How Host Hotels & Resorts, Inc. stacks up

HST · against 182 other Real Estate companies listed in US-listed

Profitability

88/ 100

Near the top of its peers.

Ranked #24 of 183 · scores higher than 85% of peers

Bars: peers in each 10-point band of the profitability score

29 peers with a profitability score of 80–89, including HST · Click a bar to see the companies

Why profitability scores 88?

Weighted metrics compared with all Real Estate companies.

Mainly thanks to its return on assets and return on invested capital, which are stronger than most Real Estate peers.

a thinner operating margin: weaker than 65% of peers. Operating margin: 14.6% vs peer median 26.8%
a higher return on invested capital: stronger than 83% of peers. Return on invested capital: 7.5% vs peer median 3.4%
a higher return on assets: stronger than 96% of peers. Return on assets: 7.7% vs peer median 2.1%

Metric by metric

Position: dot = HST, ranked from the worst peer (left) to the best (right); tick = middle, shaded = middle half of peers.

Metric	HST	Peer median	Better than	Weight
Return on invested capitalHigher is better · 179 reported	7.5%	3.6%	77%	33%
Operating marginHigher is better · 160 reported	14.6%	23.6%	35%	33%
Return on assetsHigher is better · 185 reported	7.7%	1.9%	95%	33%
Return on equityHigher is better · 177 reported	15.6%	5.5%	88%	Context only
Gross marginHigher is better · 186 reported	29.2%	66.3%	14%	Context only

Ranking by profitability score

Top 5 and the companies ranked around HST

Rank	Company	Market cap	Profitability	Overall
1	Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance, Inc.ARI · US-listed	310M USD	100	72
2	Annaly Capital Management, Inc.NLY · US-listed	13.7B USD	99	70
3	Apartment Investment and Management CompanyAIV · US-listed	255M USD	98	71
3	SBA Communications CorporationSBAC · US-listed	19.6B USD	98	48
5	Highwoods Properties, Inc.HIW · US-listed	3.5B USD	97	59
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21	CareTrust REIT, Inc.CTRE · US-listed	8.7B USD	89	77
21	VICI Properties Inc.VICI · US-listed	26.9B USD	89	78
24	Five Point Holdings, LLCFPH · US-listed	667M USD	88	59
24	FirstService CorporationFSV · US-listed	6.2B USD	88	63
24	Host Hotels & Resorts, Inc.HST · US-listed	17.9B USD	88	67
24	Smith Douglas Homes Corp.SDHC · US-listed	86M USD	88	78
24	Corporación Inmobiliaria Vesta, S.A.B. de C.V.VTMX · US-listed	3.3B USD	88	78
29	Equity LifeStyle Properties, Inc.ELS · US-listed	12.1B USD	87	43
29	OUTFRONT Media Inc.OUT · US-listed	5.7B USD	87	56

Scores are sector-relative percentiles from the latest snapshot, always calculated against the whole sector: narrowing the comparison group changes who you compare with, not the scores. Missing metrics are left out and the remaining weights rescaled. How we score

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