Summit Hotel Properties Reports Second Quarter 2021 Results

AUSTIN, Texas, Aug. 3, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Summit Hotel Properties, Inc. (NYSE: INN) (the "Company"), today announced results for the three and six months ended June 30, 2021.

"Hotel demand and average daily rate steadily improved during the second quarter as RevPAR grew nearly 50% from the first quarter driven by continued strength in leisure travel and a substantial improvement in mid-week operating performance which enabled us to reach the corporate profitability milestone for the second quarter," said Jonathan P. Stanner, the Company's President and Chief Executive Officer. "We remain optimistic about the outlook for our business and believe we are uniquely positioned to pursue a broad range of capital alternatives and external growth opportunities given our strong liquidity profile, well-positioned balance sheet, and overall resilient portfolio.  The acquisition of the newly built Residence Inn by Marriott Steamboat Springs into our existing joint venture with GIC demonstrates our continued ability to source unique opportunities with compelling value creation profiles," commented Mr. Stanner.

Second Quarter 2021 Summary

• Net Loss:  Net loss attributable to common stockholders was $22.4 million, or $0.21 per diluted share, compared with a net loss of  $54.1 million, or $0.52 per diluted share, in the same period of 2020.
• Pro Forma & Same Store RevPAR:  Revenue per available room ("RevPAR") increased 235.7% percent to $77.88 from the same period in 2020.  Average daily rate ("ADR") increased 25.6 percent to $120.05 compared to the same period in 2020, and occupancy increased 167.3 percent to 64.9 percent.
• Pro Forma Hotel EBITDA:  Pro forma hotel EBITDA increased to $25.3 million, compared to a loss of $10.0 million in the same period in 2020.  Pro forma hotel EBITDA margin grew to 29.2 percent from (39.4) percent in the same period of 2020.
• Adjusted EBITDAre:  Adjusted EBITDAre increased to $21.7 million from a loss of ($12.8) million in the same period of 2020.
• Adjusted FFO:  Adjusted FFO was $8.4 million, or $0.08 per diluted share, compared to ($25.9) million, or ($0.25) per diluted share, in the same period of 2020.
• Capital Improvements:  The Company invested $2.9 million in capital improvements during the second quarter.

The Company's results for the three and six months ended June 30, 2021, and 2020 are as follows (in thousands, except per share amounts):

Year-to-Date 2021 Summary

• Net Loss:  Net loss attributable to common stockholders was $57.5 million, or $0.55 per diluted share, compared with a net loss of  $73.2 million, or $0.70 per diluted share, in the same period of 2020.
• Pro Forma & Same Store RevPAR:  Revenue per available room ("RevPAR") increased 9.4% percent to $65.21 from the same period in 2020.  Average daily rate ("ADR") decreased 18.7 percent to $113.14 compared to the same period in 2020, and occupancy increased 34.6 percent to 57.6 percent.
• Pro Forma Hotel EBITDA:  Pro forma hotel EBITDA was $33.0 million, an increase of 67.4 percent from the same period in 2020.  Pro forma hotel EBITDA margin grew to 22.9 percent from 14.7 percent in the same period of 2020.
• Adjusted EBITDAre:  Adjusted EBITDAre increased 100.3 percent to $28.0 million from $14.0 million in the same period of 2020.
• Adjusted FFO:  Adjusted FFO was $1.5 million, or $0.01 per diluted share, compared to ($12.7) million, or ($0.12) per diluted share, in the same period of 2020.
• Capital Improvements:  The Company invested $6.5 million in capital improvements during the second quarter.

Asset Contribution to GIC Joint Venture Completed

On May 1, 2021, the Company contributed a portfolio of six hotels containing 846 guestrooms into its existing joint venture with an affiliate of GIC, Singapore's sovereign wealth fund, which increased the joint venture's investment to nearly $450 million since formation in 2019.  Total consideration for the portfolio was $172.0 million, or $203,000 per key, and GIC contributed $84.3 million in cash to complete the acquisition of their 49% interest.  Net proceeds from the transaction were used to repay $62.5 million of the Company's senior debt, and $20.9 million was retained in cash.

