Earnings call transcript: Chatham Lodging Q3 2025 results miss expectations

Chatham Lodging Trust reported its third-quarter 2025 earnings, revealing a shortfall in both earnings per share (EPS) and revenue compared to analysts' forecasts. The company posted an EPS of $0.03, missing the expected $0.04, and recorded revenue of $78.41 million, falling short of the $79.68 million forecast. Following the earnings release, the stock experienced a slight decline of 0.78%, closing at $6.35.

Key Takeaways

• Chatham Lodging missed both EPS and revenue forecasts for Q3 2025.
• The stock price declined by 0.78% in pre-market trading.
• Hotel EBITDA for the quarter was $28.8 million.
• The company completed the sale of five hotels and is under contract to sell another.
• RevPAR declined by 2.5% in Q3, with challenges in convention markets.

Company Performance

Chatham Lodging Trust faced a challenging third quarter, with both EPS and revenue missing analysts' expectations. The company's performance was impacted by a 2.5% decline in revenue per available room (RevPAR) and difficulties in convention markets such as Austin, Dallas, and San Diego. Despite these challenges, Chatham maintained low leverage compared to other lodging REITs and continued to focus on strategic asset sales and share repurchases.

Financial Highlights

• Revenue: $78.41 million, down from the $79.68 million forecast
• Earnings per share: $0.03, below the $0.04 forecast
• Hotel EBITDA: $28.8 million
• Adjusted EBITDA: $26.2 million
• Adjusted Funds from Operations (FFO): $0.32 per share
• GOP Margin: 43.6%, a decrease of 90 basis points year-over-year

Earnings vs. Forecast

Chatham Lodging's Q3 2025 EPS of $0.03 fell short of the $0.04 forecast by 25%, marking a significant miss. Revenue also came in 1.59% below expectations at $78.41 million. This performance contrasts with previous quarters where the company often met or exceeded expectations, highlighting the challenges faced in the current market environment.

Market Reaction

Following the earnings announcement, Chatham Lodging's stock price decreased by 0.78%, closing at $6.35. This decline reflects investor concerns over the company's ability to meet financial targets amid a challenging market landscape. The stock remains near its 52-week low of $5.83, indicating ongoing pressure.

Outlook & Guidance

Looking ahead, Chatham Lodging provided guidance for Q4 2025, projecting a RevPAR decline of 3.5% to 2.5% and adjusted EBITDA between $16.7 million and $18.3 million. The company anticipates improved market conditions in 2026, with a focus on strategic initiatives such as hotel renovations and the Home2 Suites development project in Portland, Maine.

Executive Commentary

• Dennis Craven, COO, remarked, "2025 has just been a nut job of a year in terms of just all these things that have impacted the industry."
• CEO Jeff Fisher expressed optimism, stating, "Good years are ahead."
• Craven also noted the company's commitment to share repurchases, saying, "We will continue to be active purchasing shares."

Risks and Challenges

• Continued pressure on RevPAR and challenges in key convention markets.
• Rising labor and benefits costs, which increased by 1.7% per occupied room.
• Potential macroeconomic pressures affecting the lodging industry.
• The impact of ongoing hotel sales on revenue and profitability.
• Competition in key markets, particularly in the Northeast and coastal regions.

Q&A

During the earnings call, analysts inquired about potential hotel acquisitions and the company's capital allocation strategy. Management detailed challenges in Silicon Valley and Washington D.C. markets and emphasized their focus on strategic share repurchases as a priority.

Full transcript - Chatham Lodging Trust (REIT) (CLDT) Q3 2025:

Kelsey, Conference Call Operator: Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the Chatham Lodging Trust Third Quarter 2025 Financial Results Conference Call. At this time, all lines are in listen-only mode, and following the presentation, we will conduct a question-and-answer session. If at any time during this call you require immediate assistance, please press star zero for the operator. This call is being recorded on Wednesday, November 5th, 2025. I would now like to turn the call over to Mr. Chris Daly. Please go ahead.

