Healthcare Trust of America - HTA Stock Forecast, Price & News

5 Wall Street equities research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Healthcare Trust of America in the last twelve months. There are currently 3 hold ratings and 2 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street equities research analysts is that investors should "hold" HTA shares. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in HTA, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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5 brokerages have issued 12-month price targets for Healthcare Trust of America's shares. Their HTA share price forecasts range from $28.00 to $35.00. On average, they predict the company's stock price to reach $32.75 in the next twelve months.
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Healthcare Trust of America, Inc. (NYSE:HTA) posted its quarterly earnings data on Monday, February, 28th. The real estate investment trust reported $0.07 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing analysts' consensus estimates of $0.10 by $0.03. The real estate investment trust earned $195.70 million during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $193.35 million. Healthcare Trust of America had a net margin of 12.13% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 2.90%. The company's revenue was up 4.7% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the prior year, the business earned $0.43 earnings per share.

Healthcare Trust of America declared a dividend on Wednesday, July 6th. Investors of record on Tuesday, July 19th will be given a dividend of $4.82 per share on Wednesday, July 27th. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, July 21st. This is a boost from the stock's previous dividend of $0.03.
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Healthcare Trust of America (NYSE:HTA) pays an annual dividend of $1.33 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 4.53%. HTA has a dividend yield higher than 75% of all dividend-paying stocks, making it a leading dividend payer. The dividend payout ratio is 316.67%. Payout ratios above 75% are not desirable because they may not be sustainable. Based on earnings estimates, HTA will have a dividend payout ratio of 73.08% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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29 employees have rated Healthcare Trust of America Chief Executive Officer Scott Peters on Glassdoor.com. Scott Peters has an approval rating of 38% among the company's employees. This puts Scott Peters in the bottom 10% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies.

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Healthcare Trust of America investors own include AT&T (T), Ventas (VTR), Enterprise Products Partners (EPD), Energy Transfer (ET), AbbVie (ABBV), Realty Income (O), Omega Healthcare Investors (OHI), Verizon Communications (VZ), Schlumberger (SLB) and Welltower (WELL).

Healthcare Trust of America trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "HTA."

Healthcare Trust of America's stock is owned by a variety of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include State Street Corp (4.31%), Legal & General Group Plc (0.95%), Westchester Capital Management LLC (0.95%), Price T Rowe Associates Inc. MD (0.85%), Prudential Financial Inc. (0.63%) and Millennium Management LLC (0.55%). Insiders that own company stock include Amanda Houghton, Robert A Milligan, Scott D Peters, Vicki U Booth, W Bradley Blair II and Warren D Fix.
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Healthcare Trust of America (NYSE:HTA) has a market capitalization of $0.00 and generates $767.07 million in revenue each year. The real estate investment trust earns $98.02 million in net income (profit) each year or $0.42 on an earnings per share basis.

The company employs 357 workers across the globe.

Healthcare Trust of America's mailing address is 16435 N. SCOTTSDALE ROAD SUITE 320, SCOTTSDALE AZ, 85254. The official website for the company is www.htareit.com. The real estate investment trust can be reached via phone at (480) 998-3478, via email at info@htareit.com, or via fax at 480-991-0755.