How to buy Apple Hospitality REIT stock | 9.93

Apple Hospitality REIT, Inc is a reit—hotel & motel business based in the US. Apple Hospitality REIT shares (APLE) are listed on the NYSE and all prices are listed in US Dollars. Apple Hospitality REIT employs 67 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around USD$940.8 million.

How to buy shares in Apple Hospitality REIT

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2. Open and fund your brokerage account. Complete an application with your personal and financial details, like your ID and bank information. Fund your account with a bank transfer, credit card or debit card.
3. Search for Apple Hospitality REIT. Find the stock by name or ticker symbol: APLE. Research its history to confirm it's a solid investment against your financial goals.
4. Purchase now or later. Buy today with a market order or use a limit order to delay your purchase until Apple Hospitality REIT reaches your desired price. To spread out your purchase, look into dollar-cost averaging, which smooths out buying at consistent intervals and amounts.
5. Decide on how many to buy. At last close price of USD$9.93, weigh your budget against a diversified portfolio that can minimize risk through the market's ups and downs. You may be able to buy a fractional share of Apple Hospitality REIT, depending on your broker.
6. Check in on your investment. Congratulations, you own a part of Apple Hospitality REIT. Optimize your portfolio by tracking how your stock — and even the business — performs with an eye on the long term. You may be eligible for dividends and shareholder voting rights on directors and management that can affect your stock.

How has coronavirus impacted Apple Hospitality REIT's share price?

Since the stock market crash in March caused by coronavirus, Apple Hospitality REIT's share price has had significant negative movement.

Its last market close was USD$9.93, which is 34.19% down on its pre-crash value of USD$15.09 and 121.65% up on the lowest point reached during the March crash when the shares fell as low as USD$4.48.

If you had bought USD$1,000 worth of Apple Hospitality REIT shares at the start of February 2020, those shares would have been worth USD$426.37 at the bottom of the March crash, and if you held on to them, then as of the last market close they'd be worth USD$661.54.

Apple Hospitality REIT share price

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Apple Hospitality REIT shares at a glance

• Key figures

Information last updated 2020-10-13.

Latest market close	USD$9.93
52-week range	USD$4.48 - USD$16.876
50-day moving average	USD$10.2551
200-day moving average	USD$9.6162
Wall St. target price	USD$12.81
PE ratio	14.661
Dividend yield	USD$1.2 (17.37%)
Earnings per share (TTM)	USD$0.585

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Is it a good time to buy Apple Hospitality REIT stock?

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Apple Hospitality REIT price performance over time

Historical closes compared with the close of $9.93 from 2020-10-19

1 week (2020-10-21)	-4.52%
1 month (2020-10-01)	-2.26%
3 months (2020-07-29)	8.88%
6 months (2020-04-29)	-3.03%

1 year (2019-10-29)	-39.34%
2 years (2018-10-29)	-38.70%
3 years (2017-10-27)	-47.46%
5 years (2015-10-29)	-50.03%

Is Apple Hospitality REIT under- or over-valued?

Valuing Apple Hospitality REIT stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of Apple Hospitality REIT's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.

Apple Hospitality REIT's P/E ratio

Apple Hospitality REIT's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 15x. In other words, Apple Hospitality REIT shares trade at around 15x recent earnings.

That's relatively low compared to, say, the trailing 12-month P/E ratio for the NASDAQ 100 at the end of 2019 (27.29). The low P/E ratio could mean that investors are pessimistic about the outlook for the shares or simply that they're under-valued.

Apple Hospitality REIT's EBITDA

Apple Hospitality REIT's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is USD$251.5 million.

The EBITDA is a measure of a Apple Hospitality REIT's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.

Apple Hospitality REIT financials

Revenue TTM	USD$940.8 million
Operating margin TTM	5.81%
Gross profit TTM	USD$580.8 million
Return on assets TTM	0.68%
Return on equity TTM	-0.29%
Profit margin	-0.99%
Book value	$13.945
Market capitalisation	USD$2.3 billion

TTM: trailing 12 months

Shorting Apple Hospitality REIT shares

There are currently 3.7 million Apple Hospitality REIT shares held short by investors – that's known as Apple Hospitality REIT's "short interest". This figure is 0.9% up from 3.7 million last month.

