INVESTOR RELATIONS
BETHESDA, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Pebblebrook Hotel Trust (NYSE: PEB):
HOTEL OPERATING TRENDS
CASH BURN
BALANCE SHEET & LIQUIDITY
2021 OUTLOOK
(1) See tables later in this press release for a description of Same-Property information and reconciliations from net income (loss) to non-GAAP financial measures.
"Improving demand trends during the first quarter exceeded our expectations, with rising confidence in travel as vaccination rates improved and travel restrictions eased. Same-Property Hotel EBITDA in March turned positive due to robust pent-up leisure demand throughout the portfolio. This rapid turnaround is a remarkable accomplishment considering the currently low levels of business transient and group hotel demand. The improvements in operating trends allowed us to reopen 10 more hotels since the end of February, including 7 in San Francisco, and one each in Boston, Portland, and Washington, D.C. As we look forward, we are encouraged with the increased booking activity we are experiencing, which we expect to strengthen further as we near the traditional peak leisure summer season. These accelerating trends should allow us to return to profitability earlier in the second half of this year than we expected just 45 days ago. We are also pleased to report the successful sale of the Sir Francis Drake Hotel in San Francisco, California, generating $157.6 million of net proceeds and a taxable gain of approximately $60.0 million. Strategically, we anticipate reallocating the proceeds from recent property dispositions into new acquisition opportunities that we expect will generate enhanced growth opportunities for our shareholders as they may become available.”
-Jon E. Bortz, Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer of Pebblebrook Hotel Trust
First Quarter Highlights
First Quarter
Same-Property and Corporate Highlights
2021
2020
(’21 vs. ’20 growth)
2019
(’21 vs. ’19 growth)
($ in millions except per share and RevPAR data)
Net income (loss)
($121.4)
$42.1
$5.7
Same-Property Room Revenues(1)
$53.2
$167.8
$222.7
Same-Property Room Revenues growth rate
(68.3%)
(76.1%)
Same-Property Total Revenues(1)
$83.2
$252.8
$328.9
Same-Property Total Revenues growth rate
(67.1%)
(74.7%)
Same-Property Total Expenses(1)
$99.3
$213.1
$239.6
Same-Property Total Expenses growth rate
(53.4%)
(58.5%)
Same-Property EBITDA(1)
($16.1)
$39.7
$89.4
Same-Property EBITDA growth rate
(140.6%)
(118.0%)
Adjusted EBITDAre(1)
($25.0)
$35.9
$90.5
Adjusted EBITDAre growth rate
(169.5%)
(127.6%)
Adjusted FFO(1)
($55.7)
$17.2
$60.7
Adjusted FFO per diluted share(1)
($0.42)
$0.13
$0.46
Adjusted FFO per diluted share growth rate
(423.1%)
(191.3%)
2021 Monthly Results
Open Portfolio Highlights(2)
January
February
March
($ in millions except ADR and RevPAR data)
Open Portfolio Occupancy
19%
27%
35%
Open Portfolio ADR
$224
$241
$245
Open Portfolio RevPAR
$43
$65
$85
Open Portfolio Total Revenues
$18.0
$24.9
$37.1
Open Portfolio Total Revenues growth rate (2021 vs. 2019)
(73%)
(68%)
(59%)
Open Portfolio EBITDA
($6.3)
($1.5)
$6.0
See tables later in this press release for a description of same-property information and reconciliations from net income (loss) to non-GAAP financial measures, including Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation and Amortization ("EBITDA"), EBITDA for Real Estate ("EBITDAre"), Adjusted EBITDAre, Funds from Operations ("FFO"), FFO per share, Adjusted FFO and Adjusted FFO per share.
For the details as to which hotels are included in Same-Property Room Revenues, Total Revenues, Expenses and EBITDA appearing in the table above and elsewhere in this press release, refer to the Same-Property Statistical Data table footnotes later in this press release.
Represents properties at which operations were not temporarily suspended for more than half of each respective month.
