RLJ vs. RYN, SBRA, EPR, GEO, MPW, PCH, NHI, CXW, SHO, and DRH
Should you be buying RLJ Lodging Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of RLJ Lodging Trust include Rayonier (RYN), Sabra Health Care REIT (SBRA), EPR Properties (EPR), The GEO Group (GEO), Medical Properties Trust (MPW), PotlatchDeltic (PCH), National Health Investors (NHI), CoreCivic (CXW), Sunstone Hotel Investors (SHO), and DiamondRock Hospitality (DRH). These companies are all part of the "specialized reits" industry.
RLJ Lodging Trust vs.
RLJ Lodging Trust (NYSE:RLJ) and Rayonier (NYSE:RYN) are both finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, media sentiment, profitability, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings, dividends, risk and community ranking.
92.3% of RLJ Lodging Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 89.1% of Rayonier shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.6% of RLJ Lodging Trust shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.8% of Rayonier shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
RLJ Lodging Trust has a beta of 1.69, indicating that its stock price is 69% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Rayonier has a beta of 1, indicating that its stock price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.
RLJ Lodging Trust received 117 more outperform votes than Rayonier when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 58.09% of users gave RLJ Lodging Trust an outperform vote while only 54.40% of users gave Rayonier an outperform vote.
In the previous week, RLJ Lodging Trust had 14 more articles in the media than Rayonier. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for RLJ Lodging Trust and 3 mentions for Rayonier. Rayonier's average media sentiment score of 1.54 beat RLJ Lodging Trust's score of 0.83 indicating that Rayonier is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
RLJ Lodging Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.2%. Rayonier pays an annual dividend of $1.09 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.0%. RLJ Lodging Trust pays out 222.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Rayonier pays out 46.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Rayonier has a net margin of 28.44% compared to RLJ Lodging Trust's net margin of 5.19%. Rayonier's return on equity of 3.86% beat RLJ Lodging Trust's return on equity.
RLJ Lodging Trust presently has a consensus target price of $10.82, suggesting a potential upside of 29.13%. Rayonier has a consensus target price of $29.00, suggesting a potential upside of 5.57%. Given RLJ Lodging Trust's higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe RLJ Lodging Trust is more favorable than Rayonier.
Rayonier has lower revenue, but higher earnings than RLJ Lodging Trust. Rayonier 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.
Summary
RLJ Lodging Trust beats Rayonier on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:RLJ) was last updated on 3/26/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
