Ashford Hospitality Trust Inc (AHT)
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We found at least one documented issue that threatens the company itself — regardless of how the stock is currently valued.
The red rating is not about a fallen share price but about documented findings on substance. The 2025 audit opinion contains a going-concern uncertainty section; stockholders' equity stood at minus $695.2 million on March 31, 2026 and has fallen for six consecutive quarters; interest coverage was roughly 0.4 in 2025, and without gains on sales and derecognition operating income would have been negative. Add $1.9 billion of maturities within twelve months against $79.8 million of unrestricted cash, one loan in default and suspended payments on all nine preferred series. Any one of those alone would justify the most cautious rating. What does not argue against it is that the hotel business works and the real estate is sellable — both are documented and credited in the article. It simply does not change the fact that the substance of the company itself is in question. The decision is yours.
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Our in-house stock scanner puts Ashford Hospitality Trust 16th in the price-to-free-cash-flow ranking of the U.S. selection on July 27, 2026, at a ratio of 0.9. Read the filings with the U.S. securities regulator, the SEC, and what sits behind that number is not earnings power but a collapsed numerator: roughly $21.7 million of common stock market value against $2.4 billion of debt, minus $695 million of equity and an audit opinion with a going-concern paragraph. The advisor running this company does not work inside it. It has extended its own contract to 2041, and its potential exit fee is one of the reasons the auditor gives for its doubt. Cheap is not a price here. It is a question.
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52-Week Range
Current price 3.20 $ — 16% of the range above the low.
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Basics
Performance
Technical Indicators
Calculated from the price history · as of 08/03/2026
Valuation
Profitability
Balance Sheet & Safety
Growth
Dividend
This stock currently pays no dividend.
Quality & Screener
AI Rating
NeutralKein wesentlicher KI-Bezug: In den sechs ausgewerteten Berichten (2× 10-K, 4× 10-Q) kommt Künstliche Intelligenz ausschließlich im Geschäftsbericht für 2025 vor, dort nur als allgemeiner Risikohinweis zu Cyber-Sicherheit und Regulierung — als Werkzeug, das die Gesellschaft und ihre Hotelbetreiber künftig einsetzen „können“, nicht als Umsatzquelle und nicht als konkretes Risiko für das eigene Hotel-Geschäftsmodell.
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„We are also increasingly exposed to risks associated with the use of artificial intelligence (“AI”) and machine learning technologies, both as tools we and/or our hotel managers may adopt to improve operations."
Wir sind zudem in wachsendem Maße Risiken ausgesetzt, die mit dem Einsatz Künstlicher Intelligenz („KI“) und maschinellen Lernens verbunden sind — als Werkzeuge, die wir und/oder unsere Hotelbetreiber zur Verbesserung des Betriebs einsetzen könnten.
„This includes systems that may incorporate AI or machine learning capabilities, which may introduce additional risks, including algorithmic errors, biased outputs, unintended data exposure, or vulnerabilities that could be exploited by third parties."
Dazu gehören Systeme, die KI- oder Fähigkeiten maschinellen Lernens enthalten können und die zusätzliche Risiken mit sich bringen können — darunter Fehler der Algorithmen, verzerrte Ergebnisse, ungewollte Datenoffenlegung oder Schwachstellen, die Dritte ausnutzen könnten.
Filings Reviewed: 10-Q 2026-05-14 · 10-K 2026-03-23 · 10-Q 2025-11-13 · 10-Q 2025-08-14 · 10-Q 2025-05-14 · 10-K 2025-03-21
Rated on July 27, 2026 · How the Rating Is Built
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The price target sits 56.2% above the current price.
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Quarterly Figures
| Quarter | EPS (Earnings Per Share) | EPS YoY (%) | Sales ($M) | Sales YoY (%) | Net Margin (%) | OCF ($M) | FCF ($M) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024: Q4 | -19.18 | – | 276 | -13.90 | -45.10 | 14 | 14 |
| 2025: Q1 | -3.08 | -127.90 | 277 | -8.70 | -7.20 | -25 | -25 |
| 2025: Q2 | -4.69 | -160.50 | 302 | -4.60 | -10.10 | 16 | 16 |
| 2025: Q3 | -9.29 | – | 266 | -3.80 | -22.60 | 6 | 6 |
| 2025: Q4 | -10.70 | – | 259 | -6.00 | -26.80 | -13 | -13 |
| 2026: Q1 | -9.85 | – | 268 | -3.50 | -23.80 | 30 | 13 |
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- Quarterly profit divided by the total share count — how much of the profit works out to a single share.
