APLE vs DX Comparison

Apple Hospitality REIT Inc is a real estate investment trust that invests in income-producing real estate, majorly in the lodging sector, in the United States. It chiefly invests in upscale service hotels. All of the company's hotels operate under the Marriott or Hilton brands. Apple Hospitality has wholly-owned taxable REIT subsidiaries, which lease all of the company's hotels from wholly-owned qualified REIT subsidiaries. These hotels are managed under separate agreements with various hotel management companies that are unaffiliated with Apple Hospitality. The company derives its income from hotel revenue, its sole segment.

Dynex Capital Inc is a real estate investment trust (REIT) focused on delivering dividends supported by long term returns from investments in mortgage assets backed by U.S. housing and commercial real estate. The Company is internally managed and mainly invests in residential and commercial mortgage-backed securities (RMBS and CMBS), which are Agency securities guaranteed by U.S. government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs). It manages interest rate, prepayment, spread, liquidity, and counterparty risks and operates through one reportable segment investing in MBS funded with repurchase agreements and equity.