Yahoo Finance Are You a Momentum Investor? This 1 Stock Could Be the Perfect Pick
It doesn't matter your age or experience: taking full advantage of the stock market and investing with confidence are common goals for all investors.
Achieving those goals is made easier with the Zacks Style Scores, a unique set of guidelines that rates stocks based on popular investing methodologies, namely value, growth, and momentum. The Style Scores can help you narrow down which stocks are better for your portfolio and which ones can beat the market over the long-term.
Is This 1 Momentum Stock a Screaming Buy Right Now?
Momentum investors, who live by the saying "the trend is your friend," are most interested in taking advantage of upward or downward trends in a stock's price or earnings outlook. Utilizing one-week price change and the monthly percentage change in earnings estimates, among other factors, the Momentum Style Score can help determine favorable times to buy high-momentum stocks.
Host Hotels (HST)
Bethesda, MD-based Host Hotels & Resorts Inc., one of the leading lodging real estate investment trusts (REITs), engages in the ownership, acquisition, and redevelopment of luxury and upper-upscale hotels in the United States and abroad. It is an S&P 500 Index company.
HST boasts a Momentum Style Score of A and VGM Score of A, and holds a Zacks Rank #3 (Hold) rating. Shares of Host Hotels has seen some interesting price action recently; the stock is up 2.4% over the past one week and up 0.1% over the past four weeks. And in the last one-year period, HST has gained 11.8%. As for the stock's trading volume, 4,960,729.50 shares on average were traded over the last 20 days.
A company's earnings performance is important for momentum investors as well. For fiscal 2022, two analysts revised their earnings estimate higher in the last 60 days for HST, while the Zacks Consensus Estimate has increased $0 to $1.80 per share. HST also boasts an average earnings surprise of 36.8%.
HST should be on investors' short list because of its impressive earnings fundamentals, a good Zacks Rank, and strong Momentum and VGM Style Scores.
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