How to buy CorePoint Lodging stock | $6.98

CorePoint Lodging Inc is a reit-hotel & motel business based in the US. CorePoint Lodging shares (CPLG) are listed on the NYSE and all prices are listed in US Dollars. CorePoint Lodging employs 30 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around USD$495 million.

How to buy shares in CorePoint Lodging

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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 CorePoint Lodging. Find the stock by name or ticker symbol: CPLG. 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 CorePoint Lodging 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$6.98, 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 CorePoint Lodging, depending on your broker.
6. Check in on your investment. Congratulations, you own a part of CorePoint Lodging. 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.

CorePoint Lodging share price

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CorePoint Lodging shares at a glance

• Key figures

Information last updated 2020-12-27.

Latest market close	USD$6.98
52-week range	USD$2.0622 - USD$10.1595
50-day moving average	USD$6.5185
200-day moving average	USD$5.4702
Wall St. target price	USD$7
PE ratio	N/A
Dividend yield	USD$0.8 (25.48%)
Earnings per share (TTM)	USD$-4.217

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CorePoint Lodging price performance over time

Historical closes compared with the close of $6.98 from 2020-12-09

1 week (2021-01-15)	4.02%
1 month (2020-12-23)	5.12%
3 months (2020-10-23)	22.89%
6 months (2020-07-22)	35.53%

1 year (2020-01-22)	-31.23%
2 years (2019-01-22)	-43.25%
3 years (2018-01-19)	N/A
5 years (2016-01-19)	N/A

Is CorePoint Lodging under- or over-valued?

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

CorePoint Lodging's EBITDA

CorePoint Lodging's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is USD$8 million.

The EBITDA is a measure of a CorePoint Lodging's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.

CorePoint Lodging financials

Revenue TTM	USD$495 million
Gross profit TTM	USD$310 million
Return on assets TTM	-4.84%
Return on equity TTM	-27.86%
Profit margin	-58.59%
Book value	$15.395
Market capitalisation	USD$393.7 million

TTM: trailing 12 months

Shorting CorePoint Lodging shares

There are currently 844,001 CorePoint Lodging shares held short by investors – that's known as CorePoint Lodging's "short interest". This figure is 18.7% down from 1.0 million last month.

There are a few different ways that this level of interest in shorting CorePoint Lodging shares can be evaluated.

CorePoint Lodging's "short interest ratio" (SIR)

CorePoint Lodging's "short interest ratio" (SIR) is the quantity of CorePoint Lodging shares currently shorted divided by the average quantity of CorePoint Lodging shares traded daily (recently around 157462.87313433). CorePoint Lodging's SIR currently stands at 5.36. In other words for every 100,000 CorePoint Lodging shares traded daily on the market, roughly 5360 shares are currently held short.

However CorePoint Lodging's short interest can also be evaluated against the total number of CorePoint Lodging shares, or, against the total number of tradable CorePoint Lodging shares (the shares that aren't held by "insiders" or major long-term shareholders – also known as the "float"). In this case CorePoint Lodging's short interest could be expressed as 0.01% of the outstanding shares (for every 100,000 CorePoint Lodging shares in existence, roughly 10 shares are currently held short) or 0.0216% of the tradable shares (for every 100,000 tradable CorePoint Lodging shares, roughly 22 shares are currently held short).

A SIR below 10% would generally be considered to indicate a fairly optimistic outlook for the share price, with fewer people currently willing to bet against CorePoint Lodging.

Find out more about how you can short CorePoint Lodging stock.

CorePoint Lodging share dividends

We're not expecting CorePoint Lodging to pay a dividend over the next 12 months.

CorePoint Lodging share price volatility

Over the last 12 months, CorePoint Lodging's shares have ranged in value from as little as $2.0622 up to $10.1595. 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 CorePoint Lodging's is 1.9716. This would suggest that CorePoint Lodging's shares are more volatile than the average for this exchange and represent, relatively-speaking, a higher risk (but potentially also market-beating returns).

CorePoint Lodging overview

CorePoint Lodging Inc., a real estate investment trust company, owns midscale and upper-midscale select-service hotels primarily under the La Quinta brand. As of December 31, 2019, it had a portfolio of 271 select-service hotels and approximately 35,000 rooms across 41 states in the United States. The company has elected to be taxed as a real estate investment trust. As a result, it would not be subject to corporate income tax on that portion of its net income that is distributed to shareholders. CorePoint Lodging Inc. is headquartered in Irving, Texas.

Frequently asked questions

• What percentage of CorePoint Lodging is owned by insiders or institutions?

  Currently 2.649% of CorePoint Lodging shares are held by insiders and 84.316% by institutions.

• How many people work for CorePoint Lodging?

  Latest data suggests 30 work at CorePoint Lodging.

• When does the fiscal year end for CorePoint Lodging?

  CorePoint Lodging's fiscal year ends in December.

• Where is CorePoint Lodging based?

  CorePoint Lodging's address is: 125 East John Carpenter Freeway, Irving, TX, United States, 75062

• What is CorePoint Lodging's ISIN number?

  CorePoint Lodging's international securities identification number is: US21872L1044

• What is CorePoint Lodging's CUSIP number?

  CorePoint Lodging's Committee on Uniform Securities Identification Procedures number is: 21872L104