The following are today's upgrades for Validea's Growth/Value Investor model based on the published strategy of James P. O'Shaughnessy. This two strategy approach offers a large-cap value model and a growth approach that looks for persistent earnings growth and strong relative strength.
PEBBLEBROOK HOTEL TRUST (PEB) is a small-cap value stock in the Real Estate Operations industry. The rating according to our strategy based on James P. O'Shaughnessy changed from 75% to 100% based on the firm’s underlying fundamentals and the stock’s valuation. A score of 80% or above typically indicates that the strategy has some interest in the stock and a score above 90% typically indicates strong interest.
Company Description: Pebblebrook Hotel Trust is a real estate investment trust (REIT) and the owner of urban and resort lifestyle hotels in the United States. The Company owns 46 hotels and resorts, totaling approximately 12,000 guest rooms across 13 urban and resort markets. Its hotel properties include 1 Hotel San Francisco, Argonaut Hotel, Chamberlain West Hollywood Hotel, Chaminade Resort & Spa, Embassy Suites San Diego Bay-Downtown, Estancia La Jolla Hotel & Spa, George Hotel, Harbor Court Hotel San Francisco, Hilton San Diego Gaslamp Quarter, Hotel Monaco Washington DC, Hotel Zelos San Francisco, Hotel Palomar Los Angeles Beverly Hills, Hotel Zeppelin San Francisco, and others. It is focused on both branded and independent full-service upper-upscale hotels. The full-service hotels on which it focuses its investment activity generally have one or more restaurants, lounges, meeting facilities and other amenities, as well as high levels of customer service.
The following table summarizes whether the stock meets each of this strategy's tests. Not all criteria in the below table receive equal weighting or are independent, but the table provides a brief overview of the strong and weak points of the security in the context of the strategy's criteria.
| MARKET CAP: | PASS |
| EARNINGS PER SHARE PERSISTENCE: | PASS |
| PRICE/SALES RATIO: | PASS |
| RELATIVE STRENGTH: | PASS |
Detailed Analysis of PEBBLEBROOK HOTEL TRUST
James P. O'Shaughnessy Portfolio
About James P. O'Shaughnessy: Research guru and money manager James O'Shaughnessy forced many professional and amateur investors alike to rethink their investment beliefs when he published his 1996 bestseller, What Works on Wall Street. O'Shaughnessy back-tested 44 years ofstock market datafrom the comprehensive Standard & Poor's Compustat database to find out which quantitative strategies have worked over the years and which haven't. To the surprise of many, he concluded that price/earnings ratios aren't the best indicator of a stock's value, and that small-company stocks, contrary to popular wisdom, don't as a group have an edge on large-company stocks. Today O'Shaughnessy is the Chief Investment Officer of O'Shaughnessy Asset Management.
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