DRH vs. RLJ, SVC, PEB, LTC, NHI, CXW, INN, SBRA, UHT, and CLDT
Should you be buying DiamondRock Hospitality stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of DiamondRock Hospitality include RLJ Lodging Trust (RLJ), Service Properties Trust (SVC), Pebblebrook Hotel Trust (PEB), LTC Properties (LTC), National Health Investors (NHI), CoreCivic (CXW), Summit Hotel Properties (INN), Sabra Health Care REIT (SBRA), Universal Health Realty Income Trust (UHT), and Chatham Lodging Trust (CLDT). These companies are all part of the "specialized reits" industry.
DiamondRock Hospitality vs.
RLJ Lodging Trust (NYSE:RLJ) and DiamondRock Hospitality (NYSE:DRH) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, valuation, community ranking, dividends, institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations, earnings and risk.
RLJ Lodging Trust received 8 more outperform votes than DiamondRock Hospitality when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.29% of users gave RLJ Lodging Trust an outperform vote while only 57.43% of users gave DiamondRock Hospitality an outperform vote.
DiamondRock Hospitality has lower revenue, but higher earnings than RLJ Lodging Trust. DiamondRock Hospitality 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.
88.9% of RLJ Lodging Trust shares are held by institutional investors. 2.3% of RLJ Lodging Trust shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.4% of DiamondRock Hospitality shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
DiamondRock Hospitality has a net margin of 10.92% compared to RLJ Lodging Trust's net margin of 3.51%. DiamondRock Hospitality's return on equity of 6.93% beat RLJ Lodging Trust's return on equity.
RLJ Lodging Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.0%. DiamondRock Hospitality pays an annual dividend of $0.12 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.5%. RLJ Lodging Trust pays out 320.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. DiamondRock Hospitality pays out 26.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. RLJ Lodging Trust has increased its dividend for 2 consecutive years. RLJ Lodging Trust is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
RLJ Lodging Trust has a beta of 1.78, indicating that its stock price is 78% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, DiamondRock Hospitality has a beta of 1.66, indicating that its stock price is 66% more volatile than the S&P 500.
RLJ Lodging Trust currently has a consensus target price of $15.36, suggesting a potential upside of 44.88%. DiamondRock Hospitality has a consensus target price of $10.15, suggesting a potential upside of 24.85%. Given RLJ Lodging Trust's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe RLJ Lodging Trust is more favorable than DiamondRock Hospitality.
In the previous week, RLJ Lodging Trust and RLJ Lodging Trust both had 10 articles in the media. RLJ Lodging Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.25 beat DiamondRock Hospitality's score of 0.24 indicating that RLJ Lodging Trust is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
RLJ Lodging Trust beats DiamondRock Hospitality on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding DRH and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
Media Sentiment Over Time
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
DiamondRock Hospitality Competitors List
