HHHHoward Hughes Holdings Inc.
Industry Holding co. Updated 25 Sep 2026 Price 23 Oct 2026
If management hits its targets, one share in 12 months
$70.19 → $76.15
Promises vs. what happened
16 claims · 7 decksEvery target management put in a slide deck, and whether they hit it, missed it, or quietly dropped it.
| Promise | Made in | What happened | |
|---|---|---|---|
| MPC land profit up 5-10% in 2025 | Q1 '25 | $476M, above every raised range | Held |
| Operating NOI flat to +4% in 2025 | Q1 '25 | $276M, above the top | Held |
| Adjusted operating cash flow ~$350M | Q1 '25 | $446M | Held |
| The Park delivers in 2026, 97% pre-sold | Q3 '24 | delivered in Q2 '26, on the date | Held |
| Vantage closes in Q2 '26 | Q4 '25 | closed 4 June, on the date | Held |
| Pershing turns HHH into a holding company | Q1 '25 | it did — and made itself the manager | Held |
| Victoria Place: ~$760M at a 28% margin | Q3 '24 | partly: $778.6M of condo sales at 27.1% | Late |
| Condo margins of 25-30% | Q1 '25 | partly; The Park booked about 18.5% | Late |
| Adjusted operating cash flow ~$440M in 2026 | Q4 '25 | dropped — the measure left the deck | Dropped |
| Stabilised NOI of about $354M | Q3 '24 | dropped — the slide was removed | Dropped |
| MPC land profit down 17-27% in 2026 | Q4 '25 | open; the guide was withdrawn in May | Open |
| Operating NOI up 1-5% in 2026 | Q4 '25 | open; withdrawn with the rest | Open |
| $2.5-3.0B of excess cash by 2030 | Q1 '26 | open | Open |
| Vantage ROE to high teens or better | Q1 '26 | open; no loss triangle exists yet | Open |
| Sell up to 80% of the operating assets | Q2 '26 | open; set in Sep '26, due within a year | Open |
| Kalae delivers in 2027 | Q3 '24 | missed; slipped to 2028 in the Q4 '25 deck | Missed |
What they’re pitching
the headline page, deck by deckThe headline from each quarterly results deck over two years, so you can see what they want you to focus on, and when it changes.
'24Q1
'25Q2
'25Q3
'25Q4
'25Q1
'26Q2
'26
Holding coOff page one Q1 '26
VantagePage one since Q4 '25
MPC landOff page one Q2 '26
Operating NOIOff page one Q2 '26
Self-fundingFirst seen Q3 '24
Ward VillageFirst seen Q3 '24
Sum of partsFirst seen Q3 '24
LiquidityOff page one Q2 '26
Asset-lightFirst seen Q2 '26
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Pershing Square transformation to a holding company
“Investment of $900 Million to Transform HHH into a Diversified Holding Company”
Deck The HHH Opportunity 1Q 2025 · p. 3 ·
Pershing Square transformation to a holding company
“Investment of $900 Million to Transform HHH into a Diversified Holding Company”
Deck The HHH Opportunity 2Q 2025 · p. 3 ·
Pershing Square transformation to a holding company
“Investment of $900 Million to Transform HHH into a Diversified Holding Company”
Deck The HHH Opportunity 3Q 2025 · p. 3 ·
Pershing Square transformation to a holding company
“Diversified Holding Company Focused on Acquiring Controlling Stakes in High-Quality, Durable Growth Companies”
Deck The HHH Opportunity 4Q 2025 · p. 3 ·
Pershing Square transformation to a holding company
“Following the close of the Vantage acquisition, HHH’s valuation will reflect the combined equity value of its two principal subsidiaries: HHC & Vantage”
Deck First Quarter 2026 Perspectives on Valuation Framework · p. 25 ·
Pershing Square transformation to a holding company
“The acquisition of Vantage anchors HHH’s transformation into a diversified holding company”
Deck 2026 HHH Shareholder Meeting · p. 7 ·
Vantage acquisition
“In December 2025, HHH announced a definitive agreement to acquire Vantage Group”
Deck The HHH Opportunity 4Q 2025 · p. 3 ·
Vantage acquisition
“ Continue to make steady progress on the Vantage acquisition and are on track to close the transaction in Q2 2026, subject to regulatory approvals”
Deck First Quarter 2026 Perspectives on Valuation Framework · p. 4 ·
Vantage acquisition
