RLJ vs. HR, RYN, PCH, SBRA, EPR, MPW, NHI, SHO, GEO, and DRH
Should you be buying RLJ Lodging Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of RLJ Lodging Trust include Healthcare Realty Trust (HR), Rayonier (RYN), PotlatchDeltic (PCH), Sabra Health Care REIT (SBRA), EPR Properties (EPR), Medical Properties Trust (MPW), National Health Investors (NHI), Sunstone Hotel Investors (SHO), The GEO Group (GEO), and DiamondRock Hospitality (DRH). These companies are all part of the "specialized reits" industry.
Healthcare Realty Trust (NYSE:HR) and RLJ Lodging Trust (NYSE:RLJ) are both finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, earnings, institutional ownership, risk, community ranking, media sentiment, valuation, profitability and analyst recommendations.
Healthcare Realty Trust currently has a consensus target price of $17.30, suggesting a potential upside of 6.59%. RLJ Lodging Trust has a consensus target price of $13.90, suggesting a potential upside of 39.28%. Given Healthcare Realty Trust's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe RLJ Lodging Trust is more favorable than Healthcare Realty Trust.
Healthcare Realty Trust pays an annual dividend of $1.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.6%. RLJ Lodging Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.0%. Healthcare Realty Trust pays out -93.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. RLJ Lodging Trust pays out 142.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Healthcare Realty Trust has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years and RLJ Lodging Trust has increased its dividend for 2 consecutive years. Healthcare Realty Trust is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
RLJ Lodging Trust received 81 more outperform votes than Healthcare Realty Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.51% of users gave RLJ Lodging Trust an outperform vote while only 51.15% of users gave Healthcare Realty Trust an outperform vote.
92.3% of RLJ Lodging Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.6% of Healthcare Realty Trust shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.6% of RLJ Lodging Trust shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Healthcare Realty Trust had 9 more articles in the media than RLJ Lodging Trust. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Healthcare Realty Trust and 1 mentions for RLJ Lodging Trust. Healthcare Realty Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.93 beat RLJ Lodging Trust's score of 0.89 indicating that RLJ Lodging Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
RLJ Lodging Trust has a net margin of 5.29% compared to RLJ Lodging Trust's net margin of -37.53%. Healthcare Realty Trust's return on equity of 3.53% beat RLJ Lodging Trust's return on equity.
RLJ Lodging Trust has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Healthcare Realty Trust. Healthcare Realty Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than RLJ Lodging Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Healthcare Realty Trust has a beta of 0.78, indicating that its stock price is 22% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, RLJ Lodging Trust has a beta of 1.7, indicating that its stock price is 70% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
RLJ Lodging Trust beats Healthcare Realty Trust on 16 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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