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Apple Hospitality REIT, Inc.

For the period ended Dec 31, 2025. Filed Feb 23, 2026.

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FY2025 · Filed Feb 23, 2026

APLE$20.16+2.4%Stored close · as of Nov 10, 2026

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Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data

Report of Management

on Internal Control over Financial Reporting

To the Shareholders

Management of Apple Hospitality REIT, Inc. (the “Company”) is responsible for establishing and maintaining adequate internal control over financial reporting and for the assessment of the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting. As defined by the Securities and Exchange Commission, internal control over financial reporting is a process designed by, or under the supervision of the Company’s principal executive, principal financial and principal accounting officers and effected by the Company’s Board of Directors, management and other personnel, to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of the consolidated financial statements for external purposes in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles.

The Company’s internal control over financial reporting is supported by written policies and procedures that (1) pertain to the maintenance of records that, in reasonable detail, accurately and fairly reflect the Company’s transactions and dispositions of the Company’s assets; (2) provide reasonable assurance that transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of the consolidated financial statements in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, and the receipts and expenditures of the Company are being made only in accordance with authorizations of the Company’s management and directors; and (3) provide reasonable assurance regarding prevention or timely detection of unauthorized acquisition, use or disposition of the Company’s assets that could have a material effect on the consolidated financial statements.

Because of its inherent limitations, internal control over financial reporting may not prevent or detect misstatements. Also, projections of any evaluation of effectiveness to future periods are subject to the risk that controls may become inadequate because of changes in conditions, or that the degree of compliance with the policies or procedures may deteriorate.

In connection with the preparation of the Company’s annual consolidated financial statements, management has undertaken an assessment of the effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2025, based on criteria established in Internal Control—Integrated Framework issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (2013 framework). Management’s assessment included an evaluation of the design of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting and testing of the operational effectiveness of those controls.

Based on this assessment, management has concluded that as of December 31, 2025, the Company’s internal control over financial reporting was effective to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles.

KPMG LLP, the independent registered public accounting firm that audited the Company’s consolidated financial statements included in this report, has issued an attestation report on the Company’s internal control over financial reporting, a copy of which appears on the next page of this annual report.

/s/ Justin G. Knight/s/ Elizabeth S. Perkins/s/ Rachel S. Labrecque
Justin G. Knight, Chief Executive OfficerElizabeth S. Perkins,Chief Financial OfficerRachel S. Labrecque,Chief Accounting Officer
(Principal Executive Officer)(Principal Financial Officer)(Principal Accounting Officer)

Report of Independent Regist ered Public Accounting Firm

To the Shareholders and the Board of Directors

Apple Hospitality REIT, Inc.:

Opinion on Internal Control Over Financial Reporting

We have audited Apple Hospitality REIT, Inc. and subsidiaries’ (the Company) internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2025, based on criteria established in Internal Control—Integrated Framework (2013) issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission. In our opinion, the Company maintained, in all material respects, effective internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2025, based on criteria established in Internal Control—Integrated Framework (2013) issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission.

We also have audited, in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (PCAOB), the consolidated balance sheets of the Company as of December 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024, the related consolidated statements of operations and comprehensive income, shareholders’ equity, and cash flows for each of the years in the two-year period ended December 31, 2025, and the related notes and financial statement Schedule III (collectively, the consolidated financial statements), and our report dated February 23, 2026 expressed an unqualified opinion on those consolidated financial statements.

The Company’s management is responsible for maintaining effective internal control over financial reporting and for its assessment of the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting, included in the accompanying Report of Management on Internal Control over Financial Reporting. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Company’s internal control over financial reporting based on our audit. We are a public accounting firm registered with the PCAOB and are required to be independent with respect to the Company in accordance with the U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.

We conducted our audit in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether effective internal control over financial reporting was maintained in all material respects. Our audit of internal control over financial reporting included obtaining an understanding of internal control over financial reporting, assessing the risk that a material weakness exists, and testing and evaluating the design and operating effectiveness of internal control based on the assessed risk. Our audit also included performing such other procedures as we considered necessary in the circumstances. We believe that our audit provides a reasonable basis for our opinion.

Definition and Limitations of Internal Control Over Financial Reporting

A company’s internal control over financial reporting is a process designed to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. A company’s internal control over financial reporting includes those policies and procedures that (1) pertain to the maintenance of records that, in reasonable detail, accurately and fairly reflect the transactions and dispositions of the assets of the company; (2) provide reasonable assurance that transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, and that receipts and expenditures of the company are being made only in accordance with authorizations of management and directors of the company; and (3) provide reasonable assurance regarding prevention or timely detection of unauthorized acquisition, use, or disposition of the company’s assets that could have a material effect on the financial statements.

Because of its inherent limitations, internal control over financial reporting may not prevent or detect misstatements. Also, projections of any evaluation of effectiveness to future periods are subject to the risk that controls may become inadequate because of changes in conditions, or that the degree of compliance with the policies or procedures may deteriorate.

/s/KPMG LLP

To the Shareholders and the Board of Directors

Apple Hospitality REIT, Inc.:

Opinion on the Consolidated Financial Statements

We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of Apple Hospitality REIT, Inc. and subsidiaries (the Company) as of December 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024, the related consolidated statements of operations and comprehensive income, shareholders’ equity, and cash flows for each of the years in the two-year period ended December 31, 2025, and the related notes and financial statement Schedule III (collectively, the consolidated financial statements). In our opinion, the consolidated financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Company as of December 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024, and the results of its operations and its cash flows for each of the years in the two-year period ended December 31, 2025, in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles.

We also have audited, in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (PCAOB), the Company’s internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2025, based on criteria established in Internal Control—Integrated Framework (2013) issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission, and our report dated February 23, 2026 expressed an unqualified opinion on the effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting.

These consolidated financial statements are the responsibility of the Company’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these consolidated financial statements based on our audits. We are a public accounting firm registered with the PCAOB and are required to be independent with respect to the Company in accordance with the U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.

