RLJ vs. CXW, PEB, DRH, LTC, SVC, MPW, INN, DHC, UHT, and NHI
Should you be buying RLJ Lodging Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of RLJ Lodging Trust include CoreCivic (CXW), Pebblebrook Hotel Trust (PEB), DiamondRock Hospitality (DRH), LTC Properties (LTC), Service Properties Trust (SVC), Medical Properties Trust (MPW), Summit Hotel Properties (INN), Diversified Healthcare Trust (DHC), Universal Health Realty Income Trust (UHT), and National Health Investors (NHI). These companies are all part of the "specialized reits" industry.
RLJ Lodging Trust (NYSE:RLJ) and CoreCivic (NYSE:CXW) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, risk, analyst recommendations, community ranking, dividends, valuation, earnings and profitability.
RLJ Lodging Trust has higher earnings, but lower revenue than CoreCivic. CoreCivic 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.
RLJ Lodging Trust presently has a consensus target price of $13.90, indicating a potential upside of 34.04%. CoreCivic has a consensus target price of $19.00, indicating a potential upside of 26.41%. Given RLJ Lodging Trust's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe RLJ Lodging Trust is more favorable than CoreCivic.
RLJ Lodging Trust has a beta of 1.7, meaning that its share price is 70% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CoreCivic has a beta of 0.81, meaning that its share price is 19% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, CoreCivic had 9 more articles in the media than RLJ Lodging Trust. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for CoreCivic and 3 mentions for RLJ Lodging Trust. RLJ Lodging Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.42 beat CoreCivic's score of 1.05 indicating that RLJ Lodging Trust is being referred to more favorably in the media.
92.4% of RLJ Lodging Trust shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 85.1% of CoreCivic shares are held by institutional investors. 2.6% of RLJ Lodging Trust shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.9% of CoreCivic shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
RLJ Lodging Trust received 28 more outperform votes than CoreCivic when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 65.10% of users gave CoreCivic an outperform vote while only 59.60% of users gave RLJ Lodging Trust an outperform vote.
RLJ Lodging Trust has a net margin of 5.29% compared to CoreCivic's net margin of 3.34%. CoreCivic's return on equity of 5.74% beat RLJ Lodging Trust's return on equity.
Summary
RLJ Lodging Trust beats CoreCivic on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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