Chris Daly, Unspecified Executive, Chatham Lodging Trust: Thank you, Kelsey. Happy Wednesday, everybody, and welcome to the Chatham Lodging Trust Third Quarter 2025 Results Conference Call. Please note that many of our comments today are considered forward-looking statements as defined by federal securities laws. These statements are subject to risks and uncertainties, both known and unknown, as described in our most recent Form 10-K and other SEC filings. All information in this call is as of November 5th, 2025, unless otherwise noted, and the company undertakes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements conforming the statement to actual results or changes in the company's expectations. You can find copies of our SEC filings and earnings release, which contain reconciliations to non-GAAP financial measures referenced on this call, on our website at chathamlodgingtrust.com.

Now, to provide you with some insight into Chatham's 2025 third quarter results, allow me to introduce Jeff Fisher, Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer, Dennis Craven, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, and Jeremy Wegner, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Let me turn the session over to Jeff Fisher. Jeff.

Jeff Fisher, Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer, Chatham Lodging Trust: Thanks, Chris. Good morning, everyone. I certainly appreciate everybody being on our call today. Before I comment on our third quarter operating results, I'd like to update some of our key corporate initiatives. Earlier this year, we completed the sale of five hotels with an average age of 25 years at an approximate 6% capitalization rate, and each of these five hotels were among the six lowest rent-par hotels in our portfolio. In the fourth quarter, we are under contract to close on the sale of another hotel for $17 million with similar characteristics and at similar returns to the previously sold five hotels. These opportunistic sales add liquidity to execute on other value-enhancing opportunities for the company. On that note, we've now repurchased approximately 500,000 or 1% of our outstanding shares of our stock at an average price of $6.85.

Included in that amount is approximately 230,000 shares that we have repurchased since the end of the third quarter. We intend to remain active repurchasers of shares moving forward since we believe we are trading at a meaningful discount. Lastly, we completed an upsized and recast syndication of our credit facility and term loan, further enhancing our financial condition and lowering overall borrowing costs. We are one of the lowest leveraged lodging REITs and have great flexibility to create value by using that capacity to repurchase shares, acquire hotels, and fund our upcoming Home2 Suites Portland, Maine development. With respect to acquiring hotels, we are somewhat more bullish on our ability to grow externally than we've been in the last 18 months. Deal flow underwriting has been steady here, and it seems like seller pricing expectations in some cases are becoming more reasonable.

We have been and will continue to exercise great patience and discipline as operating fundamentals are quite volatile. Of course, it is that volatility that I think is partially the catalyst for some movement in cap rates upward. The markets will have to make sense for us. Of course, yields have to approximate the implied yield on buying our own stock. We want to invest in markets that are going to benefit from continued population migration and business investment. The U.S. is poised to benefit from this potential capital expenditure, as they're calling it super cycle, based on the announced investments from companies based here and abroad. More specifically, it is expected that the Central and Southeastern U.S. will be the biggest beneficiaries in some of these investments and additions of employment. Operationally, despite rent-par growing—excuse me, we'd like it to be growing 2.5%.

Declining 2.5%, we were able to minimize our margin decline to less than 100 basis points, and we were able to deliver hotel EBITDA and FFO per share towards the upper end of our guidance range and beating consensus estimates. Looking at rent-par performance in our largest markets, I want to address our Silicon Valley performance because, on the surface, the decline appears weak. Rent-par at our hotels in Mountain View and San Mateo produced rent-par growth of 2.5% in the quarter, while rent-par growth at the two Sunnyvale hotels fell 9%. The underlying fundamentals in Sunnyvale are healthy, with the third quarter sub-market and competitive set rent-par up as opposed to our two hotels. Rent-par was up 3% and 6%, respectively, in the market. Given the underlying health of the market, when one of our larger corporate accounts asked us to substantially discount our room rates, we declined to participate.

We believe the better long-term option for us is to maintain our rate integrity, and that will benefit us in the future as the market outlook, as we've discussed, continues to remain strong and the market is growing and recovering. Our coastal Northeast and Greater New York markets experienced RevPAR growth of 2% and 8% in the quarter, and the coastal Northeastern portfolio remains fantastic, benefiting from long-term supply growth restrictions in those markets combined with a balance of leisure, business, and government demand. In fact, third quarter RevPAR at our Hampton Inn Portland, Maine set an all-time record high for quarterly RevPAR at any of our hotels. Just fantastic, and another reason why we are excited about our upcoming development in downtown Portland on the waterfront.

