Top 5 Prefered Stocks To Invest In 2015

Top 5 Prefered Stocks To Invest In 2015: Ashford Hospitality Trust Inc (AHT)

Ashford Hospitality Trust, Inc. is a publicly owned real estate investment trust. The firm engages in investment and management of properties in the hospitality industry. It invests in the real estate markets of the United States. The firm primarily invests in hotels with a focus on the ownership of upper-upscale and upscale full-service and select service hotels in primary, secondary and resort markets. It also invests in mid-scale and luxury hotels. The firm invests across all segments and at all levels of the capital structure, including direct hotel investments, first mortgages, mezzanine loans, construction loans, and sale-leaseback transactions. It primarily concentrates among Marriott, Hilton, Hyatt, and Starwood brands. Ashford Hospitality Trust, Inc. was founded in 1968 and is based in Dallas, Texas.

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Lawrence Meyers]

  Finally, we have a long-time holding of my own portfolio, Ashford Hospitality Trust Preferred D Shares (AHT), which is an 8.45% issuance trading right about par. With hotel preferred stock, you have a great opportunity for safe yields. Your preferred stock is paid dividends before common shareholders receive theirs. During the financial crisis, when every other hotel stock was getting destroyed and cutting both common and preferred dividends, Ashford maintained its preferred payouts. It is the hotel REIT with the highest insider ownership, and has a solid balance sheet that survived the worst of times.

• [By Rich Duprey]

  Hospitality industry real estate investment trustAshford Hospitality Trust (NYSE: AHT  ) announced today its second-quarter dividend of $0.12 per share, the same rate it paid last quarter after raising the payout 9% from $0.11 per share.

• [By Rich Duprey]

  Seeking to create clarity for investors by creating a company focused solely on the luxury hotel segment, Ash! ford Hospital Trust (NYSE: AHT  ) announced yesterday it was spinning off eight of its properties into a new real estate investment trust to be called Ashford Hospitality Prime.

• [By Monica Gerson]

  Ashford Hospitality Trust (NYSE: AHT) shares declined 5.45% to $10.59 after the company priced 7.5 million shares at $10.70 per share.

  Walter Energy (NYSE: WLT) fell 4.55% to $7.97 after UBS downgraded the stock from Neutral to Sell.

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