“Since last year, we have made meaningful progress on our insurance strategy through the acquisition of Vantage, a specialty insurance and reinsurance company”
Deck 2026 HHH Shareholder Meeting · p. 6 ·
Record MPC EBT and land price appreciation
“’15-’23 19 2024 MPC EBT Guidance Expected to Outperform New Trend and Continue into 2025”
Deck 2024 Investor Day · p. 19 ·
Record MPC EBT and land price appreciation
“Coming off all-time highs in 2024, we anticipate a new record for MPC EBT in 2025”
Deck The HHH Opportunity 1Q 2025 · p. 24 ·
Record MPC EBT and land price appreciation
“Coming off all-time highs in 2024, we anticipate a new record for MPC EBT in 2025”
Deck The HHH Opportunity 2Q 2025 · p. 23 ·
Record MPC EBT and land price appreciation
“Coming off all-time highs in 2024, we anticipate a new record for MPC EBT in 2025”
Deck The HHH Opportunity 3Q 2025 · p. 26 ·
Record MPC EBT and land price appreciation
“After a record year in 2025 driven by outsized land sales, MPC EBT is expected to normalize in 2026”
Deck The HHH Opportunity 4Q 2025 · p. 31 ·
Record MPC EBT and land price appreciation
“ Continued momentum across its core real estate platform highlighted by 33% growth in MPC EBT and 11% increase in net new home sales within Howard Hughes Communities”
Deck First Quarter 2026 Perspectives on Valuation Framework · p. 4 ·
Operating asset NOI runway
“Meaningful NOI Runway Remains Within HHH’s Portfolio”
Deck 2024 Investor Day · p. 42 ·
Operating asset NOI runway
“Meaningful NOI Runway Remains Within HHH’s Portfolio”
Deck The HHH Opportunity 1Q 2025 · p. 30 ·
Operating asset NOI runway
“Meaningful NOI Runway Remains Within HHC’s Portfolio”
Deck The HHH Opportunity 2Q 2025 · p. 29 ·
Operating asset NOI runway
“Meaningful NOI Runway Remains Within HHC’s Portfolio”
Deck The HHH Opportunity 3Q 2025 · p. 32 ·
Operating asset NOI runway
“Meaningful NOI Runway Remains Within HHC’s Portfolio”
Deck The HHH Opportunity 4Q 2025 · p. 37 ·
Operating asset NOI runway
“ Steady performance within Operating Assets segment led by multifamily with 5% same store NOI growth”
Deck First Quarter 2026 Perspectives on Valuation Framework · p. 4 ·
Self-funding cash flow (Adjusted Operating Cash Flow)
“Howard Hughes is now positioned to be a pure-play real estate company with a unique self-funding business model”
Deck 2024 Investor Day · p. 11 ·
Self-funding cash flow (Adjusted Operating Cash Flow)
“Adjusted Operating Cash Flows Reflect Strong Results 14”
Deck The HHH Opportunity 1Q 2025 · p. 14 ·
Self-funding cash flow (Adjusted Operating Cash Flow)
“Adjusted Operating Cash Flows Reflect Strong Results 13”
Deck The HHH Opportunity 2Q 2025 · p. 13 ·
Self-funding cash flow (Adjusted Operating Cash Flow)
“Anticipated Stabilized Cash Flows Significantly Higher than”
Deck The HHH Opportunity 3Q 2025 · p. 16 ·
Self-funding cash flow (Adjusted Operating Cash Flow)
“Anticipated Stabilized Cash Flows Significantly Higher than”
Deck The HHH Opportunity 4Q 2025 · p. 21 ·
Ward Village condo pipeline
“Towers Represent $3.1B of Future Contracted Revenue”
Deck 2024 Investor Day · p. 77 ·
Ward Village condo pipeline
“Towers Represent $2.4B of Future Contracted Revenue”
Deck The HHH Opportunity 1Q 2025 · p. 42 ·
Ward Village condo pipeline
“Towers Represent $2.4B of Future Contracted Revenue”
Deck The HHH Opportunity 2Q 2025 · p. 40 ·
Ward Village condo pipeline
“Towers Represent $3.8B of Future Contracted Revenue”
Deck The HHH Opportunity 3Q 2025 · p. 43 ·
Ward Village condo pipeline
“Towers Represent $3.5B of Future Contracted Revenue”
Deck The HHH Opportunity 4Q 2025 · p. 48 ·
Ward Village condo pipeline
“We estimate the discounted value of HHC’s condo pipeline, with 83% of units already under contract, to be approximately $0.8 billion”
Deck First Quarter 2026 Perspectives on Valuation Framework · p. 21 ·
Ward Village condo pipeline
“Condo portfolio will liquidate in less than 5 years and is already asset-light as construction financing and buyer deposits comprise majority of project funding”