- YoY (Year over Year):
- Change versus the same quarter a year ago — this is how you compare without seasonal distortion (e.g. the holiday shopping season).
- Sales:
- All revenue for the quarter, before any costs are deducted — the top line of the income statement.
- Net Margin:
- What percentage of sales is left over as profit in the end. Negative means the company is posting a loss.
- OCF (Operating Cash Flow):
- The cash that actually flows into the till from the core business during the quarter — harder to dress up than book profit.
- FCF (Free Cash Flow):
- Operating cash flow minus capital expenditures — the money that's genuinely free to use, say for paying down debt, buybacks, or dividends.
Assessment: Opportunities & Risks
A hotel REIT with 63 consolidated properties and 15,591 rooms in the United States (March 31, 2026), operated under brands such as Marriott, Hilton and Hyatt. The operating business works: RevPAR of $131.68 in 2025 after $132.87 the year before, adjusted EBITDAre of $51.7 million in the first quarter of 2026. The real estate sells at genuine prices — the Hyatt Regency Savannah alone brought $158.0 million on June 30, 2026.
The BDO USA, P.C. audit opinion for 2025 contains a going-concern uncertainty section; the quarterly report as of March 31, 2026 names $1.9 billion of maturities within twelve months. Equity stood at minus $695.2 million and has fallen for six consecutive quarters; total assets of $2,605.3 million face liabilities of $3,044.0 million. Cash on hand: $79.8 million unrestricted, $141.2 million restricted.
Operating income of $116.4 million for 2025 contains $79.8 million of sale gains and $39.1 million of derecognition gains; without them a loss of $2.5 million remains. Against that stand $295.3 million of interest — coverage of 0.4. Adjusted FFO, the load-bearing REIT measure, was negative in 2024 at minus $23.1 million and in 2025 at minus $34.4 million; earnings per share came in at minus $35.99 in 2025.
The company has no employees of its own. Fees to Ashford Inc. came to $49.0 million in 2025 — more than twice the market value of the common stock; the outstanding payable rose to $65.6 million (March 31, 2026). The advisor unilaterally extended the agreement to 2041 on December 23, 2025; since March 27, 2026 the termination fee equals the present value of 30 years of foregone adjusted EBITDA, discounted at two percent, calculated by the recipient.
Nine preferred series with a liquidation preference of roughly $372 million stand ahead of common stockholders. Their dividends were suspended on January 13, 2026, including amounts already declared; the common dividend has been dormant since 2020 and stays that way in 2026. Three one-for-ten reverse splits (July 15, 2020, July 16, 2021, October 25, 2024) compound to one-for-1,000, and the share count then rose from 5,636,595 to 6,476,491.
Rank 16 in our in-house P/FCF ranking of the U.S. selection at a ratio of 0.9, measured on July 27, 2026 (544 hits in the list, 25 rows displayed with the U.S. market filter set; last recomputed July 26, 2026). The arithmetic holds, but here it mostly measures the shrunken market value: the first-quarter 2026 cash inflow of $29.5 million contains $27.0 million from unpaid bills and $20.4 million of advisory fees not yet wired. The stock page itself does not count metric rankings as strategy hits.
Ashford Hospitality Trust is not a cheap stock; it is a small one. Against more than a billion dollars of annual revenue and a hotel portfolio stand $2.4 billion of debt, equity of minus $695.2 million and an audit opinion with a going-concern paragraph; the common stock is worth roughly $21.7 million. The ratio that lifts the stock to rank 16 of the P/FCF ranking comes out of that shrunken market value and out of one quarter whose cash inflow is largely made of unpaid bills — including $20.4 million owed to the external advisor. The hotels and their sale proceeds are real. What stays open is whether anything is left for the common stock after $1.9 billion of maturities, $372 million of preferred claims and an advisory contract running to 2041. Not investment advice.
