Service Properties Trust Announces Third Quarter 2022 Results

Net Income of $0.05 Per Common Share

100.0% Increase in Normalized FFO to $0.54 Per Common Share

26.3% Increase in Adjusted EBITDAre to $173.5 Million

Service Properties Trust (Nasdaq: SVC) today announced its financial results for the quarter ended September 30, 2022.

Todd Hargreaves, President and Chief Investment Officer of SVC, made the following statement:

“Hotel operating trends continued to recover in the third quarter, driven by increased bookings at our urban and suburban select service hotels. Comparable RevPAR increased by 29.6% over the prior year quarter. The solid performance of our operators generated a 77.1% increase in comparable hotel EBITDA over the same period last year.

Business activity at our hotels in September and October increased, led by mid-week booking improvement. We expect to benefit further in the coming quarters from the continued business travel recovery, particularly at our full service and select service hotels. With ongoing hotel fundamentals improving, over $750 million of available liquidity and steady cash flows from our net lease portfolio, we increased our quarterly dividend to $0.20 per common share, which reflects our confidence in the business going forward.”

Results for the Quarter Ended September 30, 2022:

• Net income (loss): Net income for the quarter ended September 30, 2022 was $7.5 million, or $0.05 per diluted common share, compared to a net loss of $59.7 million, or $0.36 per diluted common share, for the quarter ended September 30, 2021. Net income for the quarter ended September 30, 2022 includes $23.1 million, or $0.14 per diluted common share, of net unrealized gains on equity securities and a $1.2 million, or $0.01 per diluted common share, loss on asset impairment. Net loss for the quarter ended September 30, 2021 includes $24.3 million, or $0.15 per diluted common share, of net unrealized gains on equity securities and $3.1 million, or $0.02 per diluted common share, of transaction related costs. The weighted average number of diluted common shares outstanding was 164.7 million and 164.6 million for the quarters ended September 30, 2022 and 2021, respectively.
• Normalized FFO: Normalized FFO for the quarter ended September 30, 2022 were $88.5 million, or $0.54 per diluted common share, compared to Normalized FFO of $43.8 million, or $0.27 per diluted common share, for the quarter ended September 30, 2021.
• Adjusted EBITDAre: Adjusted EBITDAre for the quarter ended September 30, 2022 compared to the quarter ended September 30, 2021 increased 26.3% to $173.5 million.

Hotel Portfolio:

As of September 30, 2022, SVC’s 242 hotels were operated by subsidiaries of Sonesta Holdco Corporation, or Sonesta (200 hotels), Hyatt Hotels Corporation, or Hyatt (17 hotels), Radisson Hospitality, Inc., or Radisson (eight hotels), Marriott International, Inc., or Marriott (16 hotels), and InterContinental Hotels Group, plc, or IHG (one hotel).

Recent operating statistics for SVC’s hotels are as follows:

Comparable Hotels

All Hotels

Preliminary October 2022 occupancy, ADR and RevPAR for SVC’s 241 hotels as of November 3, 2022 were 66.5%, $143.42 and $95.37, respectively.

Net Lease Retail Portfolio:

SVC’s net lease retail portfolio is summarized as follows:

During the quarter ended September 30, 2022, SVC recorded reserves for uncollectible revenues of $0.4 million for certain of its net lease tenants. During the quarter ended September 30, 2021, SVC reduced reserves for uncollectible revenues of $5.4 million for certain of its net lease tenants.

Recent Investment Activities:

During the quarter ended September 30, 2022, SVC sold five hotels with 603 keys for an aggregate sales price of $29.7 million, excluding closing costs, and six net lease properties with an aggregate of 14,056 rentable square feet for an aggregate sales price of $1.1 million, excluding closing costs. From October 1, 2022 through November 3, 2022, SVC sold one hotel with 120 keys for an aggregate sales price of $6.0 million, excluding closing costs.

During the quarter ended September 30, 2022, SVC entered into agreements to sell 16 Marriott branded hotels with 2,155 keys located in nine states for an aggregate sales price of $137.3 million and four Sonesta branded hotels with 546 keys located in four states for an aggregate sales price of $25.2 million. These pending sales are subject to conditions; as a result, these sales may not occur, may be delayed or their terms may change. SVC expects the majority of these sales to be completed by the end of the first quarter of 2023. SVC continues to market one additional hotel with 219 keys for sale and three net lease properties with an aggregate of 8,575 rentable square feet.

Capital expenditures made at certain of SVC’s properties for the quarter ended September 30, 2022 were $24.4 million.

Liquidity and Financing Activities:

As of November 1, 2022, SVC had approximately $114.0 million of cash and cash equivalents and $705.0 million undrawn under its revolving credit facility.

As previously announced, in October 2022, SVC and its lenders amended the agreement governing its revolving credit facility to, among other things, remove restrictions on paying common dividends and issuing secured debt previously agreed to during the existing waiver period, subject to certain conditions, and requires SVC to maintain minimum liquidity levels to address near term debt maturities. SVC also exercised its option to extend the maturity date of its revolving credit facility by six months to July 15, 2023.

