RLJ vs. HR, GEO, SBRA, RYN, EPR, PCH, NHI, CXW, MPW, and SHO
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), The GEO Group (GEO), Sabra Health Care REIT (SBRA), Rayonier (RYN), EPR Properties (EPR), PotlatchDeltic (PCH), National Health Investors (NHI), CoreCivic (CXW), Medical Properties Trust (MPW), and Sunstone Hotel Investors (SHO). These companies are all part of the "specialized reits" industry.
RLJ Lodging Trust vs.
Healthcare Realty Trust (NYSE:HR) and RLJ Lodging Trust (NYSE:RLJ) are both finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, dividends, risk, earnings, analyst recommendations, valuation, media sentiment, institutional ownership and community ranking.
Healthcare Realty Trust presently has a consensus price target of $17.14, indicating a potential upside of 3.93%. RLJ Lodging Trust has a consensus price target of $10.92, indicating a potential upside of 10.08%. Given RLJ Lodging Trust's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe RLJ Lodging Trust is more favorable than Healthcare Realty Trust.
RLJ Lodging Trust has higher revenue and 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.
In the previous week, RLJ Lodging Trust had 1 more articles in the media than Healthcare Realty Trust. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for RLJ Lodging Trust and 4 mentions for Healthcare Realty Trust. RLJ Lodging Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.23 beat Healthcare Realty Trust's score of 1.15 indicating that RLJ Lodging Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
92.4% of RLJ Lodging Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.6% of Healthcare Realty Trust shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 3.0% of RLJ Lodging Trust shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
RLJ Lodging Trust received 84 more outperform votes than Healthcare Realty Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 58.36% of users gave RLJ Lodging Trust an outperform vote while only 50.45% of users gave Healthcare Realty Trust an outperform vote.
Healthcare Realty Trust has a beta of 0.94, suggesting that its share price is 6% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, RLJ Lodging Trust has a beta of 1.7, suggesting that its share price is 70% more volatile than the S&P 500.
RLJ Lodging Trust has a net margin of 5.19% compared to Healthcare Realty Trust's net margin of -45.63%. RLJ Lodging Trust's return on equity of 3.58% beat Healthcare Realty Trust's return on equity.
Healthcare Realty Trust pays an annual dividend of $1.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.5%. RLJ Lodging Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.1%. Healthcare Realty Trust pays out -78.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. RLJ Lodging Trust pays out 206.9% 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 is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Summary
RLJ Lodging Trust beats Healthcare Realty Trust on 17 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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