DRH vs. PEB, CXW, RLJ, LTC, SVC, NHI, INN, DHC, MPW, and UHT
Should you be buying DiamondRock Hospitality stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of DiamondRock Hospitality include Pebblebrook Hotel Trust (PEB), CoreCivic (CXW), RLJ Lodging Trust (RLJ), LTC Properties (LTC), Service Properties Trust (SVC), National Health Investors (NHI), Summit Hotel Properties (INN), Diversified Healthcare Trust (DHC), Medical Properties Trust (MPW), and Universal Health Realty Income Trust (UHT). These companies are all part of the "specialized reits" industry.
DiamondRock Hospitality (NYSE:DRH) and Pebblebrook Hotel Trust (NYSE:PEB) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, media sentiment, community ranking, analyst recommendations, dividends, profitability, risk, institutional ownership and earnings.
DiamondRock Hospitality has a beta of 1.61, suggesting that its stock price is 61% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Pebblebrook Hotel Trust has a beta of 1.84, suggesting that its stock price is 84% more volatile than the S&P 500.
DiamondRock Hospitality presently has a consensus target price of $10.30, suggesting a potential upside of 21.97%. Pebblebrook Hotel Trust has a consensus target price of $14.69, suggesting a potential upside of 5.82%. Given DiamondRock Hospitality's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe DiamondRock Hospitality is more favorable than Pebblebrook Hotel Trust.
In the previous week, Pebblebrook Hotel Trust had 2 more articles in the media than DiamondRock Hospitality. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Pebblebrook Hotel Trust and 2 mentions for DiamondRock Hospitality. DiamondRock Hospitality's average media sentiment score of 1.21 beat Pebblebrook Hotel Trust's score of 0.41 indicating that DiamondRock Hospitality is being referred to more favorably in the media.
DiamondRock Hospitality has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Pebblebrook Hotel Trust. Pebblebrook Hotel Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than DiamondRock Hospitality, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
DiamondRock Hospitality pays an annual dividend of $0.12 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. Pebblebrook Hotel Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.3%. DiamondRock Hospitality pays out 33.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Pebblebrook Hotel Trust pays out -3.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.
DiamondRock Hospitality has a net margin of 7.86% compared to Pebblebrook Hotel Trust's net margin of -5.84%. DiamondRock Hospitality's return on equity of 5.20% beat Pebblebrook Hotel Trust's return on equity.
DiamondRock Hospitality received 37 more outperform votes than Pebblebrook Hotel Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 56.36% of users gave Pebblebrook Hotel Trust an outperform vote while only 56.09% of users gave DiamondRock Hospitality an outperform vote.
Summary
DiamondRock Hospitality beats Pebblebrook Hotel Trust on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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