“The operating and financial performance of our hotels and resorts improved dramatically each month sequentially through the first quarter of 2021, and this positive trend has continued into April,” noted Mr. Bortz. “Our resorts continued to outperform within our portfolio due to strong leisure demand from an extended spring break season combined with pent-up travel demand. Our South Florida resorts achieved room rates, total revenues and Hotel EBITDA that surpassed comparable 2019 levels for March, and similar trends are continuing in April. As vaccine distribution expands, we expect travel to continue to increase. Our hotel teams have done an exceptional job rehiring associates and rebuilding our operating teams to get them into a position to take advantage of a strengthening environment. Our asset managers have worked closely with our hotel teams to redesign our operating models and best practices. We believe this allows our hotels to be more efficient and more profitable as additional hotel demand segments return over the coming months and quarters. We expect leisure travel will increase materially with huge pent-up demand for vacations and getaways, while we continue to expect business and group travel demand will gradually improve from a very low level over the next few months. However, we are not anticipating a material recovery in business travel until after Labor Day.”
During the first quarter of 2021, occupancy at the Company’s open hotels increased from 19.3 percent in January, to 26.8 percent in February, and to 34.8 percent in March. The Company’s open hotels lost ($1.8) million of Hotel EBITDA in the quarter, though the numbers dramatically improved over the course of the quarter, with March achieving $6.0 million of Hotel EBITDA. The Company’s resort portfolio, of which all 8 properties were open throughout the first quarter, generated $14.5 million of Hotel EBITDA, with an occupancy of 40.8 percent and an ADR of $406.20, a rate that was 30.1 percent higher than the first quarter of 2019.
Estimated Monthly Cash Burn
The Company estimates that its monthly corporate cash burn for the first quarter averaged approximately $18.0 million (excluding capital investments) based on the following:
Assuming progress is made to reduce the virus's impact through mitigation measures and widespread vaccinations, the Company expects its monthly total corporate cash burn to continue to decline, and believes it could potentially reach corporate breakeven sometime in the third quarter.
Capital Investments and Strategic Property Redevelopments
In the first quarter of 2021, the Company completed $9.6 million of capital investments throughout its portfolio. The Company expects to invest an additional $60.0 to $80.0 million during the remainder of 2021, including for the following redevelopments and repositioning projects that the Company believes will generate significant growth and returns on its investment dollars:
As fundamentals improve, the Company will evaluate commencing additional previously planned major renovation and repositioning projects later in 2021.
Update on Strategic Capital Reallocation
On April 1, 2021, the Company completed the sale of the Sir Francis Drake Hotel in San Francisco, California, generating $157.6 million of net proceeds after customary closing costs. Since the second quarter of 2020, the Company has generated $222.5 million of net proceeds from property dispositions. The Company intends to strategically reallocate these proceeds into new investment opportunities that it anticipates will offer enhanced growth opportunities, as they may become available.
Update on Curator Hotel and Resort Collection
Curator Hotel and Resort Collection (“Curator”), a distinct collection of hand-selected small brands and independent lifestyle hotels and resorts worldwide, founded by Pebblebrook and seven industry-leading hotel operators, continued to add additional member hotels and new operating partnerships since the start of 2021. Curator now has 62 member hotels with additional member hotels being added on a weekly and monthly basis. Also, Curator announced strategic partnerships with several leading hotel supplier companies, including Avendra and Pure HD, and now has over 18 master service agreements with preferred vendor partners, with over 20 additional agreements pending.
Curator also recently welcomed Sage Hospitality Group as its newest Founding Member. Sage joins a highly respected group of leading independent hotel operators, including Benchmark Global Hospitality, Davidson Hospitality Group, Noble House Hotels & Resorts, Provenance, Springboard Hospitality, and Viceroy Hotels & Resorts.
Balance Sheet and Liquidity
As of March 31, 2021, prior to the $157.6 million of net proceeds generated from the sale of the Sir Francis Drake Hotel, the Company had $124.6 million of consolidated cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash in addition to $643.2 million of additional undrawn availability on its senior unsecured revolving credit facility, for total liquidity of $767.8 million. The Company had $2.4 billion in consolidated unsecured debt and convertible notes at an effective weighted-average interest rate of 3.3 percent. Approximately $2.3 billion, or 93 percent of the Company's total outstanding debt and convertible notes, was at a weighted-average fixed interest rate of 3.4 percent, and approximately $0.2 billion, or 7 percent, was at a weighted-average floating interest rate of 2.4 percent. The Company had $1.6 billion of unsecured term loans, and there was no outstanding balance on its $650.0 million senior unsecured revolving credit facility. The Company has no loans maturing until 2022.
