Ashford Hospitality Trust (AHT) Competitors

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

Which has more volatility and risk, AHT or AMT?

Ashford Hospitality Trust has a beta of 2.14, suggesting that its share price is 114% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, American Tower has a beta of 0.87, suggesting that its share price is 13% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in AHT or AMT?

American Tower received 541 more outperform votes than Ashford Hospitality Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 75.22% of users gave American Tower an outperform vote while only 63.66% of users gave Ashford Hospitality Trust an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Ashford Hospitality Trust	Outperform Votes 473 63.66%	Underperform Votes 270 36.34%
American Tower	Outperform Votes 1014 75.22%	Underperform Votes 334 24.78%

Is AHT or AMT a better dividend stock?

Ashford Hospitality Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.9%. American Tower pays an annual dividend of $6.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.0%. Ashford Hospitality Trust pays out -0.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. American Tower pays out 141.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Ashford Hospitality Trust is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Do analysts rate AHT or AMT?

American Tower has a consensus target price of $232.07, indicating a potential upside of 4.06%. 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)	1 Hold rating(s)	12 Buy rating(s)	3 Strong Buy rating(s)	3.13

Which has better valuation and earnings, AHT or AMT?

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.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Ashford Hospitality Trust	$1.17B	0.03	-$178.49M	-$27.72	-0.22
American Tower	$10.13B	10.29	$1.48B	$4.81	46.37

Is AHT or AMT more profitable?

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 Trust	2.84%	-12.89%	1.01%
American Tower	10.05%	22.01%	3.55%

Does the media prefer AHT or AMT?

In the previous week, American Tower had 35 more articles in the media than Ashford Hospitality Trust. MarketBeat recorded 42 mentions for American Tower and 7 mentions for Ashford Hospitality Trust. American Tower's average media sentiment score of 1.57 beat Ashford Hospitality Trust's score of 0.54 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	2 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	4 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
American Tower	39 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	2 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Very Positive

Do insiders and institutionals hold more shares of AHT or AMT?

41.0% of Ashford Hospitality Trust shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.7% of American Tower shares are held by institutional investors. 1.3% 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 large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Summary

American Tower beats Ashford Hospitality Trust on 17 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.