Six-Hotel Portfolio Contribution Asset Listing:

• 183 guestroom - Courtyard by Marriott Pittsburgh Downtown
• 153 guestroom - Courtyard by Marriott Scottsdale North
• 121 guestroom - SpringHill Suites by Marriott Scottsdale North
• 138 guestroom - Hampton Inn & Suites Tampa/Ybor City/Downtown
• 129 guestroom - Homewood Suites by Hilton Aliso Viejo - Laguna Beach
• 122 guestroom - Homewood Suites by Hilton Tucson/St. Philip's Plaza University

Acquisition of Residence Inn Steamboat Springs Completed

On July 9, 2021, the Company completed the acquisition of the 110-guestroom Residence Inn by Marriott Steamboat Springs for $33.0 million through its joint venture with GIC. The Company funded its 51% interest in the joint venture acquisition using approximately $17 million of cash on-hand.

Capital Markets & Balance Sheet

On April 29, 2021, the joint venture, in which the Company is a 51 percent owner and general partner, completed an amendment of its existing $200 million credit facility that provides for a temporary waiver of financial covenants through the fourth quarter of 2021, and modifies certain financial covenant measures through the second quarter of 2023.  The amendment provides for additional credit availability for capital expenditures and other general joint venture purposes, permits equity-funded acquisitions up to $150 million, and contains customary restrictions and limitations related to distributions and dispositions.

On June 30, 2021, inclusive of its pro rata share of the Joint Venture credit facility, the Company had the following:

• Pro rata outstanding debt of $1.0 billion with a weighted average interest rate of 3.38 percent.
• After giving effect to interest rate derivative agreements, $815.4 million, or 80 percent, of our pro rata outstanding debt had fixed interest rates, and $206.3 million, or 20 percent, had variable interest rates.
• Pro rata unrestricted cash and cash equivalents of $52.6 million.
• Revolving credit facility availability of $340.0 million, plus an additional $50.0 million available to borrow subject to certain requirements.
• Total liquidity of $442.6 million, including unrestricted cash and cash equivalents and revolving credit facility availability.

On July 23, 2021, inclusive of the recent transaction activity and its pro rata share of the Joint Venture credit facility, the Company had the following:

• Pro rata outstanding debt of $1.0 billion with a weighted average interest rate of 3.38 percent.
• After giving effect to interest rate derivative agreements, $815.1 million, or 80 percent, of our pro rata outstanding debt had fixed interest rates, and $206.3 million, or 20 percent, had variable interest rates.
• Pro rata unrestricted cash and cash equivalents of $41.9 million.
• Revolving credit facility availability of $340.0 million, plus an additional $50.0 million available to borrow subject to certain requirements.
• Total liquidity of $431.9 million, including unrestricted cash and cash equivalents and revolving credit facility availability.

The Company's balance sheet continues to be well positioned with no debt maturities until November 2022.

Dividends

On July 30, 2021, the Company declared a quarterly cash preferred dividend of $0.403125 per share on its 6.45% Series D Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Stock and $0.390625 per share on its 6.25% Series E Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Stock.  The preferred dividends are payable on August 31, 2021, to holders of record as of August 16, 2021.

Second Quarter 2021 Earnings Conference Call

The Company will conduct its quarterly conference call on Wednesday, August 4, 2021, at 9:00 AM ET.  To participate in the conference call, dial 877-930-8101 approximately ten minutes before the call begins (8:50 AM ET).  The conference identification code for the call is 7651598.  Additionally, a live webcast of the quarterly conference call will be available through the Company's website, www.shpreit.com.  A replay of the quarterly conference call webcast will be available until 12:00 PM ET Wednesday, August 11, 2021, by dialing 855-859-2056, conference identification code 7651598.  A replay will also be available in the Investor Relations section of the Company's website until October 31, 2021.

About Summit Hotel Properties

Summit Hotel Properties, Inc. is a publicly traded real estate investment trust focused on owning premium-branded hotels with efficient operating models primarily in the Upscale segment of the lodging industry.  As of August 3, 2021, the Company's portfolio consisted of 73 hotels, 61 of which are wholly owned, with a total of 11,398 guestrooms located in 23 states.

For additional information, please visit the Company's website, www.shpreit.com, and follow on Twitter at @SummitHotel_INN.

