NASDAQ:HTHTHuazhu Group Stock Price, Forecast & News

Huazhu Group's stock was trading at $30.36 on March 11th, 2020 when Coronavirus reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Since then, HTHT shares have increased by 19.0% and is now trading at $36.14.
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12 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Huazhu Group in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 5 hold ratings and 6 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold."
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Huazhu Group is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, August 19th 2020.
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Huazhu Group Ltd (NASDAQ:HTHT) released its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, June, 30th. The company reported ($3.85) earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing the Zacks' consensus estimate of ($1.63) by $2.22. The company had revenue of $2.01 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $1.96 billion. Huazhu Group had a negative return on equity of 6.45% and a negative net margin of 4.07%. Huazhu Group's quarterly revenue was down 15.7% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period last year, the company posted $0.76 EPS.
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Huazhu Group declared a -- dividend on Tuesday, December 31st. Shareholders 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.
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Shares of Huazhu Group split on Friday, May 25th 2018. The 4-1 split was announced on Friday, April 20th 2018. The newly created shares were distributed to shareholders after the closing bell 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.

12 brokers have issued 12-month price objectives for Huazhu Group's shares. Their forecasts range from $30.00 to $39.10. On average, they anticipate Huazhu Group's stock price to reach $34.83 in the next twelve months. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 3.6%.
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News headlines about HTHT stock have trended somewhat negative this week, InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis reports. The research firm identifies positive and negative media coverage by reviewing more than six thousand news and blog sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Huazhu Group earned a media sentiment score of -1.4 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave news articles about the company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent media coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the company's share price in the near future.
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Huazhu Group saw a decline in short interest in the month of June. As of June 30th, there was short interest totaling 13,160,000 shares, a decline 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 short-interest ratio is currently 5.6 days. Approximately 4.5% of the shares of the company are short sold.
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Huazhu Group trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "HTHT."

Huazhu Group's stock is owned by a number of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Newport Asia LLC (0.42%), UBS Group AG (0.25%), Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings Inc. (0.15%), Swiss National Bank (0.11%), M&T Bank Corp (0.02%) and SG Americas Securities LLC (0.02%).

HTHT stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including UBS Group AG, Russell Investments Group Ltd., Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings Inc., Assenagon Asset Management S.A., Banco Santander S.A., DekaBank Deutsche Girozentrale, First Trust Advisors LP, and E Fund Management Hong Kong Co. Ltd..

HTHT stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Newport Asia LLC, Swiss National Bank, SG Americas Securities LLC, MERIAN GLOBAL INVESTORS UK Ltd, Fox Run Management L.L.C., Leap Investments LP, M&T Bank Corp, and Legato Capital Management 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 $36.14.

Huazhu Group has a market capitalization of $10.61 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]