Service Properties Trust (NASDAQ:SVC) price on current trading day, rose 20.08% above its previous day’s close as an upside momentum from buyers pushed the stock’s value to $2.99.
A look at the stock’s price movement, the close in the last trading session was $2.49, moving within a range at $2.68 and $3.08. The beta value (5-Year monthly) was 2.199. Turning to its 52-week performance, $6.85 and $2.29 were the 52-week high and 52-week low respectively. Overall, SVC moved 14.12% over the past month.
Service Properties Trust’s market cap currently stands at around $498.24 million, with investors looking forward to this quarter’s earnings report slated for on 2025-Feb-25. The company has a Forward Dividend ratio of 0.42, with its dividend yield at 14.05%. As such, investors might be keen on an upside in the stock’s price ahead of the scheduled earnings report.
Analysts have a consensus estimate of 433.21M for the company’s revenue for the quarter, with a low and high estimate of 432.1M and 434.33M respectively. The average forecast suggests down to a -0.70% growth in sales growth compared to quarterly growth in the same period last fiscal year. Wall Street analysts have also projected the company’s year-on-year revenue to grow to 1.77B, representing a -6.71% decline on that reported in the last financial year.
Turning to the stock’s technical picture we see that short term indicators suggest on average that SVC is a Hold. On the other hand, the stock is on average a 50% Sell as suggested by medium term indicators while long term indicators are putting the stock in 50% Sell category.
2 analyst(s) have given their forecast ratings for the stock on a scale of 1.00-5.00 for a strong buy to strong sell recommendation. A total of 1 analyst(s) rate the stock as a Hold, 1 recommend SVC as a Buy and 0 give it an Overweight rating. Meanwhile, 0 analyst(s) rate the stock as Underweight and 0 say it is a Sell. As such, the average rating for the stock is Buy which could provide an opportunity for investors keen on increasing their holdings of the company’s stock.
SVC’s current price about 10.14% and 10.45% off the 20-day and 50-day simple moving averages respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently prints 59.78, while 7-day volatility ratio is 7.29% and 7.20% in the 30-day chart. Further, Service Properties Trust (SVC) has a beta value of 1.83, and an average true range (ATR) of 0.19. Analysts have given the company’s stock an average 52-week price target of $5.25, forecast between a low of $2.5 and high of $8. Looking at the price targets, the low is 16.39% off current price level while to achieve the yearly target high, price needs to move -167.56%. Nonetheless, investors will most likely welcome a -75.59% jump to $5.25 which is the analysts’ median price.
If we refocus on Service Properties Trust (NASDAQ:SVC), historical trading data shows that trading volumes averaged 2.43 over the past 10 days and 2.84 million over the past 3 months. The company’s latest data on shares outstanding shows there are 166.64 million shares.
The 7.67% of Service Properties Trust’s shares are in the hands of company insiders while institutional holders own 72.69% of the company’s shares. Also important is the data on short interest which shows that short shares stood at 7.1 million on 2025-02-28, giving us a short ratio of 3.77. The data shows that as of 2025-02-28 short interest in Service Properties Trust (SVC) stood at 670.0 of shares outstanding, with shares short rising to 5.65 million registered in 2025-01-31. Current price change has pushed the stock 17.72% YTD, which shows the potential for further growth is there. It is this reason that could see investor optimism for the SVC stock continues to rise going into the next quarter.
