DRH vs. PEB, RLJ, CXW, LTC, NHI, MPW, SVC, EPR, INN, and DHC
Should you be buying DiamondRock Hospitality stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of DiamondRock Hospitality include Pebblebrook Hotel Trust (PEB), RLJ Lodging Trust (RLJ), CoreCivic (CXW), LTC Properties (LTC), National Health Investors (NHI), Medical Properties Trust (MPW), Service Properties Trust (SVC), EPR Properties (EPR), Summit Hotel Properties (INN), and Diversified Healthcare Trust (DHC). These companies are all part of the "specialized reits" industry.
Pebblebrook Hotel Trust (NYSE:PEB) and DiamondRock Hospitality (NYSE:DRH) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, risk, institutional ownership, earnings, dividends, media sentiment, valuation, profitability and analyst recommendations.
Pebblebrook Hotel Trust has a beta of 1.86, meaning that its stock price is 86% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, DiamondRock Hospitality has a beta of 1.6, meaning that its stock price is 60% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Pebblebrook Hotel Trust presently has a consensus price target of $14.69, suggesting a potential downside of 3.18%. DiamondRock Hospitality has a consensus price target of $10.30, suggesting a potential upside of 12.81%. Given Pebblebrook Hotel Trust's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe DiamondRock Hospitality is more favorable than Pebblebrook Hotel Trust.
DiamondRock Hospitality has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Pebblebrook Hotel Trust. Pebblebrook Hotel Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than DiamondRock Hospitality, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Pebblebrook Hotel Trust had 16 more articles in the media than DiamondRock Hospitality. MarketBeat recorded 21 mentions for Pebblebrook Hotel Trust and 5 mentions for DiamondRock Hospitality. Pebblebrook Hotel Trust's average media sentiment score of 0.63 beat DiamondRock Hospitality's score of 0.53 indicating that DiamondRock Hospitality is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
DiamondRock Hospitality received 37 more outperform votes than Pebblebrook Hotel Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 56.44% of users gave Pebblebrook Hotel Trust an outperform vote while only 56.17% of users gave DiamondRock Hospitality an outperform vote.
Pebblebrook Hotel Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.3%. DiamondRock Hospitality pays an annual dividend of $0.12 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. Pebblebrook Hotel Trust pays out -3.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. DiamondRock Hospitality pays out 33.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.
DiamondRock Hospitality has a net margin of 8.03% compared to DiamondRock Hospitality's net margin of -5.84%. Pebblebrook Hotel Trust's return on equity of 5.29% beat DiamondRock Hospitality's return on equity.
Summary
DiamondRock Hospitality beats Pebblebrook Hotel Trust on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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