We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the consolidated financial statements are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud. Our audits included performing procedures to assess the risks of material misstatement of the consolidated financial statements, whether due to error or fraud, and performing procedures that respond to those risks. Such procedures included examining, on a test basis, evidence regarding the amounts and disclosures in the consolidated financial statements. Our audits also included evaluating the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the consolidated financial statements. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.

Critical Audit Matter

The critical audit matter communicated below is a matter arising from the current period audit of the consolidated financial statements that was communicated or required to be communicated to the audit committee and that: (1) relates to accounts or disclosures that are material to the consolidated financial statements and (2) involved our especially challenging, subjective, or complex judgments. The communication of a critical audit matter does not alter in any way our opinion on the consolidated financial statements, taken as a whole, and we are not, by communicating the critical audit matter below, providing a separate opinion on the critical audit matter or on the accounts or disclosures to which it relates.

Evaluation of investments in hotel properties for impairment

As discussed in Notes 1 and 2 to the consolidated financial statements, investment in real estate, net as of December 31, 2025, was $4,787.9 million, which primarily consists of investments in hotel properties. The Company records impairment losses on hotel properties used in operations if indicators of impairment are present, and the sum of the undiscounted cash flows estimated to be generated by the respective properties over their estimated remaining useful life, based on historical and industry data, is less than the properties’ carrying amount. Indicators of impairment include a property with current or potential losses from operations, when it becomes more likely than not that a property will be disposed of before the end of its previously estimated useful life or when events, trends, contingencies or changes in circumstances indicate that a triggering event has occurred and an asset’s carrying value may not be recoverable. If events or circumstances change, such as the Company’s intended hold period for a property or if the operating performance of a property declines substantially for an extended period of time, the Company’s carrying value for a particular property may not be recoverable, and an impairment loss will be recorded. Impairment losses are measured as the difference between the asset’s fair value and its carrying value.

We identified the evaluation of investments in hotel properties for impairment as a critical audit matter. Identifying and evaluating the Company’s judgments about events or changes in circumstances that indicate the carrying amount of a hotel property may not be recoverable involved a high degree of auditor judgment. This included judgments regarding the likelihood that a property will be sold significantly before the end of its previously estimated useful life. Changes in this judgment could have a significant impact on the determination of whether the carrying amount of the investments in hotel properties may not be recoverable.

The following are the primary procedures we performed to address this critical audit matter. We evaluated the design and tested the operating effectiveness of certain internal controls over the Company’s process to identify and evaluate events or changes in circumstances that indicate the carrying amount of investments in hotel properties may not be recoverable. This included a control over the identification of a potential decrease in expected future cash flows caused by a shortened hold period that may indicate an investment in a hotel property would not be recoverable. We assessed the Company’s intent and ability to hold each hotel property by examining documents to assess the Company’s plans, if any, to dispose of individual hotel properties. We inquired of Company officials and obtained written representations regarding the status of potential plans, if any, to dispose of individual hotel properties and corroborated the Company’s plans with others in the organization who are responsible for, and have the authority over, potential disposition activities.

/s/KPMG LLP

We have served as the Company’s auditor since 2024.

To the Shareholders and the Board of Directors of Apple Hospitality REIT, Inc.

Opinion on the Financial Statements

We have audited the accompanying consolidated statements of operations and comprehensive income, shareholders’ equity and cash flows for the year ended December 31, 2023, and the related notes and financial statement schedule listed in the Index at Item 15(2) (collectively referred to as the “consolidated financial statements”) of Apple Hospitality REIT, Inc. (the Company). In our opinion, the consolidated financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the results of the Company’s operations and its cash flows for the year ended December 31, 2023, in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles.

These financial statements are the responsibility of the Company’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Company’s financial statements based on our audit. We are a public accounting firm registered with the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (PCAOB) and are required to be independent with respect to the Company in accordance with the U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.

We conducted our audit in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud. Our audit included performing procedures to assess the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to error or fraud, and performing procedures that respond to those risks. Such procedures included examining, on a test basis, evidence regarding the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. Our audit also included evaluating the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the financial statements. We believe that our audit provides a reasonable basis for our opinion.

We served as the Company’s auditor from 2007 to 2023.

/s/Ernst & Young LLP

February 22, 2024

Apple Hospitality REIT , Inc.

(in thousands, except share data)

As of December 31,
20252024
Assets
Investment in real estate, net of accumulated depreciation and amortization of $1,972,264 and $1,821,344, respectively$4,787,864$4,820,748
Assets held for sale-17,015
Cash and cash equivalents8,51510,253
Restricted cash-furniture, fixtures and other escrows30,90333,814
Due from third party managers, net32,95234,522
Other assets, net41,94453,568
Total Assets$4,902,178$4,969,920
Liabilities
Debt, net$1,538,584$1,471,452
Finance lease liabilities111,094111,585
Accounts payable and other liabilities103,905121,024
Total Liabilities1,753,5831,704,061
Shareholders’ Equity
Preferred stock, authorized 30,000,000 shares; none issued and outstanding--
Common stock, no par value, authorized 800,000,000 shares; issued and outstanding 235,635,813 and 239,765,905 shares, respectively4,719,9004,771,005
Accumulated other comprehensive income2,25115,587
Accumulated distributions greater than net income(1,573,556)(1,520,733)
Total Shareholders’ Equity3,148,5953,265,859
Total Liabilities and Shareholders’ Equity$4,902,178$4,969,920

Consolidated Statements of Operations and Comprehensive Income

(in thousands, except per share data)

