RLJ vs. RYN, SBRA, EPR, PCH, NHI, MPW, GEO, SHO, DRH, and PEB
Should you be buying RLJ Lodging Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of RLJ Lodging Trust include Rayonier (RYN), Sabra Health Care REIT (SBRA), EPR Properties (EPR), PotlatchDeltic (PCH), National Health Investors (NHI), Medical Properties Trust (MPW), The GEO Group (GEO), Sunstone Hotel Investors (SHO), DiamondRock Hospitality (DRH), and Pebblebrook Hotel Trust (PEB). These companies are all part of the "specialized reits" industry.
RLJ Lodging Trust (NYSE:RLJ) and Rayonier (NYSE:RYN) are both finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, analyst recommendations, profitability, earnings, dividends, valuation, risk, institutional ownership and community ranking.
RLJ Lodging Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.2%. Rayonier pays an annual dividend of $1.14 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.8%. RLJ Lodging Trust pays out 142.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Rayonier pays out 101.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
RLJ Lodging Trust has a beta of 1.7, indicating that its share price is 70% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Rayonier has a beta of 1.05, indicating that its share price is 5% more volatile than the S&P 500.
RLJ Lodging Trust currently has a consensus price target of $13.07, suggesting a potential upside of 37.38%. Rayonier has a consensus price target of $32.50, suggesting a potential upside of 8.51%. Given RLJ Lodging Trust's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe RLJ Lodging Trust is more favorable than Rayonier.
RLJ Lodging Trust received 116 more outperform votes than Rayonier when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.49% of users gave RLJ Lodging Trust an outperform vote while only 55.03% of users gave Rayonier an outperform vote.
92.4% of RLJ Lodging Trust shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 89.1% of Rayonier shares are held by institutional investors. 2.6% of RLJ Lodging Trust shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.8% of Rayonier shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Rayonier has lower revenue, but higher earnings than RLJ Lodging Trust. Rayonier is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than RLJ Lodging Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, RLJ Lodging Trust had 1 more articles in the media than Rayonier. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for RLJ Lodging Trust and 5 mentions for Rayonier. Rayonier's average media sentiment score of 0.54 beat RLJ Lodging Trust's score of 0.45 indicating that Rayonier is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Rayonier has a net margin of 15.92% compared to RLJ Lodging Trust's net margin of 5.29%. RLJ Lodging Trust's return on equity of 3.53% beat Rayonier's return on equity.
Summary
RLJ Lodging Trust beats Rayonier on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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