Insider buying last 90 days
No open-market insider purchases were filed for HIW in the last 90 days.
From Form 4 filings, dated to when each was filed.
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Highwoods Properties (HIW) Stock Analysis & Forecast
Oct 12 close
$29.50+0.46 (+1.6%)
Gekko Brief
AI summaryOct 12 closeHighwoods Properties draws mixed analyst attention this week. Huntington initiated coverage with a "market perform" rating and a $31 price target, implying 5.9% upside, aligning with a broader consensus "Hold" rating and an average price target of $31.78 from eight analysts. Separately, an AI-driven analysis highlighted weak near and mid-term sentiment for HIW alongside a positive long-term outlook, describing an exceptional short setup with a notable risk-reward ratio. Congress Asset Management Co. also increased its stake in HIW by 21.4% in the third quarter, a filing-based update.
HIW closed at $29.50, up 1.6%, sitting between its 50-day average of $30.69 and 200-day average of $27.26. The GekkoIndex reads 64.7, placing the stock in the Accumulation zone. The stock trades 40.2% below its Gekko Fair Value of $49.35, a gap that remains wide relative to recent trading levels.
Earnings are due on 27 October 2026, after the close, 15 days away and within a typical 20-trading-day holding window; the prior quarter saw FFO of $0.84 per share and a -1.5% reaction. Analyst coverage currently stands at seven firms, all rating the stock "Hold," with a consensus target of $32.33 implying 9.6% upside. Seasonality over the past five years shows an average 20-day return of 2.3%, positive in 3 of those years. No insider, Congress, or unusual options activity appears in the current windows.
Written by AI from the Oct 12, 2026 close and checked automatically against the figures on this page.
Highwoods Properties price vs fair value
Close $29.50200-day averageGekko Fair Value $49.35
Highwoods Properties quick facts
- Market cap
- $3.25B
- P/E ratio
- 19.3
- Forward P/E
- 65.8
- EPS, TTM
- $1.51
- Revenue, TTM
- $838.9M
- Profit margin
- 20.1%
- Dividend yield
- 6.81%
- Beta
- 1.08
- Volume
- 969,218 avg 1.25M
- 1-year return
- −4.7%
- Typical daily move
- ±2.6%
- Typical 20-day move
- ±5.8%
- 50-day average
- $30.69
- 200-day average
- $27.26
- Next earnings
- Oct 27 after close
- Shares outstanding
- 110.3M
Highwoods Properties swing-trade checklist
Highwoods Properties scores 3 supportive, 1 mixed and 1 headwind across the 5 checklist items with data.
Six things swing traders check before a 20-day hold, read from the latest data.
3 supportive1 mixed1 headwind
- Trendmixed
Averages disagree
Close $29.50 sits between the 50-day ($30.69) and 200-day ($27.26) averages, or the averages disagree.
See the chart - GekkoIndexsupportive
64.7, Accumulation
Reading 64.7 is in the Accumulation zone.
See the GekkoIndex - Fair valuesupportive
40.2% below
Price is 40.2% below Gekko Fair Value (more than 5% below).
See fair value - Smart moneyno data
No data
No insider, Congress or unusual options activity in the window.
See smart money - Earnings riskheadwind
Reports in 15 days
Reports on Oct 27, 2026, 15 days away — inside a typical 20-trading-day hold.
See earnings - Seasonalitysupportive
+2.3% on average
From this point in the calendar, the next 20 trading days averaged +2.3% over 5 years, rising in 3 of them.
See seasonality
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Highwoods Properties stock chart and price history
Highwoods Properties closed at $29.50 on Oct 12, 2026, −4.7% over the past year, inside a 52-week range of $20.45 to $35.44.
Close50-day average200-day averageVolume
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Performance Breakdown
- 1 month
- −4.6%
- 3 months
- −8.1%
- 6 months
- +31.1%
- 1 year
- −4.7%
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About Highwoods Properties
Highwoods Properties concentrates on owning and running office buildings rather than spreading across different types of real estate. It is structured as a Real Estate Investment Trust, meaning its business centers on holding income producing property. The company handles the full cycle of its buildings, from buying and developing sites to leasing space and managing the properties once tenants are in place.
Its office holdings sit in the central business districts of a set of U.S. cities, including Atlanta, Charlotte, Nashville, Orlando, Pittsburgh, Richmond and Tampa, alongside its home city. This geographic concentration in downtown commercial areas shapes the makeup of its portfolio and the markets it serves.
Highwoods Properties is headquartered in Raleigh and is counted among the companies in the S&P MidCap 400 Index. Its shares are listed on the NYSE under the ticker HIW.
