RLJ Lodging Trust - RLJ Stock Forecast, Price & News

4 Wall Street equities research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for RLJ Lodging Trust in the last twelve months. There are currently 1 hold rating and 3 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street equities research analysts is that investors should "buy" RLJ shares.
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4 brokers have issued 1-year price objectives for RLJ Lodging Trust's shares. Their RLJ share price forecasts range from $15.00 to $20.00. On average, they expect the company's share price to reach $17.20 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 32.8% from the stock's current price.
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RLJ Lodging Trust's stock was trading at $13.93 at the beginning of the year. Since then, RLJ shares have decreased by 7.0% and is now trading at $12.95.
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RLJ Lodging Trust saw a increase in short interest in July. As of July 15th, there was short interest totaling 11,140,000 shares, an increase of 27.8% from the June 30th total of 8,720,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 1,840,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 6.1 days. Approximately 6.8% of the company's stock are sold short.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, November 3rd 2022.
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RLJ Lodging Trust (NYSE:RLJ) released its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, May, 4th. The real estate investment trust reported ($0.13) earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing analysts' consensus estimates of $0.17 by $0.30. The real estate investment trust had revenue of $242.90 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $239.79 million. RLJ Lodging Trust had a negative net margin of 15.12% and a negative trailing twelve-month return on equity of 7.69%. The business's quarterly revenue was up 103.2% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the previous year, the company earned ($0.18) EPS.

RLJ Lodging Trust declared a quarterly dividend on Thursday, August 4th. Investors of record on Friday, September 30th will be given a dividend of $0.05 per share on Monday, October 17th. This represents a $0.20 annualized dividend and a yield of 1.54%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, September 29th. This is a boost from the stock's previous quarterly dividend of $0.01.
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RLJ Lodging Trust (NYSE:RLJ) pays an annual dividend of $0.04 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 0.32%.
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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 many different retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include Securian Asset Management Inc. (0.28%), Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings Inc. (0.22%), Allspring Global Investments Holdings LLC (0.20%), Russell Investments Group Ltd. (0.19%), Asset Management One Co. Ltd. (0.16%) and Foster & Motley Inc. (0.15%). Insiders that own company stock include Forgia Robert M La, Nathaniel A Davis and Patricia L Gibson.
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Shares of RLJ stock can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include WeBull, Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity, and Charles Schwab.
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One share of RLJ stock can currently be purchased for approximately $12.95.

RLJ Lodging Trust (NYSE:RLJ) has a market capitalization of $2.16 billion and generates $785.66 million in revenue each year. The real estate investment trust earns $-305,170,000.00 in net income (profit) each year or ($1.12) on an earnings per share basis.

RLJ Lodging Trust's mailing address is 3 BETHESDA METRO CENTER SUITE 1000, BETHESDA MD, 20814. The official website for the company is www.rljlodgingtrust.com. The real estate investment trust can be reached via phone at (301) 280-7777, via email at ir@rljlodgingtrust.com, or via fax at 301-280-7750.