There are a few different ways that this level of interest in shorting Apple Hospitality REIT shares can be evaluated.

Apple Hospitality REIT's "short interest ratio" (SIR)

Apple Hospitality REIT's "short interest ratio" (SIR) is the quantity of Apple Hospitality REIT shares currently shorted divided by the average quantity of Apple Hospitality REIT shares traded daily (recently around 2.5 million). Apple Hospitality REIT's SIR currently stands at 1.5. In other words for every 100,000 Apple Hospitality REIT shares traded daily on the market, roughly 1500 shares are currently held short.

However Apple Hospitality REIT's short interest can also be evaluated against the total number of Apple Hospitality REIT shares, or, against the total number of tradable Apple Hospitality REIT shares (the shares that aren't held by "insiders" or major long-term shareholders – also known as the "float"). In this case Apple Hospitality REIT's short interest could be expressed as 0.02% of the outstanding shares (for every 100,000 Apple Hospitality REIT shares in existence, roughly 20 shares are currently held short) or 0.0211% of the tradable shares (for every 100,000 tradable Apple Hospitality REIT shares, roughly 21 shares are currently held short).

Such a low SIR usually points to an optimistic outlook for the share price, with fewer people currently willing to bet against Apple Hospitality REIT.

Find out more about how you can short Apple Hospitality REIT stock.

Apple Hospitality REIT share dividends

We're not expecting Apple Hospitality REIT to pay a dividend over the next 12 months.

Have Apple Hospitality REIT's shares ever split?

Apple Hospitality REIT's shares were split on a 1:2 basis on 18 May 2015. So if you had owned 2 shares the day before before the split, the next day you'd have owned 1 share. This wouldn't directly have changed the overall worth of your Apple Hospitality REIT shares – just the quantity. However, indirectly, the new 100% higher share price could have impacted the market appetite for Apple Hospitality REIT shares which in turn could have impacted Apple Hospitality REIT's share price.

Apple Hospitality REIT share price volatility

Over the last 12 months, Apple Hospitality REIT's shares have ranged in value from as little as $4.48 up to $16.876. A popular way to gauge a stock's volatility is its "beta".

Beta is a measure of a share's volatility in relation to the market. The market (NYSE average) beta is 1, while Apple Hospitality REIT's is 1.1401. This would suggest that Apple Hospitality REIT's shares are a little bit more volatile than the average for this exchange and represent, relatively-speaking, a slightly higher risk (but potentially also market-beating returns).

Apple Hospitality REIT overview

Apple Hospitality REIT, Inc. (NYSE: APLE) is a publicly traded real estate investment trust (?REIT?) that owns one of the largest and most diverse portfolios of upscale, rooms-focused hotels in the United States. Apple Hospitality's portfolio consists of 233 hotels with more than 29,700 guest rooms located in 87 markets throughout 34 states. Concentrated with industry-leading brands, the Company's portfolio consists of 104 Marriott-branded hotels, 126 Hilton-branded hotels, one Hyatt-branded hotel and two independent hotels.

Frequently asked questions

• What percentage of Apple Hospitality REIT is owned by insiders or institutions?

  Currently 6.699% of Apple Hospitality REIT shares are held by insiders and 63.991% by institutions.

• How many people work for Apple Hospitality REIT?

  Latest data suggests 67 work at Apple Hospitality REIT.

• When does the fiscal year end for Apple Hospitality REIT?

  Apple Hospitality REIT's fiscal year ends in December.

• Where is Apple Hospitality REIT based?

  Apple Hospitality REIT's address is: 814 East Main Street, Richmond, VA, United States, 23219

• What is Apple Hospitality REIT's ISIN number?

  Apple Hospitality REIT's international securities identification number is: US03784Y2000

• What is Apple Hospitality REIT's CUSIP number?

  Apple Hospitality REIT's Committee on Uniform Securities Identification Procedures number is: 03784Y200