Four kinds of sourceSEC filingCompany statementMarket dataComputedWhat each means
SEC filingFiled with the SEC
Read from a statement the company filed with the SEC, with the form, fiscal year, filing date and accession beside it.
Company statementCompany statement
What the company says about itself in a filing: an 8-K item, the auditor, its own segment names.
Market dataMarket data
Prices, market value and what analysts publish, with the date they are as of.
ComputedComputed by ValueScreener
Worked out by us from the other three, with the inputs and the formula one press away. A score is a research output, not a rating or a recommendation.
Reading
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Overview
What the business is, what it costs, and how it reads on four questions.
Market dataSEC filingComputed
Four questions, at a glance
Quality
Return on invested capital, after tax
n/aComputed
From the FY2025 filing
Why n/a
The debt total on file was summed from short-term debt, long-term debt and lease obligations, and at least one of those was never captured. An absent term is spent as a zero inside that sum, and this balance sheet does not show the term is empty, so we will not build a leverage ratio, an enterprise value or a return on capital on it, or rank the company on one.
GAAP earnings for a property trust are charged with depreciation on buildings that are generally appreciating, so a P/E built on them overstates how expensive the trust is. Use price to FFO.
Free cash flow yield is -200.0% at the close of 2026-10-14 on FY2025 figures; the lines are 2.0%, 5.0% and 8.0%, set by convention, and this sits below the lowest.
Today, against the Real Estate sector (116 companies), -200.0% sits at the 3rd percentile; the middle half of that group runs from -2.1% to 7.6%.
Is it good
Operating margin was 10.5% in FY2025. No published threshold exists for operating margin, so its standing against peers is the reading.
Today, against the Real Estate sector (121 companies), 10.5% sits at the 44th percentile; the middle half of that group runs from 0.2% to 34.2%.
Is it safe
Interest coverage was 0.45x in FY2025, in the band labelled "Distress territory" (below 1.50x), on lines anchored on Damodaran's interest-coverage table.
Year by year against peers
Whether Ashford Hospitality Trust, Inc.'s operating margin stayed above the median of the Real Estate sector, year by year. (FY2024 to FY2025, 2 fiscal years of Ashford Hospitality Trust, Inc. with a comparable figure)
The direction
Which way Ashford Hospitality Trust, Inc.'s operating margin has moved, and how steadily. (FY2016 to FY2025, 10 filed years of Ashford Hospitality Trust, Inc.)
What could explain it
What in Ashford Hospitality Trust, Inc.'s filed statements could explain the movements. (4 readings drawn from the statement lines Ashford Hospitality Trust, Inc. filed)
What to check next
What to check next on Ashford Hospitality Trust, Inc., and where in its filings. (4 questions for Ashford Hospitality Trust, Inc.)
In one paragraph
One paragraph on Ashford Hospitality Trust, Inc.'s returns, cash, balance sheet and price. (6 of sixteen figures read for Ashford Hospitality Trust, Inc.)
These are AHT’s filed figures. The research desk says what they mean, against peers and its own years, with what to check next.
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What changed
The newest filing, what it moved, and when the next one is due.
SEC filingCompany statement
The newest accounts on file are the FY2025 annual report: 10-K, filed Mar 23, 2026, accession 0001232582-26-000067.
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Quality
The returns the business earns on its capital, and the margins behind them.
SEC filingComputed
Ashford Hospitality Trust, Inc: returns on capital and margins, each with its source
Figure
Value, source and document
Return on invested capital, after taxWhy n/a
The debt total on file was summed from short-term debt, long-term debt and lease obligations, and at least one of those was never captured. An absent term is spent as a zero inside that sum, and this balance sheet does not show the term is empty, so we will not build a leverage ratio, an enterprise value or a return on capital on it, or rank the company on one.
Book equity is zero or negative. Return on equity computed over it flips sign and can read as a strong positive on a loss-making company, so we will not show a number.
A property trust presents an unclassified balance sheet: buildings are long-lived assets and mortgage debt is drawn against them, so there is no split between current and non-current for a current ratio to divide. Look at net debt to EBITDA and interest coverage instead.
A property trust presents an unclassified balance sheet: buildings are long-lived assets and mortgage debt is drawn against them, so there is no split between current and non-current for a current ratio to divide. Look at net debt to EBITDA and interest coverage instead.
