Chatham Lodging Trust Announces Strong First Quarter 2022 Results

WEST PALM BEACH, FL—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 first quarter ended March 31, 2022.

First Quarter 2022 Operating Results

• Portfolio Revenue Per Available Room (RevPAR) – Increased 56 percent to $88 compared to the 2021 first quarter. Average daily rate (ADR) accelerated 36 percent to $146, and occupancy jumped 15 percent to 60 percent for the 41 comparable hotels owned as of March 31, 2022 (excludes one Austin hotel that opened in June 2021 and the Woodland Hills hotel that opened in January 2022).
• Net loss – Incurred a $9.7 million net loss compared to net income of $2.7 million in the 2021 first quarter (2021 first quarter net loss would have been $21.1 million excluding a $23.8 million gain on sale of investment related to a joint venture). Net loss per diluted common share was $(0.23) versus net income per diluted common share of $0.06 for the same period last year.
• GOP Margin – Grew margins a significant 27 percent to a portfolio-wide GOP margin of 38 percent in the 2022 first quarter compared to 30 percent in the 2021 first quarter. GOP flow-through, measured as the increase in GOP compared to the increase in room revenue, was 55 percent.
• Adjusted EBITDA – Jumped to $13.3 million from $1.2 million in the 2021 first quarter.
• Adjusted FFO – Swung significantly from negative FFO of $7.1 million in the 2021 first quarter to positive adjusted FFO of $3.5 million this year. Adjusted FFO per diluted share was $0.07, compared to an FFO loss of $(0.15) in the 2021 first quarter.
• Cash Flow/Burn Before Capital Expenditures – Generated first quarter 2022 cash flow before capital expenditures of $2.8 million in the 2022 first quarter compared to $5.1 million in the 2021 fourth quarter and cash burn of $7.6 million in the 2021 first quarter. Cash flow/burn includes $2.3 million of principal amortization per quarter.
• Opened First Ground-up Hotel Development and Acquired Beachside Hotel – Opened the much-anticipated $71 million Home2 Suites by Hilton Woodland Hills Warner Center in January 2022, and the company acquired the Hilton Garden Inn Destin Miramar Beach for $31 million.

Jeffrey H. Fisher, Chatham’s president and chief executive officer, highlighted, “Since getting past the impact from the COVID-19 Omicron variant midway through the first quarter, we have seen an acceleration in travel, especially business travel, across many of our key markets.  The outlook for business travel continued to strengthen in April and early May, and we are positioned to outperform our peers as the business traveler returns. Occupancy is accelerating, and we are emphasizing the importance of pushing rates to our operating team. As we mentioned on our last earnings call, our technology markets are re-opened, and this summer’s intern business will be our biggest intern program yet.

“Weekday occupancy is the best indicator of business travel, and it rose significantly through the first four months of the year. Weekday occupancy was 48 percent in January before jumping to 60 percent in February, 68 percent in March and 72 percent in April. In fact, April weekday and full-month occupancy of 73 percent was the second-best performance since the start of the pandemic,” Fisher stated.