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

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

RLJ Lodging Trust declared a quarterly dividend on Monday, December 16th. Stockholders of record on Tuesday, December 31st will be given a dividend of $0.33 per share on Wednesday, January 15th. This represents a $1.32 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 7.77%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Monday, December 30th. View RLJ Lodging Trust's Dividend History.

RLJ Lodging Trust (NYSE:RLJ) released its earnings results on Thursday, November, 7th. The real estate investment trust reported $0.15 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $0.44 by $0.29. The real estate investment trust earned $371.12 million during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $371.81 million. RLJ Lodging Trust had a net margin of 7.44% and a return on equity of 4.02%. The firm's quarterly revenue was down 17.0% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the previous year, the firm earned $0.58 earnings per share. View RLJ Lodging Trust's Earnings History.

RLJ Lodging Trust is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, February 25th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for RLJ Lodging Trust.

RLJ Lodging Trust will be holding an earnings conference call on Tuesday, February 25th at 12:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link or dial in at Not Available.

RLJ Lodging Trust updated its FY 2019 After-Hours earnings guidance on Monday, November, 25th. The company provided earnings per share guidance of $1.98-2.04 for the period.

6 brokerages have issued 1 year price targets for RLJ Lodging Trust's shares. Their forecasts range from $15.00 to $21.00. On average, they expect RLJ Lodging Trust's share price to reach $19.00 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 11.9% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for RLJ Lodging Trust.

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, 1 hold rating and 4 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for RLJ Lodging Trust.

News headlines about RLJ stock have trended positive on Sunday, InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis reports. InfoTrie ranks the sentiment of news coverage by monitoring 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 nearest to five being the most favorable. RLJ Lodging Trust earned a news sentiment score of 3.0 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave press coverage about the real estate investment trust a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent news coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the company's share price in the near future. View News Stories for RLJ Lodging Trust.

RLJ Lodging Trust saw a increase in short interest in December. As of December 31st, there was short interest totalling 5,640,000 shares, an increase of 21.8% from the December 15th total of 4,630,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 1,130,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 5.0 days. Currently, 3.4% of the company's stock are short sold. View RLJ Lodging Trust's Current Options Chain.

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RLJ Lodging Trust's stock is owned by a number of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Spirit of America Management Corp NY (0.04%), Nisa Investment Advisors LLC (0.03%) and State of Alaska Department of Revenue (0.03%). 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 Spirit of America Management Corp NY. View Insider Buying and Selling for RLJ Lodging Trust.

RLJ stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including State of Alaska Department of Revenue and Nisa Investment Advisors 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 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 $16.98.

RLJ Lodging Trust has a market capitalization of $2.90 billion and generates $1.76 billion in revenue each year. The real estate investment trust earns $188.64 million in net income (profit) each year or $2.26 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]