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Should Value Investors Buy Chatham Lodging Trust REIT (CLDT) Stock?

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While the proven Zacks Rank places an emphasis on earnings estimates and estimate revisions to find strong stocks, we also know that investors tend to develop their own individual strategies. With this in mind, we are always looking at value, growth, and momentum trends to discover great companies.

Of these, value investing is easily one of the most popular ways to find great stocks in any market environment. Value investors use fundamental analysis and traditional valuation metrics to find stocks that they believe are being undervalued by the market at large.

In addition to the Zacks Rank, investors looking for stocks with specific traits can utilize our Style Scores system. Of course, value investors will be most interested in the system's "Value" category. Stocks with "A" grades for Value and high Zacks Ranks are among the best value stocks available at any given moment.

One company value investors might notice is Chatham Lodging Trust REIT (CLDT - Free Report) . CLDT is currently sporting a Zacks Rank #1 (Strong Buy), as well as an A grade for Value. The stock is trading with P/E ratio of 6.77 right now. For comparison, its industry sports an average P/E of 15.97. Over the last 12 months, CLDT's Forward P/E has been as high as 8.70 and as low as 5.56, with a median of 7.10.

These are just a handful of the figures considered in Chatham Lodging Trust REIT's great Value grade. Still, they help show that the stock is likely being undervalued at the moment. Add this to the strength of its earnings outlook, and we can clearly see that CLDT is an impressive value stock right now.

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