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- Economic conditions and other factors beyond our control may adversely affect the lodging industry.
- Our hotels are subject to significant competition.
- Our hotels are subject to seasonal volatility, which is expected to contribute to fluctuations in our financial condition and results of operations.
- The increased use of business-related technology may materially and adversely affect the need for business-related travel, and, therefore, demand for rooms in some of our hotels.
- We may be subject to unknown or contingent liabilities related to recently sold or acquired hotels, as well as hotels that we may sell or acquire in the future.
- We may be unable to maintain good relationships with third-party hotel managers and franchisors.
- A substantial number of our hotels operate under a brand owned by Marriott, Hilton or IHG; therefore, we are subject to risks associated with concentrating our portfolio in three hotel chains.
- Contractual and other disagreements with third-party hotel managers and franchisors could make us liable to them or result in litigation costs or other expenses.
- If we were to lose a brand license at one or more of our hotels, the value of the affected hotels could decline significantly and we could incur significant costs to obtain new franchise licenses, which could materially and adversely affect our results of operations and profitability as well as limit or slow our future growth.
- Our business may be adversely affected by consolidation in the lodging industry.
- The failure of tenants to make rent payments under our retail and restaurant leases may adversely affect our results of operation.
- Actions by federal, state or local jurisdictions could have a material adverse effect on our business.
- Our credit facility and term loans contain financial covenants that may constrain our ability to sell assets and make distributions to our stockholders.
- There is refinancing risk associated with our debt.
- Increases in interest rates may increase our interest expense.
- Hedging against interest rate exposure may adversely affect us.
- We cannot assure you that we will remain qualified as a REIT.
- Maintaining our REIT qualification contains certain restrictions and drawbacks.
- Even if we maintain our status as a REIT, in certain circumstances, we may be subject to U.S. federal and state income taxes, which would reduce our cash available for distribution to our stockholders.
- Our property taxes could increase due to property tax rate changes or reassessment, which could impact our cash flow.
- Dividends payable by REITs generally do not qualify for reduced tax rates.
- Legislative or regulatory action could adversely affect our stockholders.
- We may be unable to generate sufficient cash flows from our operations to make distributions to our stockholders at expected levels, and we cannot assure you of our ability to make distributions in the future.
- We may be subject to litigation, which could have a material adverse effect on our financial condition, results of operations, cash flow and trading price of our common stock and Series A Preferred Stock.
- We cannot guarantee that we will repurchase our common stock pursuant to our share repurchase program or that our share repurchase program will enhance long-term stockholder value. Share repurchases could also increase the volatility of the price of our common stock and could diminish our cash reserves.
- Tax protection agreements may limit our ability to sell or otherwise dispose of certain properties and may require our operating partnership to maintain certain debt levels that otherwise would not be required to operate our business.
Management Discussion
- Item 7. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations
- DiamondRock Hospitality Company (the “Company” or “we”) is a lodging-focused real estate company that owns a portfolio of premium hotels and resorts. As of December 31, 2023, we owned 36 hotels with 9,746 rooms located in 25 different markets in the United States. The markets that we target are those that we believe align with our strategic objectives, which include investing in assets in destination markets with constrained supply trends, those that provide geographic diversity relative to our existing portfolio, and those markets that are considered to have high growth potential. Our hotels are concentrated in major urban markets and in destination resort locations and more than 60% of our hotels are operated under a brand owned by one of the leading global lodging brand companies (Marriott International, Inc., Hilton Worldwide, or IHG Hotels & Resorts). We are an owner, as opposed to an operator, of the hotels in our portfolio. As an owner, we receive all of the operating profits or losses generated by our hotels after we pay fees to the hotel managers and hotel brands, which are based on the revenues and profitability of the hotels.
- We are a real estate investment trust ("REIT") for United States ("U.S.") federal income tax purposes. We conduct our business through a traditional umbrella partnership REIT, or UPREIT, in which our hotel properties are owned by our operating partnership, DiamondRock Hospitality Limited Partnership, or subsidiaries of our operating partnership. The Company is the sole general partner of our operating partnership and owns 99.7% of the limited partnership units (“common OP units”) of our operating partnership as of December 31, 2023. The remaining 0.3% of the common OP units are held by third parties and executive officers of the Company. See Note 9 for additional disclosures related to common OP units.