Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc (NYSE: HLT) saw an upside of 0.63% to $148.27 after adding $0.93 on Wednesday. The 5-day average trading volume is 1,590,569 shares of the company’s common stock. It has gained $151.18 in the past week and touched a new high 1 time within the past 5 days. An average of 1,733,837 shares of the company has been traded in the last 20 days, and the 50-day average volume stands at 1,684,285.
HLT’s 1-month performance is -0.30% or $1.16 on its low of $146.00 reached on 09/25/23. The company’s shares have touched a 52-week low of $116.59 and high of $157.14, with the stock’s rally to the 52-week high happening on 08/10/23. YTD, HLT has achieved 17.34% or $21.82 and has reached a new high 25 times. However, the current price is down -5.64% from the 52-week high price.
Insider Transactions
HLT stock investors last saw insider trading activity on Sep 11. Campbell Kristin Ann most recently sold 8,286 shares at $154.03 per share on Sep 11. This transaction cost the insider $1,276,268. Fuentes Laura sold 12,513 shares at a price of $141.42 on Jun 12. Then, on Mar 16, Silcock Christopher W sold 90 shares at a price of $138.05 per share. This transaction amounted to $12,425.
Valuation Metrics
HLT stock has a beta of 1.23. Moving on to other valuation ratios, the trailing price-to-sales (P/S) ratio is 3.96 while the price to cash flow ratio at 19.80.
Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc’s quick ratio for the period ended June 29 was 0.75, with the current ratio over the same period at 0.75. In terms of profitability, the gross margin trailing 12 months is 28.39%. The trailing 12-month EBITDA margin is 26.04% while for the period ending June 29, Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc’s operating margin was 22.98%. The firm’s gross profit as reported stood at $7.77 billion against revenue of $8.77 billion.
Earnings Surprise
For the quarterly period ending June 29 this year, Net income and sales went up compared to those figures reported in the previous quarter. Net income grew 10.46% to $411.0 million, while revenue of $206.0 million was 49.88% off the previous quarter. Analysts expected HLT to announce $1.57 per share in earnings in its latest quarter, but it posted $1.63, representing a 3.80% surprise. EBITDA for the quarter stood at more than $722.0 million. HLT stock balance sheet for the quarter ending June 29 shows that total liabilities totaled 16.72 billion, with total debt at $9.57 billion. Shareholders hold equity totaling $261.51 million.
Let’s look briefly at Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc (HLT) price momentum from a technical analysis perspective. The 9-day relative strength index as at close on 26 September was 40.10% to suggest the stock is trending Neutral, with historical volatility in this time period at 16.99%.
The stock’s 5-day moving average is $147.73, reflecting a -2.99% or -$4.56 change from its current price. HLT is currently trading -1.10% above its 20-day SMA, +3.90% above its 100-day SMA. However, the stock’s current price level is away from the SMA50 by -1.19% and SMA200 by+8.03%.
Stochastic %K and %D was 16.62% and 12.04% and the average true range (ATR) pointed at 2.76. The RSI (14) points at 43.43%, while the 14-day stochastic is at 20.39% with the period’s ATR at 2.76. The stock’s 9-day MACD Oscillator is pointing at -2.37 and -4.04 on the 14-day charts.
Analyst Ratings
In the most recent analyst report for Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc (NYSE: HLT), Barclays upgraded it to an Overweight rating. They previously had an Equal weight rating on the stock.