Altman's Z-Score rewards working capital and asset turnover, neither of which a property trust has. It reads distress for healthy REITs by construction, so we do not show it.
n/mComputedClose of Oct 14, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Mar 23, 2026, 0001232582-26-000067
Net debtWhy n/a
The FY2025 balance sheet carries no net debt we could read.
Ashford Hospitality Trust, Inc: balance sheet position
Total assets
2.83BFiledFY2025 10-K, filed Mar 23, 2026
Total liabilities
3.21BFiledFY2025 10-K, filed Mar 23, 2026
Shareholders' equity
-626.4MFiledFY2025 10-K, filed Mar 23, 2026
Cash
66.1MFiledFY2025 10-K, filed Mar 23, 2026
Total debt
n/aFiledFY2025 10-K, filed Mar 23, 2026
Net debt
n/a
Current ratio
n/m
Debt to equity
n/m
Debt to equity: FY2025: Filed shareholders equity is zero or below, so debt measured against it is not a measurement (n/m).
Current ratio: FY2025: A property trust presents an unclassified balance sheet: buildings are long-lived assets and mortgage debt is drawn against them, so there is no split between current and non-current for a current ratio to divide. Look at net debt to EBITDA and interest coverage instead.
Read from the filed balance sheet for each year, with the income statement of the same year supplying operating profit where a ratio needs it. Nothing here is a view on whether this company is sound.
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Valuation context
What the market charges for it, against its own record and companies like it.
Market dataSEC filingComputed
Ashford Hospitality Trust, Inc: what the market charges, each with its source
Figure
Value, source and document
Price to earningsWhy n/m
GAAP earnings for a property trust are charged with depreciation on buildings that are generally appreciating, so a P/E built on them overstates how expensive the trust is. Use price to FFO.
n/mComputedClose of Oct 14, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Mar 23, 2026, 0001232582-26-000067
P/E on trailing twelve months
21.04xComputedClose of Oct 14, 2026 · Trailing four quarters, each as known on the day; the quarterly filings are listed under Filings
Price to bookWhy n/m
Book equity is zero or negative, so a ratio measured against it (debt to equity, price to book) is not a measurement, and we will not show a number.
n/mComputedClose of Oct 14, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Mar 23, 2026, 0001232582-26-000067
Price to sales
0.01xComputedClose of Oct 14, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Mar 23, 2026, 0001232582-26-000067
Enterprise value to EBITWhy n/a
The debt total on file was summed from short-term debt, long-term debt and lease obligations, and at least one of those was never captured. An absent term is spent as a zero inside that sum, and this balance sheet does not show the term is empty, so we will not build a leverage ratio, an enterprise value or a return on capital on it, or rank the company on one.
n/aComputedClose of Oct 14, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Mar 23, 2026, 0001232582-26-000067
Enterprise value to EBITDAWhy n/a
The debt total on file was summed from short-term debt, long-term debt and lease obligations, and at least one of those was never captured. An absent term is spent as a zero inside that sum, and this balance sheet does not show the term is empty, so we will not build a leverage ratio, an enterprise value or a return on capital on it, or rank the company on one.
n/aComputedClose of Oct 14, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Mar 23, 2026, 0001232582-26-000067
Price to earnings over growthWhy n/m
GAAP earnings for a property trust are charged with depreciation on buildings that are generally appreciating, so a P/E built on them overstates how expensive the trust is. Use price to FFO.
n/mComputedClose of Oct 14, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Mar 23, 2026, 0001232582-26-000067
Earnings are zero or negative, so a price to earnings multiple is not meaningful. A negative P/E is not a cheap company and a large positive one from a near-zero denominator is not an expensive one.
We publish no fair value or price target of our own. Value AHT on your own assumptions in the DCF workbench, starting from the filed figures.
›Its own record, and companies like it
Valuation
What the market charges for Ashford Hospitality Trust, Inc today, and the multiples it has carried. No value of ours: the figures are the filings’ and the market’s.
