NYSE:HIW - Highwoods Properties Stock Price, Forecast & News

Highwoods Properties trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "HIW."

Highwoods Properties declared a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, February 5th. Investors of record on Tuesday, February 18th will be paid a dividend of $0.48 per share on Tuesday, March 10th. This represents a $1.92 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 3.66%. The ex-dividend date is Friday, February 14th. This is an increase from Highwoods Properties's previous quarterly dividend of $0.48. View Highwoods Properties' Dividend History.

Highwoods Properties Inc (NYSE:HIW) posted its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, February, 4th. The real estate investment trust reported $0.58 earnings per share for the quarter, missing analysts' consensus estimates of $0.90 by $0.32. The real estate investment trust earned $192.07 million during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $192.66 million. The firm's quarterly revenue was up 5.9% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the prior year, the company posted $0.86 earnings per share. View Highwoods Properties' Earnings History.

Highwoods Properties is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, April 28th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for Highwoods Properties.

Highwoods Properties updated its FY20 earnings guidance on Tuesday, February, 4th. The company provided earnings per share guidance of $3.60-3.72 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus earnings per share estimate of $3.60.

6 analysts have issued 12-month price targets for Highwoods Properties' shares. Their forecasts range from $47.00 to $51.00. On average, they anticipate Highwoods Properties' stock price to reach $49.40 in the next twelve months. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 5.9%. View Analyst Price Targets for Highwoods Properties.

6 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Highwoods Properties in the last year. There are currently 4 hold ratings and 2 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for Highwoods Properties.

News stories about HIW stock have trended neutral on Sunday, according to InfoTrie. The research firm identifies positive and negative news coverage by analyzing more than six thousand news and blog sources. 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. Highwoods Properties earned a daily sentiment score of 0.2 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave news stories about the real estate investment trust a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent news coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the near term. View News Stories for Highwoods Properties.

Highwoods Properties saw a increase in short interest in the month of January. As of January 31st, there was short interest totalling 2,640,000 shares, an increase of 23.4% from the January 15th total of 2,140,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 696,800 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 3.8 days. Currently, 2.6% of the shares of the stock are short sold. View Highwoods Properties' Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to Highwoods Properties include Alexandria Real Estate Equities (ARE), Franklin Street Properties (FSP), Boston Properties (BXP), Brandywine Realty Trust (BDN), CoreSite Realty (COR), Corporate Office Properties Trust (OFC), CyrusOne (CONE), DIGITAL RLTY TR/SH (DLR), Douglas Emmett (DEI), Equity Commonwealth (EQC), Hudson Pacific Properties (HPP), Kilroy Realty (KRC), Mack Cali Realty (CLI), Piedmont Office Realty Trust (PDM) and SL Green Realty (SLG).

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Highwoods Properties investors own include Cisco Systems (CSCO), NVIDIA (NVDA), Verizon Communications (VZ), Abbott Laboratories (ABT), Amphenol (APH), CVS Health (CVS), Pfizer (PFE), Gilead Sciences (GILD), Kraft Heinz (KHC) and Seagate Technology (STX).

Highwoods Properties' stock is owned by a number of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include FMR LLC (7.09%), Victory Capital Management Inc. (5.60%), Victory Capital Management Inc. (5.56%), State Street Corp (4.83%), Brookfield Public Securities Group LLC (2.94%) and Renaissance Technologies LLC (1.96%). Company insiders that own Highwoods Properties stock include Carlos E Evans, Jeffrey Douglas Miller and Mark F Mulhern. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Highwoods Properties.

HIW stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Goldman Sachs Group Inc., State Street Corp, Renaissance Technologies LLC, Securian Asset Management Inc, Eagle Asset Management Inc., William Blair Investment Management LLC, Brookfield Public Securities Group LLC and Bank of New York Mellon Corp. View Insider Buying and Selling for Highwoods Properties.

HIW stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including FMR LLC, Victory Capital Management Inc., Victory Capital Management Inc., Heitman Real Estate Securities LLC, Prudential Financial Inc., Rothschild & Co. Asset Management US Inc., Martingale Asset Management L P and UBS Group AG. View Insider Buying and Selling for Highwoods Properties.

Shares of HIW 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 HIW stock can currently be purchased for approximately $52.51.