All three hotels in Greater New York grew rent-par in the quarter, led by our Residence Inn Holtsville, Long Island, which had growth of 28%, due in part to having the Ryder Cup on Long Island in September. However, that hotel was still having a great year through August, with year-to-date rent-par up 17% as corporate demand has greatly improved, really for the first time in that market post-COVID. Three of our top markets, San Diego, Austin, and Dallas, were adversely impacted by convention-related demand losses. The Austin and Dallas convention centers are basically closed for renovation, as we've discussed, and expansions, while San Diego is coming off a record year in convention business in 2024, and our 2024 third quarter rent-par was the second highest quarter ever at that hotel.

The comp is difficult, and the softening relative to 2024 in San Diego is really no surprise to us. Our six predominantly leisure hotels, which account for approximately 20% of our EBITDA, produced rent-par growth of 3% in the quarter. Within that group, our SpringHill Suites Savannah had a great quarter with rent-par up over 30%, as it has really surged after completing a fantastic renovation that was very well received by our guests and customers. Our fourth quarter rent-par guidance assumes that our current rent-par trend of a decline of approximately 3% continues for the rest of the year, unfortunately. It has really been a crazy year, a volatile year. Hotel room demand and thus revenue has certainly seen its share of ups and downs this year.

Encouraging business demand growth across the portfolio in the first quarter has been adversely impacted since then by Dodge Travel spending halts, tariff threats, Liberation Day impacts, and of course, inbound international travel, and especially from Canada being down substantially. Now, with the government shutdown, certainly doesn't help matters. Many of these challenges should be short-term, however, and the impact primarily on 2025 performance. Looking forward, lodging dynamics are very favorable. Forecasts for super cycle capital investments, limited supply growth, and moderating wage increases all tilt in favor of rent-par and margin expansion as we look forward to next year. Add to this what is projected to be a favorable interest rate curve, and thus lower borrowing costs should enable us to accretively grow as we move forward. Good years are ahead. With that, I'd like to turn it over to Dennis.

Dennis Craven, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Chatham Lodging Trust: Thanks, Jeff. Good morning, everyone. Continuing on with some color related to Silicon Valley, excluding our two Sunnyvale hotels, portfolio rent-par would have been down 1.7% in the quarter. Occupancy at the four Silicon Valley hotels was still a solid 75%, with a range of 73%-83% occupancy in the quarter between the four hotels. Importantly, October rent-par at our four Silicon Valley hotels was flat to last year compared to the down 4% trend for the quarter. Rent-par was down approximately 5% at the two Sunnyvale hotels and up 7% at the other two hotels. Just adding on to what Jeff talked about earlier in the call, our Silicon Valley hotels were essentially able to, over the last few months, replace approximately half of the business that we chose to pass on related to one of our larger corporate clients.

Good trend developing as we move into the fourth quarter with respect to Silicon Valley and those two hotels. Obviously, our three Washington, D.C. hotels have been for quite a ride this year, as evidenced by the following trends, which was first quarter rent-par was up 6%. Second quarter rent-par was down 2%, feeling the effects of D.C. when April rent-par was down 9%. Our third quarter rent-par really shows the impact of just the threat of a shutdown, as we typically see just the threat of shutdown start to impact government travel into those markets. Our rent-par for those three hotels was flat in July, then down approximately 9% in August and September. The government shutdown impacted the third quarter portfolio rent-par by approximately 40 basis points. In October, the effect of those three hotels, which were down 19%, actually impacted rent-par by 170 basis points.

When you just take out those three hotels, our rent-par was down only about 1% for October. Outside of our top markets, our other tech-heavy hotel, our Bellevue Residence Inn, produced rent-par growth of 1% in the quarter. As we've talked about for the last really two quarters, vehicle border crossings and inbound travel from Canada has been an impact specifically in that region. If you look at vehicle border crossings from British Columbia into Washington State, they were down approximately 35% in the third quarter compared to last year. Having said that, that's better than the 47% that vehicle crossings were down in the second quarter. At least from a trend perspective, that crossing decline is moderating. At our Home2 in Phoenix, as a reminder, it opened in early 2024, and we acquired the hotel in late May of 2024.