Deck 2026 HHH Shareholder Meeting · p. 15 ·
Sum-of-the-parts valuation
“ HHH’s conservative sum of the parts analysis points to an NAV/share of $118/share”
Deck 2024 Investor Day · p. 125 ·
Sum-of-the-parts valuation
“Pro forma for the Vantage acquisition at our purchase price, we estimate HHH to be conservatively valued at approximately $6.2 billion, or $104 per share”
Deck First Quarter 2026 Perspectives on Valuation Framework · p. 27 ·
Sum-of-the-parts valuation
“HHH is Trading at a Significant Discount to Intrinsic Value”
Deck 2026 HHH Shareholder Meeting · p. 13 ·
Liquidity and debt maturities
“New Financings Fortify the Balance Sheet”
Deck 2024 Investor Day · p. 10 ·
Liquidity and debt maturities
“HHH has Strong Liquidity and Manageable Near-Term”
Deck The HHH Opportunity 1Q 2025 · p. 15 ·
Liquidity and debt maturities
“HHC has Strong Liquidity and Manageable Near-Term”
Deck The HHH Opportunity 2Q 2025 · p. 14 ·
Liquidity and debt maturities
“HHC has Strong Liquidity and Manageable Near-Term”
Deck The HHH Opportunity 3Q 2025 · p. 17 ·
Liquidity and debt maturities
“HHC has Strong Liquidity and Manageable Near-Term”
Deck The HHH Opportunity 4Q 2025 · p. 22 ·
Liquidity and debt maturities
“ During the quarter, HHC issued $1.0 billion of senior notes ($500 million due 2032 and $500 million due 2034) and used the proceeds to redeem its $750 million senior notes due 2028, including accrued and unpaid interest”
Deck First Quarter 2026 Perspectives on Valuation Framework · p. 4 ·
Asset-light real estate: monetize HHC and redeploy into Vantage
“We plan to meaningfully accelerate the status quo timeline for cash generation by monetizing assets at scale, converting HHC into an asset-light platform and redeploying the resulting proceeds into Vantage”
Deck 2026 HHH Shareholder Meeting · p. 14 ·
What they keep talking about · 10
The themes that show up deck after deck, and the ones that disappear.
- Holding co
- The $900m Pershing Square slide opens all five 2025-26 results decks, word for word. It is the only theme in every one of them that is about the share register rather than the business.
- Vantage
- Leads from Q4 '25, dated to close in Q2 '26 and closed on 4 June. Forty per cent of the assets, and no loss-development table anywhere in the filings.
- MPC land
- Guided at a $375m midpoint in May '25, raised to $430m and then $450m, and landed at $476m — above every range, helped by one 231-acre Summerlin superpad. The only 2026 number management kept.
- Operating NOI
- $276m in 2025 against a $262m first midpoint and a $272m raised top. The in-place-versus-stabilised slide, and the $353m stabilisation target with it, left the deck in Q1 '26.
- Self-funding
- Adjusted Operating Cash Flow $446m in 2025 against $350m first guided. Then the measure itself was removed from the deck — having been guided at $440m for 2026 in February.
- Ward Village
- The Park (545 units) delivered in Q2 '26 on the date given; Kalae slipped from 2027 to 2028 in the Q4 '25 deck; The Launiu is not due until 2028. Margins claimed at 25-30%, booked at about 18.5%.
- Sum of parts
- In one deck only — Q1 '26, the "Perspectives on Valuation Framework" that replaced the results presentation: $4.9bn for the real estate, $104 a share today, $211 by 2030.
- Liquidity
- In all five. $2.6bn of cash and no corporate maturity before 2029 after the February 2026 refinancing — against property-level covenants the 10-Q says are not met, which traps cash.
- New
- Q1 '26: land residual value, Adjusted Maintenance Free Cash Flow, Adjusted G&A and a condominium profit table — all introduced in the quarter the guidance slides went.
- Quiet
- Five measures stopped in Q1 '26 alone: the annual guidance slides, Adjusted Operating Cash Flow, in-place versus stabilised NOI, future contracted condominium revenue and MPC gross asset value. KPI persistence 0.375. There is no Q2 '26 deck at all.
