Adjusted FFO Per Share Beats Estimates

Chatham Lodging Trust (NYSE: CLDT), a lodging real estate investment trust (REIT) that invests in upscale, extended-stay hotels and premium-branded, select-service hotels, today announced results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2024.

Second Quarter 2024 Operating Results

• Portfolio Revenue Per Available Room (RevPAR) – Increased 4 percent to $151 compared to the 2023 second quarter for the 38 comparable hotels (excludes the Home2 Phoenix Downtown that opened in January 2024). Average daily rate (ADR) was unchanged versus 2023 at $183, and occupancy jumped 4 percent to 82 percent for the 38 hotels owned as of June 30, 2024.
  • For the first time since 2019, portfolio RevPAR of $151 exceeded 2019 RevPAR of $147.
  • RevPAR for the Silicon Valley and Bellevue hotels was up 10 percent over the 2023 second quarter to a post-pandemic second quarter high of $152.
• Net Income – Net income of $7.0 million compared to net income of $9.4 million in the 2023 second quarter. Net income per diluted common share was $0.10 versus $0.15 during the 2023 second quarter.
• Hotel EBITDA Margin – Generated margins of 39 percent in the 2024 second quarter compared to 2023 second quarter margins of 41 percent.
• Adjusted EBITDA – Produced second quarter adjusted EBITDA of $31.4 million versus $31.9 in 2023.
• Adjusted FFO – Earned adjusted FFO of $19.9 million in the 2024 second quarter compared to $21.8 million in second quarter of 2023. Adjusted FFO per diluted share was $0.39 in 2024 and $0.43 in 2023.
• Acquires hotel for first time since 2022 – Closed on the recently opened, 148-room Home2 Suites by Hilton Phoenix Downtown for $43.3 million or approximately $293,000 per room.
• Balance Sheet Repositioned – Repaid $261 million of maturing debt in the quarter through the issuance of CMBS debt, borrowings on its unsecured term loan and revolving credit facility as well as available cash generated from free cash flow and an asset sale earlier in 2024.

The following chart summarizes the consolidated financial results for the three- and six-months ended June 30, 2024, and 2023, based on all properties owned during those periods ($ in millions, except margin percentages and per share data):

"The second quarter was a great quarter for Chatham and our shareholders, posting impressive results for the quarter, with all key metrics finishing at the top of our guidance range and completing a multi-year transformation of our balance sheet that positions us strongly for future opportunities," emphasized Jeffrey H. Fisher, Chatham's president and chief executive officer. "We delivered adjusted FFO per share of $0.39, beating consensus estimates behind strong RevPAR growth of 4 percent, hotel EBITDA margins of 39 percent and again driving increased other department profits by approximately $0.4 million or 16 percent.

“In addition to our operating results, we made great strides repositioning our balance sheet. With that repositioning essentially completed, I am excited about our prospects for growth as we have the financial capacity and flexibility to prudently make hotel investments and grow earnings and cash flow. Additionally, we will continue to opportunistically sell assets in 2024 with the intent to redeploy those proceeds into additional hotel investments," Fisher highlighted.

Hotel RevPAR Performance

The below chart summarizes key hotel financial statistics for the 38 comparable hotels owned as of June 30, 2024, compared to the 2023 and 2019 second quarters:

The below chart summarizes RevPAR statistics by month for Chatham's comparable hotels:

Fisher continued, “Yet again, our second quarter RevPAR growth of 4 percent significantly outperformed industry-wide RevPAR growth by approximately 60 percent, and for the first time since the pandemic, portfolio RevPAR exceeded 2019 levels. Critical to our outperformance is growth in technology related travel demand in Silicon Valley and Bellevue, and our five hotels produced strong RevPAR growth of 10 percent in the quarter. Importantly, we have tremendous internal upside, the most of any of our peers, as our tech hotel RevPAR is 19 percent below pre-pandemic levels and will eventually return to 2019 levels.

"Business travel demand, our most important segment, continues to gain momentum as we saw broad gains across our portfolio. Additionally, our leisure demand has held up pretty well with RevPAR at our 7 predominately leisure hotels only declining 2 percent in the quarter. Portfolio-wide occupancy of 82 percent was our highest quarterly occupancy since the 2019 third quarter, and interestingly, occupancy was up over last year every single week of the second quarter," Fisher concluded.