Rent-par was up approximately 6% in the quarter. The fourth quarter looks quite strong in Phoenix, and our October rent-par at that hotel was up another 8% year over year. Hotels in the Sunbelt continued to perform well for us. In addition to the previously mentioned Savannah Hotel, our two Charleston hotels had another solid quarter with rent-par up 4%. Our two Florida hotels in Destin and Fort Lauderdale had flat rent-par growth in the quarter. Our top five rent-par hotels in the quarter were our Hampton Inn Portland, Maine, as Jeff mentioned, with an all-time high of $354. Followed by our Residence Inn Washington, D.C., with rent-par of $247. And our Hilton Garden Inn Portsmouth with rent-par of $239. Followed by our Hilton Garden Inn Marina del Rey, Residence Inn White Plains in Holtsville, New York, with rent-par of approximately $204.

Just to clarify, the second hotel was our Hilton Garden Inn Portsmouth, not our Residence Inn Washington, D.C. On the operations front, our gross operating profit margins declined 70 basis points in the quarter to a still strong 44%. As we all know, labor and benefits are by far our largest expense, and on a per-occupied room basis, those costs were up only 2% in the quarter. Headcount is down approximately 3% from year-end at our comparable 34 hotels. With so much top-line volatility, it is imperative that we closely monitor our staffing levels and productivity. Outside of labor and benefits, our other operating profit was up slightly year over year and improved margins by 30 basis points. Most other operating line items were basically stable year over year, though guest acquisition-related commission costs were up approximately 15% or $500,000.

Our expenses there have increased really just due to the different booking channels year over year in the quarter. We had 16 hotels produce over a million dollars of GOP in the third quarter compared to 17 in the second quarter, with the only difference related to a D.C. area hotel. What is quite incredible is that for the first time ever following an all-time rent-par high, the Hampton Inn Portland led all hotels with GOP of $2.5 million in the quarter, unseating our Gaslamp Residence Inn that had led the way for the past 14 quarters. What's even more incredible is that the Hampton Inn Portland only has 125 rooms, while the Gaslamp Residence Inn has 240 rooms.

Gaslamp Residence Inn did finish second in the quarter, and rounding out the top five were two of our tech-driven hotels, our Bellevue and Sunnyvale Two Residence Inns, and our Hilton Garden Inn in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. On the CapEx front, we spent approximately $4 million in the quarter. Our last two renovations planned for 2025 are commencing in the fourth quarter, and that being the Residence Inn Austin, Texas, which starts this week, and our Residence Inn Mountain View, California, which starts next month. Our common dividend, which was increased almost 30% earlier this year, is currently 9 cents per share per quarter, and we will continue and we'll reevaluate our common dividend in early 2026. With that, I'll turn it over to Jeremy.

Jeremy Wegner, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Chatham Lodging Trust: Thanks, Dennis. Good morning, everyone. Our Q3 2025 hotel EBITDA was $28.8 million. Adjusted EBITDA was $26.2 million, and adjusted FFO was $0.32 per share. Our GOP margin for the quarter of 43.6% was only down 90 basis points from Q3 2024, despite the challenging rent-par environment due to continued strong expense control and moderating inflationary cost pressures. In Q3, we were able to hold year-over-year increase in labor and benefits cost per occupied room to 1.7%. In Q3, we continued to strengthen our balance sheet by refinancing our revolving credit facility and term loan, which were our only near-term debt maturities. With this transaction, we upsized our revolving credit facility from $260 million to $300 million and upsized our term loan from $140 million to $200 million. Our low leverage of 3.5 times net debt to EBITDA and the liquidity provided by our $300 million.

Undrawn revolving credit facility provide us with significant capacity to pursue investment opportunities. In Q3, we ramped up utilization of our share repurchase program and repurchased 255,000 shares for $1.8 million. Subsequent to the end of Q3 and early October, we repurchased an additional 230,000 shares for $1.5 million. At current price levels, we believe acquiring Chatham stock is a very attractive investment, and we continue to expect to actively repurchase our shares in the future. Turning to our Q4 and full year 2025 guidance, we expect rent-par of -3.5% to -2.5%, adjusted EBITDA of $16.7 million-$18.3 million, and adjusted FFO per share of $0.14-$0.17 in Q4. Rent-par growth of -0.7% to -0.3%, adjusted EBITDA of $89.2 million-$90.8 million, and adjusted FFO per share of $0.96-$0.99 for the full year.

