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. Since then, HTHT shares have increased by 24.8% and is now trading at $37.90. 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) released its quarterly earnings results 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 firm 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%. Huazhu Group's revenue was down 15.7% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the previous year, the company posted $0.76 EPS. View Huazhu Group's earnings history.

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

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

13 brokers have issued 1-year target prices 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 8.1%. View analysts' price targets for Huazhu Group.

News coverage about HTHT stock has been trending negative this week, InfoTrie Sentiment reports. The research group identifies negative and positive media coverage by reviewing more than six thousand blog and news sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Huazhu Group earned a news sentiment score of -2.1 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news coverage 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 next few days. View the latest news about Huazhu Group.

Huazhu Group saw a drop in short interest in 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 currently 5.6 days. Approximately 4.5% of the shares of the company are sold short. 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 many different retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include 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..

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 $37.90.

Huazhu Group has a market capitalization of $11.12 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]