RevPAR performance for Chatham’s largest markets comprise 71 percent of trailing twelve-month hotel EBITDA (based on EBITDA contribution over the last twelve months) is presented below:

“Markets representing over half of our EBITDA experienced RevPAR growth between 5 and 10 percent in the quarter. Continuing a great trend, our primarily tech driven hotels in Silicon Valley and Bellevue led the way with combined RevPAR growth of 10 percent in the quarter, driven by a 4 percent gain in occupancy and a 5 percent gain in ADR. Occupancy reached 78 percent in the quarter, encouragingly approaching second quarter 2019 occupancy of 81 percent. Increasing occupancy levels will allow us to continue to push ADR growth as we move forward and close the RevPAR gap versus 2019," commented Dennis Craven, Chatham's chief operating officer. "Excluding Silicon Valley and Bellevue, second quarter RevPAR of $150 exceeds 2019 levels by approximately 10 percent, our highest quarterly outperformance since then.

"Importantly, our other most significant markets are primarily business travel focused markets, and the gains we produced in the quarter in Washington, D.C., Greater New York, San Diego and Dallas are attributed to increased business travel demand. We saw broad growth with eleven of our hotels generating double digit RevPAR growth. We do not believe recent performance is necessarily a trend. June was adversely impacted by the timing of the Juneteenth holiday, and July was hit by the timing of the July 4th holiday, which actually impacted the week following the holiday."

Approximately 64 percent of Chatham’s hotel EBITDA over the last twelve months was generated from its extended-stay hotels, the highest concentration of extended-stay rooms of any public lodging REIT. Second quarter 2024 occupancy, ADR and RevPAR for each of Chatham’s major brands is presented below (number of hotels in parentheses):

Hotel Operations Performance

The below chart summarizes key hotel operating performance measures for the three months ended June 30, 2024, and 2023. Gross operating profit is calculated as hotel EBITDA plus property taxes, ground rent and insurance (in millions, except for RevPAR and margin percentages):

Corporate Update

The below chart summarizes key financial performance measures for the three months ended June 30, 2024, and 2023. Corporate EBITDA is calculated as hotel EBITDA minus cash corporate general and administrative expenses and is before debt service and capital expenditures. Debt service includes interest expense and principal amortization on its secured debt, as well as dividends on its preferred shares of $2.0 million per quarter. Cash flow before CapEx and common dividends is calculated as corporate EBITDA less debt service and preferred share dividends. Amounts are in millions, except RevPAR.

Home2 Phoenix Acquisition

In May, Chatham acquired the recently opened, 148-room Home2 Suites by Hilton Phoenix Downtown for $43.3 million or approximately $293,000 per room. Upon stabilization, the acquisition is expected to produce RevPAR in excess of $150 and generate an estimated NOI yield over 9 percent.

Strategically located in the heart of downtown Phoenix, the Home2 Suites is the closest hotel to the Footprint Center (home to the NBA Phoenix Suns and WNBA Phoenix Mercury) and Chase Field (home to the Arizona Diamondbacks), mere blocks from the Phoenix Convention Center and adjacent to the revitalized Warehouse District that houses numerous upscale event venues, and will also be home to the under-construction headquarters/practice facility/fan experience for the Suns and the Mercury. In excess of two million guests visit each of the Footprint Center and Chase Field annually for sports and entertainment events. The Convention Center ranks among the top ten convention centers in the country and offers nearly 1,000,000 square feet of meeting and prime exhibition space, including three exhibition halls, two 45,000-plus square foot ballrooms and an Executive Conference Center.

Downtown Phoenix is a vibrant, 1.7 square miles that drives incredibly diverse demand for hotels into its urban core. In addition to the Footprint Center, Chase Field and Convention Center, downtown Phoenix includes 11.5 million square feet of office space, a 28-acre Bioscience Core comprised of 1.6 million square feet with plans to essentially double that size in the coming years, almost 1.0 million square feet of retail space, numerous museums and theaters and lastly, expanding downtown campuses for Arizona State University, University of Arizona Medical School and Northern Arizona University (combined approximately 16,000 students).

Fisher stated, “We are really excited about this beautiful, brand new, high-quality hotel located in the heart of downtown Phoenix, a market in the early stages of the type of renaissance we have seen occur in other large urban downtowns across the country over the past decade. The hotel enters a thriving lodging market as Phoenix has experienced the industry's second-highest RevPAR CAGR over the past five years. This is the only Hilton-branded extended-stay hotel in downtown Phoenix and will benefit from the diverse demand generators, all of which are in a high-growth phase.”

