CLDT vs. PEB, CXW, LTC, RLJ, SVC, DHC, INN, UHT, AHT, and AMT
Should you be buying Chatham Lodging Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Chatham Lodging Trust include Pebblebrook Hotel Trust (PEB), CoreCivic (CXW), LTC Properties (LTC), RLJ Lodging Trust (RLJ), Service Properties Trust (SVC), Diversified Healthcare Trust (DHC), Summit Hotel Properties (INN), Universal Health Realty Income Trust (UHT), Ashford Hospitality Trust (AHT), and American Tower (AMT). These companies are all part of the "specialized reits" industry.
Pebblebrook Hotel Trust (NYSE:PEB) and Chatham Lodging Trust (NYSE:CLDT) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, community ranking, earnings, dividends, risk, profitability, media sentiment, analyst recommendations and institutional ownership.
In the previous week, Pebblebrook Hotel Trust had 10 more articles in the media than Chatham Lodging Trust. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for Pebblebrook Hotel Trust and 3 mentions for Chatham Lodging Trust. Chatham Lodging Trust's average media sentiment score of 0.70 beat Pebblebrook Hotel Trust's score of 0.66 indicating that Pebblebrook Hotel Trust is being referred to more favorably in the media.
88.4% of Chatham Lodging Trust shares are held by institutional investors. 2.4% of Pebblebrook Hotel Trust shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 6.5% of Chatham Lodging Trust shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Pebblebrook Hotel Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.3%. Chatham Lodging Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.1%. Pebblebrook Hotel Trust pays out -3.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Chatham Lodging Trust pays out -233.3% 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. Chatham Lodging Trust is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Chatham Lodging Trust has a net margin of 0.73% compared to Chatham Lodging Trust's net margin of -6.75%. Pebblebrook Hotel Trust's return on equity of 0.28% beat Chatham Lodging Trust's return on equity.
Chatham Lodging Trust has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Pebblebrook Hotel Trust. Chatham Lodging Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Pebblebrook Hotel Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Pebblebrook Hotel Trust currently has a consensus price target of $14.42, suggesting a potential upside of 5.04%. Chatham Lodging Trust has a consensus price target of $13.00, suggesting a potential upside of 45.09%. Given Pebblebrook Hotel Trust's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Chatham Lodging Trust is more favorable than Pebblebrook Hotel Trust.
Pebblebrook Hotel Trust has a beta of 1.84, suggesting that its stock price is 84% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Chatham Lodging Trust has a beta of 1.8, suggesting that its stock price is 80% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Chatham Lodging Trust received 19 more outperform votes than Pebblebrook Hotel Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.23% of users gave Chatham Lodging Trust an outperform vote while only 56.18% of users gave Pebblebrook Hotel Trust an outperform vote.
Summary
Chatham Lodging Trust beats Pebblebrook Hotel Trust on 15 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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