HST US S&P 500Russell 1000 Earnings call · transcribed from the recording
Host Hotels & Resorts (HST) · Q3 2026 results and valuation
Share price: $25.78 · 2026-11-11
Results Q3 2026 vs Q2 2026 · previous quarter · published 4 Nov 2026 and 6 Aug 2026
Net income down 70.5% on the previous quarter. Management sounded upbeat, though noticeably less so answering analysts.
Only a basic analysis is available for this company at the moment.
1 · Numbers
−70.5%
Net income vs Q2 2026
Outlook given
Net income 70.0M vs 237.0M
Revenue −17.9%
Against the same quarter last year (Q3 2025) it is −56.5%, so it is not just seasonal.
2 · How management spoke
Upbeat
More upbeat than 88% of company calls
Answers to analysts: typical, but clearly less so than the script.
Last call it was different: script and answers matched.
3 · What stood out
Guidance
Host Hotels & Resorts expects a comparable hotel EBITDA margin of approximately 30%, up 30 basis points from the midpoint of its prior guidance and…
Valuation
Is Host Hotels & Resorts undervalued?
Reverse DCF. Free cash flow from the last full fiscal year (2025-12-31), grown for 10 years, discounted back, plus a terminal value. “Implied growth” is the rate the current price assumes.
At 7.6% growth a year (3-year revenue growth), the model's fair value is $36.56 a share — the stock trades 29% below it. Today's price assumes 2.7% growth a year.
Current price
$25.78
close of 2026-11-11
Market implies growth of iThe yearly free-cash-flow growth, for the next 10 years, that today’s share price already assumes. If you believe the company grows faster than this, the stock is cheap under this model; slower, and it is expensive.
+2.7% for 10 yrs
Fair value / share
$36.56
Buy below
$27.42
Price vs fair value
Undervalued 29%
Price vs buy-below price
Undervalued 6%
Read between the lines
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Key theme
The comparable hotel portfolio excludes the Don Cesar and Alila Ventana Big Sur, which was closed for over 30 days…
Source quote
“The comparable hotel portfolio excludes the Don Cesar and Alila Ventana Big Sur, which was closed for over 30 days... The operational results discussed today refer to our 73-hotel comparable hotel portfolio in 2026. The comparable hotel portfolio also excludes the One Hotel Brooklyn Bridge and Renaissance Dallas at Plano...”
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Guidance
Host Hotels & Resorts expects $2 million of remediation costs associated with the Hawaii storms this year and an additional $10 million of restoration spending in 2027, with insurance substantially covering losses...
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Figure
Comparable hotel EBITDA margin increased 90 basis points year-over-year to 25.2% as rate growth more than offset higher wage expense.
Tone
How upbeat the language was, compared with other companiesiTone counts positive minus negative finance words, adjusted for length. Executives mostly speak positively, so the labels compare each call with every company's latest call: “typical” is the middle third, “very upbeat” the top tenth, “cautious” the bottom tenth.. Dot: Q3 2026. Ring: Q2 2026.
Management sounded noticeably less positive answering analysts than in its prepared script — a bigger drop than in 86% of calls. Scripts are polished in advance; a drop under questioning often marks the topics analysts pressed on, so the answers deserve a closer read than the script.
Sentences that drove the tone
“Comparable hotel REVPAR improved 8.8% compared to the third quarter of 2025, and comparable hotel total REBPAR improved 7.3%, driven by rate growth, strong leisure, group and business transient demand,...”
“For the fourth quarter we expect high single-digit RevPar growth and improvement from our prior guidance supported in part by estimated RevPar growth of 6.5% in October.”
“As a result of our strong performance year to date and improved expectations for the fourth quarter, we are increasing our comparable hotel REVPAR and total REVPAR guidance estimates to...”
Full figures
USD · SEC EDGAR XBRL (10-Q, period end 2026-09-30)
| Metric | Q3 2026period end 2026-09-30 | Q2 2026period end 2026-06-30 | Change | Q3 2025 | YoY |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | 1.35B | 1.64B | −17.9% | 1.33B | +1.2% |
| Operating income | 121.0M | 293.0M | −58.7% | 101.0M | +19.8% |
| Net income | 70.0M | 237.0M | −70.5% | 161.0M | −56.5% |
| EPS | 0.10 | 0.35 | −71.4% | 0.23 | −56.5% |
| P/E today 18.2 | 16.6 | 15.9 | +0.7 | 16.1 | +0.5 |
Topics
Most discussed now
- Growth was driven by leisure transient, bolstered by special events, group demand pickup, and improving business transient demand.
- 23 of Host Hotels & Resorts' 24 domestic markets delivered increases in comparable hotel Red Par in the quarter.
- For full year 2026, Host Hotels & Resorts has 4 million definite group room nights on the books, representing a nearly 6% increase...
- Growth was driven by rate alongside modest room night growth.
- Looking ahead, Host Hotels & Resorts' 2027 total group revenue pace is also 6% ahead of the same time last year, driven by...
Faded since Q2 2026
- Fading If Host Hotels & Resorts thinks it can improve the overall free cash flow and EBITDA per key, which free cash flow comes...
- Fading Uncertainties that could cause future results to differ from those expressed.
- Fading Growth was driven by sustained luxury resort demand, elevated rates associated with the World Cup, and strong group performance.
- Fading Looking at World Cup performance, Host Hotels & Resorts estimates that the event contributed approximately 160 basis points of RevPAR…
Latest announcements
Official filings, newest first.
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