Capital Markets & Capital Structure

During the 2024 second quarter, Chatham:

• Repaid the following maturing mortgages:
  • Residence Inn Anaheim $29 million mortgage on April 5^th
  • Mountain View $35 million mortgage on May 31^st
  • Savannah $28 million maturing mortgage on June 6^th
  • Three mortgages aggregating $169 million on the Residence Inn Silicon Valley 1, Silicon Valley 2 and San Mateo on June 28^th
  • Subsequent to the end of the quarter - the Hilton Garden Inn Marina Del Rey $18 million mortgage on July 5^th
• Borrowed an additional $50 million on its term loan on May 3^rd
• Issued $23 million of five-year CMBS debt secured by the Hyatt Place Pittsburgh North Shore on May 31^st, with the loan carrying an interest rate of 7.29 percent and interest-only payments for the duration of the loan
• Issued $37 million of CMBS debt on June 6th. This includes a $15 million loan secured by the Hampton Inn Exeter, N.H., and a $22 million loan secured by the SpringHill Suites Savannah, Ga. Both loans have 10-year terms with an interest rate of 6.7 percent and interest-only payments for the duration of the loans

As of June 30, 2024, Chatham had net debt of $442 million (total consolidated debt less unrestricted cash). Total debt outstanding as of June 30, 2024, was $452 million at an average interest rate of 6.8 percent, comprised of $192 million of fixed-rate mortgage debt at an average interest rate of 6.5 percent, $140 million outstanding on its term loan at a rate of 6.9 percent and $120 million outstanding on the company's $260 million senior unsecured revolving credit facility. Based on the ratio of Chatham’s net debt to hotel investments at cost, it’s leverage ratio was approximately 26 percent.

"Since the end of 2022, we have patiently and prudently repositioned our balance since to address almost $400 million of maturing debt using asset sales, issuance of new debt and free cash flow," emphasized Jeremy Wegner, Chatham’s chief financial officer. "After repaying the maturing loan in early July, our massive transformation is essentially complete with only $30 million of debt maturing over the next year. We are well-situated to benefit from an expected declining interest rate environment as almost 60 percent of our debt is based on floating rates. Based on outstanding debt as of June 30, 2024, for every 100 basis point decline in SOFR, our AFFO per share will increase $2.6 million or $0.05 per share. Additionally, we have 29 unencumbered properties to support additional growth opportunities."

Hotel Investments

During the second quarter, the company incurred capital expenditures of $8 million and approximately $19 million year-to-date. Chatham’s 2024 budget is approximately $37 million. A renovation of the Courtyard Dallas Addison commenced in July and is expected to be completed in the third quarter. A renovation of the SpringHill Suites Savannah is expected to commence in September.

Dividend

During the quarter, the Board of Trustees declared a preferred dividend of $0.41406 per share and a common dividend of $0.07 per share, payable July 15, 2024, to shareholders of record on June 28, 2024.

2024 Third Quarter Guidance

Chatham’s 2024 third quarter guidance reflects the following assumptions:

1. Renovation of the Courtyard Dallas Addison, Texas
2. Repayment of the $18 million maturing mortgage on July 5, 2024
3. No additional acquisitions, dispositions, debt or equity issuance

Chatham provides guidance but does not undertake to update it for any developments in its business. Achievement of the results is subject to the risks disclosed in its filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Earnings Call

Chatham will hold its second quarter 2024 conference call later today at 10:00 a.m. Eastern Time. Shareholders and other interested parties may listen to a simultaneous webcast of the conference call on the Internet by logging onto Chatham’s website, www.chathamlodgingtrust.com, or may participate in the conference call by dialing 1-877-407-0789 or 1-201-689-8562 and referencing Chatham Lodging Trust. A recording of the call will be available by telephone until Friday, August 9, 2024, at 11:59 PM ET, by dialing 1-844-512-2921 or 1-412-317-6671, access ID 13747562. A replay of the conference call will be posted on Chatham’s website.

About Chatham Lodging Trust

Chatham Lodging Trust is a self-advised, publicly traded real estate investment trust (REIT) focused primarily on investing in upscale, extended-stay hotels and premium-branded, select-service hotels. The company owns 39 hotels totaling 5,883 rooms/suites in 17 states and the District of Columbia. Additional information about Chatham may be found at chathamlodgingtrust.com.

