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BETHESDA, Md., Aug. 07, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Host Hotels & Resorts, Inc. (NASDAQ: HST) (the “Company”), the nation's largest lodging real estate investment trust, today announced that Host Hotels & Resorts, L.P. ("Host L.P."), for whom the Company acts as sole general partner, has priced its offering (the "Offering") of $700 million aggregate principal amount of 5.500% Senior Notes due 2035 (the "Notes"). The Notes are the Company's senior unsecured obligations. The Offering is expected to close on August 12, 2024, subject to the satisfaction or waiver of customary closing conditions.

Host Hotels & Resorts is a lodging REIT focused on luxury and upper upscale hotels, primarily under the Marriott and Hyatt brands. The company has significantly underperformed the Vanguard Real Estate Index Fund ETF in 2024. Q2 2024 results showed 7.5% Y/Y adjusted FFO growth thanks to expense control, higher occupancy, and share repurchases.

U.S. equity markets tumbled in a volatile week, while benchmark interest rates plunged by the most since December 2008 after employment data showed decisive evidence of weakening labor market conditions. Volatility was amplified by a confluence of central bank policy decisions, a hit-and-miss slate of corporate earnings results, an intensification of geopolitical risks, and a re-pricing of domestic political expectations. Among several weak employment reports, the critical nonfarm payrolls report showed that the unemployment rate jumped to the highest level since 2021 in July, and the report was even weaker under-the-surface.

BETHESDA, Md., Aug. 01, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Host Hotels & Resorts, Inc. (NASDAQ: HST) (the “Company”), the nation's largest lodging real estate investment trust, today provided an updated investor presentation for second quarter 2024 results. The investor presentation can be found on the Investor Relations section on the Company's website at https://www.hosthotels.com/#key-investors-materials.

Host Hotels & Resorts, Inc. (NASDAQ:HST ) Q2 2024 Results Conference Call August 1, 2024 10:00 AM ET Company Participants Jaime Marcus - Senior Vice President of Investor Relations Jim Risoleo - President and Chief Executive Officer Sourav Ghosh - Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Conference Call Participants David Katz - Jefferies Chris Darling - Green Street Chris Woronka - Deutsche Bank Dori Kesten - Wells Fargo Michael Bellisario - Baird Shaun Kelley - Bank of America Duane Pfennigwerth - Evercore ISI Smedes Rhodes - Citi Robin Farley - UBS Stephen Grambling - Morgan Stanley Bill Crow - Raymond James Operator Good morning, and welcome to the Host Hotels & Resorts Second Quarter 2024 Earnings Conference Call. Today's conference is being recorded.

Host Hotels (HST) posts better-than-expected Q2 AFFO on higher revenues, aided by improvements in group and contract business. However, it lowers its 2024 guidance.

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While the top- and bottom-line numbers for Host Hotels (HST) give a sense of how the business performed in the quarter ended June 2024, it could be worth looking at how some of its key metrics compare to Wall Street estimates and year-ago values.

Host Hotels (HST) came out with quarterly funds from operations (FFO) of $0.57 per share, beating the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $0.56 per share. This compares to FFO of $0.53 per share a year ago.

BETHESDA, Md., July 31, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Host Hotels & Resorts, Inc. (NASDAQ: HST) (“Host” or the “Company”), the nation's largest lodging real estate investment trust, today announced that it has acquired the fee simple interest in the 234-room 1 Hotel Central Park (the “Property”) for approximately $265 million in cash. The acquisition price represents an 11.1x EBITDA multiple or a cap rate of approximately 8.1% on the Property's 2024 estimated results1.

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