Ashford Hospitality Trust, Inc: valuation
Share price
1.88 USD
Market capitalisation
12.2M USD
Enterprise value to EBITDA
n/a
Graham number
n/m
Diluted earnings per share, FY2025
-35.99 USD
Price to earnings on trailing twelve months, a different basis from the fiscal-year P/E above, since Oct 3, 2016: low 0.92x, median 30.26x, high 124.21x, latest 21.04x. 225 trading days with a meaningful ratio, 2,296 more on a loss and left out. Each close over the trailing twelve months of earnings as known that day: a quarter counts from the day it was filed.
Same sector (Real Estate) and size band (Nano, under 50M), nearest in market value and net margin. Each of those counts equally, by how many of the companies considered sit between the two on it. Closest first: the order is likeness and nothing else.
0.0%ComputedClose of Oct 14, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Mar 23, 2026, 0001232582-26-000067
Payout ratioWhy n/m
A REIT pays out of funds from operations, not GAAP earnings. A payout ratio on earnings reads far above 100% for a perfectly safe distribution. Use the FFO payout ratio.
Free cash flow Net incomeProfit that arrives as cash stands level with net income; a gap year after year is worth reading about.
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Filings
Every figure, the year it is for and the document it was read from.
SEC filingMarket data
The filed figures
Computed from the accounts this company filed with the SEC and, in a ratio with a price in it, the last close, dated on this page. Every filed figure below carries the fiscal year and the filing date its accounts were read from, and every blank carries the reason it is blank. Nothing here is a view on this company.
Ashford Hospitality Trust, Inc.: the eight ratios, with the fiscal year and filing date behind each.
Figure
Value
Year
As of
n/m
FY2025
Oct 14, 2026
n/m Not meaningful for this company, such as a P/E on negative earnings or a bank's EV/EBIT.
FormulaShare price / earnings per share. Where the filing states no earnings per share this listing can be priced on, which is every 20-F and 40-F filer because theirs is stated per ordinary share, it is market capitalisation / net income: the same multiple, undiluted.
As ofThe close on Oct 14, 2026, over the filed figures of FY2025: a price is in this figure, and it moved after the filing.
n/a The debt total on file was summed from short-term debt, long-term debt and lease obligations, and at least one of those was never captured. An absent term is spent as a zero inside that sum, and this balance sheet does not show the term is empty, so we will not build a leverage ratio, an enterprise value or a return on capital on it, or rank the company on one.
Formula(Market capitalisation + total debt - cash) / operating income, or over the filing's own EBIT (income before tax + interest expense) where the filer tags no operating line, as Johnson & Johnson does not in any of its ten filed years.
As ofThe close on Oct 14, 2026, over the filed figures of FY2025: a price is in this figure, and it moved after the filing.
n/a The debt total on file was summed from short-term debt, long-term debt and lease obligations, and at least one of those was never captured. An absent term is spent as a zero inside that sum, and this balance sheet does not show the term is empty, so we will not build a leverage ratio, an enterprise value or a return on capital on it, or rank the company on one.
FormulaVendor trailing-twelve-month return on invested capital where one is published, which uses after-tax operating profit over total assets less current liabilities. Otherwise our own recompute: NOPAT / (shareholders equity + total debt - cash) x 100, where NOPAT is the filed operating profit after tax, or the filing's own EBIT after tax where the filer tags no operating line.
As ofThe filing date of the statements below, for FY2025.
FormulaCommon dividends paid in the latest filed year / market capitalisation x 100. n/a where the filing cannot support it: a special or first-year payment, a total that mixes preferred dividends, or a cash-flow statement over 15 months old.
As ofThe close on Oct 14, 2026, over the filed figures of FY2025: a price is in this figure, and it moved after the filing.
n/m Not meaningful for this company, such as a P/E on negative earnings or a bank's EV/EBIT.
Formula1.2 x working capital/assets + 1.4 x retained earnings/assets + 3.3 x EBIT/assets + 0.6 x market value of equity/total liabilities + 1.0 x revenue/assets
As ofThe close on Oct 14, 2026, over the filed figures of FY2025: a price is in this figure, and it moved after the filing.
n/m Not meaningful for this company, such as a P/E on negative earnings or a bank's EV/EBIT.
FormulaAn eight-variable index of year-on-year changes in receivables, gross margin, asset quality, revenue, depreciation, overheads, leverage and accruals
As ofThe filing date of the statements below, for FY2025.
n/m Not meaningful for this company, such as a P/E on negative earnings or a bank's EV/EBIT.