Forward-Looking Statements

This press release contains statements that are "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, pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements are generally identifiable by use of forward-looking terminology such as "may," "will," "should," "potential," "intend," "expect," "seek," "anticipate," "estimate," "approximately," "believe," "could," "project," "predict," "forecast," "continue," "plan," "likely," "would" or other similar words or expressions. Forward-looking statements are based on certain assumptions and can include future expectations, future plans and strategies, financial and operating projections, or other forward-looking information. Examples of forward-looking statements include the following: the Company's ability to realize growth from the deployment of renovation capital; projections of the Company's revenues and expenses, capital expenditures or other financial items; descriptions of the Company's plans or objectives for future operations, acquisitions, dispositions, financings, redemptions or services; forecasts of the Company's future financial performance and potential increases in average daily rate, occupancy, RevPAR, room supply and demand, EBITDAre, Adjusted EBITDAre, FFO and AFFO; the Company's outlook with respect to pro forma RevPAR, pro forma RevPAR growth, RevPAR, RevPAR growth,  AFFO,  AFFO per diluted share and unit and renovation capital deployed; and descriptions of assumptions underlying or relating to any of the foregoing expectations regarding the timing of their occurrence. These forward-looking statements are subject to various risks and uncertainties, not all of which are known to the Company and many of which are beyond the Company's control, which could cause actual results to differ materially from such statements. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, the state of the U.S. economy, supply and demand in the hotel industry, and other factors as are described in greater detail in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"). Unless legally required, the Company disclaims any obligation to update any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise.

For information about the Company's business and financial results, please refer to the "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations" and "Risk Factors" sections of the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2020, filed with the SEC, and its quarterly and other periodic filings with the SEC. The Company undertakes no duty to update the statements in this release to conform the statements to actual results or changes in the Company's expectations.

Non-GAAP Financial Measures

We disclose certain "non-GAAP financial measures," which are measures of our historical financial performance. Non-GAAP financial measures are financial measures not prescribed by Generally Accepted Accounting Principles ("GAAP"). These measures are as follows: (i) Funds From Operations ("FFO") and Adjusted Funds from Operations ("AFFO"), (ii) Earnings before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation and Amortization ("EBITDA"), Earnings before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation and Amortization for Real Estate ("EBITDAre"), Adjusted EBITDAre, and hotel EBITDA (as described below). We caution investors that amounts presented in accordance with our definitions of non-GAAP financial measures may not be comparable to similar measures disclosed by other companies, since not all companies calculate these non-GAAP financial measures in the same manner. Our non-GAAP financial measures should be considered along with, but not as alternatives to, net income (loss) as a measure of our operating performance. Our non-GAAP financial measures may include funds that may not be available for our discretionary use due to functional requirements to conserve funds for capital expenditures, property acquisitions, debt service obligations and other commitments and uncertainties. Although we believe that our non-GAAP financial measures can enhance the understanding of our financial condition and results of operations, these non-GAAP financial measures are not necessarily better indicators of any trend as compared to a comparable measure prescribed by GAAP such as net income (loss).

Funds From Operations ("FFO") and Adjusted FFO ("AFFO")

As defined by Nareit, FFO represents net income or loss (computed in accordance with GAAP), excluding preferred dividends, gains (or losses) from sales of real property, impairment losses on real estate assets, items classified by GAAP as extraordinary, the cumulative effect of changes in accounting principles, plus depreciation and amortization related to real estate assets, and adjustments for unconsolidated partnerships, and joint ventures. AFFO represents FFO excluding amortization of deferred financing costs, franchise fees, equity-based compensation expense, debt transaction costs, premiums on redemption of preferred shares, losses from net casualties, non-cash lease expense, non-cash interest income and non-cash income tax related adjustments to our deferred tax assets. Unless otherwise indicated, we present FFO and AFFO applicable to our common shares and common units. We present FFO and AFFO because we consider FFO and AFFO an important supplemental measure of our operational performance and believe it is frequently used by securities analysts, investors and other interested parties in the evaluation of REITs, many of which present FFO and AFFO when reporting their results. FFO and AFFO are intended to exclude GAAP historical cost depreciation and amortization, which assumes that the value of real estate assets diminishes ratably over time. Historically, however, real estate values have risen or fallen with market conditions. Because FFO and AFFO exclude depreciation and amortization related to real estate assets, gains and losses from real property dispositions and impairment losses on real estate assets, FFO and AFFO provide performance measures that, when compared year over year, reflect the effect to operations from trends in occupancy, guestroom rates, operating costs, development activities and interest costs, providing perspective not immediately apparent from net income. Our computation of FFO differs slightly from the computation of Nareit-defined FFO related to the reporting of corporate depreciation and amortization expense. Our computation of FFO may also differ from the methodology for calculating FFO used by other equity REITs and, accordingly, may not be comparable to such other REITs. FFO and AFFO should not be considered as an alternative to net income (loss) (computed in accordance with GAAP) as an indicator of our liquidity, nor is it indicative of funds available to fund our cash needs, including our ability to pay dividends or make distributions.  Where indicated in this release, FFO is based on our computation of FFO and not the computation of Nareit-defined FFO unless otherwise noted.