- Sector
- Finance
- Website
- highwoods.com
Highwoods Properties GekkoIndex: the smart money zone
Highwoods Properties’s GekkoIndex — Gekko’s 0 to 100 smart money score — reads 64.7, in the Accumulation zone, up 1.4 points over five sessions.
64.7Accumulation
Up 1.4 points over five sessions.
Reading for Oct 12, 2026
What followed past readings in each zone
| Zone | Readings | 5 days | 20 days | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Buying | 28 | +1.3% | +1.2% | ||
| Accumulation (current zone) | 248 | −0.5% | −0.8% | ||
| Neutral | 321 | +0.7% | +2.0% | ||
| Distribution | 38 | −0.9% | +1.8% | ||
| Selling | 0 | Not available | |||
Average HIW share-price change over the trading days after each daily reading in its GekkoIndex history. Across every stock Gekko tracks, Accumulation readings averaged +2.2% over 20 days. Past behaviour doesn’t guarantee future results.
Accumulation zone: Institutional interest building. About the five zones →
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Is Highwoods Properties stock overvalued? Gekko Fair Value
Highwoods Properties trades 40.2% below Gekko Fair Value of $49.35, so the shares are undervalued on Gekko’s estimate.
Gekko’s own estimate of what Highwoods Properties shares are worth, recalculated every trading day.
$49.35
Gekko Fair Value, Oct 10, 2026
40.2% Undervalued
At the end of Aug 2026 the price was 3.0% below the estimate.
Gekko Fair ValueShare price, month end
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Highwoods Properties insider and Congress trading
No open-market insider purchases were filed for Highwoods Properties, and no Congress trades were disclosed, in the last 90 days.
Plus buybacks, unusual options and fund positions, each dated to when it became public.
Congress trades last 90 days
No trades in HIW were disclosed by members of Congress in the last 90 days.
From congressional disclosures, which report amounts as ranges.
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Buybacks
Highwoods Properties has been buying back its own shares.
- Bought back, quarter ended Mar 31, 2026
- $84K
- As a share of market cap
- 0.00%
From company filings.
Hedge funds and billionaires quarter ended Jun 30
0of the funds Gekko tracks hold HIW.
0added0opened0trimmed1sold out
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Highwoods Properties earnings: next date and track record
Highwoods Properties reports on Oct 27, 2026, after the close (15 days away), and beat the EPS estimate in 4 of its last 8 reports.
Next earnings report
Oct 27, 2026
Expected after the close, 15 days away
- EPS estimate
- $0.22
- Revenue estimate
- $215.5M
4 of 8reports beat the EPS estimate
±2.9%average move across the report
3 of 8reports followed by a gain
Share-price move across each report
Last earnings call, Apr 28, 2026 AI summary
- What they said
- Highwoods Properties reported Q1 2026 FFO of $0.84 per share with strong leasing activity of 958,000 sq ft of second-generation leases. GAAP rent growth reached 19.4% with cash rent growth of 4.8%, and net effective rents were second-highest in company history. The company invested $108M in Dallas and Raleigh joint ventures while selling $42M of non-core Richmond assets. Development properties showed strong lease-up progress, with 23 Springs at 83% and Midtown East at 95% leased.
- Guidance
- Management maintained full-year outlook unchanged. Development lease-up momentum across remaining properties is expected to deliver meaningful NOI, cash flow, and FFO upside over the next several years as occupancy ramps.
| Reported | EPS | Revenue | Move |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 28, 2026 | $0.13 est $0.10 | $214.0M est $209.1M | −1.5% |
| Feb 10, 2026 | $0.08 est $0.12 | $203.4M est $208.3M | −9.5% |
| Oct 28, 2025 | $0.14 est $0.14 | $201.8M est $208.2M | −3.9% |
| Jul 29, 2025 | $0.17 est $0.16 | $201.9M est $206.1M | −2.4% |
| Apr 29, 2025 | $0.91 est $0.32 | $200.4M est $201.9M | +0.1% |
| Feb 11, 2025 | −$0.09 est $0.08 | $206.9M est $204.0M | −1.4% |
| Oct 22, 2024 | $0.13 est $0.16 | $204.3M est $203.6M | +0.5% |
| Jul 23, 2024 | $0.26 est $0.18 | $205.0M est $204.2M | +3.7% |
“Move” is the close of the first session after the report compared with the close of the last session before it, so it reads the same whether the company reported before the open or after the close.
Highwoods Properties stock forecast and analyst price targets
Analysts’ average 12-month price target for Highwoods Properties is $32.33, +9.6% from the last close, from 7 firms rating the stock in the last 90 days.
$32.33consensus 12-month target, +9.6% from the last close
Now $29.50Avg $32.33
Low $30High $35
Each firm’s latest rating in the last 90 days: 7 firms.
