Healthcare Realty Trust (NYSE:HR) Releases FY25 Earnings Guidance

Healthcare Realty Trust (NYSE:HR) updated its FY25 earnings guidance on Wednesday. The company provided EPS guidance of $1.56 to $1.60 for the period, compared to the consensus EPS estimate of $1.59. Healthcare Realty Trust also updated its FY 2025 guidance to 1.560-1.600 EPS.

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

HR has been the topic of a number of recent research reports. Jefferies Financial Group cut Healthcare Realty Trust from a “buy” rating to a “hold” rating and reduced their price objective for the company from $19.00 to $17.00 in a research note on Thursday, January 2nd. JPMorgan Chase & Co. lowered shares of Healthcare Realty Trust from an “overweight” rating to a “neutral” rating and set a $19.00 price objective for the company. in a report on Friday, December 20th. Finally, Wedbush restated an “outperform” rating and issued a $16.00 price objective on shares of Healthcare Realty Trust in a report on Thursday. One equities research analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, three have given a hold rating and one has issued a buy rating to the company’s stock. According to MarketBeat.com, the stock has a consensus rating of “Hold” and a consensus target price of $17.40.

Healthcare Realty Trust Trading Down 0.1 %

NYSE:HR traded down $0.02 during trading hours on Friday, reaching $16.57. The company had a trading volume of 341,087 shares, compared to its average volume of 2,364,290. Healthcare Realty Trust has a 52 week low of $12.77 and a 52 week high of $18.90. The firm has a market cap of $5.87 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of -9.31 and a beta of 0.94. The firm’s 50 day moving average price is $16.67 and its 200-day moving average price is $17.41.

Healthcare Realty Trust (NYSE:HR) last posted its earnings results on Wednesday, February 19th. The real estate investment trust reported $0.40 EPS for the quarter, topping analysts’ consensus estimates of $0.39 by $0.01. Healthcare Realty Trust had a negative net margin of 51.60% and a negative return on equity of 11.20%. The business had revenue of $309.77 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $303.81 million. During the same quarter in the previous year, the firm posted $0.39 EPS. The firm’s revenue was down 6.3% on a year-over-year basis. On average, analysts forecast that Healthcare Realty Trust will post 1.59 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

Healthcare Realty Trust Announces Dividend

The firm also recently disclosed a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Wednesday, March 19th. Stockholders of record on Monday, March 3rd will be given a dividend of $0.31 per share. This represents a $1.24 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 7.49%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Monday, March 3rd. Healthcare Realty Trust’s payout ratio is -69.66%.

Insider Activity

In other Healthcare Realty Trust news, COO Robert E. Hull sold 10,000 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction on Tuesday, December 17th. The shares were sold at an average price of $17.48, for a total value of $174,800.00. Following the sale, the chief operating officer now owns 171,400 shares in the company, valued at $2,996,072. The trade was a 5.51 % decrease in their position. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available through the SEC website. Insiders own 0.56% of the company’s stock.

Healthcare Realty Trust Company Profile

Healthcare Realty Trust, Inc provides real estate investment services. It owns, leases, manages, acquires, finances, develops, and redevelops income-producing real estate properties associated primarily with the delivery of outpatient healthcare services throughout the United States of America. The company was founded by David R.