BRAEMAR HOTELS & RESORTS (NYSE:BHR) and RLJ Lodging Trust (OTCMKTS:RLJ.PA) Financial Review

RLJ Lodging Trust (OTCMKTS:RLJ.PA) and BRAEMAR HOTELS & RESORTS (NYSE:BHR) are both real estate companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, valuation, analyst recommendations, profitability, earnings, dividends and institutional ownership.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

64.8% of BRAEMAR HOTELS & RESORTS shares are held by institutional investors. 8.2% of BRAEMAR HOTELS & RESORTS shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of current ratings for RLJ Lodging Trust and BRAEMAR HOTELS & RESORTS, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
RLJ Lodging Trust	0	0	0	0	0.00
BRAEMAR HOTELS & RESORTS	1	2	0	0	1.67

BRAEMAR HOTELS & RESORTS has a consensus target price of $2.50, suggesting a potential upside of 21.07%. Given BRAEMAR HOTELS & RESORTS’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe BRAEMAR HOTELS & RESORTS is more favorable than RLJ Lodging Trust.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares RLJ Lodging Trust and BRAEMAR HOTELS & RESORTS”s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
RLJ Lodging Trust	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
BRAEMAR HOTELS & RESORTS	$689.13 million	0.21	-$22.32 million	($0.73)	-2.83

RLJ Lodging Trust has higher earnings, but lower revenue than BRAEMAR HOTELS & RESORTS.

Profitability

This table compares RLJ Lodging Trust and BRAEMAR HOTELS & RESORTS’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
RLJ Lodging Trust	N/A	N/A	N/A
BRAEMAR HOTELS & RESORTS	-0.45%	-1.92%	-0.17%

Summary

BRAEMAR HOTELS & RESORTS beats RLJ Lodging Trust on 5 of the 8 factors compared between the two stocks.

About RLJ Lodging Trust

RLJ Lodging Trust is a self-advised, publicly traded real estate investment trust that owns primarily premium-branded, high-margin, focused-service and compact full-service hotels. The Company's portfolio consists of 103 hotels with approximately 22,570 rooms, located in 23 states and the District of Columbia and an ownership interest in one unconsolidated hotel with 171 rooms.

About BRAEMAR HOTELS & RESORTS

Braemar Hotels & Resorts is a conservatively capitalized REIT that invests primarily in high RevPAR, full-service luxury hotels and resorts. We are listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol BHR and are externally-advised by Ashford (NYSE American: AINC).