Common Dividend:

On October 13, 2022, SVC announced a regular quarterly common dividend of $0.20 per share ($0.80 per share per year) payable to shareholders of record on October 24, 2022; this dividend will be paid on or about November 17, 2022.

Conference Call:

On November 4, 2022 at 10:00 a.m. Eastern Time, Todd Hargreaves, President and Chief Investment Officer and Brian Donley, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer, will host a conference call to discuss SVC’s third quarter 2022 financial results. The conference call telephone number is (877) 329-3720. Participants calling from outside the United States and Canada should dial (412) 317-5434. No pass code is necessary to access the call from either number. Participants should dial in about 15 minutes prior to the scheduled start of the call. A replay of the conference call will be available through Friday, November 11, 2022. To access the replay, dial (412) 317-0088. The replay pass code is 9258276.

A live audio webcast of the conference call will also be available in a listen-only mode on SVC’s website, www.svcreit.com. Participants wanting to access the webcast should visit SVC’s website about five minutes before the call. The archived webcast will be available for replay on SVC’s website for about one week after the call. The transcription, recording and retransmission in any way of SVC’s third quarter conference call is strictly prohibited without the prior written consent of SVC.

Supplemental Data:

A copy of SVC’s Third Quarter 2022 Supplemental Operating and Financial Data is available for download at SVC’s website, www.svcreit.com. SVC’s website is not incorporated as part of this press release.

Service Properties Trust (Nasdaq: SVC) is a real estate investment trust, or REIT, with over $11 billion invested in two asset categories: hotels and service-focused retail net lease properties. As of September 30, 2022, SVC owned 242 hotels with over 40,000 guest rooms throughout the United States and in Puerto Rico and Canada, the majority of which are extended stay and select service. As of September 30, 2022, SVC also owned 769 retail service-focused net lease properties totaling over 13.4 million square feet throughout United States. SVC is managed by The RMR Group (Nasdaq: RMR), an alternative asset management company with over $37 billion in assets under management as of September 30, 2022 and more than 35 years of institutional experience in buying, selling, financing and operating commercial real estate. SVC is headquartered in Newton, MA. For more information, visit www.svcreit.com.

Non-GAAP Financial Measures and Certain Definitions:

SVC presents certain “non-GAAP financial measures” within the meaning of the applicable Securities and Exchange Commission, or SEC, rules, including funds from operations, or FFO, Normalized FFO, earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization, or EBITDA, Hotel EBITDA, EBITDA for real estate, or EBITDAre, and Adjusted EBITDAre. These measures do not represent cash generated by operating activities in accordance with GAAP and should not be considered alternatives to net income (loss) as indicators of SVC’s operating performance or as measures of SVC’s liquidity. These measures should be considered in conjunction with net income (loss) as presented in SVC’s condensed consolidated statements of income (loss). SVC considers these non-GAAP measures to be appropriate supplemental measures of operating performance for a REIT, along with net income (loss). SVC believes these measures provide useful information to investors because by excluding the effects of certain historical amounts, such as depreciation and amortization expense, they may facilitate a comparison of SVC’s operating performance between periods and with other REITs and, in the case of Hotel EBITDA, reflecting only those income and expense items that are generated and incurred at the hotel level may help both investors and management to understand the operations of SVC’s hotels. SVC believes that Hotel EBITDA provides useful information to management and investors as a key measure of the profitability of its hotel operations.

Please see the pages attached hereto for a more detailed statement of SVC’s operating results and financial condition and for an explanation of SVC’s calculation of FFO and Normalized FFO, EBITDA, Hotel EBITDA, EBITDAre and Adjusted EBITDAre and a reconciliation of those amounts to amounts determined in accordance with GAAP.

Average Daily Rate, or ADR, represents rooms revenue divided by the total number of room nights sold in a given period. ADR provides useful insight on pricing at SVC’s hotels and is a measure widely used in the hotel industry.

Comparable Hotels Data: SVC presents RevPAR, ADR, and occupancy for the periods presented on a comparable basis to facilitate comparisons between periods. SVC generally defines comparable hotels as those that were owned by it on September 30, 2022 and were open and operating for the entire periods being compared. For the three and nine months ended September 30, 2022 and 2021, SVC’s comparable results excluded three hotels that had suspended operations during part of the periods presented.

Hotel EBITDA: Hotel EBITDA is calculated as hotel operating revenues less hotel operating expenses of all managed and leased hotels, prior to any adjustments required for presentation in SVC’s condensed consolidated statements of income (loss) in accordance with GAAP.

Hotel EBITDA Margin: Hotel EBITDA Margin is Hotel EBITDA as a percentage of hotel operating revenues.

