Contrasting Lineage (NASDAQ:LINE) and Pebblebrook Hotel Trust (NYSE:PEB)

Pebblebrook Hotel Trust (NYSE:PEB) and Lineage (NASDAQ:LINE) are both finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, dividends, profitability, institutional ownership, risk, analyst recommendations and valuation.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent ratings and target prices for Pebblebrook Hotel Trust and Lineage, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Pebblebrook Hotel Trust	1	4	1	0	2.00
Lineage	0	8	10	1	2.63

Pebblebrook Hotel Trust presently has a consensus target price of $13.86, suggesting a potential upside of 36.47%. Lineage has a consensus target price of $81.06, suggesting a potential upside of 37.43%. Given Lineage’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Lineage is more favorable than Pebblebrook Hotel Trust.

Dividends

Pebblebrook Hotel Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.4%. Lineage pays an annual dividend of $2.11 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.6%. Pebblebrook Hotel Trust pays out -9.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Pebblebrook Hotel Trust and Lineage”s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Pebblebrook Hotel Trust	$1.45 billion	0.84	-$78.02 million	($0.43)	-23.61
Lineage	$5.34 billion	2.52	-$77.40 million	N/A	N/A

Lineage has higher revenue and earnings than Pebblebrook Hotel Trust.

Profitability

This table compares Pebblebrook Hotel Trust and Lineage’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Pebblebrook Hotel Trust	0.25%	0.13%	0.06%
Lineage	-12.18%	-9.89%	-3.51%

Summary

Lineage beats Pebblebrook Hotel Trust on 8 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Pebblebrook Hotel Trust

Pebblebrook Hotel Trust (NYSE: PEB) is a publicly traded real estate investment trust ("REIT") and the largest owner of urban and resort lifestyle hotels and resorts in the United States. The Company owns 47 hotels and resorts, totaling approximately 12,200 guest rooms across 13 urban and resort markets.

About Lineage

Lineage, Inc. is the world’s largest global temperature-controlled warehouse REIT with a network of over 480 strategically located facilities totaling over 84.1 million square feet and 3.0 billion cubic feet of capacity across countries in North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific. Coupling end-to-end supply chain solutions and technology, Lineage partners with some of the world’s largest food and beverage producers, retailers, and distributors to help increase distribution efficiency, advance sustainability, minimize supply chain waste, and, most importantly, feed the world.