EBITDA, EBITDAre, Adjusted EBITDAre, and Hotel EBITDA

EBITDA

EBITDA represents net income or loss, excluding: (i) interest, (ii) income tax expense and (iii) depreciation and amortization. We believe EBITDA is useful to an investor in evaluating our operating performance because it provides investors with an indication of our ability to incur and service debt, to satisfy general operating expenses, to make capital expenditures and to fund other cash needs or reinvest cash into our business. We also believe it helps investors meaningfully evaluate and compare the results of our operations from period to period by removing the effect of our asset base (primarily depreciation and amortization) from our operating results. Our management team also uses EBITDA as one measure in determining the value of acquisitions and dispositions.

EBITDAre and Adjusted EBITDAre

EBITDAre is based on EBITDA and is expected to provide additional relevant information about REITs as real estate companies in support of growing interest among generalist investors. EBITDAre is intended to be a supplemental non-GAAP performance measure that is independent of a company's capital structure and will provide a uniform basis to measure the enterprise value of a company compared to other REITs.

EBITDAre, as defined by Nareit, is calculated as EBITDA, excluding: (i) loss and gains on disposition of property and (ii) asset impairments, if any. We believe EBITDAre is useful to an investor in evaluating our operating performance because it provides investors with an indication of our ability to incur and service debt, to satisfy general operating expenses, to make capital expenditures and to fund other cash needs or reinvest cash into our business. We also believe it helps investors meaningfully evaluate and compare the results of our operations from period to period by removing the effect of our asset base (primarily depreciation and amortization) from our operating results.

We make additional adjustments to EBITDAre when evaluating our performance because we believe that the exclusion of certain additional non-recurring or certain non-cash items described below provides useful supplemental information to investors regarding our ongoing operating performance. We believe that the presentation of Adjusted EBITDAre, when combined with the primary GAAP presentation of net income, is useful to an investor in evaluating our operating performance because it provides investors with an indication of our ability to incur and service debt, to satisfy general operating expenses, to make capital expenditures and to fund other cash needs or reinvest cash into our business. We also believe it helps investors meaningfully evaluate and compare the results of our operations from period to period by removing the effect of our asset base (primarily depreciation and amortization) from our operating results.

Hotel EBITDA

With respect to hotel EBITDA, we believe that excluding the effect of corporate-level expenses and non-cash items provides a more complete understanding of the operating results over which individual hotels and operators have direct control.  We believe the property-level results provide investors with supplemental information on the ongoing operational performance of our hotels and effectiveness of the third-party management companies operating our business on a property-level basis.

We caution investors that amounts presented in accordance with our definitions of EBITDA, EBITDAre, adjusted EBITDAre, and hotel EBITDA may not be comparable to similar measures disclosed by other companies, since not all companies calculate these non-GAAP measures in the same manner. EBITDA, EBITDAre, adjusted EBITDAre, and hotel EBITDA should not be considered as an alternative measure of our net income (loss) or operating performance. EBITDA, EBITDAre, adjusted EBITDAre, and hotel EBITDA may include funds that may not be available for our discretionary use due to functional requirements to conserve funds for capital expenditures and property acquisitions and other commitments and uncertainties. Although we believe that EBITDA, EBITDAre, adjusted EBITDAre, and hotel EBITDA can enhance your understanding of our financial condition and results of operations, these non-GAAP financial measures are not necessarily a better indicator of any trend as compared to a comparable GAAP measure such as net income (loss). Above, we include a quantitative reconciliation of EBITDA, EBITDAre, adjusted EBITDAre and hotel EBITDA to the most directly comparable GAAP financial performance measure, which is net income (loss) and operating income (loss).

SOURCE Summit Hotel Properties, Inc.