Year Ended December 31,
202520242023
Revenues:
Room$1,278,423$1,298,525$1,226,159
Food and beverage65,67665,80456,968
Other68,28767,13960,673
Total revenue1,412,3861,431,4681,343,800
Expenses:
Hotel operating expense:
Operating361,994357,352332,714
Hotel administrative125,943123,086114,071
Sales and marketing127,031126,938117,538
Utilities51,43450,06547,422
Repair and maintenance71,31369,69765,412
Franchise fees62,55064,01759,315
Management fees47,05746,71644,253
Total hotel operating expense847,322837,871780,725
Property taxes, insurance and other89,73284,38279,307
General and administrative32,29342,54247,401
Impairment of depreciable real estate5,7243,0555,644
Depreciation and amortization192,627190,603183,242
Total expense1,167,6981,158,4531,096,319
Gain on sale of real estate13,11619,744-
Operating income257,804292,759247,481
Interest and other expense, net(81,481)(77,748)(68,857)
Income before income taxes176,323215,011178,624
Income tax expense(959)(947)(1,135)
Net income$175,364$214,064$177,489
Other comprehensive loss:
Interest rate derivatives(13,336)(4,817)(16,477)
Comprehensive income$162,028$209,247$161,012
Basic and diluted net income per common share$0.74$0.89$0.77
Weighted average common shares outstanding - basic and diluted237,789241,258229,329

Consolidated Statements of Shareholders’ Equity

(in thousands, except per share data)

Accumulated · Accumulated
Common Stock · Other · Distributions
Numberof SharesAmountComprehensiveIncome (Loss)Greater ThanNet IncomeTotal
Balance at December 31, 2022228,645$4,577,022$36,881$(1,435,508)$3,178,395
Share-based compensation, net of common shares surrendered to satisfy employee tax withholding requirements5258,772--8,772
Issuance of common shares, net12,826215,890--215,890
Common shares repurchased(480)(6,880)--(6,880)
Interest rate derivatives--(16,477)-(16,477)
Net income---177,489177,489
Distributions declared to shareholders ($1.01 per share)---(233,208)(233,208)
Balance at December 31, 2023241,5164,794,80420,404(1,491,227)3,323,981
Share-based compensation, net of common shares surrendered to satisfy employee tax withholding requirements69511,370--11,370
Equity issuance costs-(517)--(517)
Common shares repurchased(2,445)(34,652)--(34,652)
Interest rate derivatives--(4,817)-(4,817)
Net income---214,064214,064
Distributions declared to shareholders ($1.01 per share)---(243,570)(243,570)
Balance at December 31, 2024239,7664,771,00515,587(1,520,733)3,265,859
Share-based compensation, net of common shares surrendered to satisfy employee tax withholding requirements5127,724--7,724
Equity issuance costs-(542)--(542)
Common shares repurchased(4,642)(58,287)--(58,287)
Interest rate derivatives--(13,336)-(13,336)
Net income---175,364175,364
Distributions declared to shareholders ($0.96 per share)---(228,187)(228,187)
Balance at December 31, 2025235,636$4,719,900$2,251$(1,573,556)$3,148,595

Consolidated Statem ents of Cash Flows

(in thousands)

202520242023
Cash flows from operating activities:
Net income$175,364$214,064$177,489
Adjustments to reconcile net income to net cash provided by operating activities:
Depreciation and amortization192,627190,603183,242
Impairment of depreciable real estate5,7243,0555,644
Gain on sale of real estate(13,116)(19,744)-
Other non-cash expenses, net6,9808,3618,708
Changes in operating assets and liabilities:
Decrease in due from third party managers, net1,5581,3517,098
Decrease (increase) in other assets, net8821,634(6,088)
Increase in accounts payable and other liabilities2036,02622,951
Net cash provided by operating activities370,222405,350399,044
Cash flows from investing activities:
Acquisition of hotel properties, net(116,634)(197,364)(291,388)
Disbursements for potential acquisitions, net(3,411)(349)(1,177)
Capital improvements(87,411)(80,340)(72,066)
Net proceeds from sale of real estate72,07562,343-
Net cash used in investing activities(135,381)(215,710)(364,631)
Cash flows from financing activities:
Net (disbursements) proceeds related to issuance of common shares(504)(483)215,923
Repurchases of common shares(58,287)(34,652)(6,880)
Common shares surrendered to satisfy employee withholding requirements(4,519)(7,794)(8,008)
Distributions paid to common shareholders(240,425)(243,722)(238,283)
Proceeds from revolving credit facility234,000407,900385,000
Payments on revolving credit facility(255,500)(325,400)(385,000)
Proceeds from term loans and senior notes385,00045,00050,000
Payments on term loans and senior notes(225,000)--
Payments of mortgage debt and other loans(70,035)(28,702)(46,213)
Principal payments on finance leases(703)(515)(340)
Financing costs(3,517)(823)(506)
Net cash used in financing activities(239,490)(189,191)(34,307)
Net change in cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash(4,649)449106
Cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash, beginning of period44,06743,61843,512
Cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash, end of period$39,418$44,067$43,618
Supplemental cash flow information:
Interest paid, net$79,758$75,559$67,835
Income taxes paid$1,038$876$1,293
Supplemental disclosure of noncash investing and financing activities:
Accrued distribution to common shareholders$18,851$31,170$31,397
Accrued capital expenditures$14,577$13,738$15,816
Reconciliation of cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash:
Cash and cash equivalents, beginning of period$10,253$10,287$4,077
Restricted cash-furniture, fixtures and other escrows, beginning of period33,81433,331$39,435
Cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash, beginning of period$44,067$43,618$43,512
Cash and cash equivalents, end of period$8,515$10,253$10,287
Restricted cash-furniture, fixtures and other escrows, end of period30,90333,81433,331
Cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash, end of period$39,418$44,067$43,618

Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements

Note 1

Organization and Summary of Significant Accounting Policies

Organization

Apple Hospitality REIT, Inc., formed in November 2007 as a Virginia corporation, together with its wholly-owned subsidiaries (the “Company”), is a self-advised real estate investment trust (“REIT”) that invests in income-producing real estate, primarily in the lodging sector, in the United States (“U.S.”). The Company’s fiscal year end is December 31. The Company has no foreign operations or assets, and its operating structure includes onlyone reportable segment. The consolidated financial statements include the accounts of the Company and its subsidiaries. All intercompany accounts and transactions have been eliminated. Although the Company has interests in potential variable interest entities through its purchase commitments, it is not the primary beneficiary as the Company does not have any elements of power in the decision-making process of these entities; therefore, the Company does not consolidate the entities. As of December 31, 2025, the Company owned 217 hotels with an aggregate of 29,583 guest rooms located in 37 states and the District of Columbia (“D.C.”). All information related to the number of guest rooms included in these notes to the consolidated financial statements and Schedule III - Real Estate and Accumulated Depreciation and Amortization listed in the Index at Item 15 has not been audited. The Company’s common shares are listed on the New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”) under the ticker symbol “APLE.”