This guidance assumes no further asset sales, capital markets activity, or changes in floating interest rates. This concludes my portion of the call. Operator, please open the line for questions.

Kelsey, Conference Call Operator: Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, we'll now begin the question and answer session. Should you have a question, please press the star followed by the one on your touchstone phone. You will hear a prompt that your hand has been raised. Should you wish to decline from the polling process, please press the star followed by the two. If you are using a speakerphone, please lift the handset before pressing any keys. One moment, please, for your first question. Your first question comes from Gaurav Mehta from Alliance Global Partners. Please go ahead.

Gaurav Mehta, Analyst, Alliance Global Partners: Thank you. Good morning. I wanted to ask you.

Hey, Gora?

Hey.

I wanted to ask you on investment opportunities. Can you maybe provide some more color on what you guys are seeing in the acquisition market as you're selling hotels? Are there any opportunities to redeploy that capital into acquisition in the future?

Dennis Craven, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Chatham Lodging Trust: Yes, I think I'll take that, Hank, Gora. It feels certainly, and we've been consistently, like a lot of companies, looking at deals, talking to owners. With rent-par turning in a negative direction, I think that there does present, and usually has in the past, some opportunities. I feel like the overall ask is certainly now north, even on the asking side, north of 8% on a cap rate basis, whereas everybody was hanging on to a lower number, notwithstanding what the hotel rates trade at as an implied cap rate or otherwise. I think what we're seeing in a few cases is perhaps the opportunity, as I said, and the goal is to try to create long-term shareholder value here with great hotels that will grow. At least as good, if not better than the existing portfolio, that are newer.

That are in the brands that we all know we specialize in. I think we might be able to do that with some yields that will approximate what we can do by buying our own stock, as Jeremy was talking about. Gora, I think I'll just add one thing to just add on to Jeff's is when you combine all that with some of these newer assets are coming up on their next wave or probably really, in a lot of cases, first waves of renovations. As an owner who might have been relatively new to the industry now has to look at an environment that's a bit choppy and has to come up with $2-$3 million to renovate a hotel, that decision might spur a little bit more activity as well.

We're in a great financial position to be able to take on some of these opportunities in a market that might make others a little bit nervous, too.

Gaurav Mehta, Analyst, Alliance Global Partners: Great. Second question on the development. Can you remind us on the timing of the Portland Maine development?

Dennis Craven, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Chatham Lodging Trust: Yeah. I mean, Gaurav, I think we'll— We're kind of proceeding as we'll start site work on that in 2026, probably be a 21-24 month construction timeline, so kind of an early 2028 opening. I think the seasonality and the results that Dennis was talking about in the existing asset really dictate we have to be very careful about when we start digging up the parking lot because it's the same land parcel. And as Portland has continued, it seems beyond, obviously, summer months, well into the month of October to achieve ADRs, particularly on weekends that are over $300 a night. So. We're going to look at that carefully. And skirt those time frames as well. Yeah. I mean, I think October rent-par at our Hampton Inn Portland was, I believe, around $380. So.

Just to add on to Jeff's comment, that hotel does really well in almost every month except for the late December and January and early February when just weather is a little tricky.

Gaurav Mehta, Analyst, Alliance Global Partners: Okay. Thank you. That's all I had.

Dennis Craven, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Chatham Lodging Trust: Thank you.

Kelsey, Conference Call Operator: Thank you. Your next question comes from Tyler Battery from Oppenheimer. Please go ahead.

Tyler Battery, Analyst, Oppenheimer: Hey, guys. Good morning. Thanks for all the—

Dennis Craven, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Chatham Lodging Trust: Hey, Tyler.

Tyler Battery, Analyst, Oppenheimer: Sales here. Hey. I wanted to really dive into the rent-par performance for a little bit if I could. You missed the midpoint of the guide. Just isolate for us what really drove the variance, just trying to understand what surprised you in the quarter and what caused that shortfall.

