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Ashford Hospitality Trust (AHT) Competitors

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$7.73 +0.45 (+6.18%)
(As of 12/20/2024 05:31 PM ET)

AHT vs. AMT, WELL, PSA, EXR, VTR, WY, OHI, CUBE, RHP, and HR

Should you be buying Ashford Hospitality Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ashford Hospitality Trust include American Tower (AMT), Welltower (WELL), Public Storage (PSA), Extra Space Storage (EXR), Ventas (VTR), Weyerhaeuser (WY), Omega Healthcare Investors (OHI), CubeSmart (CUBE), Ryman Hospitality Properties (RHP), and Healthcare Realty Trust (HR). These companies are all part of the "specialized reits" industry.

Ashford Hospitality Trust vs.

Ashford Hospitality Trust (NYSE:AHT) and American Tower (NYSE:AMT) are both finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, dividends, community ranking, risk, profitability, institutional ownership, earnings, analyst recommendations and valuation.

41.0% of Ashford Hospitality Trust shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.7% of American Tower shares are held by institutional investors. 1.2% of Ashford Hospitality Trust shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of American Tower shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

American Tower has a consensus price target of $235.08, indicating a potential upside of 27.95%. Given American Tower's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe American Tower is more favorable than Ashford Hospitality Trust.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Ashford Hospitality Trust
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
0.00
American Tower
0 Sell rating(s)
3 Hold rating(s)
8 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.83

Ashford Hospitality Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.1%. American Tower pays an annual dividend of $6.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.5%. Ashford Hospitality Trust pays out -1.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. American Tower pays out 273.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.

American Tower has higher revenue and earnings than Ashford Hospitality Trust. Ashford Hospitality Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than American Tower, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Ashford Hospitality Trust$1.22B0.04-$178.49M-$12.89-0.60
American Tower$11.17B7.69$1.48B$2.3777.52

American Tower received 529 more outperform votes than Ashford Hospitality Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 75.17% of users gave American Tower an outperform vote while only 63.66% of users gave Ashford Hospitality Trust an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Ashford Hospitality TrustOutperform Votes
473
63.66%
Underperform Votes
270
36.34%
American TowerOutperform Votes
1002
75.17%
Underperform Votes
331
24.83%

Ashford Hospitality Trust has a beta of 2.38, suggesting that its share price is 138% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, American Tower has a beta of 0.83, suggesting that its share price is 17% less volatile than the S&P 500.

In the previous week, American Tower had 10 more articles in the media than Ashford Hospitality Trust. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for American Tower and 4 mentions for Ashford Hospitality Trust. American Tower's average media sentiment score of 0.85 beat Ashford Hospitality Trust's score of 0.35 indicating that American Tower is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Ashford Hospitality Trust
1 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
2 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral
American Tower
7 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
2 Neutral mention(s)
4 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

American Tower has a net margin of 10.05% compared to Ashford Hospitality Trust's net margin of 2.84%. American Tower's return on equity of 22.01% beat Ashford Hospitality Trust's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Ashford Hospitality Trust2.84% -12.89% 1.01%
American Tower 10.05%22.01%3.55%

Summary

American Tower beats Ashford Hospitality Trust on 18 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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AHT vs. The Competition

MetricAshford Hospitality TrustReal estate investment trusts IndustryFinance SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$42.68M$6.96B$10.59B$19.18B
Dividend YieldN/A6.79%10.09%3.58%
P/E Ratio-0.6042.5337.8041.22
Price / Sales0.047.82286.0517.58
Price / Cash0.8317.7930.4421.28
Price / Book-0.082.542.695.32
Net Income-$178.49M$146.30M$1.03B$989.67M
7 Day Performance-5.85%-3.82%-2.80%-3.45%
1 Month Performance-19.73%-4.28%-2.77%-3.73%
1 Year Performance-59.63%1.86%11.00%12.06%

Ashford Hospitality Trust Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
AHT
Ashford Hospitality Trust
0.6336 of 5 stars
$7.73
+6.2%
N/A-58.4%$42.68M$1.22B-0.60120News Coverage
Gap Down
AMT
American Tower
4.759 of 5 stars
$195.42
-0.9%
$235.08
+20.3%
-13.0%$91.32B$11.14B83.195,643
WELL
Welltower
3.505 of 5 stars
$129.71
+0.5%
$123.63
-4.7%
+40.8%$80.77B$7.35B85.05533Positive News
PSA
Public Storage
4.6898 of 5 stars
$318.95
+0.4%
$342.07
+7.2%
+1.5%$55.85B$4.68B32.986,200
EXR
Extra Space Storage
4.7112 of 5 stars
$157.67
+0.7%
$171.43
+8.7%
-3.4%$33.42B$3.23B41.417,618Positive News
VTR
Ventas
4.1615 of 5 stars
$60.16
+0.4%
$65.63
+9.1%
+21.4%$25.24B$4.80B-352.41450Analyst Forecast
News Coverage
Positive News
WY
Weyerhaeuser
4.4383 of 5 stars
$29.88
-0.6%
$36.33
+21.6%
-19.4%$21.71B$7.67B40.629,318
OHI
Omega Healthcare Investors
4.3791 of 5 stars
$39.40
+0.5%
$40.18
+2.0%
+23.0%$10.64B$949.74M28.8950Positive News
CUBE
CubeSmart
3.6497 of 5 stars
$46.43
+0.3%
$51.36
+10.6%
-5.4%$10.50B$1.05B26.143,040Dividend Increase
RHP
Ryman Hospitality Properties
3.9885 of 5 stars
$111.19
-1.8%
$128.57
+15.6%
-1.4%$6.66B$2.32B20.111,471
HR
Healthcare Realty Trust
3.0075 of 5 stars
$17.46
+1.4%
$17.17
-1.7%
-1.4%$6.19B$1.29B-11.01580Analyst Downgrade
Insider Trade
Positive News

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This page (NYSE:AHT) was last updated on 12/21/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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