The Company has elected to be treated as a REIT for U.S. federal income tax purposes. The Company has a wholly-owned taxable REIT subsidiary (or subsidiaries thereof) (collectively, the “Lessee” or “TRS”), which leases all of the Company’s hotels.

Cash and Cash Equivalents

Cash and cash equivalents consist of highly liquid investments with original maturities of three months or less. The fair market value of cash and cash equivalents approximates their carrying value. Cash balances may at times exceed federal depository insurance limits.

Restricted Cash

Restricted cash includes reserves for debt service, real estate taxes, and insurance, and reserves for furniture, fixtures, and equipment replacements of up to 5% of property revenue for certain hotels, as required by certain management or mortgage debt agreement restrictions and provisions. The fair market value of restricted cash approximates its carrying value.

Investment in Real Estate and Related Depreciation and Amortization

Real estate is stated at cost, net of depreciation and amortization. Repair and maintenance costs are expensed as incurred while significant improvements, renovations, and replacements are capitalized. As further discussed in Note 10, finance ground lease assets are capitalized at the estimated present value of the remaining minimum lease payments under the leases. Depreciation and amortization are computed using the straight-line method over the average estimated useful lives of the assets, which are generally 39 years for buildings, the remaining life of the lease for finance ground leases (which in some instances may include renewal options),10 to 20 yearsfor franchise fees,10 years for major improvements andthree toseven years for furniture and equipment.

The Company considers expenditures to be capital in nature based on the following criteria: (1) for a single asset, the cost must be at least $500, including all normal and necessary costs to place the asset in service, and the useful life must be at least one year; (2) for group purchases of 10 or more identical assets, the unit cost for each asset must be at least $50, including all normal and necessary costs to place the asset in service, and the useful life must be at least one year; and (3) for major repairs to a single asset, the repair must be at least $2,500 and the useful life of the asset must be substantially extended.

Upon acquisition of real estate properties, the Company estimates the fair value of acquired tangible assets (consisting of land, buildings and improvements, and furniture, fixtures and equipment) and identified intangible assets and liabilities, including in-place leases, and assumed debt based on the evaluation of information and estimates available at that date. Fair values for these assets are not directly observable and estimates are based on comparable asset sales and other information which is subjective in nature, including comparable land sales as well as industry and Company data regarding building and furniture, fixtures and equipment costs, including adjustments for estimated depreciation based on the age of the property acquired and time since its most recent renovation. The Company has not assigned any value to management contracts and franchise agreements as such contracts are generally at current market rates based on the remaining terms of the contracts and any other value attributable to these contracts is not considered material. Acquisitions of hotel properties are generally accounted for as acquisitions of a group of assets, with costs incurred to effect an acquisition, including title, legal, accounting, brokerage commissions and other related costs, being capitalized as part of the cost of the assets acquired, instead of accounted for separately as expenses in the period that they are incurred.

The Company records impairment losses on hotel properties used in operations if indicators of impairment are present, and the sum of the undiscounted cash flows estimated to be generated by the respective properties over their estimated remaining useful life, based on historical and industry data, is less than the properties’ carrying amount. Indicators of impairment include a property with current or potential losses from operations, when it becomes more likely than not that a property will be disposed of before the end of its previously estimated useful life or when events, trends, contingencies or changes in circumstances indicate that a triggering event has occurred and an asset’s carrying value may not be recoverable. The Company monitors its properties on an ongoing basis by analytically reviewing financial performance and considers each property individually for purposes of reviewing for indicators of impairment. As many indicators of impairment are subjective, such as general economic and market declines, the Company also prepares an annual recoverability analysis for each of its properties to assist with its evaluation of impairment indicators. The Company performs quarterly recoverability analyses by comparing each property’s net book value to its estimated operating income based on assumptions and estimates about the property’s future revenues, expenses and capital expenditures after disruptive events such as renovations or newly opened hotels in the same market. The Company’s planned initial hold period for each property is generally 39 years. If events or circumstances change, such as the Company’s intended hold period for a property or if the operating performance of a property declines substantially for an extended period of time, the Company’s carrying value for a particular property may not be recoverable, and an impairment loss will be recorded. Impairment losses are measured as the difference between the asset’s fair value and its carrying value. The Company’s ongoing analyses and annual recoverability analyses have identified impairment losses ontwo properties recorded in 2025, three properties recorded in 2024 andtwo properties recorded in 2023 totaling approximately $5.7 million, $3.1 million and $5.6 million, respectively, as discussed in Note 3.

Assets Held for Sale

The Company classifies assets as held for sale when a binding agreement to sell the property has been signed under which the buyer has committed a significant amount of nonrefundable cash, no significant contingencies exist which could prevent the transaction from being completed in a timely manner, and the sale is expected to close within one year. If these criteria are met, the Company will cease recording depreciation and amortization and will record an impairment charge if the fair value less costs to sell is less than the carrying amount of the disposal group. The Company will generally classify the impairment charge, together with the related operating results, as continuing operations in the Company’s consolidated statements of operations and classify the assets and related liabilities as held for sale in the Company’s consolidated balance sheets. If the Company’s plan of sale changes and the Company subsequently decides not to sell a property that is classified as held for sale, the property will be reclassified as held and used in the period the change occurs. As of December 31, 2025, the Company didnot have any hotels classified as held for sale. As of December 31, 2024, the Company hadtwo hotels classified as held for sale, which were sold to unrelated parties in the first quarter of 2025.

