NASDAQ:HTHTHuazhu Group Stock Price, Forecast & News

Huazhu Group's stock was trading at $30.36 on March 11th, 2020 when Coronavirus (COVID-19) reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Since then, HTHT shares have increased by 20.4% and is now trading at $36.55. View which stocks have been most impacted by Coronavirus.

13 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Huazhu Group in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 6 hold ratings and 6 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View analyst ratings for Huazhu Group.

Huazhu Group is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, August 19th 2020. View our earnings forecast for Huazhu Group.

Huazhu Group Ltd (NASDAQ:HTHT) announced its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, June, 30th. The company reported ($3.85) earnings per share for the quarter, missing analysts' consensus estimates of ($1.63) by $2.22. The business earned $2.01 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $1.96 billion. Huazhu Group had a negative net margin of 4.07% and a negative return on equity of 5.97%. The firm's revenue was down 15.7% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the previous year, the company posted $0.76 EPS. View Huazhu Group's earnings history.

Huazhu Group announced a -- dividend on Tuesday, December 31st. Stockholders of record on Friday, January 10th will be paid a dividend of $0.34 per share on Wednesday, February 5th. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, January 9th. View Huazhu Group's dividend history.

Huazhu Group shares split on the morning of Friday, May 25th 2018. The 4-1 split was announced on Friday, April 20th 2018. The newly issued shares were distributed to shareholders after the market closes on Monday, May 21st 2018. An investor that had 100 shares of Huazhu Group stock prior to the split would have 400 shares after the split.

Huazhu Group updated its second quarter 2020 After-Hours earnings guidance on Tuesday, June, 30th. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of for the period. The company issued revenue guidance of $275.22-283.56 million.

13 brokerages have issued 1 year price objectives for Huazhu Group's shares. Their forecasts range from $30.00 to $39.10. On average, they expect Huazhu Group's share price to reach $34.83 in the next twelve months. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 4.7%. View analysts' price targets for Huazhu Group.

Media coverage about HTHT stock has been trending negative on Friday, InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis reports. InfoTrie scores the sentiment of media coverage by monitoring more than six thousand news and blog sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Huazhu Group earned a daily sentiment score of -2.4 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news coverage about the company a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, indicating that recent media coverage is extremely likely to have an impact on the company's share price in the next several days. View the latest news about Huazhu Group.

Huazhu Group saw a drop in short interest during the month of June. As of June 30th, there was short interest totaling 13,160,000 shares, a drop of 6.7% from the June 15th total of 14,100,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 2,340,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 5.6 days. Approximately 4.5% of the shares of the stock are short sold. View Huazhu Group's Current Options Chain.

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Huazhu Group trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "HTHT."

Huazhu Group's stock is owned by a variety of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include Newport Asia LLC (0.42%) and E Fund Management Hong Kong Co. Ltd. (0.01%).

HTHT stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including E Fund Management Hong Kong Co. Ltd..

HTHT stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Newport Asia LLC.

Shares of HTHT can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity, and Charles Schwab.

One share of HTHT stock can currently be purchased for approximately $36.55.

Huazhu Group has a market capitalization of $10.73 billion and generates $1.61 billion in revenue each year. The company earns $254 million in net income (profit) each year or $0.85 on an earnings per share basis. Huazhu Group employs 18,352 workers across the globe.

The official website for Huazhu Group is www.huazhu.com.

Huazhu Group's mailing address is NO 2266 HONGQIAO ROAD CHANGNING DISTRICT, SHANGHAI F4, 200336. The company can be reached via phone at 86-21-6195-2011 or via email at [email protected]