PEB vs. DRH, CXW, RLJ, LTC, SVC, NHI, INN, MPW, DHC, and UHT
Should you be buying Pebblebrook Hotel Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Pebblebrook Hotel Trust include DiamondRock Hospitality (DRH), CoreCivic (CXW), RLJ Lodging Trust (RLJ), LTC Properties (LTC), Service Properties Trust (SVC), National Health Investors (NHI), Summit Hotel Properties (INN), Medical Properties Trust (MPW), Diversified Healthcare Trust (DHC), 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 superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, community ranking, risk, earnings, institutional ownership, media sentiment, profitability, valuation and analyst recommendations.
DiamondRock Hospitality has a beta of 1.61, indicating that its share price is 61% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Pebblebrook Hotel Trust has a beta of 1.84, indicating that its share price is 84% more volatile than the S&P 500.
DiamondRock Hospitality currently has a consensus target price of $10.30, indicating a potential upside of 21.97%. Pebblebrook Hotel Trust has a consensus target price of $14.69, indicating a potential upside of 5.82%. Given Pebblebrook Hotel Trust's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe DiamondRock Hospitality is more favorable than Pebblebrook Hotel Trust.
DiamondRock Hospitality has a net margin of 7.86% compared to DiamondRock Hospitality's net margin of -5.84%. Pebblebrook Hotel Trust's return on equity of 5.20% beat DiamondRock Hospitality's return on equity.
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 raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years. DiamondRock Hospitality is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
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.
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. Pebblebrook Hotel Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.21 beat DiamondRock Hospitality's score of 0.41 indicating that DiamondRock Hospitality is being referred to more favorably in the media.
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 14 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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