Every quarterly report we’ve saved · 11
The press releases and shareholder letters behind this page.
- Q2 2026 release · 8-K 5 Aug 2026
- Q1 2026 release · 8-K 7 May 2026
- Q4 2025 release · 8-K 19 Feb 2026
- Q3 2025 release · 8-K 10 Nov 2025
- Q2 2025 release · 8-K 6 Aug 2025
- Q1 2025 release · 8-K 7 May 2025
- Q4 2024 release · 8-K 26 Feb 2025
- Q3 2024 release · 8-K 4 Nov 2024
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Archived as text; the links open the copies filed on EDGAR or the investor-relations site.
What analysts asked them
8 calls · Q3 24 – Q2 26The last eight earnings calls: what analysts kept asking about, which questions got dodged, and how much the CEO did the talking.
Share of questions by topic, call by call. A topic that suddenly dominates is usually the problem. The last row is how much of the answering the CEO did, rather than the CFO or others.
| Share of questions about… | Q3 24 | Q4 24 | Q1 25 | Q2 25 | Q3 25 | Q4 25 | Q1 26 | Q2 26 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Demand & customers | · | · | 8% | 15% | 10% | 33% | 10% | 7% |
| Growth & sales | 31% | 10% | 8% | 15% | 20% | · | · | · |
| Pricing & margins | 6% | 25% | 8% | 23% | · | 67% | 10% | 7% |
| Guidance & outlook | 6% | 20% | · | 8% | 20% | · | · | 14% |
| Capacity & supply | 6% | · | · | · | 20% | · | 10% | 7% |
| Capital & financing | 6% | 25% | 42% | 46% | 10% | 33% | 30% | 29% |
| Competition | · | · | · | · | · | 17% | · | 7% |
| Products & technology | · | · | · | 15% | 10% | 33% | · | · |
| Macro & regulation | · | · | · | 23% | · | · | 10% | · |
| Other | 62% | 55% | 42% | 23% | 40% | 17% | 40% | 50% |
| Questions | 16 | 20 | 12 | 13 | 10 | 6 | 10 | 14 |
| How much the CEO talked | 90% | 92% | 37% | 16% | 49% | 28% | 3% | 7% |
Who’s in charge, who’s selling
read from the filings · 2 Oct 2026Shareholder votes against the board and pay, plus which executives have been selling their own shares.
Tier 1 · live
The controlling shareholder is also the paid manager, for ten years, with a make-whole
Under the 2025-05-05 Services Agreement the company pays Pershing Square Capital Management $3,750,000 a quarter — $15m a year, indexed to Core PCE — plus 0.375% a quarter of the stock price above a $66.1453 reference, on a frozen share count of 59,393,938 that "will not increase with the issuance of new shares". That is 1.5% a year of the market value above the reference, assessed on the SHARE PRICE: not on net asset value, not on earnings, not on anything the company does. The initial term is ten years with automatic ten-year renewals; early termination needs two-thirds of the disinterested directors and a default, fraud, bad faith, insolvency or change of control, and non-renewal needs their unanimous approval plus a 70% vote of the shares excluding Pershing's own 46.6%. Termination on a change of control triggers a make-whole "intended to approximate the present value of the total fees... for the remainder of the then-current term".
Tier 2 · live
Management stopped guiding, and what replaced it is its own valuation
The whole FY2026 guidance set — Adjusted Operating Cash Flow $415-465m, MPC EBT $343-391m, Operating Assets NOI $279-290m, condominium revenue $720-750m, cash G&A $82-92m — was published 2026-02-19 and withdrawn on 2026-05-08 by the chief executive rather than the chief financial officer who gave it. Five reported measures left the deck in the same quarter and KPI persistence across the five 2025-26 results decks is 0.375. What took their place is a sum of the parts: $6.2bn of equity value today, $104 a share, and $12.7bn, $211 a share, at the end of 2030 — inside which management's own table has the real estate FALLING about 1% a year while Vantage's book value rises 21% a year, re-rated on a multiple management lifts from 1.5x to 2.0x, with HHH's share of the insurer going from 58% to 100% through a repurchase of Pershing's preferred that has not happened and $0.7bn of "Future Investments" that have not been made.
