RLJ Lodging Trust (RLJ) Competitors

EPR Properties (NYSE:EPR) and RLJ Lodging Trust (NYSE:RLJ) are both finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, media sentiment, profitability, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings, valuation, dividends and community ranking.

Is EPR or RLJ more profitable?

EPR Properties has a net margin of 28.87% compared to RLJ Lodging Trust's net margin of 5.19%. EPR Properties' return on equity of 8.22% beat RLJ Lodging Trust's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
EPR Properties	28.87%	8.22%	3.52%
RLJ Lodging Trust	5.19%	3.58%	1.44%

Do institutionals & insiders hold more shares of EPR or RLJ?

74.7% of EPR Properties shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.3% of RLJ Lodging Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.3% of EPR Properties shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.9% of RLJ Lodging Trust shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Which has more risk and volatility, EPR or RLJ?

EPR Properties has a beta of 1.27, indicating that its share price is 27% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, RLJ Lodging Trust has a beta of 1.48, indicating that its share price is 48% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in EPR or RLJ?

RLJ Lodging Trust received 32 more outperform votes than EPR Properties when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 57.72% of users gave EPR Properties an outperform vote while only 57.67% of users gave RLJ Lodging Trust an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
EPR Properties	Outperform Votes 389 57.72%	Underperform Votes 285 42.28%
RLJ Lodging Trust	Outperform Votes 421 57.67%	Underperform Votes 309 42.33%

Do analysts rate EPR or RLJ?

EPR Properties presently has a consensus target price of $54.57, indicating a potential downside of 4.47%. RLJ Lodging Trust has a consensus target price of $9.96, indicating a potential upside of 36.14%. Given RLJ Lodging Trust's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe RLJ Lodging Trust is more favorable than EPR Properties.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
EPR Properties	1 Sell rating(s)	4 Hold rating(s)	2 Buy rating(s)	1 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.38
RLJ Lodging Trust	2 Sell rating(s)	3 Hold rating(s)	2 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.00

Is EPR or RLJ a better dividend stock?

EPR Properties pays an annual dividend of $3.54 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.2%. RLJ Lodging Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.2%. EPR Properties pays out 217.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. RLJ Lodging Trust pays out 230.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. EPR Properties has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years and RLJ Lodging Trust has increased its dividend for 3 consecutive years. RLJ Lodging Trust is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.

Which has preferable valuation & earnings, EPR or RLJ?

EPR Properties has higher earnings, but lower revenue than RLJ Lodging Trust. RLJ Lodging Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than EPR Properties, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
EPR Properties	$649.20M	6.69	$173.05M	$1.63	35.04
RLJ Lodging Trust	$1.37B	0.81	$76.40M	$0.26	28.13

Does the media prefer EPR or RLJ?

In the previous week, EPR Properties had 1 more articles in the media than RLJ Lodging Trust. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for EPR Properties and 7 mentions for RLJ Lodging Trust. EPR Properties' average media sentiment score of 0.72 beat RLJ Lodging Trust's score of 0.62 indicating that EPR Properties is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
EPR Properties	3 Very Positive mention(s)	2 Positive mention(s)	3 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
RLJ Lodging Trust	2 Very Positive mention(s)	3 Positive mention(s)	1 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Summary

EPR Properties beats RLJ Lodging Trust on 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.