How RLJ Lodging Trust stacks up

RLJ-PA · against 182 other Real Estate companies listed in US-listed

Profitability

46/ 100

Above the middle of the pack.

Ranked #91 of 183 · scores higher than 50% of peers

Bars: peers in each 10-point band of the profitability score

12 peers with a profitability score of 40–49, including RLJ-PA · Click a bar to see the companies

Why profitability scores 46?

Weighted metrics compared with all Real Estate companies.

A mix: stronger return on invested capital, but weaker return on assets and operating margin than most Real Estate peers.

a lower return on assets: weaker than 76% of peers. Return on assets: 0.5% vs peer median 2.1%
a thinner operating margin: weaker than 73% of peers. Operating margin: 9.4% vs peer median 26.8%
a higher return on invested capital: stronger than 85% of peers. Return on invested capital: 8.5% vs peer median 3.4%

Metric by metric

Position: dot = RLJ-PA, ranked from the worst peer (left) to the best (right); tick = middle, shaded = middle half of peers.

Metric	RLJ-PA	Peer median	Better than	Weight
Return on invested capitalHigher is better · 179 reported	8.5%	3.6%	81%	33%
Operating marginHigher is better · 160 reported	9.4%	23.6%	28%	33%
Return on assetsHigher is better · 185 reported	0.5%	1.9%	28%	33%
Return on equityHigher is better · 177 reported	1.3%	5.5%	29%	Context only
Gross marginHigher is better · 186 reported	26.8%	66.3%	12%	Context only

Ranking by profitability score

Top 5 and the companies ranked around RLJ-PA

Rank	Company	Market cap	Profitability	Overall
1	Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance, Inc.ARI · US-listed	310M USD	100	72
2	Annaly Capital Management, Inc.NLY · US-listed	13.7B USD	99	70
3	Apartment Investment and Management CompanyAIV · US-listed	255M USD	98	71
3	SBA Communications CorporationSBAC · US-listed	19.6B USD	98	48
5	Highwoods Properties, Inc.HIW · US-listed	3.5B USD	97	59
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86	Kimco Realty CorporationKIM · US-listed	16.8B USD	50	46
86	Postal Realty Trust, Inc.PSTL · US-listed	859M USD	50	55
90	One Liberty Properties, Inc.OLP · US-listed	480M USD	48	42
91	Brookfield Property Partners L.P.BPYPN · US-listed	Unavailable	46	41
91	RLJ Lodging TrustRLJ-PA · US-listed	Unavailable	46	33
93	American Assets Trust, Inc.AAT · US-listed	1.7B USD	45	50
93	AvalonBay Communities IncAVB · US-listed	26.3B USD	45	41
93	Equity ResidentialEQR · US-listed	24.6B USD	45	42
93	Weyerhaeuser CompanyWY · US-listed	14.8B USD	45	51

Scores are sector-relative percentiles from the latest snapshot, always calculated against the whole sector: narrowing the comparison group changes who you compare with, not the scores. Missing metrics are left out and the remaining weights rescaled. How we score

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