Chatham Lodging reports Q1 AFFO 16c, consensus 13c

Reports Q1 revenue $68.4M, consensus $68.79M. Jeffrey Fisher, Chatham’s president and CEO, emphasized, “We are quite pleased with our strong start to the year, delivering adjusted FFO per share of $0.16, beating consensus estimates as our hotel EBITDA margins outperformed our expectations. RevPAR growth of 2 percent was in the middle of our guidance, and our earnings beat was driven by hotel EBITDA margins exceeding our midpoint by approximately 230 basis points. RevPAR growth easily surpassed industry performance, and our EBITDA margins benefited from a 17 percent increase in other operating department profit and a $0.8 million or 13 percent decrease in property tax expense resulting from refunds on certain hotels. In addition to our operating results, we continue to strengthen our balance sheet with the sale of the 24-year old Hilton Garden Inn Denver Tech Center for $18 million earlier this year while also avoiding a $6 million renovation. At quarter end, our net debt to trailing twelve month EBITDA was a very healthy 4.0 times, and we will continue to opportunistically sell additional assets in 2024 with the intent to redeploy those proceeds into debt reduction and ultimately make higher growth hotel investments.”