HIW Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (Highwoods Properties | NYSE:HIW)

Highwoods Properties Inc is a fully integrated office REIT that owns, develops, acquires, leases, and manages office properties mainly in the best business districts of Atlanta, Charlotte, Dallas, Nashville, Orlando, Raleigh, Richmond, and Tampa. Its principal business is the operation, acquisition, and development of rental office properties, with no material inter-segment transactions. The Company evaluates performance by geographic location, and the operating results by geographic grouping are regularly reviewed by the chief operating decision maker. The core portfolio consists mainly of office properties in its key markets, with the majority of revenue derived from its Raleigh properties.

Highwoods Properties trades on the NYSE stock market under the symbol HIW.

As of August 7, 2026, HIW stock price declined to $31.45 with 864,000 million shares trading.

HIW has a beta of 0.67, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. HIW has a correlation of 0.08 to the broad based SPY ETF.

HIW has a market cap of $3.47 billion. This is considered a Mid Cap stock.

Last quarter Highwoods Properties reported $216 million in Revenue and $.90 earnings per share. This beat revenue expectation by $4 million and exceeded earnings estimates by $.03.

In the last 3 years, HIW traded as high as $36.78 and as low as $17.06.

The top ETF exchange traded funds that HIW belongs to (by Net Assets): IJR, VNQ, VTI, IWM, VB.

HIW has underperformed the market in the last year with a price return of +16.4% while the SPY ETF gained +23.5%. However, in the short term, HIW had mixed performance relative to the market. It has outperformed in the last 3 months, returning +25.0% vs +6.0% return in SPY. But in the last 2 weeks, HIW shares have been beat by the market, returning -6.5% compared to an SPY return of +4.6%.

HIW support price is $30.87 and resistance is $32.10 (based on 1 day standard deviation move). This means that using the most recent 20 day stock volatility and applying a one standard deviation move around the stock's closing price, stastically there is a 67% probability that HIW shares will trade within this expected range on the day.