NASDAQ:HTHTHuazhu Group Stock Price, Forecast & News

Huazhu Group's stock was trading at $30.36 on March 11th, 2020 when COVID-19 (Coronavirus) reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Since then, HTHT stock has increased by 24.5% and is now trading at $37.79. 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) EPS for the quarter, missing analysts' consensus estimates of ($1.63) by $2.22. The firm 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 5.97% and a negative net margin of 4.07%. The firm's quarterly 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 earnings per share. View Huazhu Group's earnings history.

Huazhu Group declared a -- dividend on Tuesday, December 31st. Stockholders of record on Friday, January 10th will be given 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.

Huazhu Group's stock 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 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 issued an update on 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 equities research analysts have issued twelve-month price objectives for Huazhu Group's stock. 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 7.8%. View analysts' price targets for Huazhu Group.

Media stories about HTHT stock have been trending negative recently, according to InfoTrie. The research group scores the sentiment of press coverage by analyzing more than six thousand news and blog sources. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Huazhu Group earned a daily sentiment score of -2.1 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news stories about the company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent press coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the immediate future. View the latest news about Huazhu Group.

Huazhu Group saw a decrease in short interest in the month of June. As of June 30th, there was short interest totaling 13,160,000 shares, a decrease 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 presently 5.6 days. Approximately 4.5% of the company's 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 number of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors 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 $37.79.

Huazhu Group has a market capitalization of $11.09 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]