Occupancy represents the total number of room nights sold divided by the total number of room nights available at a hotel or group of hotels. Occupancy is an important measure of the utilization rate and demand of SVC’s hotels.

Rent Coverage: SVC defines Rent Coverage as earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, amortization and rent, or EBITDAR, divided by the annual minimum rent due to SVC weighted by the minimum rent of the property to total minimum rents of the net lease portfolio. EBITDAR amounts used to determine rent coverage are generally for the latest twelve-month period reported based on the most recent operating information, if any, furnished by the tenant. Operating statements furnished by the tenant often are unaudited and, in certain cases, may not have been prepared in accordance with GAAP and are not independently verified by SVC. Tenants that do not report operating information are excluded from the rent coverage calculations. In instances where SVC does not have financial information for the most recent quarter from its tenants, it has calculated an implied EBITDAR for the 2022 third quarter using industry benchmark data to reflect current operating trends. SVC believes using this industry benchmark data provides a reasonable estimate of recent operating results and rent coverage for those tenants.

Revenue per Available Room, or RevPAR, represents rooms revenue divided by the total number of room nights available to guests for a given period. RevPAR is an industry metric correlated to occupancy and ADR and helps measure revenue performance over comparable periods.

Warning Concerning Forward-Looking Statements

This press release contains statements that constitute forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and other securities laws. Whenever SVC uses words such as “believe,” “expect,” “anticipate,” “intend,” “plan,” “estimate,” “will,” “may” and negatives or derivatives of these or similar expressions, SVC is making forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are based upon SVC’s present intent, beliefs or expectations, but forward-looking statements are not guaranteed to occur and may not occur. Actual results may differ materially from those contained in or implied by SVC’s forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors, some of which are beyond SVC’s control. For example:

• Mr. Hargreaves states that hotel operating trends continued to recover in the third quarter and that business activity at SVC’s hotels in September and October 2022 increased, led by mid-week booking improvement, and that SVC expects to benefit further in the coming quarters from the continued business travel recovery, particularly at SVC’s full service and select service hotels, and that SVC realized favorable comparable RevPAR and hotel EBITDA results over the prior year period. These statements may imply that these trends will continue to improve and not decline and that SVC will benefit as a result; however, the hotel industry and SVC’s business are subject to various risks, including risks beyond its control, such as the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the market practices that arose or increased in response to the pandemic, and economic and market conditions, including the current inflationary conditions, geopolitical risks and possible recession. As a result, hotel operating trends and business travel may not continue to improve and may decline and SVC’s operating results could decline;
• Mr. Hargreaves also states that with ongoing hotel fundamentals improving, over $750 million of available liquidity and steady cash flows from SVC’s net lease portfolio, SVC increased its quarterly dividend to $0.20 per common share, which reflects SVC’s confidence in the business going forward. These statements may imply that the continued improved performance of SVC’s hotel portfolio and steady performance of SVC’s net lease assets may continue and that SVC will have sufficient working capital and liquidity to meet its obligations and fund its business and investments. However, the improved performance of SVC’s hotel portfolio and steady performance of SVC’s net lease assets may not continue or may decline and the amounts SVC receives from its operators may be insufficient to operate SVC’s business profitably. Accordingly, SVC may not have sufficient working capital or liquidity. In addition, other possible implications of these statements are that SVC will continuously pay quarterly dividends at $0.20/share per quarter or $0.80/share per year in the future. SVC’s dividend rates are set and reset from time to time by SVC’s Board of Trustees. The SVC Board considers many factors when setting dividend rates including SVC’s historical and projected income, Normalized FFO, cash available for distribution, the then current and expected needs and availability of cash to pay SVC’s obligations and fund SVC’s investments, distributions which may be required to be paid to maintain SVC’s tax status as a real estate investment trust and other factors deemed relevant by SVC’s Board of Trustees in its discretion. Accordingly, future dividend rates may be increased or decreased and there is no assurance as to the rate at which future dividends will be paid. In addition, borrowings under SVC’s credit agreement are subject to conditions; and
• SVC has entered agreements for the sale of 20 properties for an aggregate sales price of $162.5 million and expects to complete these sales by the end of the first quarter of 2023. The sales of SVC’s properties are subject to conditions; accordingly, SVC cannot provide any assurance that it will sell any of these properties and the sales may be delayed, may not occur or their terms may change. Any sales it may complete may be at prices less than SVC expects.

The information contained in SVC’s filings with the SEC, including under the caption “Risk Factors” in SVC’s periodic reports, or incorporated therein, identifies other important factors that could cause differences from SVC’s forward-looking statements. SVC’s filings with the SEC are available on the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov.

You should not place undue reliance upon forward-looking statements.

Except as required by law, SVC does not intend to update or change any forward-looking statements as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.

A Maryland Real Estate Investment Trust with transferable shares of beneficial interest listed on the Nasdaq.

No shareholder, Trustee or officer is personally liable for any act or obligation of the Trust.

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