NYSE:RLJRLJ Lodging Trust Stock Price, Forecast & News

RLJ Lodging Trust's stock was trading at $9.42 on March 11th, 2020 when Coronavirus reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization. Since then, RLJ stock has increased by 7.9% and is now trading at $10.16. View which stocks have been most impacted by Coronavirus.

7 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 3 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, August 5th 2020. View our earnings forecast for RLJ Lodging Trust.

RLJ Lodging Trust (NYSE:RLJ) posted its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, May, 12th. The real estate investment trust reported ($0.21) EPS for the quarter, missing analysts' consensus estimates of $0.24 by $0.45. The real estate investment trust had revenue of $265.50 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $261.41 million. RLJ Lodging Trust had a net margin of 4.98% and a return on equity of 2.50%. The firm's revenue for the quarter was down 33.5% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period last year, the company earned $0.48 earnings per share. View RLJ Lodging Trust's earnings history.

RLJ Lodging Trust declared a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, March 18th. Shareholders of record on Tuesday, March 31st will be given a dividend of $0.01 per share on Wednesday, April 15th. This represents a $0.04 annualized dividend and a yield of 0.39%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend 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 EPS guidance of $1.62-$1.77 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus earnings per share estimate of $1.79.

7 brokers have issued 12-month target prices for RLJ Lodging Trust's stock. Their forecasts range from $7.00 to $21.00. On average, they expect RLJ Lodging Trust's stock price to reach $12.68 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 24.8% from the stock's current price. View analysts' price targets for RLJ Lodging Trust.

News headlines about RLJ stock have trended somewhat positive on Monday, according to InfoTrie Sentiment. The research group scores the sentiment of press coverage by analyzing more than six thousand blog and news sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. RLJ Lodging Trust earned a news sentiment score of 1.5 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave media coverage about the real estate investment trust a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent press coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the company's share price in the near term. View the latest news aboutRLJ Lodging Trust.

RLJ Lodging Trust saw a increase in short interest during the month of May. As of May 15th, there was short interest totaling 11,890,000 shares, an increase of 55.0% from the April 30th total of 7,670,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 3,060,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 3.9 days. Currently, 7.3% of the shares of the stock are short sold. View RLJ Lodging Trust's Current Options Chain.

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

RLJ Lodging Trust's stock is owned by a variety of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include State Street Corp (4.78%), JPMorgan Chase & Co. (4.61%), Alliancebernstein L.P. (2.37%), Invesco Ltd. (2.06%), Geode Capital Management LLC (1.96%) and Centersquare Investment Management LLC (1.55%). Company insiders that own RLJ Lodging Trust stock include Forgia Robert M La and Patricia L Gibson. View institutional ownership trends for RLJ Lodging Trust.

RLJ stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Invesco Ltd., Mackenzie Financial Corp, Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan Trust Fund, AQR Capital Management LLC, Mutual of America Capital Management LLC, Fisher Asset Management LLC, Schroder Investment Management Group, and Los Angeles Capital Management & Equity Research Inc.. View insider buying and selling activity for RLJ Lodging Trust.

RLJ stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Centersquare Investment Management LLC, State Street Corp, Balyasny Asset Management LLC, Alliancebernstein L.P., JPMorgan Chase & Co., Matarin Capital Management LLC, Federated Hermes Inc., and Parametric Portfolio Associates LLC. Company insiders that have bought RLJ Lodging Trust stock in the last two years include Forgia Robert M La, and Patricia L Gibson. View insider buying and selling activity for RLJ Lodging Trust.

Shares of RLJ can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity, and Charles Schwab.

One share of RLJ stock can currently be purchased for approximately $10.16.

RLJ Lodging Trust has a market capitalization of $1.68 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.

The official website for RLJ Lodging Trust is 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]