Company Analysis

Host Hotels & Resorts, Inc. (HST)

Nasdaq: HST · Real Estate Investment Trusts · Bethesda, MD · filing with the SEC since 1998
Grade5.9
◀ Past 3.4● Present 7.5▶ Future 5.5

The grade of Host Hotels & Resorts, Inc.

Nine metrics read from its own filings, by tense
Headline grade
5.9/10
◀ Past3.425% of the headline
● Present7.545% of the headline
▶ Future5.530% of the headline

All three tenses have at least two readings, so the archetype blend applies as printed.

All nine metrics read as filed from the record.

◀ Past

What did they actually do?

3.4/1025% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Surviving crises

as filed
2.4/10

Has it survived what it has been through?

1 warning event since 2017; the latest 2020-10-19.

weight 45% of this tense · 24th percentile among 174 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Host Hotels & Resorts, Inc.'s filings since 2017 show 1 warning event: a notice about its exchange listing (8-K item 3.01, the latest 2020-10-19) (its current reports).

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Track record

as filed
2.7/10

What has it actually done, year after year?

+1.3% a year over 10 filed years; profitable in 8 of 10.

weight 33% of this tense · 27th percentile among 156 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Host Hotels & Resorts, Inc.'s 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $5.4 billion in fiscal 2016 to $6.1 billion in fiscal 2025, up 1.3% a year; it rose in 6 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 71% from fiscal 2018 to fiscal 2020; net income was positive in 8 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue growth over the filed span1.3%bottom 23% of its family
  • the share of years revenue rosebottom 34% of its family
  • the share of filed years with a profitbottom 42% of its family
  • the deepest fall from a revenue peak70.7%bottom 10% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Shareholder treatment

as filed
6.5/10

How has it treated the people who own it?

Share count shrank 1.1% a year. 54% of cash flow returned. Insiders: 16 sales, 0 purchases.

weight 22% of this tense · 65th percentile among 156 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, Host Hotels & Resorts, Inc.'s diluted share count shrank about 1.1% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 54% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 16 sales and 0 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-11-10 (their Form 4 filings).

What it rests on

  • the share count over the yearstop 6% of its family
  • cash returned against operating cash flowbottom 36% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

● Present

What are they doing right now?

7.5/1045% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Financial health

as filed
8.0/10

Is it financially healthy right now?

ROE 12%: 12¢ of profit per shareholder dollar. Leverage 50%: owes 50¢ per asset dollar.

weight 45% of this tense · 80th percentile among 171 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, Host Hotels & Resorts, Inc. earned about 12 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money. Leverage: it owed about 50 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count shrank 1.4% over the year (the filed statements).

What it rests on

  • what it owes per dollar of assetstop 31% of its family
  • return on equitytop 19% of its family
  • the share count against the year beforetop 11% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Industry position

as filed
6.8/10

How strong is its position in its industry?

top 32% of 157 in its family; net margin 12.5%.

weight 33% of this tense · 68th percentile among 157 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Host Hotels & Resorts, Inc.'s standing among 157 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $6.1 billion in fiscal 2025 ranks in the top 5% by size; a net margin of 12.5% ranks in the bottom 48%; revenue growth of 7.6% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the top 40% (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the family$6.11Btop 5% of its family
  • net margin12.5%bottom 48% of its family
  • three-year revenue growth7.6%top 40% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Leadership

as filed
7.5/10

What are the people in charge doing?

top 25% of 160 in its family for leadership; chief executive since 2017.

weight 22% of this tense · 75th percentile among 160 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Host Hotels & Resorts, Inc.'s leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Risoleo, James F (President and CEO, as filed), filing under that title since 2017-02-10, 9.8 years (top 37% of its family); the 13 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 9.4 years (top 32%); 1 officer or director change was reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 13 people in charge now (top 7%; fewer changes for each person reads higher) (the Form 4 record, its Form 8-K reports). Years count from a person's first filing in the SEC's data sets, which begin in 2006, so each is a floor.

What it rests on

  • officer and director changes on Form 8-K, against the people in charge1 in three years among 13 peopletop 7% of its family
  • the median years the people in charge have filed9.4 yearstop 32% of its family
  • the chief executive's years on the record9.8 yearstop 37% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

▶ Future

What are they set up to do next?

5.5/1030% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Room to expand

as filed
5.1/10

How much room does it have to grow?

top 49% of 146 in its family for room to expand.

weight 22% of this tense · 51st percentile among 146 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Host Hotels & Resorts, Inc.'s room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $768 million against debt of $1.3 billion leaves -3.9% of its assets as net cash, top 39% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 24.7% of revenue (bottom 41%) (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • cash less debt against assets-3.9%top 39% of its family
  • cash from operations less capital spending against revenue24.7%bottom 41% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Growth drivers

as filed
6.2/10

What could actually drive growth from here?

top 39% of 153 in its family for growth drivers.

weight 33% of this tense · 61st percentile among 153 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Host Hotels & Resorts, Inc.'s growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew 7.6% a year over the last three filed years against 1.3% over all 10, speeding up (top 15% of its family); the newest year grew 7.6% (top 29%); capital spending grew -10.6% a year (bottom 28%) (its annual reports). Host Hotels & Resorts, Inc. reported 4 product lines in fiscal 2025: Occupancy at $3.6 billion (59%), Food and Beverage at $1.8 billion (30%), Hotel Other at $604 million (10%), and 1 more; 3 of 3 grew against the year before (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • three-year growth against the whole span+6.3 points a yeartop 15% of its family
  • the newest year's revenue growth7.6%top 29% of its family
  • three-year growth of capital spending-10.6%bottom 28% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Expectations vs reality

as filed
5.2/10

Did its newest year beat what its own record pointed to?

top 48% of 150 in its family for expectations against reality.

weight 45% of this tense · 52nd percentile among 150 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Host Hotels & Resorts, Inc.'s newest year against its own record: revenue of $6.1 billion in fiscal 2025 came in 0.1% below the $6.1 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (top 40% of its family); net income of $765 million against a prior three-year average of $690 million (bottom 48%); a net margin of 12.5% against 13% before (bottom 47%) (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the prior three years' pace-0.1%top 40% of its family
  • net income against the prior three years' average+11%bottom 48% of its family
  • net margin against its prior average-0.5 pointsbottom 47% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

The grade is the company against its own industry, from its filings. It is not a view on the share price. How the grade is made

SI Assistanton HST · research, not advice