Latest analyst actions
| Date | Firm | Target | vs price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 8 | Mizuho Securities | $32 | +8.5% |
| Sep 2 | Truist Financial | $30 | +1.7% |
| Sep 1 | Wells Fargo | $32 | +8.5% |
| Aug 10 | Wells Fargo | $26 | −11.9% |
| Aug 5 | Deutsche Bank | $33 | +11.9% |
−0.8%average 20-day move after past Accumulation readings
+2.3%average move over the next 20 trading days in the last 5 years
±2.6%typical daily move, from the 14-day average range
Gekko doesn’t publish price predictions. These are analyst targets and historical base rates, which don’t guarantee future results.
Highwoods Properties seasonality: the next 20 trading days
Over the next 20 trading days from Oct 10, Highwoods Properties averaged +2.3% across the last 5 years, rising in 3 of them.
Next 20 trading days, by year
Average move and hit rate
| Window | Average | Years higher |
|---|---|---|
| Next 5 trading days | +3.7% | 4 of 5 |
| Next 10 trading days | +1.2% | 3 of 5 |
| Next 15 trading days | +0.6% | 2 of 5 |
| Next 20 trading days | +2.3% | 3 of 5 |
| Next 30 trading days | −1.6% | 1 of 5 |
For scale, HIW’s typical 20-trading-day move in either direction is about 5.8%.
Highwoods Properties market cap and key statistics
Highwoods Properties’s market cap is $3.25B, with a P/E ratio of 19.3 and revenue of $838.9M over the last twelve months.
Valuation
- Market cap
- $3.25B
- P/E ratio
- 19.3
- Forward P/E
- 65.8
- EPS, TTM
- $1.51
- Gekko Fair Value
- $49.35
Trading
- Volume
- 969,218
- Avg volume, 20 days
- 1.25M
- 52-week high
- $35.44
- 52-week low
- $20.45
- Shares outstanding
- 110.3M
Financials
- Revenue, TTM
- $838.9M
- Profit margin
- 20.1%
- Return on equity
- 6.8%
- Quarterly earnings growth, YoY
- +400.2%
Risk and income
- Beta
- 1.08
- Typical daily move
- ±2.6%
- Typical 20-day move
- ±5.8%
- Dividend yield
- 6.81%
Highwoods Properties stock news this week
Coverage of Highwoods Properties this week reads neutral: 0 positive, 3 neutral and 1 negative headlines.
- How (HIW) Movements Inform Risk Allocation ModelsStock Traders Daily, Oct 9
- Huntington Begins Coverage on Highwoods Properties (NYSE:HIW)MarketBeat, Oct 8
- Highwoods Properties Inc (HQS.MU) stock price, news, quote and historyYahoo Finance Australia, Oct 7
- Highwoods Properties, Inc. $HIW Stock Bought by Congress Asset Management Co.MarketBeat, Oct 7
Highwoods Properties stock FAQ
What is Highwoods Properties’s market cap?
Highwoods Properties’s market cap is $3.25B at the Oct 12, 2026 close of $29.50, with 110.3M shares outstanding. The shares trade on a P/E ratio of 19.3.
What is the Highwoods Properties stock forecast?
The consensus analyst 12-month price target for Highwoods Properties is $32.33, +9.6% from the last close. Of the 7 firms that rated the stock in the last 90 days, 0 rate it a buy, 7 a hold and 0 a sell. Gekko doesn’t publish price predictions of its own.
Is Highwoods Properties stock overvalued or undervalued?
On Gekko’s estimate Highwoods Properties is undervalued: the Oct 12, 2026 close of $29.50 is 40.2% below Gekko Fair Value of $49.35. Gekko Fair Value is recalculated every trading day, and a gap inside 5% either way counts as about fair value.
When does Highwoods Properties report earnings next?
Highwoods Properties is expected to report on Oct 27, 2026, after the market closes (15 days away). Analysts expect earnings of $0.22 per share on revenue of $215.5M. Highwoods Properties beat the earnings estimate in 4 of its last 8 reports, moving 2.9% on average across the report.
What is Highwoods Properties’s 52-week high and low?
Highwoods Properties’s 52-week high is $35.44 and its 52-week low is $20.45; it closed at $29.50 on Oct 12, 2026, −4.7% over the past year. Over the last five years the shares peaked at $47.66 on Nov 5, 2021.
Is Highwoods Properties stock a buy right now?
Gekko describes the data; it does not make buy or sell recommendations. On the swing-trade checklist, 3 of the 5 items with data read as supportive (gekkoindex, fair value and seasonality), 1 as mixed (trend) and 1 as a headwind (earnings risk). The checklist is a description of current data, not a recommendation.
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