HST Dividend Calculator
Host Hotels & Resorts, Inc. yields 1.78%, below the 2.92% median across US dividend payers. The income from HST is a smaller part of the story than it would be on a high-yield holding, and the figures below deliberately capture only that part.
HST paid $0.40 per share over the last twelve months on a semi-annual schedule. Enter any amount below, or use the worked figures.
Your investment
HST
Host Hotels & Resorts, Inc.
1.78%
yield
Dividend income
$10,000 in HST pays you
$178.41
per year
- Paid twice a year
- $89.21
- Monthly average
- $14.87
- Shares bought
- 446.03
- Payments a year
- 2
Total over 10 years, taken as cash
$1,784.12
Based on the trailing twelve-month dividend, assuming it stays flat. Payments are not guaranteed and can be cut or suspended at any time. Figures are before tax and exclude any change in the share price.
HST dividend income by investment amount
Based on the current yield of 1.78%. Figures are before tax and assume the dividend stays at its present level.
| Invested | Per year | Per payment | Monthly average |
|---|---|---|---|
| $1,000 | $17.84 | $8.92 | $1.49 |
| $5,000 | $89.21 | $44.60 | $7.43 |
| $10,000 | $178.41 | $89.21 | $14.87 |
| $25,000 | $446.03 | $223.02 | $37.17 |
| $50,000 | $892.06 | $446.03 | $74.34 |
| $100,000 | $1,784.12 | $892.06 | $148.68 |
HST with dividends reinvested
$10,000 in HST, every dividend reinvested, holding the payment and share price flat. Deliberately conservative — most calculators assume years of uninterrupted growth, and that assumption drives most of the result.
- After 10 years
- $11,944
- After 20 years
- $14,265
- After 30 years
- $17,038
$11,784 taking the income as cash
$13,568 taking the income as cash
$15,352 taking the income as cash
What makes up HST's 1.78% yield
HST paid $0.40 per share over the last twelve months against a share price of $22.42, which is where the 1.78% comes from. Special and one-off distributions are excluded from that figure — they do not recur, and including them would overstate every projection below.
A below-median yield is not the same as a weak dividend. It commonly means earnings are being retained and reinvested, or that the share price has risen faster than the payment — in the second case the holder's income did not fall, the yield did. Income is one component of the return on HST and the smaller one; the figures below are not a total-return estimate.
REITs are required to distribute the large majority of their taxable income to keep their tax status, which is why the yield is high by construction rather than by choice. It also means the payout ratio reads badly against accounting earnings: depreciation charges on property push reported earnings well below the cash actually collected, so the dividend is judged against funds from operations instead.
When HST pays, and what that changes
HST pays semi-annual, which is unusual among US-listed payers and has two consequences the annual figure hides. The "monthly average" column is an average and nothing more — no cash arrives in most months — and the gap between payments means a holder buying between them waits longer for the first one.
Infrequent payments also compound marginally more slowly when reinvested, since each distribution spends longer as cash before it is put back to work. The reinvestment figures above use HST's real schedule rather than assuming quarterly payments.
Each payment has an ex-dividend date, and it is the date that governs entitlement: shares bought on or after it do not carry that payment. HST's full schedule and payment history are on its dividend page.
Is HST's dividend covered by earnings?
HST's payout ratio of 0.64 means about 64% of earnings are committed to the dividend. That is within earnings but a narrower margin than the sub-0.60 range generally considered comfortable, so a weaker year absorbs more of the cover.
Earnings in a regulated business are unusually steady, which makes this ratio more informative than the same figure struck on cyclical profits — there is less risk that it simply reflects a good year. The corresponding limit is that regulated returns are capped, so the retained portion funds slower growth than an unconstrained business could deliver.
The figures hold the dividend flat. No multi-year record of consecutive increases is on file for HST, so treat the projection as arithmetic on today's payment rather than as an expectation about future ones.
HST dividend calculator FAQ
- How much does $10,000 in HST pay in dividends?
- At HST's current yield of 1.78%, $10,000 pays about $178.41 a year — roughly $89.21 per payment, paid semi-annual, or $14.87 a month averaged out.
- What would HST be worth after 10 years with dividends reinvested?
- Reinvesting every dividend and assuming the payment and share price both stay flat, $10,000 in HST would grow to about $11,944 after 10 years, against $11,784 if the income were taken as cash. That deliberately assumes no dividend growth — a real holding may do better or considerably worse.
- How often does HST pay dividends?
- HST pays semi-annual — 2 payments a year — based on its actual payment history rather than an assumed schedule.
- Is HST's dividend guaranteed?
- No. Dividends are discretionary and can be reduced or suspended at any time, and every figure here is a projection from the current yield rather than a forecast. Check HST's full payment history before relying on any of it.
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Host Hotels & Resorts, Inc. is a common stock trading at $22.42 per share, paying semi-annual. — All figures before tax. Not financial advice.