RLJ Lodging Trust (NYSE: RLJ) is -16.75% lower on its value in year-to-date trading and has touched a low of $8.74 and a high of $12.11 in the current 52-week trading range. The question becomes, what are the chances the stock will make a comeback and enjoy potential growth. Why not look at analysts view on what the future holds for the stock. The RLJ stock was last observed hovering at around $8.91 in the last trading session, with the day’s loss setting it -0.41%.
Currently trading at $8.50, the stock is -8.71% and -11.72% below its SMA20 and SMA50 respectively. However, with a daily trading volume of 2.6 million and changing -4.60% at the moment leaves the stock -11.18% off its SMA200. RLJ registered -29.56% loss for a year compared to 6-month gain of -4.17%. The firm has a 50-day simple moving average (SMA 50) of $9.6286 and a 200-day simple moving average (SMA200) of $9.5763.
The stock witnessed a -11.64% loss in the last 1 month and extending the period to 3 months gives it a -19.23%, and is -8.31% down over the last 5 days. If we measure the stock’s price variations over the week and the month, we find that the volatility rates stand at 4.05% over the week and 3.08% over the month.
RLJ Lodging Trust (RLJ) has around 73 employees, a market worth around $1.30B and $1.37B in sales. Current P/E ratio is 31.26 and Fwd P/E is 44.12. Profit margin for the company is 3.07%. Distance from 52-week low is -2.75% and -29.79% from its 52-week high. The company has generated returns on investments over the last 12 months (0.95%).
The EPS is expected to shrink by -42.48% this year
308.0 institutions hold shares in RLJ Lodging Trust (RLJ), with institutional investors hold 102.26% of the company’s shares. The shares outstanding are 153.30M, and float is at 147.71M with Short Float at 8.72%. Institutions hold 99.48% of the Float.
The top institutional shareholder in the company is VANGUARD GROUP INC with over 25.33 million shares valued at $243.93 million. The investor’s holdings represent 16.5587 of the RLJ Shares outstanding. As of 2024-06-30, the second largest holder is BLACKROCK INC. with 21.87 million shares valued at $210.61 million to account for 14.2973 of the shares outstanding. The other top investors are GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP INC which holds 7.49 million shares representing 4.8956 and valued at over $72.12 million, while STATE STREET CORP holds 4.6133 of the shares totaling 7.06 million with a market value of $68.64 million.
RLJ Lodging Trust (RLJ) Insider Activity
The most recent transaction is an insider purchase by Gibson Patricia L, the company’s Director. SEC filings show that Gibson Patricia L bought 10,000 shares of the company’s common stock on Mar 07 ’25 at a price of $9.38 per share for a total of $93783.0. Following the purchase, the insider now owns 0.11 million shares.
