, Inc. (NASDAQ:HST ) Q4 2024 Earnings Conference Call February 20, 2025 10:00 AM ET Company Participants Jaime Marcus - SVP-IR Jim Risoleo - President and CEO Sourav Ghosh - EVP and CFO Conference Call Participants Michael Bellisario - Baird Smedes Rose - Citigroup Chris Woronka - Deutsche Bank David Katz - Jefferies Duane Pfennigwerth - Evercore ISI Chris Darling - Green Street Robin Farley - UBS Aryeh Klein - BMO Capital Markets Jay Kornreich - Wedbush Securities Floris van Dijkum - Compass Point Operator Good morning, and welcome to the Host Hotels & Resorts Fourth Quarter 2024 Earnings Conference Call. Today's conference is being recorded.

HST's Q4 results reflect higher revenues due to better comparable hotel total RevPAR, driven by improved food and beverage revenues from the group business.

While the top- and bottom-line numbers for Host Hotels (HST) give a sense of how the business performed in the quarter ended December 2024, it could be worth looking at how some of its key metrics compare to Wall Street estimates and year-ago values.