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Host Hotels & Resorts – HST – Reports Results for the Second Quarter of 2012

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Host Hotels & Resorts, Inc. (NYSE: HST), the nation’s largest lodging real estate investment trust,  announced results of operations for the second quarter ended June 15, 2012.

The increase in total revenues for the second quarter (from $ 1,284 million to $ 1,368 million) and year-to-date 2012 (From $ 2,176 million to $ 2,351 million) reflect the improved performance of the Company’s owned hotels due to improvements in comparable hotel RevPAR of 6.1% for both the second quarter and year-to-date and improvements in comparable food and beverage revenues of 5.7% and 5.8% for the second quarter and year-to-date, respectively. In addition, the improvement in operating results for year-to-date 2012 includes operations for the ten hotels (nearly 4,000 rooms) acquired in the first half of 2011, which increased revenues by an incremental $56 million. If the Company reported its results on a calendar quarter basis, then comparable hotel RevPAR would have increased 6.8% for the second quarter 2012 compared to 2011.

The increase in comparable hotel RevPAR was primarily driven by improvements in average room rates coupled with continued occupancy growth. For the quarter and year-to-date, average room rates improved 3.7% and 3.3%, respectively, while occupancy improved 1.7 percentage points to 77.6% and 1.9 percentage points to 73.7%, respectively. The improvements in revenues led to strong margin growth as comparable hotel adjusted operating profit margins increased 120 basis points and 110 basis points for the second quarter and year-to-date 2012, respectively.


HST Dividend

On June 18, 2012, the Company’s board of directors authorized a regular quarterly cash dividend of $.07 per share on its common stock. The dividend was paid on July 16, 2012 to stockholders of record on June 29, 2012. The amount of any future dividend is dependent on the Company’s taxable income and will be determined by the Company’s Board of Directors.

HST 2012 Outlook

HST anticipates that for 2012:

  • Comparable hotel RevPAR will increase 5.5% to 7.0%;
  • Total revenues under GAAP would increase 6.3% to 7.8%;
  • Total comparable hotel revenues would increase 5.0% to 6.6%;
  • Operating profit margins under GAAP would increase approximately 130 basis points to 190 basis points; and
  • Comparable hotel adjusted operating profit margins will increase approximately 90 basis points to 130 basis points.

About Host Hotels & Resorts – HST

Host Hotels & Resorts, Inc. (HST) is an S&P 500 and Fortune 500 company and is the largest lodging real estate investment trust and one of the largest owners of luxury and upper-upscale hotels. The Company currently owns 105 properties in the United States and 16 properties internationally totaling approximately 65,000 rooms. The Company also holds non-controlling interests in a joint venture in Europe that owns 13 hotels with approximately 4,200 rooms and a joint venture in Asia that owns one hotel with approximately 300 rooms in Australia and a minority interest in seven hotels with approximately 1,750 rooms in India, two of which recently opened in Bangalore and five that are in various stages of development in two cities.

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Ed Liston is a senior contributing editor at TheStockMarketWatch.com. An active market watcher and investor, Ed guides an independent team of experienced analysts and writes for multiple stock trader publications. He is widely quoted in various financial publications on the Internet. When Ed is not writing about stocks, investing in stocks, talking about stocks, or otherwise doing something stock related, he likes to go sailing and fishing in his yacht.

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Ed Liston is a senior contributing editor at TheStockMarketWatch.com. An active market watcher and investor, Ed guides an independent team of experienced analysts and writes for multiple stock trader publications. He is widely quoted in various financial publications on the Internet. When Ed is not writing about stocks, investing in stocks, talking about stocks, or otherwise doing something stock related, he likes to go sailing and fishing.

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