Non-GAAP Financial Measures

Included in this press release are certain “non-GAAP financial measures,” within the meaning of Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) rules and regulations, that are different from measures calculated and presented in accordance with GAAP (generally accepted accounting principles). The company considers the following non-GAAP financial measures useful to investors as key supplemental measures of its operating performance: (1) FFO, (2) Adjusted FFO, (3) EBITDA, (4) EBITDAre, (5) Adjusted EBITDA, (6) Adjusted Hotel EBITDA, (7) Hotel EBITDA, (8) Hotel EBITDA Margin, (9) Corporate EBITDA and (10) Cash flow before CapEx and common dividends. These non-GAAP financial measures should be considered along with, but not as alternatives to, net income or loss as prescribed by GAAP as a measure of its operating performance.

FFO As Defined by Nareit and Adjusted FFO

Chatham calculates FFO in accordance with standards established by the Nareit, which defines FFO as net income or loss (calculated in accordance with GAAP), excluding gains or losses from sales of real estate, impairment write-downs, the cumulative effect of changes in accounting principles, plus depreciation and amortization (excluding amortization of deferred financing costs), and after adjustments for unconsolidated partnerships and joint ventures following the same approach. Chatham believes that the presentation of FFO provides useful information to investors regarding its operating performance because it measures its performance without regard to specified non-cash items such as real estate depreciation and amortization, gain or loss on sale of real estate assets and certain other items that the company believes are not indicative of the property level performance of its hotel properties. Chatham believes that these items reflect historical cost of its asset base and its acquisition and disposition activities and are less reflective of its ongoing operations, and that by adjusting to exclude the effects of these items, FFO is useful to investors in comparing its operating performance between periods and between REITs that also report using the Nareit definition.

Chatham calculates Adjusted FFO by further adjusting FFO for certain additional items that are not addressed in Nareit’s definition of FFO, including other charges, losses on the early extinguishment of debt and similar items related to its unconsolidated real estate entities that it believes do not represent costs related to hotel operations. Chatham believes that Adjusted FFO provides investors with another financial measure that may facilitate comparisons of operating performance between periods and between REITs that make similar adjustments to FFO.

EBITDA, EBITDAre, Adjusted EBITDA and Adjusted Hotel EBITDA

Chatham calculates EBITDA for purposes of the credit facility debt as net income or loss excluding: (1) interest expense; (2) provision for income taxes, including income taxes applicable to sale of assets; (3) depreciation and amortization; and (4) unconsolidated real estate entity items including interest, depreciation and amortization excluding gains and losses from sales of real estate. Chatham believes EBITDA is useful to investors in evaluating and facilitating comparisons of its operating performance because it helps investors compare Chatham's operating performance between periods and between REITs by removing the impact of its capital structure (primarily interest expense) and asset base (primarily depreciation and amortization) from its operating results. In addition, Chatham uses EBITDA as one measure in determining the value of hotel acquisitions and dispositions. Chatham calculates EBITDAre in accordance with Nareit guidelines, which defines EBITDAre as net income or loss excluding interest expense, income tax expense, depreciation and amortization expense, gains or losses from sales of real estate, impairment, and adjustments for unconsolidated joint ventures. We believe that the presentation of EBITDAre provides useful information to investors regarding the Company's operating performance and can facilitate comparisons of operating performance between periods and between REITs.

Chatham calculates Adjusted EBITDA by further adjusting EBITDA for certain additional items, including other charges, losses on the early extinguishment of debt, amortization of non-cash share-based compensation and similar items related to its unconsolidated real estate entities, which it believes are not indicative of the performance of its underlying hotel properties entities. Chatham believes that Adjusted EBITDA provides investors with another financial measure that may facilitate comparisons of operating performance between periods and between REITs that report similar measures.

Adjusted Hotel EBITDA is defined as net income before interest, income taxes, depreciation and amortization, corporate general and administrative, impairment loss, loss on early extinguishment of debt, interest and other income and income or loss from unconsolidated real estate entities. Chatham presents Adjusted Hotel EBITDA because Chatham believes it is useful to investors in comparing its hotel operating performance between periods and comparing its Adjusted Hotel EBITDA to those of our peer companies. Adjusted Hotel EBITDA represents the results of operations for its wholly owned hotels only.