Dennis Craven, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Chatham Lodging Trust: Yeah, Tyler. It really comes down to two things. It's our decision on the two hotels in Sunnyvale and basically the government shutdown impact on August and September. You had two—the two Sunnyvale hotels are basically 10% of our room count. For those two hotels to be down 9% in the quarter following a first and second quarter with growth in the mid-single digits was a very significant impact that I think, as Jeff talked about, is really for us, we decided, yes, it ultimately was a short-term hit to us, but maintaining that rate integrity. I think, as I spoke about, we were able to, in essence, replace half of that business in October already. I think ultimately it is going to prove to be a pretty good decision long-term. Obviously, in Washington, D.C., it was flat rent-par growth in July.

What we historically see, and by the way, we saw this back in late in the first and early in the second quarter with the Dodge cuts and the threat of a government shutdown, is that as soon as the threat of a government shutdown starts or is kind of out there, generally speaking, that government travel pulls back. We saw that leading into the actual shutdown, with rent-par at our three D.C. hotels down 9% in August and September. That's it.

Tyler Battery, Analyst, Oppenheimer: Okay. Awesome. Thinking about the outlook and the guide for Q4, rent-par down 2.5% in Q3, you're guiding down 2.5%-3.5% in Q4. The decline's getting worse. Last time that we spoke and last time you reported, just looking at kind of some of the industry forecasts, there was an expectation that Q4 was going to be a little bit better compared with Q3, just from a year-over-year perspective. Just kind of unpack what's implied in that Q4 and kind of why things, on a sequential basis, are deteriorating and getting a little bit worse.

Dennis Craven, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Chatham Lodging Trust: Yeah, absolutely. That really has all to do with essentially the same answer, but just to really put a nail in it is the three D.C. hotels. Reduced our October rent-par by approximately almost 200 basis points, 170 basis points. So just those three alone. In essence, if you excluded those, our rent-par was off 1% for the month of October. We obviously have. We improved Silicon Valley in fourth quarter to flat rent-par, I mean, in October to flat rent-par. The moderating and lessening range of rent-par is strictly due to the shutdown in D.C.

Tyler Battery, Analyst, Oppenheimer: Okay. And then taking a step back and also trying to think about 2026. The convention calendar and some of the disruption in Austin and Dallas, San Diego coming off of a record year in 2024. How is the convention business shaping up for next year in some of those markets? And then the supply picture, I think, has been pretty favorable for lodging. So I'm not sure if you can comment on just supply growth in your markets, whether it's next year or the next couple of years.

Dennis Craven, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Chatham Lodging Trust: Yeah. I mean, with respect to the convention calendars, I mean, listen, I think Austin and Dallas are essentially going to maintain kind of where they are until 2027. And with respect to San Diego, you had an all-time year last year. It came down this year. It will be something similar next year. I think what you also have in San Diego is one thing that did happen that had a little bit more of an impact as well this year is you had the new Ryman property that opened up just outside of San Diego. That obviously had an impact on smaller conventions that might have chosen to go there instead of the primary San Diego convention center. I think as you move forward on that respect for 2026, you probably have no incremental adverse impact from those three hotels.

I think if you look at the supply outlook for our market, supply is less than 1% and is projected to remain that way for next year as well. I think, just adding on to Jeff's concluding comment, which was, when you look out into 2026 and 2027, the overall macro looks really good, not only to the industry, but specifically to us with respect to some of these key markets. I think, just adding to what Jeff said, 2025 has just been a nut job of a year in terms of just all these things that have impacted the industry and us. I think when we can get past a lot of these short-term things, which I think are primarily focused here in 2025, the outlook for not only the industry, but for us, and I think just with our.

Upside to some of these markets should be pretty rosy at this point. It's a little choppy.

Tyler Battery, Analyst, Oppenheimer: Okay. Yeah. Switching gears to the margin side of things, I think that the performance in the quarter was really quite strong, all things considered. Just talk a little bit more about how you were able to do that. Anything you want to call out that was just kind of driving the performance there?

Dennis Craven, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Chatham Lodging Trust: Yeah. I mean, listen, we're putting a lot of focus and energy on day-to-day and week-to-week management of headcount and productivity, specifically with respect to anything related to housekeeping. And obviously, that fluctuates based on occupancy levels. The key is to really keep a laser eye on those items and really just managing incoming and current wage levels. As you look at where we project moving forward, generally speaking, our hospitality staff, their annual wages are generally up for review every July 1. As you look at the wages we've put in place across the portfolio, the average wage increase for us post-July 1 year over year is about 2% as well. I think kind of as wages have kind of stabilized, we've been able to maximize efficiencies in our housekeeping department. I think the availability to hire labor for our hotels.