Revenue Recognition

Revenues consist of amounts derived from hotel operations, including room sales, food and beverage sales, and other hotel revenues, and are presented on a disaggregated basis in the Company’s consolidated statements of operations. The Company recognizes hotel operating revenue when guest rooms are occupied, services have been provided or fees have been earned. Revenues are recorded net of any sales, occupancy or other taxes collected from customers on behalf of third parties. Room revenue represents revenue from the occupancy of hotel rooms and is driven by the occupancy and average daily rate charged. Room revenue does not include ancillary services or fees charged. The contracts for room stays with customers generally are very short-term in duration and revenue is recognized over the course of the hotel stay. The hotel reservation defines the terms of the agreement including an agreed-upon rate and length of stay. Food and beverage revenue consists of revenue from group functions such as banquets and conferences as well as revenue from the restaurants and lounges at the Company’s hotels. Food and beverage revenue is recognized at the time the products or services are provided to the customer. Other operating revenue consists of ancillary revenues at the hotel, including attrition and cancelation fees, parking revenue and other guest services and offerings. Other operating revenue is generally recognized at the time when the goods or services are provided to the customer or when the performance obligation is satisfied. Payment is due at the time that goods or services are rendered or billed. For room revenue, payment is typically due and paid in full at the end of the stay with some customers prepaying for their rooms prior to the stay. Payments received from a customer prior to arrival are recorded as an advance deposit and are recognized as revenue at the time of occupancy.

Comprehensive Income

Comprehensive income includes net income and other comprehensive loss, which is comprised of unrealized gains or losses resulting from hedging activity.

Net Income Per Common Share

Basic net income per common share is computed based upon the weighted average number of shares outstanding during the period. Diluted net income per common share is calculated after giving effect to all potential common shares that were dilutive and outstanding for the period. The Company does not have any potential common shares that were dilutive and outstanding for the year ended December 31, 2025. Basic and diluted net income per common share were the same for each of the periods presented.

Income Taxes

The Company is operated as, and has elected to be taxed as, a REIT under Sections 856 to 860 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”). To qualify as a REIT, the Company must meet a number of organizational and operational requirements, including a requirement that it distribute at least 90% of its REIT taxable income, subject to certain adjustments and excluding any net capital gain, to shareholders. If the Company fails to qualify as a REIT in any taxable year, it will be subject to U.S. federal income tax on its taxable income at regular corporate income tax rates (including any applicable corporate minimum tax) and generally will be unable to re-elect REIT status until the fifth calendar year after the year in which it failed to qualify as a REIT, unless it satisfies certain relief provisions. The Company intends to adhere to the REIT qualification requirements and to maintain its qualification for taxation as a REIT.

As a REIT, the Company is generally not subject to U.S. federal corporate income tax on the portion of taxable income that is distributed to shareholders. The Lessee, as a taxable REIT subsidiary of the Company, is subject to federal and state income taxes. The Company’s income tax expense as shown in the consolidated statements of operations primarily consists of income taxes on the operations of the Lessee and franchise taxes on both the REIT and the Lessee at the state jurisdiction level.

The Company accounts for income taxes using the asset and liability method. Under this method, deferred tax assets and liabilities are recognized for the estimated future tax consequences attributable to the differences between the financial statement carrying amounts of existing assets and liabilities and their respective income tax bases, and for net operating loss, capital loss and tax credit carryforwards. The deferred tax assets and liabilities are measured using the enacted income tax rates in effect for the year in which those temporary differences are expected to be realized or settled. The effect on the deferred tax assets and liabilities from a change in tax rates is recognized in earnings in the period in which the new rate is enacted. However, deferred tax assets are recognized only to the extent that it is more likely than not that they will be realized based on consideration of all available evidence, including the future reversals of existing taxable temporary differences, future projected taxable income and tax planning strategies. Valuation allowances are provided if, based on the weight of the available evidence, it is more likely than not that some or all of the deferred tax assets will not be realized.

The Company performs an annual review for any uncertain tax positions and, if necessary, will record the expected future tax consequences of uncertain tax positions in the consolidated financial statements. As of December 31, 2025, the tax years that remain subject to examination by major tax jurisdictions generally include 2022-2025. The Company evaluates whether a tax position of the Company is more likely than not to be sustained upon examination, including resolution of any related appeals or litigation processes, based on the technical merits of the position. For tax positions meeting the more likely than not threshold, the tax amount recognized in the financial statements is reduced by the largest benefit that has a greater than fifty percent likelihood of being realized upon ultimate settlement with the relevant taxing authority. The Company has reviewed its tax positions for open tax years and has concluded no provision for income taxes for uncertain tax positions is required in the Company’s consolidated financial statements as of December 31, 2025 and 2024. Interest and penalties related to uncertain tax benefits, if any, in the future will be recognized as operating expense.

The Company has and may in the future enter into purchase and sale transactions in accordance with Section 1031 of the Code, for the exchange of like-kind property to defer taxable gains on the sale of real estate properties (“1031 Exchange”).

Sales and Marketing Costs

Sales and marketing costs are expensed when incurred. These costs represent the expense for franchise advertising and reservation systems under the terms of the hotel management and franchise agreements and general and administrative expenses that are directly attributable to advertising and promotion.

Use of Estimates

The preparation of the financial statements in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the U.S. (“GAAP”) requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the amounts reported in the consolidated financial statements and accompanying notes. Actual results could differ from those estimates.

