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

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

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

A number of equities research analysts recently weighed in on the company. Wedbush restated an "outperform" rating and set a $16.00 price objective on shares of Healthcare Realty Trust in a research report on Thursday. JPMorgan Chase & Co. lowered Healthcare Realty Trust from an "overweight" rating to a "neutral" rating and set a $19.00 price objective on the stock. in a research report on Friday, December 20th. Finally, Jefferies Financial Group lowered Healthcare Realty Trust from a "buy" rating to a "hold" rating and reduced their price objective for the stock from $19.00 to $17.00 in a research report on Thursday, January 2nd. One equities research analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, three have issued a hold rating and one has issued a buy rating to the company. According to MarketBeat, Healthcare Realty Trust presently has a consensus rating of "Hold" and a consensus target price of $17.40.

Healthcare Realty Trust Stock Down 0.5 %

Shares of NYSE HR traded down $0.09 during trading on Friday, reaching $16.50. The company had a trading volume of 1,975,228 shares, compared to its average volume of 2,413,051. The company's fifty day moving average price is $16.65 and its 200-day moving average price is $17.40. Healthcare Realty Trust has a 12 month low of $12.77 and a 12 month high of $18.90. The stock has a market cap of $5.85 billion, a P/E ratio of -9.27 and a beta of 0.94.

Healthcare Realty Trust (NYSE:HR - Get Free Report) last released its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, February 19th. The real estate investment trust reported $0.40 EPS for the quarter, beating analysts' consensus estimates of $0.39 by $0.01. Healthcare Realty Trust had a negative return on equity of 11.20% and a negative net margin of 51.60%. The firm had revenue of $309.77 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $303.81 million. During the same quarter in the previous year, the company posted $0.39 EPS. The business's revenue was down 6.3% on a year-over-year basis. As a group, equities analysts predict that Healthcare Realty Trust will post 1.59 earnings per share for the current year.

Healthcare Realty Trust Announces Dividend

The business also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Wednesday, March 19th. Shareholders of record on Monday, March 3rd will be given a $0.31 dividend. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Monday, March 3rd. This represents a $1.24 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 7.52%. Healthcare Realty Trust's dividend payout ratio (DPR) is presently -69.66%.

Insider Buying and Selling at Healthcare Realty Trust

In related news, COO Robert E. Hull sold 10,000 shares of the company's stock in a transaction dated Tuesday, December 17th. The stock was sold at an average price of $17.48, for a total transaction of $174,800.00. Following the sale, the chief operating officer now owns 171,400 shares in the company, valued at $2,996,072. This represents a 5.51 % decrease in their position. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available at the SEC website. Corporate 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.