Tier 2 · stable
Forty per cent of the assets cannot pay a dividend without a regulator's consent until 2028
Vantage was $6.30bn of HHH's $15.91bn of assets at 2026-06-30, bought for about $2.1bn in cash on 2026-06-04 with $1.3bn of HHC cash and $1.0bn of Series A preferred taken by Pershing Square Holdings. As a condition of approving the change of control, the Delaware Department of Insurance requires prior approval for dividends from the Delaware insurers until 2028-06-04. S&P cut the operating unit to BBB from A- after the takeover and then withdrew the rating; A.M. Best affirmed A- with a positive outlook, leaving one financial-strength rating. There is no loss-development triangle for Vantage in any HHH filing, the insurer's own filing calls its loss history "a thin historical data set", and one disclosed quarter carried $19m of adverse prior-year development. The Series A preferred exchanges into units of the insurance subsidiary rather than into HHH common, with a call-price floor at 1.5x Vantage tangible book, so Pershing's preferred takes the upside above that floor on up to 49% of the insurer.
Tier 3 · stable
Nearly half of all interest is capitalised, and the guided cash measure is built after it
46.7% of all interest incurred was capitalised in 2025 — $148.8m against $169.9m expensed, and 120% of the year's $123.9m of net income — running 41.1%, 47.9% and 46.7% across 2023-2025. Adjusted Operating Cash Flow, the measure the withdrawn guidance was given on, is built on the post-capitalisation interest line, so that $148.8m never enters it: $446.4m of AOCF in 2025 against $123.9m of GAAP net income. Adjusted condominium gross profit defines out Waiea remediation and settlement costs. The decks claim 25-30% condominium margins; The Park's Q2 2026 closings booked about 18.5%.
Tier 3 · stable
The votes cannot tell you what the owners think
At the 2026-09-30 annual meeting 0.38% of the votes cast went against the pay resolution and 0.14% against ratifying KPMG; a year earlier the figures were 2.36% and 0.30%. Pershing Square holds 46.6% of the stock and votes up to a 40% cap, so dissent among the remaining holders is arithmetically invisible on any item — a unanimous protest by every other non-index holder would still lose. The most-opposed director in both years was Anthony Williams, at 8.42% then 3.84%; Ackman himself drew 3.98% then 0.72%. Short interest of 3.54m shares at 2026-08-31 is 11.1% of the float outside Pershing and has risen for five settlements, which is where the dissent appears instead.
Where shareholders voted no
At each annual meeting shareholders vote on who sits on the board, what the executives are paid and whether the company may create more shares. These are the votes that drew the most "no"s at the last two meetings: the shares voted against (or withheld) each year, then what share of all votes cast that was. Under each one, what the vote was about and what a no means.
| 2025 | 2026 | Share 2026 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Advisory vote on executive compensationExecutive pay. Shareholders say whether they accept what the top executives were paid. The vote is advisory: the board can ignore it, but a large no is a public rebuke and boards usually change the pay plan after one. | 566K against | 183K against | 0.38% in '26 |
| Williams (chairs nomination) — most opposed in both yearsA board seat. Shareholders vote to keep this person on the board, the group that hires, pays and can fire the CEO. A no, or a withheld vote, says they want this director out, often because of the committee they sit on or a decision they signed off. | 2.03M against | 1.85M against | 3.84% in '26 |
| Sellers (presiding director, chairs pay)A board seat. | 1.26M against | 493K against | 1.03% in '26 |
| Ackman (Executive Chairman)A board seat. | 957K against | 349K against | 0.72% in '26 |
| O'Reilly (CEO)A board seat. | 699K against | 453K against | 0.94% in '26 |
| Israel (CIO, Pershing designee)A board seat. | 621K against | 397K against | 0.82% in '26 |
| Ratify KPMGThe auditor. Keeping the outside accounting firm that checks the company's books. This almost always passes; a sizeable no means shareholders doubt the audit or think the firm has been in place too long. | 83K against | 74K against | 0.14% in '26 |
Insiders who sold the most stock
Reported sales by executives and directors, biggest first.
| Form 4s, Jul '25-Sep '26, codes S and P only | Sold | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Tighe, independent director since 2011 | $1.44M | the only material seller: 6,000 shares in Nov '25 and 13,495 in Aug '26, both outside any plan |
| Grandisson, Vantage executive chairman | bought $1.60M | 25,000 shares at $64.12 on 2026-09-23, plus $10m of his own money for warrants struck at $100 |
| Sellers, presiding director | bought $0.39M | 5,000 shares at $77.94 on 2025-12-23 |
| Everyone else | $0.29M | three small sales against two small purchases; immaterial in both directions |