Common and Preferred Dividends
On March 15, 2021, the Company declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.01 per share on its common shares as well as a regular quarterly cash dividend for the following preferred shares of beneficial interest:
2021 Outlook
The Company continues to be unable to provide a full-year outlook for 2021 due to the uncertainties caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The Company intends to issue new guidance when it has more clarity on government restrictions, advances in health solutions, the economy, travel demand, and more predictable overall operating fundamentals and trends.
First Quarter 2021 Earnings Call
The Company will conduct its quarterly analyst and investor conference call on Friday, April 30, 2021, at 9:00 AM ET. Please dial (877) 705-6003 approximately ten minutes before the call begins to participate in the conference call. Additionally, a live webcast of the conference call will be available through the Company's website. To access the webcast, log on to www.pebblebrookhotels.com ten minutes before the conference call. A replay of the conference call webcast will be archived and available online through the Investor Relations section of www.pebblebrookhotels.com.
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 in the United States. The Company owns 52 hotels, totaling approximately 12,800 guestrooms across 14 urban and resort markets, with a focus on the west coast gateway cities. 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: projections and forecasts of the Company’s cash burn rate; 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; forecasts of the future value of Curator to shareholders; 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, 2020. 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 April 29, 2021. 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.
For additional information or to receive press releases via email, please visit our website at www.pebblebrookhotels.com
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This press release includes certain non-GAAP financial measures. These measures are not in accordance with, or an alternative to, measures prepared in accordance with GAAP and may be different from similarly titled non-GAAP financial measures used by other companies. In addition, these non-GAAP financial measures are not based on any comprehensive set of accounting rules or principles. Non-GAAP financial measures have limitations in that they do not reflect all of the amounts associated with the Company’s results of operations determined in accordance with GAAP.
Funds from Operations (“FFO”) - FFO represents net income (computed in accordance with GAAP), excluding gains or losses from sales of properties, plus real estate-related depreciation and amortization and after adjustments for unconsolidated partnerships. The Company considers FFO a useful measure of performance for an equity REIT because it facilitates an understanding of the Company's operating performance without giving effect to real estate depreciation and amortization, which assume that the value of real estate assets diminishes predictably over time. Since real estate values have historically risen or fallen with market conditions, the Company believes that FFO provides a meaningful indication of its performance. The Company also considers FFO an appropriate performance measure given its wide use by investors and analysts. The Company computes FFO in accordance with standards established by the Board of Governors of Nareit in its March 1995 White Paper (as amended in November 1999 and April 2002), which may differ from the methodology for calculating FFO utilized by other equity REITs and, accordingly, may not be comparable to that of other REITs. Further, FFO does not represent amounts available for management’s discretionary use because of needed capital replacement or expansion, debt service obligations or other commitments and uncertainties, nor is it indicative of funds available to fund the Company’s cash needs, including its ability to make distributions. The Company presents FFO per diluted share calculations that are based on the outstanding dilutive common shares plus the outstanding Operating Partnership units for the periods presented.
The Company also evaluates its performance by reviewing Adjusted FFO because it believes that adjusting FFO to exclude certain recurring and non-recurring items described below provides useful supplemental information regarding the Company's ongoing operating performance and that the presentation of Adjusted FFO, when combined with the primary GAAP presentation of net income (loss), more completely describes the Company's operating performance. The Company adjusts FFO available to common share and unit holders for the following items, which may occur in any period, and refers to this measure as Adjusted FFO:
- Transaction costs: The Company excludes transaction costs expensed during the period because it believes that including these costs in FFO does not reflect the underlying financial performance of the Company and its hotels.
- Non-cash ground rent: The Company excludes the non-cash ground rent expense, which is primarily made up of the straight-line rent impact from a ground lease.
- Management/franchise contract transition costs: The Company excludes one-time management and/or franchise contract transition costs expensed during the period because it believes that including these costs in FFO does not reflect the underlying financial performance of the Company and its hotels.
- Interest expense adjustment for acquired liabilities: The Company excludes interest expense adjustment for acquired liabilities assumed in connection with acquisitions, because it believes that including these non-cash adjustments in FFO does not reflect the underlying financial performance of the Company.
- Finance lease adjustment: The Company excludes the effect of non-cash interest expense from finance leases because it believes that including these non-cash adjustments in FFO does not reflect the underlying financial performance of the Company.
- Non-cash amortization of acquired intangibles: The Company excludes the non-cash amortization of acquired intangibles, which includes but is not limited to the amortization of favorable and unfavorable leases or management agreements and above/below market real estate tax reduction agreements because it believes that including these non-cash adjustments in FFO does not reflect the underlying financial performance of the Company.
