NYSE:RLJ - RLJ Lodging Trust Stock Price, Forecast & News

RLJ Lodging Trust's stock was trading at $9.42 on March 11th, 2020 when COVID-19 reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization. Since then, RLJ shares have decreased by 18.0% and is now trading at $7.72. View which stocks have been mosted impacted by Coronavirus.

6 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for RLJ Lodging Trust in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 3 hold ratings and 2 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View analyst ratings for RLJ Lodging Trust.

RLJ Lodging Trust is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, May 13th 2020. View our earnings forecast for RLJ Lodging Trust.

RLJ Lodging Trust (NYSE:RLJ) released its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, February, 25th. The real estate investment trust reported $0.17 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of $0.37 by $0.20. The real estate investment trust had revenue of $347.07 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $342.86 million. RLJ Lodging Trust had a return on equity of 4.35% and a net margin of 8.16%. View RLJ Lodging Trust's earnings history.

RLJ Lodging Trust announced a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, March 18th. Stockholders of record on Tuesday, March 31st will be paid a dividend of $0.01 per share on Wednesday, April 15th. This represents a $0.04 annualized dividend and a yield of 0.52%. The ex-dividend date is Monday, March 30th. View RLJ Lodging Trust's dividend history.

RLJ Lodging Trust updated its FY20 earnings guidance on Tuesday, February, 25th. The company provided earnings per share guidance of $1.62-$1.77 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus EPS estimate of $1.79.

6 analysts have issued twelve-month target prices for RLJ Lodging Trust's shares. Their forecasts range from $8.00 to $21.00. On average, they anticipate RLJ Lodging Trust's share price to reach $14.58 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 88.9% from the stock's current price. View analysts' price targets for RLJ Lodging Trust.

Media coverage about RLJ stock has been trending very negative on Wednesday, InfoTrie Sentiment reports. The research firm scores the sentiment of news coverage by analyzing more than six thousand news and blog sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. RLJ Lodging Trust earned a daily sentiment score of -3.0 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned press coverage about the real estate investment trust a news buzz of 4.0 out of 10, indicating that recent news coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the near term. View the latest news aboutRLJ Lodging Trust.

RLJ Lodging Trust saw a decrease in short interest during the month of March. As of March 13th, there was short interest totaling 5,112,800 shares, a decrease of 25.6% from the February 27th total of 6,870,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 1,760,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 2.9 days. Currently, 3.1% of the shares of the stock are sold short. View RLJ Lodging Trust's Current Options Chain.

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Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other RLJ Lodging Trust investors own include AT&T (T), Enterprise Products Partners (EPD), Blackstone Group (BX), AGNC Investment (AGNC), Energy Transfer LP Unit (ET), Vereit (VER), Micron Technology (MU), AbbVie (ABBV), Macquarie Infrastructure (MIC) and New Residential Investment (NRZ).

RLJ Lodging Trust trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "RLJ."

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One share of RLJ stock can currently be purchased for approximately $7.72.

RLJ Lodging Trust has a market capitalization of $1.30 billion and generates $1.57 billion in revenue each year. The real estate investment trust earns $127.84 million in net income (profit) each year or $2.03 on an earnings per share basis. RLJ Lodging Trust employs 84 workers across the globe. View additional information about RLJ Lodging Trust.

The official website for RLJ Lodging Trust is http://www.rljlodgingtrust.com/.

RLJ Lodging Trust's mailing address is 3 BETHESDA METRO CENTER SUITE 1000, BETHESDA MD, 20814. The real estate investment trust can be reached via phone at 301-280-7777 or via email at [email protected]