Ashford Hospitality Trust (AHT) vs. Its Peers Head to Head Analysis

Ashford Hospitality Trust (NYSE:AHT) is one of 24 public companies in the “Hotel & Resort REITs” industry, but how does it contrast to its competitors? We will compare Ashford Hospitality Trust to related companies based on the strength of its dividends, institutional ownership, profitability, earnings, risk, valuation and analyst recommendations.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Ashford Hospitality Trust and its competitors gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Ashford Hospitality Trust	$1.07 billion	-$179.84 million	-0.07
Ashford Hospitality Trust Competitors	$1.42 billion	$29.80 million	49.85

Ashford Hospitality Trust’s competitors have higher revenue and earnings than Ashford Hospitality Trust. Ashford Hospitality Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than its competitors, indicating that it is currently more affordable than other companies in its industry.

Profitability

This table compares Ashford Hospitality Trust and its competitors’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Ashford Hospitality Trust	-6.12%	N/A	-2.42%
Ashford Hospitality Trust Competitors	0.48%	3.99%	1.24%

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of current recommendations and price targets for Ashford Hospitality Trust and its competitors, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Ashford Hospitality Trust	1	1	0	0	1.50
Ashford Hospitality Trust Competitors	539	1743	1286	33	2.23

As a group, “Hotel & Resort REITs” companies have a potential downside of 2.57%. Given Ashford Hospitality Trust’s competitors stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Ashford Hospitality Trust has less favorable growth aspects than its competitors.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

41.0% of Ashford Hospitality Trust shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 70.5% of shares of all “Hotel & Resort REITs” companies are held by institutional investors. 1.1% of Ashford Hospitality Trust shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 8.9% of shares of all “Hotel & Resort REITs” companies are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Risk & Volatility

Ashford Hospitality Trust has a beta of 1.84, indicating that its share price is 84% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ashford Hospitality Trust’s competitors have a beta of 0.97, indicating that their average share price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Dividends

Ashford Hospitality Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.9%. Ashford Hospitality Trust pays out -0.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. As a group, “Hotel & Resort REITs” companies pay a dividend yield of 3.8% and pay out -34.6% of their earnings in the form of a dividend.

Summary

Ashford Hospitality Trust competitors beat Ashford Hospitality Trust on 13 of the 15 factors compared.

Ashford Hospitality Trust Company Profile

Ashford Hospitality Trust, Inc., together with its subsidiaries (Ashford Trust), is a real estate investment trust (REIT). While our portfolio currently consists of upscale hotels and upper upscale full-service hotels, our investment strategy is predominantly focused on investing in upper upscale full-service hotels in the United States that have revenue per available room (RevPAR) generally less than twice the U.S. national average, and in all methods including direct real estate, equity, and debt. We currently anticipate future investments will predominantly be in upper upscale hotels. We own our lodging investments and conduct our business through Ashford Hospitality Limited Partnership (Ashford Trust OP), our operating partnership. Ashford OP General Partner LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Ashford Trust, serves as the sole general partner of our operating partnership.