PEB - Pebblebrook Hotel Trust Reports Third Quarter 2023 Results

Pebblebrook Hotel Trust (NYSE: PEB):

Third Quarter and Year-to-Date Highlights

“Despite the challenges posed by two significant storm events that resulted in booking interruptions and cancellations, we are pleased to have generated a 3.4% improvement in occupancy during the third quarter, driven primarily by our urban hotels,” noted Mr. Bortz. “As we move into the fourth quarter, group pace compared to the same time last year remains strong, with revenues up over 18%, led by a favorable convention calendar across a number of our urban markets, including San Francisco, Washington, DC, San Diego and Boston. Occupancy growth in our portfolio should continue in the fourth quarter. While we continue to actively monitor macroeconomic trends, thus far, we’ve observed continued stable demand from both the business and leisure segments.”

Update on Impact from Hurricane Ian

The Company continues to make significant progress restoring and reopening the 189-room LaPlaya Beach Resort & Club (“LaPlaya”) in Naples, Florida. The resort’s Bay Tower (40 rooms) and Gulf Tower (70 rooms) are substantially restored and fully operational, with additional resort services and amenities progressively coming online. The Beach House (79 rooms), with its full-service spa and fitness center, is expected to be substantially completed and returned to service in the first quarter of next year.

The Company anticipates that all operational disruption will be covered under its business interruption and property insurance programs, net of deductibles. A preliminary business interruption settlement of $10.9 million was recorded in Q3 related to lost income from Q2 2023. Year to date, the Company has recorded $33.0 million of business interruption proceeds. The Company expects to record additional business interruption settlements as these are determined and finalized with its insurance providers.

Capital Investments and Strategic Property Redevelopments

During the third quarter, the Company completed $33.1 million of capital investments throughout its portfolio, excluding capital expenditures related to the repair and rebuilding of LaPlaya. This includes the redevelopment and reflagging of Solamar Hotel to Margaritaville Hotel San Diego Gaslamp Quarter, which officially occurred on August 15, 2023.

The renovation of the four guesthouses (50 rooms/suites) at Southernmost Beach Resort in Key West, FL is well along, with two of the guesthouses already substantially complete and back in inventory, with the remaining two scheduled to be completed by the end of November. The comprehensive redevelopment and repositioning of Newport Harbor Island Resort is slated to begin in mid-November, with completion expected in Q2 2024.

For 2023, the Company continues to expect to invest a total of $145 to $155 million in capital improvements, which excludes capital expenditures related to the repair and rebuilding of LaPlaya. Since 2018, the Company has reinvested approximately $693 million into redeveloping its assets, including over $257 million of ROI-generating investments which have been primarily major transformations and repositionings of a majority of our properties to higher levels. These ROI investments are expected to generate a healthy return on investment in line with the Company’s previous redevelopment and repositioning projects. By early 2024, substantially all of the Company’s properties will have been recently renovated or redeveloped, and future capital investments and repositionings are expected to be substantially reduced.

Update on Strategic Dispositions

The Company recently executed a contract to sell the 221-room Hotel Zoe Fisherman’s Wharf (“Hotel Zoe”) in San Francisco, California, for $68.5 million to a third party. This sale is targeted to be completed in the fourth quarter of 2023, subject to normal closing conditions. The Company offers no assurances that this sale will be completed on these terms or at all. Assuming the Hotel Zoe sale closes this year, the Company will have completed $300.8 million of property dispositions in 2023 comprised of six property sales. The $300.8 million aggregate sales proceeds reflect a combined 21.8x EBITDA multiple and a 3.8% net operating income capitalization rate (assuming a capital reserve of 4.0% of total hotel revenues) based on the trailing twelve-month performance prior to the completion of each respective sale, or the trailing twelve-month performance ended September 30, 2023 in the case of Hotel Zoe.

Net proceeds from the Company’s dispositions are being used for general corporate purposes, including reducing the Company’s debt, increasing the Company’s cash position, and repurchasing common or preferred shares to further strengthen the Company’s balance sheet and enhance shareholder value.

Common Share Repurchases

The Company did not complete any common share repurchases in Q3 2023 since no property sales were completed in the third quarter. On a cumulative basis since October 2022, the Company has repurchased over 11 million common shares, or approximately 8.4% of the Company’s outstanding common shares, at an average price of $14.51 per share, representing an approximate 50% discount to the midpoint of the Company’s most recently published Net Asset Value (“NAV”) per share.

