Eleven analysts cover Park Hotels & Resorts and not one of them is saying "buy." When the consensus on a lodging REIT ranges from "hold" to "reduce" while the company sells assets above implied portfolio value, the math is worth decomposing.
Wells Fargo just dropped Park Hotels' price target to $10 while the stock trades around $10.65, and 13 analysts average only $11.27. When the Street can barely find a reason to own a 26,000-room upper-upscale portfolio, it's time to ask what that says about the segment you're operating in.
Wells Fargo trimmed Apple Hospitality REIT's price target by a dollar, which barely registers as news. What registers is a Q4 earnings miss where actual EPS came in at less than half the consensus estimate, inside a portfolio of 217 hotels that posted negative RevPAR growth for the full year.