- Non-cash interest expense, one-time operation suspension expenses, non-cash canceled share-based compensation and early extinguishment of debt: The Company excludes these items because the Company believes that including these adjustments in FFO does not reflect the underlying financial performance of the Company and its hotels.
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Earnings before Interest, Taxes, and Depreciation and Amortization ("EBITDA") - The Company believes that EBITDA provides investors a useful financial measure to evaluate its operating performance, excluding the impact of our capital structure (primarily interest expense) and our asset base (primarily depreciation and amortization).
Earnings before Interest, Taxes, and Depreciation and Amortization for Real Estate ("EBITDAre") - The Company believes that EBITDAre provides investors a useful financial measure to evaluate its operating performance, and the Company presents EBITDAre in accordance with the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts ("Nareit") guidelines, as defined in its September 2017 white paper "Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation and Amortization for Real Estate." EBITDAre adjusts EBITDA for the following items, which may occur in any period, and refers to these measures as Adjusted EBITDAre: (1) gains or losses on the disposition of depreciated property, including gains or losses on change of control; (2) impairment write-downs of depreciated property and of investments in unconsolidated affiliates caused by a decrease in value of depreciated property in the affiliate; and (3) adjustments to reflect the entity's share of EBITDAre of unconsolidated affiliates.
The Company also evaluates its performance by reviewing Adjusted EBITDAre because it believes that adjusting EBITDAre to exclude certain recurring and non-recurring items described below provides useful supplemental information regarding the Company's ongoing operating performance and that the presentation of Adjusted EBITDAre, when combined with the primary GAAP presentation of net income (loss), more completely describes the Company's operating performance. The Company adjusts EBITDAre for the following items, which may occur in any period, and refers to these measures as Adjusted EBITDAre:
- Transaction costs: The Company excludes transaction costs expensed during the period because it believes that including these costs in EBITDAre does not reflect the underlying financial performance of the Company and its hotels.
- Management/franchise contract transition costs: The Company excludes one-time management and/or franchise contract transition costs expensed during the period because it believes that including these costs in EBITDAre does not reflect the underlying financial performance of the Company and its hotels.
- Non-cash amortization of acquired intangibles: The Company excludes the non-cash amortization of acquired intangibles, which includes but is not limited to the amortization of favorable and unfavorable leases or management agreements and above/below market real estate tax reduction agreements because it believes that including these non-cash adjustments in EBITDAre does not reflect the underlying financial performance of the Company and its hotels.
- One-time operation suspension expenses and non-cash canceled share-based compensation: The Company excludes these items because it believes that including these costs in EBITDAre does not reflect the underlying financial performance of the Company and its hotels.
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While the operations of many of the Company's hotels were temporarily suspended beginning in March 2020, this schedule of hotel results for the three months ended March 31 includes information from all of the hotels the Company owned as of March 31, 2021 but excludes Hotel Zena Washington DC, formerly known as Donovan Hotel, for Q1 in 2021, 2020 and 2019 because it was closed during the first quarter of 2020 for renovation.
Any differences are a result of rounding.
The information above has not been audited and is presented only for comparison purposes.
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"Other" includes New York City, NY; Philadelphia, PA; and Santa Cruz, CA.
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A property marked with an "X" in a specific quarter denotes that the same-property operating results of that property are included in the Same-Property Statistical Data and in the Schedule of Same-Property Results.
The Company’s first quarter Same-Property RevPAR, RevPAR Growth, Total RevPAR, Total RevPAR Growth, ADR, Occupancy, Revenues, Expenses, EBITDA and EBITDA Margin include all of the hotels the Company owned as of March 31, 2021 but excludes Hotel Zena Washington DC, formerly known as Donovan Hotel, for Q1 in 2021, 2020 and 2019 because it was closed during the first quarter of 2020 for renovation. Operating statistics and financial results may include periods prior to the Company’s ownership of the hotels.
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These historical hotel operating results include information for all of the hotels the Company owned as of April 29, 2021 as if they were owned as of January 1, 2019. The information above does not reflect the Company's corporate general and administrative expense, interest expense, property acquisition costs, depreciation and amortization, taxes and other expenses. Any differences are a result of rounding.
Raymond D. Martz, Chief Financial Officer, Pebblebrook Hotel Trust - (240) 507-1330