Accounting Standards Recently Adopted

In December 2023, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued ASU No. 2023-09, Income Taxes (Topic 740): Improvements to Income Tax Disclosures, which focuses on income tax disclosures around effective tax rates and cash income taxes paid. This update requires disclosure, on an annual basis, a tabular rate reconciliation using both percentages and currency amounts, broken out into specified categories with certain reconciling items further broken out by nature and jurisdiction to the extent those items exceed a specified threshold. In addition, all entities are required to disclose income taxes paid, net of refunds received disaggregated by federal, state/local, and foreign and by jurisdiction if the amount is at least 5% of total income tax payments, net of refunds received. The new standard is effective for annual periods beginning after December 15, 2024, with early adoption permitted. The amendments in this ASU may be applied prospectively by providing the revised disclosures for the period ending December 31, 2025 and continuing to provide the pre-ASU disclosures for the prior periods, or the amendments may be applied retrospectively by providing the revised disclosures for all periods presented. The adoption of this ASU only impacted disclosures with no impact on the Company’s consolidated financial statements. See Note 11 for the Company’s income tax disclosures in accordance with the adoption of this ASU.

Accounting Standards Recently Issued

In November 2024, the FASB issued ASU No. 2024-03, Income Statement - Reporting Comprehensive Income - Expense Disaggregation Disclosures (Subtopic 220-40): Disaggregation of Income Statement Expenses, which focuses on improving the disclosures about a public business entity’s amounts and types of expenses. The update mandates that an entity disclose the amounts of specific natural expense categories—such as purchases of inventory, employee compensation, depreciation, intangible asset amortization, and depletion—within relevant expense captions presented on the face of the income statement. Additionally, an entity must disclose qualitative descriptions of the composition of any remaining expense not separately disaggregated and disclose the total amount of selling expenses, and in annual reporting periods, its definition of selling expenses. The new standard is effective for annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2026 and interim reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2027, with early adoption permitted. The amendments in this ASU may be applied prospectively by providing the revised disclosures for the period ending December 31, 2027 and continuing to provide the pre-ASU disclosures for the prior periods, or the amendments may be applied retrospectively by providing the revised disclosures for all periods presented. As of December 31, 2025, the Company has not adopted this ASU and is currently evaluating the impact of this ASU on the Company’s consolidated financial statements and related disclosures.

Note 2

Investment in Real Estate

The Company’s investment in real estate consisted of the following (in thousands):

December 31,December 31,
20252024
Land$841,027$839,187
Building and improvements5,137,9095,064,866
Furniture, fixtures and equipment649,910610,062
Finance ground lease assets102,084102,084
Franchise fees29,19825,893
6,760,1286,642,092
Less accumulated depreciation and amortization(1,972,264)(1,821,344)
Investment in real estate, net$4,787,864$4,820,748

As of December 31, 2025, the Company owned 217 hotels with an aggregate of 29,583 guest rooms located in 37 states and the District of Columbia. Included in the Company’s hotel and guest room counts as of December 31, 2025 is its independent boutique hotel in New York, New York (the “New York Property”). On April 4, 2025, the Company recovered possession of this property and reinstated operations of the hotel’s 209 guest rooms through a third-party manager engaged by the Company. From May 2023 through March 2025, the Company classified the property as a “non-hotel property” and excluded it from hotel and guest room counts, as it was leased to a third-party hotel operator. Following the third-party hotel operator's failure to make lease payments, the Company commenced legal proceedings in 2024 to remove the third-party hotel operator from possession of the property. In April 2025, the Company and the third-party hotel operator entered into an agreement to mutually release all claims, to terminate the lease and for the third-party hotel operator to voluntarily surrender possession of the property back to the Company.

The Company leases all of its 217 hotels to a wholly-owned taxable REIT subsidiary (or a subsidiary thereof) under master hotel lease agreements.

2025 and 2024 Acquisitions

During the year ended December 31, 2025, the Company acquiredtwo hotels. The following table sets forth the location, brand, manager, date acquired, number of guest rooms and gross purchase price, excluding transaction costs, for each property. All dollar amounts are in thousands.

CityStateBrandManagerDateAcquiredGuest RoomsGrossPurchasePrice
TampaFLHomewood SuitesHHM6/10/2025126$18,800
NashvilleTNMottoChartwell12/19/202526098,183
386$116,983

During the year ended December 31, 2024, the Company acquiredtwo hotels. The following table sets forth the location, brand, manager, date acquired, number of guest rooms and gross purchase price, excluding transaction costs, for each property. All dollar amounts are in thousands.

CityStateBrandManagerDateAcquiredGuest RoomsGrossPurchasePrice
Washington, D.C.N/AAC HotelsHHM3/25/2024234$116,804
MadisonWIEmbassy SuitesRaymond6/20/202426279,516
496$196,320

In 2025, the Company utilized available cash, proceeds from the sales of properties, which included proceeds from two separate 1031 Exchanges, and borrowings under its unsecured credit facilities to purchase the Tampa, Florida and Nashville, Tennessee hotels. In 2024, the Company utilized proceeds from the sale of hotels and borrowings under its Revolving Credit Facility (as defined below) to purchase the Washington, D.C. and Madison, Wisconsin hotels. The acquisitions of these properties were accounted for as acquisitions of asset groups, whereby costs incurred to effect the acquisitions (which were not significant) were capitalized as part of the cost of the assets acquired. For thetwo hotels acquired during 2025, the amount of revenue and operating loss included in the Company’s consolidated statement of operations from the date of acquisition through December 31, 2025 were approximately $2.6 million and $0.2 million, respectively. For thetwo hotels acquired during 2024, the amount of revenue and operating income included in the Company’s consolidated statement of operations from the date of acquisition through December 31, 2024 were approximately $24.7 million and $4.7 million, respectively.