FormulaOne point each for: positive return on assets, positive operating cash flow, rising return on assets, operating cash flow above net income, falling leverage, rising current ratio, no new shares issued, rising gross margin, rising asset turnover.
As ofThe filing date of the statements below, for FY2025.
The figures are computed from the accounts for fiscal 2025, the newest full year on file. 16 filed fiscal years on record, FY2009 to FY2025, from SEC EDGAR. Prices as of Oct 14, 2026. Ratios recomputed Oct 14, 2026. Two facts, because a recompute is not a fresh quote.
The year and the filing date name the statement each figure’s accounts are read from, and they stand even where the figure itself could not be computed: the line beneath a blank says what that statement did not carry. A figure’s name opens its formula and the filings behind it; a statement that names no SEC filing has no filing date, and reads n/a.
›Ten years of filed figures, year by year
Ten years of filed figures
10 filed fiscal years, FY2016 to FY2025, read from the annual reports Ashford Hospitality Trust, Inc filed with the SEC. Each year names its filing. Amounts in USD, as filed.
Ashford Hospitality Trust, Inc: revenue, earnings, free cash flow and returns, by fiscal year, with the filing each year was read from
Revenue, compound annual growth FY2016 to FY2025: -3.3%
Earnings: Earnings was not positive in both 2016 and 2025, so a compound rate across the window is not defined. Both figures are in the table.
Earnings per share: Earnings per share was not positive in both 2016 and 2025, so a compound rate across the window is not defined. Both figures are in the table.
Free cash flow: Free cash flow was not positive in both 2016 and 2025, so a compound rate across the window is not defined. Both figures are in the table.
Every figure in this section is a line of a filed annual statement or a ratio of two of them. Nothing here is estimated or smoothed. Earnings per share filed before a share split are put on today's share count, and say so. Nothing here is a verdict on the company.
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Risks and guardrails
The accounting screens, the published tests, and the lines you can set to be told.
ComputedCompany statement
Ashford Hospitality Trust, Inc: accounting screens and published tests, each with its source
Figure
Value, source and document
Beneish M-scoreWhy n/m
The Beneish M-Score is built on gross margin, receivables and asset quality indices estimated on non-financial firms. Those inputs are not defined here.
2 of the nine Piotroski signals are undefined for an equity REIT: signal 6 (rising current ratio), signal 8 (rising gross margin). We do not publish a partial score under the full score's name.
Of 30 tests value investors published: 0 met, 14 not met, 16 we could not complete. Counts, never a score: a single figure would have to decide that meeting one investor’s criteria and meeting another’s are worth the same.
Which tests, by name(all 30)
Meets
None of the named tests.
Does not
Defensive investor (Benjamin Graham); Large cap, low P/E; Gross margin, turnover (Robert Novy-Marx); EV/EBITDA and coverage; High yield, low payout; Dividends and buybacks; Low beta, profitable; Z-score and coverage (Edward Altman); High returns, low debt; Owner earnings yield; High return on tangibles; Low P/S, rising earnings (James O'Shaughnessy); Tangible book or below; Cash-flow yield and ROIC
Not measured
Deep value; Earnings yield and ROIC (Joel Greenblatt); High F-score, low P/B (Joseph Piotroski); Three forensic scores; Low PEG, low debt (Peter Lynch); High returns and growth; ROIC at or above WACC; Near the 52-week low; Two thirds of NCAV (Benjamin Graham); P/E times P/B (Benjamin Graham); Book or below, low debt (Walter Schloss); Cash-covered dividend; Clean books, high ROIC; Cheapest quarter on P/E (David Dreman); Cheapest quarter on P/B (David Dreman); Low P/E, growth, yield (John Neff). A test with a figure we could not read is incomplete, never met and never failed.
Figures we could not read(22)
Current Ratio: A property trust presents an unclassified balance sheet: buildings are long-lived assets and mortgage debt is drawn against them, so there is no split between current and non-current for a current ratio to divide. Look at net debt to EBITDA and interest coverage instead.
Debt to Equity: Filed shareholders equity is zero or below, so debt measured against it is not a measurement (n/m).
P/B Ratio: Book equity is zero or negative, so a ratio measured against it (debt to equity, price to book) is not a measurement, and we will not show a number.
