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Collins Stewart Maintains a 'Buy' on Diamondrock Hospitality (DRH); Comments on Outlook

October 23, 2009 11:19 AM EDT
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    1 Buy, 7 Hold, 0 Sell

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    Up: 16 | Down: 7 | New: 23
Collins Stewart maintains a 'Buy' rating on Diamondrock Hospitality (NYSE: DRH), raises price target to $9.50.

Collins analyst says, "Hotel Acquisition Discussion Becomes Relevant - While it did not come across as a burning priority, management did indicate it is looking for - and is positioned to make - opportunistic hotel acquisitions. DRH has $300MM+ in readily available funds to purchase distressed hotels - more if it levered its 10 unencumbered hotels. As such, and with no guidance from management, we are now modeling the inclusion of two hotel acquisitions in 1H10- assumed purchase price is $135,000/key for like-sized and quality hotels...However, we are also now including the expected 2009 dividend payment (we estimate $0.35) as well as a dividend in 2010 (early estimate of $0.24), to arrive at an expected total return of 20%. The EV/EBITDA and real estate components of our price target methodology remain unchanged at 11x and $235,000 per key, weighted at 50/50."

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