Note 3

Dispositions

2025 Dispositions

During the year ended December 31, 2025, the Company sold seven hotels to five unrelated parties for a combined gross sales price of approximately $73.3 million, resulting in a combined gain on the sales of approximately $13.1 million, net of transaction costs, which is included in the Company’s consolidated statement of operations for the year ended December 31, 2025. Theseven hotels had a total carrying value of approximately $58.9 million at their respective times of sale. The following table lists the seven hotels sold in 2025:

CityStateBrandDate SoldGuest Rooms
ChattanoogaTNHomewood Suites2/12/202576
IndianapolisINSpringHill Suites3/19/2025130
HoustonTXMarriott8/18/2025206
ClovisCAHampton11/5/202586
ClovisCAHomewood Suites11/5/202583
Cedar RapidsIAHampton11/25/2025103
Cedar RapidsIAHomewood Suites11/25/202595
Total779

2024 Dispositions

During the year ended December 31, 2024, the Company soldsix hotels to five unrelated parties for a combined gross sales price of approximately $63.4 million, resulting in a combined gain on the sales of approximately $19.7 million, net of transaction costs, which was included in the Company’s consolidated statement of operations for the year ended December 31, 2024. Thesix hotels had a total carrying value of approximately $42.6 million at their respective times of sale. The following table lists the six hotels sold in 2024:

CityStateBrandDate SoldGuest Rooms
RogersARHampton2/9/2024122
RogersARHomewood Suites2/9/2024126
GreensboroNCSpringHill Suites5/21/202482
WichitaKSCourtyard11/12/202490
KnoxvilleTNTownePlace Suites12/3/202497
AustinTXHilton Garden Inn12/31/2024117
Total634

2023 Dispositions

There wereno dispositions during the year ended December 31, 2023.

Excluding gains on sale of real estate, the Company’s consolidated statements of operations include operating income (loss) of approximately $(3.7) million, $0.4 million and $(2.5) million for the years ended December 31,2025, 2024 and 2023, respectively, relating to the results of operations of the 13 hotels discussed above (theseven hotels sold in 2025 and thesix hotels sold in 2024) for the period of ownership. The sale of these properties does not represent a strategic shift that has, or will have, a major effect on the Company’s operations and financial results, and therefore the operating results for the period of ownership of these properties are included in income from continuing operations for the three years ended December 31, 2025, as applicable. A portion of the proceeds from the sale of the hotel in March 2025 was used to complete a 1031 Exchange for the acquisition of the Homewood Suites in Tampa, Florida, as discussed above in Note 2, which resulted in the deferral of taxable gains of approximately $2.4 million. Similarly, a portion of the proceeds from the sale of two hotels in the fourth quarter was used to complete a 1031 Exchange for the acquisition of the Motto in Nashville, Tennessee, as discussed above in Note 2, which resulted in the deferral of taxable gains of approximately $4.0 million. A portion of the proceeds from the sale of thetwo hotels in February 2024 was used to complete a 1031 Exchange, for the acquisition of the AC Hotel in Washington, D.C., as discussed above in Note 2, which resulted in the deferral of taxable gains of $15.1 million. The net proceeds from the sales of the remaining four hotels in 2025 and the remaining four hotels in 2024 were used for share repurchases and other general corporate purposes.

Impairment of Depreciable Real Estate

During the years ended December 31, 2025, 2024 and 2023, the Company recorded impairment losses totaling approximately$5.7 million, $3.1 million and $5.6 million, respectively.

During the third quarter of 2025, the Company identified indicators of impairment attwo properties. The properties were identified for potential sale in August 2025, and the Company entered into a purchase and sale agreement with an unrelated party for the sale of the hotels for an aggregate gross sales price of $16.1 million. As a result, the Company recognized a total impairment loss of approximately$5.7 million for these properties in the third quarter of 2025, to adjust the carrying values of the hotels to their respective estimated fair values less costs to sell, which were based on the contracted sales prices, Level 2 inputs under the fair value hierarchy. The Company completed the sale of the hotels in the fourth quarter of 2025.

During the third and fourth quarters of 2024, the Company identified indicators of impairment atthree properties, resulting in a combined loss on impairment for the year ended December 31, 2024 of$3.1 million. The three properties were separately identified for potential sale in either the third or fourth quarters of 2024, and the Company entered into separate purchase and sale agreements with separate unrelated parties for the sale of the hotels for a combined gross sales price of $21.7 million. As a result, the Company recognized impairment losses of approximately $2.9 million in the third quarter of 2024 and $0.2 million in the fourth quarter of 2024, for these properties to adjust the carrying value of these hotels to their estimated fair values less costs to sell, which were based on the contracted sales prices, Level 2 inputs under the fair value hierarchy. The Company completed the sale of one of these hotels in November 2024 and another in December 2024. For the third hotel impaired in 2024, the Company completed the sale in February 2025, therefore, the hotel was classified as assets held for sale on the Company’s consolidated balance sheet at December 31, 2024.

During the fourth quarter of 2023, the Company identified indicators of impairment attwo properties, due to declines in the current and forecasted cash flows and a shortened hold period. The Company performed a test of recoverability and determined that the carrying value for each property exceeded the estimated undiscounted future cash flows. The shortfalls in estimated cash flows were triggered by declines in existing and forecasted hotel market conditions and new supply in each respective market. For both hotels, the Company utilized an offer from an unrelated party, net of estimated selling costs (categorized as Level 2 inputs under the fair value hierarchy) to adjust the basis of the property to its estimated fair market value. Upon concluding that the carrying cost exceeded the estimated undiscounted future cash flows, the Company adjusted the carrying value of the two hotels (approximately $17.4 million as of December 31,2023) to their estimated fair market value (approximately $11.8 million as of December 31,2023), resulting in an impairment loss of$5.6 million.

