Service Properties Trust (SVC) Stock

Service Properties Trust (SVC) is a Real Estate stock trading at $8.07 (as of 2026-08-21), with a market capitalization of $1.05B. Figures are sourced from first-party U.S. SEC EDGAR filings and market data.

Service Properties Trust is a real estate investment trust, or REIT, which owns a diverse portfolio of hotels and net lease service and necessity-based retail properties across the United States and in Puerto Rico and Canada with 149 distinct brands across 23 industries. SVC's properties are primarily operated under long-term management or lease agreements. SVC is managed by the operating subsidiary of The RMR Group Inc. (Nasdaq: RMR), or RMR Inc., an alternative asset management company that is headquartered in Newton, Massachusetts.

Understand Service Properties Trust: how it makes money

Service Properties Trust is a REIT that owns hotels and net lease service and necessity-based retail properties, and it makes money primarily through income generated from those properties that are operated under long-term management or lease agreements.

Because SVC's properties are primarily operated under long-term management or lease agreements, its results are structurally driven by the performance of those contract-linked operating streams (especially hotel operating revenues), rather than by discretionary, short-cycle business changes.

Business quality (Weak): Clear business description, but the provided segment breakdown does not cover the full reported revenue (only Hotel Operating Revenues is nonzero in the data shown), and several revenue-per-room KPI values are shown as 0.0 here, limiting what can be concluded from this snapshot alone.

Bull case

Property mix and diversification: SVC owns a diverse portfolio of hotels and net lease service and necessity-based retail properties, across 149 distinct brands across 23 industries.
Contract structure: Many properties are primarily operated under long-term management or lease agreements, which shapes how revenue is generated and may reduce reliance on short-term changes in day-to-day operations.
Experienced management platform: SVC is managed by the operating subsidiary of The RMR Group Inc., or RMR Inc., an alternative asset management company.

Bear case

Profitability is currently weak: For the latest quarter shown (2026-03-31), operating margin is -40.3, indicating losses at the operating level.
Dependence on hotel operating performance: Hotel Operating Revenues are a core reported operating line, so weaker hotel performance would directly pressure results.
Limited revenue visibility in the provided breakdown: In the provided segment candidates, only Hotel Operating Revenues is nonzero, so other reported revenue drivers are not quantified in this dataset, making it harder to assess what is driving the operating loss.

Valuation — source: SEC EDGAR (first-party)
Price	$8.07
Market Cap	$1.05B
Price / Book	2.12
Price / Sales	0.59
DCF Value (model)	$17.05
DCF Upside vs Price	111.1%

Profitability & Growth — source: SEC EDGAR
Revenue (TTM)	$1.81B
Net Margin	-11.1%
Revenue Growth (YoY)	-4.3%
EPS Growth (YoY)	-26.9%

Valuation vs Sector & Industry
Sector P/E (Real Estate)	27.2
Industry P/E (Trading)	35.3

Smart-Money Activity — SEC Form 4 / 13F / Congressional disclosures
Top Institutional Holder	VANGUARD GROUP INC ($29.50M)
Institutional Holders Tracked	10
Congressional Trades (recent)	5

Company
Sector	Real Estate
Industry	Trading
CEO	Christopher J. Bilotto
Employees	0
Country	US
IPO Date	1995-08-17

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Data as of 2026-08-21.

Figures sourced from U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC EDGAR) filings and market data. Not personalized investment advice.