Has really been fairly stable for the past 12 to 18 months. So we're able to, I think, have a 2% wage increase across the board is, again, pretty favorable when you look forward for us.

Tyler Battery, Analyst, Oppenheimer: Last question for me, just capital allocation and balance sheet's in great shape, plenty of liquidity. Just given the backdrop, given where the stock trades, just rank order for us your priorities for your capital here.

Dennis Craven, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Chatham Lodging Trust: Yeah. I mean, listen, I think the first is, I think it is what Jeff had in his comment in order, which was we are active repurchasing shares, or we will be and will continue to be active purchasing shares. We have a $25 million plan in place, which is about, or, it is just a little bit less than 10% of our current equity market cap. We will continue to be really active there. I think the next priority is obviously acquiring hotels if we can do it. We obviously have our Home2 Portland development. I would say number two and number three are kind of about the same, but in the meantime, we are going to be active purchasing shares.

Tyler Battery, Analyst, Oppenheimer: Okay. Appreciate you taking all my questions, Jeff. That's all for me. Thank you.

Dennis Craven, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Chatham Lodging Trust: Thank you.

Kelsey, Conference Call Operator: Thank you. As a reminder, if you wish to ask a question, please press star one. Your next question comes from Johnson Gandy from Brittany Holdings. Please go ahead.

Johnson Gandy, Analyst, Brittany Holdings: Hi. Good morning and thank you for the overview here. My question is primarily related to capital deployment as well. From my kind of calculations here, it looks like the stock is trading around $140,000 a key. Any kind of development right now, what we've been seeing is $300,000 a key. Can you walk me through the decision-making process on why to pursue the Portland development when the stock is trading probably around half of what that cost per key would be?

Dennis Craven, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Chatham Lodging Trust: Sure. This is Dennis. Nice to talk to you. I mean, listen, where our equity price is trading at. Whether it is $140,000 or $150,000 or $160,000 a key, that is comprised of a valuation based on the entirety of our 34 hotels. This specific hotel, you have to look at that deal individually and look and see what the returns project out to be for that specific asset and whether that is going to add value to the overall portfolio. If you look at it, we are only going to do the deal if we believe it is going to make long-term sense. Based on a lot of factors, which is the market is very restrictive on new hotel development, the market is very popular, the RevPARs and margins we are able to obtain and able to achieve on our existing Hampton, but also what we project for this particular hotel.

Based on where we are at the moment, and where we believe we'll be after developing that asset, we'll derive and earn returns well above where the portfolio is returning. It would certainly add value to not only the company, but obviously then ultimately to our shares and be accretive to that value. You have to look at each opportunity individually, whether it's buying a hotel, developing a hotel, or selling a hotel. If those add value ultimately to what you want to do with your capital dollars, that's how we assess it.

Johnson Gandy, Analyst, Brittany Holdings: Got it. I think just on the acquisition side, you've mentioned potentially looking for acquisitions. How would you allocate that? Discuss that and review that against the share price because that's more of an immediate hit one way or the other with respect to buying shares or acquiring an existing property.

Dennis Craven, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Chatham Lodging Trust: Yeah. I mean, I think for us, it's, you look at what we're trading at on an equity share price. You look at the acquisition. Are the yields similar? Does the acquisition provide growth, either consistent with or higher than your portfolio? And does it ultimately drive incremental distributable cash flow that ultimately you'd bring back and deliver to your shareholders via dividends? So. Yeah.

Johnson Gandy, Analyst, Brittany Holdings: Okay. Thank you.

Dennis Craven, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Chatham Lodging Trust: Thank you.

Kelsey, Conference Call Operator: Thank you. There are no further questions at this time. You can proceed with the conference.

Jeff Fisher, Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer, Chatham Lodging Trust: Thank you all for the questions. Thank you all for being here today with us. We will talk to you as time goes by for better times, I think, as we move into next year.

Kelsey, Conference Call Operator: Ladies and gentlemen, this does conclude your conference call for today. We thank you very much for your participation. We ask that you please disconnect. Have a great day.

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