Piotroski F-Score: 2 of the nine Piotroski signals are undefined for an equity REIT: signal 6 (rising current ratio), signal 8 (rising gross margin). We do not publish a partial score under the full score's name.
P/E Ratio: GAAP earnings for a property trust are charged with depreciation on buildings that are generally appreciating, so a P/E built on them overstates how expensive the trust is. Use price to FFO.
EV/EBIT: The debt total on file was summed from short-term debt, long-term debt and lease obligations, and at least one of those was never captured. An absent term is spent as a zero inside that sum, and this balance sheet does not show the term is empty, so we will not build a leverage ratio, an enterprise value or a return on capital on it, or rank the company on one.
Return on Invested Capital: The debt total on file was summed from short-term debt, long-term debt and lease obligations, and at least one of those was never captured. An absent term is spent as a zero inside that sum, and this balance sheet does not show the term is empty, so we will not build a leverage ratio, an enterprise value or a return on capital on it, or rank the company on one.
Altman Z-Score: Altman's Z-Score rewards working capital and asset turnover, neither of which a property trust has. It reads distress for healthy REITs by construction, so we do not show it.
Beneish M-Score: The Beneish M-Score is built on gross margin, receivables and asset quality indices estimated on non-financial firms. Those inputs are not defined here.
PEG Ratio: GAAP earnings for a property trust are charged with depreciation on buildings that are generally appreciating, so a P/E built on them overstates how expensive the trust is. Use price to FFO.
Eps Growth 5Y: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.
Return on Equity: Book equity is zero or negative. Return on equity computed over it flips sign and can read as a strong positive on a loss-making company, so we will not show a number.
Gross Margin: No gross profit line is filed for this year.
EV/EBITDA: The debt total on file was summed from short-term debt, long-term debt and lease obligations, and at least one of those was never captured. An absent term is spent as a zero inside that sum, and this balance sheet does not show the term is empty, so we will not build a leverage ratio, an enterprise value or a return on capital on it, or rank the company on one.
Dividend Yield: The stored figure is a zero that can stand for data we do not hold, so this test is not measured.
Payout Ratio: A REIT pays out of funds from operations, not GAAP earnings. A payout ratio on earnings reads far above 100% for a perfectly safe distribution. Use the FFO payout ratio.
ROIC-WACC Spread: The debt total on file was summed from short-term debt, long-term debt and lease obligations, and at least one of those was never captured. An absent term is spent as a zero inside that sum, and this balance sheet does not show the term is empty, so we will not build a leverage ratio, an enterprise value or a return on capital on it, or rank the company on one.
Price To Ncav: Net current asset value needs current assets, which an unclassified balance sheet does not report.
Price To Graham: Earnings are zero or negative, so a price to earnings multiple is not meaningful. A negative P/E is not a cheap company and a large positive one from a near-zero denominator is not an expensive one.
Dividend Coverage Ratio: Distribution coverage for a REIT is measured against funds from operations, not against free cash flow computed after acquisition capital expenditure.
Dividend Streak: The stored figure is a zero that can stand for data we do not hold, so this test is not measured.
Price Tangible Book: Book equity is zero or negative, so a ratio measured against it (debt to equity, price to book) is not a measurement, and we will not show a number.
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What this cannot tell you
22 figures could not be read on this company, among them Current Ratio, Debt to Equity, P/B Ratio. Each blank in the table above names the rest, with its reason. 16 named tests come back incomplete because of them, which is neither met nor missed.
And the one that is true of all of it: This is what the numbers say today. It cannot tell you the day one of them stops being true. Nothing here can, because the reasons are not written down.
Running this once is arithmetic on public documents and you are welcome to it. Writing down why you own each company, in your own words and with the numbers that have to stay true for it to hold, and then having those numbers re-checked every night against the newest filed accounts, and against the latest close where a rule watches a price, is Professional, the plan a new account starts on for 30 days, one trial per person. It writes to you the day one breaks, and stays quiet when nothing does. The check runs every night at 23:30 UTC. A filing is picked up the night after it is published.
ValueScreener · valuescreener.ai · Computed from accounts filed with the SEC by this company, read from EDGAR, and from dated closing prices. On this page a filed figure opens into its formula, its inputs and the statement, fiscal year and filing date it was read from, and a price into the day of its close. A figure that cannot show that trail says so.
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