- Hook and source: rank 16 in our in-house P/FCF ranking of the U.S. selection, measured on July 27, 2026 at a ratio of 0.9. The list showed 544 hits that day; with the U.S. market filter set the page displays 25 rows, and the stock sits 16th among them. The list had last been recomputed on July 26, 2026. The scanner lists are rebuilt daily, so the placement is a dated snapshot, not a permanent state.
- Where the low ratio comes from — checked, not assumed: the ranking divides market value by free cash flow over the last four quarters. The common stock market value is roughly $21.7 million (fundamental data as of July 26, 2026) while the same balance sheet carries $2.4 billion of debt — so the ratio is mostly a statement about the numerator. The denominator does not carry it either: full-year 2025 saw operating cash outflow (minus $15.7 million) and so did 2024 (minus $23.6 million). The positive first quarter of 2026 (plus $29.5 million) contains $27.0 million from payables and accruals plus $20.4 million from the line "Due to/from Ashford Inc.", meaning advisory fees not yet wired; the $218.4 million of repayments in that quarter, by contrast, were funded from hotel sales with $209.2 million of net proceeds, which sit in investing activities and never enter free cash flow.
- Reverse splits checked carefully: three one-for-ten consolidations, evidenced by the current reports of July 1, 2020 (effective July 15, 2020), July 16, 2021 (effective July 16, 2021) and October 25, 2024 (effective October 25, 2024) — one-for-1,000 cumulatively. The price series was reviewed line by line on July 27, 2026: the unadjusted closing price column breaks at all three dates ($0.61 to $5.57 on July 15/16, 2020; $1.82 to $16.76 on July 16/19, 2021; $0.56 to $6.10 on October 24/28, 2024) and is therefore useless for multi-year comparisons. The adjusted series runs through the same days (610 to 557; 182 to 168; 5.6 to 6.1) and is the only usable one; it shows a decline from $3,726.60 on January 2, 2019 to $3.24 on July 24, 2026, or 99.9 percent. All per-share figures in the filings are already restated retroactively.
- Metric selection at a REIT: FFO, Adjusted FFO, leverage and the maturity schedule are what matter. The Altman Z-score displayed by the scanner was designed for industrial companies and carries no meaning for a property company that runs on heavy leverage by design; it is therefore not used as an argument in this analysis. Book value per share is negative, which also rules out price-to-book as a sensible measure here.
- Merger check: none pending. The filing history since December 2017 contains no SC 13E-3, no DEFM14A, no Form 25 and no Form 15; the only S-4 dates from 2020 and concerned an exchange offer on preferred stock. The company states that it is evaluating "strategic alternatives"; no transaction had been announced as of July 27, 2026, and the most recent filing of any kind is a 424B3 dated July 8, 2026. The common stock and five preferred series remain listed on the NYSE.
- Possible confusion: Ashford Hospitality Trust, Inc. (AHT) is not the same as Ashford Inc. (AINC), the external management company, nor as Braemar Hotels & Resorts (BHR), which is managed by the same house. All three are separate registrants with their own SEC filings.
About the Company
Ashford Hospitality Trust, Inc. ist zusammen mit seinen Tochtergesellschaften ein Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT).
| Headquarters | Dallas, TX |
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| Website | ahtreit.com |
| IPO Date | 26. Aug 2003 |
Management
| Name | Title | Birth Year |
|---|---|---|
| Montgomery Jack Bennett IV | Founder & Chairman of the Board | 1966 |
| Stephen Zsigray | CEO, Director & President | 1987 |
| Justin R. Coe | Chief Accounting Officer & Principal Financial Officer | 1984 |
| Jordan Jennings | Manager of Investor Relations | – |
| James Allen Plohg J.D. | Executive VP, General Counsel & Secretary | 1975 |
| Allison Ryan Beach | Director of Public Relations | – |
| Larry Doyle | Senior Vice President of Asset Management | – |
| Jay Steigerwald | Head of Distribution | – |
| Chris Batchelor | President of RED Hospitality & Leisure | – |
Executives per the latest required filings; titles kept in their original language. Source: fundamental data.
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Data as of: July 31, 2026 · Source: fundamental data & SEC filings (annual and quarterly reports, 10-K/10-Q)
Note: pure fact-based analysis, not investment advice and not a solicitation to buy or sell. All figures without guarantee.