Although Chatham presents FFO, Adjusted FFO, EBITDA, EBITDAre, Adjusted EBITDA and Adjusted Hotel EBITDA because it believes they are useful to investors in comparing Chatham's operating performance between periods and between REITs that report similar measures, these measures have limitations as analytical tools. Some of these limitations are:

• FFO, Adjusted FFO, EBITDA, EBITDAre, Adjusted EBITDA and Adjusted Hotel EBITDA do not reflect the company’s cash expenditures, or future requirements, for capital expenditures or contractual commitments;
• FFO, Adjusted FFO, EBITDA, EBITDAre, Adjusted EBITDA and Adjusted Hotel EBITDA do not reflect changes in, or cash requirements for, Chatham’s working capital needs;
• FFO, Adjusted FFO, EBITDA, EBITDAre, Adjusted EBITDA and Adjusted Hotel EBITDA do not reflect funds available to make cash distributions;
• EBITDA, EBITDAre, Adjusted EBITDA and Adjusted Hotel EBITDA do not reflect the significant interest expense, or the cash requirements necessary to service interest or principal payments, on Chatham’s debts;
• Although depreciation and amortization are non-cash charges, the assets being depreciated and amortized may need to be replaced in the future, and FFO, Adjusted FFO, EBITDA, EBITDAre, Adjusted EBITDA and Adjusted Hotel EBITDA do not reflect any cash requirements for such replacements;
• Non-cash compensation is and will remain a key element of Chatham’s overall long-term incentive compensation package, although Chatham excludes it as an expense when evaluating its ongoing operating performance for a particular period using adjusted EBITDA;
• Adjusted FFO, Adjusted EBITDA and Adjusted Hotel EBITDA do not reflect the impact of certain cash charges (including acquisition transaction costs) that result from matters Chatham considers not to be indicative of the underlying performance of its hotel properties; and
• Other companies in Chatham’s industry may calculate FFO, Adjusted FFO, EBITDA, EBITDAre, Adjusted EBITDA and Adjusted Hotel EBITDA differently than Chatham does, limiting their usefulness as a comparative measure.

In addition, FFO, Adjusted FFO, EBITDA, EBITDAre, Adjusted EBITDA and Adjusted Hotel EBITDA do not represent cash generated from operating activities as determined by GAAP and should not be considered as alternatives to net income or loss, cash flows from operations or any other operating performance measure prescribed by GAAP. FFO, Adjusted FFO, EBITDA, EBITDAre, Adjusted EBITDA and Adjusted Hotel EBITDA are not measures of Chatham’s liquidity. Because of these limitations, FFO, Adjusted FFO, EBITDA, EBITDAre, Adjusted EBITDA and Adjusted Hotel EBITDA should not be considered in isolation or as a substitute for performance measures calculated in accordance with GAAP. Chatham compensates for these limitations by relying primarily on its GAAP results and using FFO, Adjusted FFO, EBITDA, EBITDAre, Adjusted EBITDA and Adjusted Hotel EBITDA only supplementally. Chatham’s consolidated financial statements and the notes to those statements included elsewhere are prepared in accordance with GAAP. Chatham’s reconciliation of FFO, Adjusted FFO, EBITDA, EBITDAre, Adjusted EBITDA and Adjusted Hotel EBITDA to net income attributable to common shareholders, as determined under GAAP, is set forth below.

Forward-Looking Statement Safe Harbor

Note: This press release contains "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”). These statements generally are characterized by the use of the words “believe,” “expect,” “anticipate,” “estimate,” “plan,” “continue,” “intend,” “should,” “may” or similar expressions. These forward-looking statements include information about possible or assumed future results of the lodging industry and our business, financial condition, liquidity, results of operations, cash flow and plans and objectives. Although we believe that the expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements are based upon reasonable assumptions, our actual results could differ materially from those set forth in the forward-looking statements. Important factors that could cause our actual results to differ materially from expected results include, but are not limited to: national and local economic and business conditions, including the effect on travel of potential terrorist attacks, that will affect occupancy rates at our hotels and the demand for hotel products and services; operating risks associated with the hotel business; risks associated with the level of our indebtedness and its ability to meet covenants in its debt agreements; relationships with property managers; our ability to maintain its properties in a first-class manner, including meeting capital expenditure requirements; our ability to compete effectively in areas such as access, location, quality of accommodations and room rate structures; changes in travel patterns, taxes and government regulations which influence or determine wages, prices, construction procedures and costs; our ability to complete acquisitions and dispositions; and our ability to continue to satisfy complex rules in order for us to remain a REIT for federal income tax purposes; and inaccuracies of our accounting estimates and the uncertainty and economic impact of pandemics, epidemics or other public health emergencies of fear of such events, such as the recent COVID-19 pandemic. Given these uncertainties, undue reliance should not be placed on such statements. We undertake no obligation to publicly release the results of any revisions to these forward-looking statements that may be made to reflect future events or circumstances or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events. The forward-looking statements should also be read in light of the risk factors identified in the “Risk Factors” section in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2023, as updated by our subsequent filings with the SEC under the Exchange Act.

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