Balance Sheet and Liquidity

As of September 30, 2023, the Company had $829.0 million in liquidity, consisting of $191.6 million in cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash, plus $637.4 million of undrawn availability on its senior unsecured revolving credit facility.

The Company's $2.4 billion of consolidated debt and convertible notes is well-structured, with an effective weighted-average interest rate of 4.4%. The majority of the debt and convertible notes, or 78%, is at an effective weighted-average fixed interest rate of 3.5%, which mitigates exposure to rising interest rates. The remaining 22% of the Company’s debt is at a weighted-average floating interest rate of 7.6%. In addition, approximately 92% of the Company’s outstanding debt is unsecured, and the weighted-average maturity is 2.8 years. The Company has no meaningful debt maturities until Q4 2024.

Common and Preferred Dividends

On September 15, 2023, the Company declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.01 per share on its common shares and a regular quarterly cash dividend for the following preferred shares of beneficial interest:

• $0.39844 per 6.375% Series E Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Share;
• $0.39375 per 6.3% Series F Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Share;
• $0.39844 per 6.375% Series G Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Share; and
• $0.35625 per 5.7% Series H Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Share.

Update on Curator Hotel & Resort Collection

Curator Hotel & Resort Collection (“Curator”) is a curated collection of experientially focused small brands and independent lifestyle hotels and resorts worldwide founded by Pebblebrook and several industry-leading independent lifestyle hotel operators. Curator has 99 member hotels and 109 master service agreements with preferred vendor partners. These agreements provide Curator member hotels with preferred pricing, enhanced operating terms, and early access to curated new technologies. Curator's mission is to help independent lifestyle hotels and resorts achieve their full potential by providing them with the resources and support they need to compete with larger brands and operators while remaining independent.

Q4 2023 Outlook

Based on current trends and assuming no material disruptions to travel caused by pandemics, federal government shutdowns, or worsening macro-economic conditions, the Company’s outlook for Q4 2023 is as follows:

This Q4 2023 Outlook is based, in part, on the following estimates and assumptions:

The fourth quarter outlook does not assume any business interruption income related to LaPlaya. Based on the above Q4 2023 outlook, the implied full-year 2023 outlook is as follows:

This Full Year 2023 Outlook is based, in part, on the following estimates and assumptions:

Third Quarter 2023 Earnings Call

The Company will conduct its quarterly analyst and investor conference call on Friday, October 27, 2023, at 9:00 AM ET. Please dial (877) 407-3982 approximately ten minutes before the call begins to participate. A live webcast of the conference call will also be available through the Investor Relations section of www.pebblebrookhotels.com. To access the webcast, click on https://investor.pebblebrookhotels.com/news-and-events/webcasts/default.aspx ten minutes before the conference call. A replay of the conference call webcast will be archived and available online.

About Pebblebrook Hotel Trust

Pebblebrook Hotel Trust (NYSE: PEB) is a publicly traded real estate investment trust (“REIT”) and the largest owner of urban and resort lifestyle hotels and resorts in the United States. The Company owns 47 hotels and resorts, totaling approximately 12,200 guest rooms across 13 urban and resort markets. For more information, visit www.pebblebrookhotels.com and follow us at @PebblebrookPEB .

This press release contains certain “forward-looking statements” made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements are generally identifiable by the use of forward-looking terminology such as “may,” “will,” “should,” “potential,” “intend,” “expect,” “seek,” “anticipate,” “estimate,” “approximately,” “believe,” “could,” “project,” “predict,” “forecast,” “continue,” “assume,” “plan,” references to “outlook” 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 and forecasts and other forward-looking information and estimates. Examples of forward-looking statements include the following: descriptions of the Company’s plans or objectives for future capital investment projects, operations or services; forecasts of the Company’s future economic performance; forecasts of hotel industry performance; statements regarding expectations of hotel dispositions and use of proceeds; and descriptions of assumptions underlying or relating to any of the foregoing expectations including assumptions regarding the timing of their occurrence. These forward-looking statements are subject to various risks and uncertainties, 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 and the supply of hotel properties, and other factors as are described in greater detail in the Company’s filings with the SEC, including, without limitation, the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2022. 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 further 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 filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, including, but not limited to, its Annual Report on Form 10-K and Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, copies of which may be obtained at the Investor Relations section of the Company’s website at www.pebblebrookhotels.com.

All information in this press release is as of October 26, 2023. The Company undertakes no duty to update the statements in this press release to conform the statements to actual results or changes in the Company’s expectations.

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