Park Hotels & Resorts (NYSE:PK) & BRAEMAR HOTELS & RESORTS (NYSE:BHR) Financial Comparison

Park Hotels & Resorts (NYSE:PK) and BRAEMAR HOTELS & RESORTS (NYSE:BHR) are both real estate companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, analyst recommendations, profitability, dividends, institutional ownership, risk and earnings.

Risk & Volatility

Park Hotels & Resorts has a beta of 1.41, meaning that its share price is 41% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, BRAEMAR HOTELS & RESORTS has a beta of 0.85, meaning that its share price is 15% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of current ratings and recommmendations for Park Hotels & Resorts and BRAEMAR HOTELS & RESORTS, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Park Hotels & Resorts	1	8	3	2	2.43
BRAEMAR HOTELS & RESORTS	1	2	0	0	1.67

Park Hotels & Resorts presently has a consensus target price of $16.64, suggesting a potential upside of 5.80%. BRAEMAR HOTELS & RESORTS has a consensus target price of $2.00, suggesting a potential upside of 28.62%. Given BRAEMAR HOTELS & RESORTS’s higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe BRAEMAR HOTELS & RESORTS is more favorable than Park Hotels & Resorts.

Dividends

Park Hotels & Resorts pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.4%. BRAEMAR HOTELS & RESORTS pays an annual dividend of $0.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 12.9%. Park Hotels & Resorts pays out -117.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. BRAEMAR HOTELS & RESORTS pays out 7.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Park Hotels & Resorts has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Park Hotels & Resorts and BRAEMAR HOTELS & RESORTS”s top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Park Hotels & Resorts	$2.53 billion	1.25	-$283.00 million	($0.85)	-18.50
BRAEMAR HOTELS & RESORTS	$647.15 million	0.17	-$22.32 million	$2.68	0.58

BRAEMAR HOTELS & RESORTS has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Park Hotels & Resorts. Park Hotels & Resorts is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than BRAEMAR HOTELS & RESORTS, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

92.7% of Park Hotels & Resorts shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 64.8% of BRAEMAR HOTELS & RESORTS shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.5% of Park Hotels & Resorts shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 8.2% of BRAEMAR HOTELS & RESORTS shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Profitability

This table compares Park Hotels & Resorts and BRAEMAR HOTELS & RESORTS’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Park Hotels & Resorts	-6.51%	-5.45%	-2.15%
BRAEMAR HOTELS & RESORTS	34.68%	153.41%	12.54%

About Park Hotels & Resorts

Park Hotels & Resorts, Inc. operates as a real estate investment trust, which owns and operates hotels and resorts. It operates through the Consolidated Hotels and Unconsolidated Hotels segments. Its portfolio of hotels and resorts include the Waldorf Astoria Hotels and Resorts, Conrad Hotels & Resorts, Hilton Hotels & Resorts, DoubleTree by Hilton, Embassy Suites by Hilton, Hilton Garden Inn, Hampton by Hilton, and Curio. The company was founded by Conrad Hilton in 1919 and is headquartered in Tysons, VA.

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).