Note 4

Debt

Summary

As of December 31, 2025 and 2024, the Company’s debt consisted of the following (in thousands):

December 31,2025December 31,2024
Revolving credit facility$61,000$82,500
Term loans and senior notes, net1,293,8411,135,175
Mortgage debt, net183,743253,777
Debt, net$1,538,584$1,471,452

The aggregate amounts of principal payable under the Company’s total debt obligations as of December 31, 2025 (including the Revolving Credit Facility (if any) (as defined below), term loans, senior notes and mortgage debt), for the five years subsequent to December 31, 2025 and thereafter are as follows (in thousands):

2026$265,649
2027278,602
2028334,066
2029162,294
2030460,016
Thereafter44,638
Unamortized debt issuance costs(6,681)
Total$1,538,584

The Company uses interest rate swaps to manage its interest rate risk on a portion of its variable-rate debt. Throughout the terms of these interest rate swaps, the Company pays a fixed rate of interest and receives a floating rate of interest equal to the annual Secured Overnight Financing Rate (“SOFR”) for a one-month term (“one-month SOFR”) with nine out of the eleven swaps also including an additional 0.10% SOFR spread adjustment. The swaps are designed to effectively fix the interest payments on variable-rate debt instruments. See Note 5 for more information on the interest rate swap agreements. The Company’s total fixed-rate and variable-rate debt, after giving effect to its interest rate swaps in effect at December 31, 2025 and 2024, is set forth below. All dollar amounts are in thousands.

December 31,2025 · Percentage · December 31,2024 · Percentage
Fixed-rate debt (1)$994,26564%$1,114,30075%
Variable-rate debt551,00036%362,50025%
Total$1,545,265$1,476,800
Weighted-average interest rate of debt4.70%4.71%

(1)

Fixed-rate debt includes the portion of variable-rate debt where the interest payments have been effectively fixed by interest rate swaps as of the respective balance sheet date. See Note 5 for more information on the interest rate swap agreements.

Credit Facilities

$1.2 Billion Credit Facility

On July 25, 2022, the Company entered into a credit facility (the “$1.2 billion credit facility”) that is comprised of (i) a $650 million revolving credit facility with an initial maturity date of July 25, 2026 (the “Revolving Credit Facility”), (ii) a $275 million term loan with a maturity date of July 25, 2027, funded at closing, and (iii) a $300 million term loan with a maturity date of January 31, 2028 (including a$150 million delayed draw option until 180 days from closing), of which $200 million was funded at closing, $50 million was funded on October 24, 2022 and the remaining $50 million was funded on January 17, 2023 (the term loans described in clauses (ii) and (iii) are referred to together as the“$575 million term loan facility”).

Subject to certain conditions, including covenant compliance and payment of additional fees, the Revolving Credit Facility maturity date may be extended up to one year. The credit agreement for the $1.2 billion credit facility contains customary affirmative and negative covenants (as described below), restrictions on certain investments and events of default. The Company may make voluntary prepayments, in whole or in part, at any time. Interest on the $1.2 billion credit facility, subject to certain exceptions, is generally payable monthly, with interest rates that have historically been equal to theone-month SOFR plus a 0.10% SOFR spread adjustment plus a margin ranging from 1.35% to 2.25%, depending upon the Company’s leverage ratio, as calculated under the terms of the credit agreement. As of December 31, 2025, the Company had availability of $586.9 million under its Revolving Credit Facility after taking a $2.1 million letter of credit into account. The Company is also required to pay quarterly an unused facility fee at an annual rate of 0.20% or 0.25% on the unused portion of the Revolving Credit Facility, based on the amount of borrowings outstanding during the quarter.

$225 Million Term Loan Facility

Prior to the Company’s full repayment in July 2025 (as discussed below under “$385 Million Term Loan Facility”), the Company utilized an unsecured $225 million term loan facility that was comprised of (i) a $50 million term loan with a maturity date of August 2, 2025 and (ii) a $175 million term loan with a maturity date of August 2, 2025 (the term loans described in clauses (i) and (ii) are referred to together as the “$225 million term loan facility”). The Company was permitted to make voluntary prepayments, in whole or in part, at any time, subject to certain conditions. Interest payments on the $225 million term loan facility were due monthly and the interest rate, subject to certain exceptions, was equal to an annual rate of theone-month SOFR plus a 0.10% SOFR spread adjustment plus a margin ranging from 1.35% to 2.50%, based upon the Company’s leverage ratio, as calculated under the terms of the credit agreement.

$385 Million Term Loan Facility

On July 24, 2025, the Company entered into a new term loan facility with a principal amountof $385 million and a maturity date of July 31, 2030 (the “$385 million term loan facility”). At closing, the Company repaid all amounts outstanding under the$225 million term loan facility with proceeds from the $385 million term loan facility, resulting in an additional $160 million funded at closing, which was used to repaythe balance outstanding under the Revolving Credit Facility and for general corporate purposes. The outstanding principal under the $385 million term loan facility bears interest at an annual variable rate equal to a term SOFR, depending on the interest period options elected by the Company, plus a margin ranging from 1.35% to 2.20%, based on the Company’s leverage ratio as calculated under the terms of the credit agreement. Historically, the Company has elected to pay interest monthly at an annual rate equal to theone-month SOFR plus the applicable margin. The credit agreement for the $385 million term loan facility contains customary affirmative and negative covenants, restrictions on certain investments and customary events of default, which are the same terms as those under the previous credit agreement for the$225 million term loan facility. The Company may make voluntary prepayments, in whole or in part, at any time, subject to certain conditions.

$130 Million Term Loan Facility

On July 25, 2017, the Company entered into an unsecured $85 million term loan facility with an initial maturity date of July 25, 2024, consisting ofone term loan (the “2017 $85 million term loan facility”) that was funded at closing. Interest payments on the 2017 $85 million term loan facility were due monthly, and the interest rate, subject to certain exceptions, was equal to an annual rate of theone-month SOFR plus a 0.10% SOFR spread adjustment plus a margin ranging from 1.30% to 2.10%, depending upon the Company’s leverage ratio, as calculated under the terms of the credit agreement. On July 17, 2024, the Company amended the 2017 $85 million term loan facility, which increased the amount of the term loan facility to $130 million, with the additional $45 million funded at closing (the "$130 million term loan facility"), and extended the maturity date to July 25, 2026. Interest on the $130 million term loan facility, subject to certain exceptions, is generally payable monthly, with interest rates that have historically been equal to an annual rate of theone-month SOFR plus a 0.10% SOFR spread adjustment plus a margin ranging from 1.35% to 2.20%, depending on the Company’s leverage ratio, as calculated under the terms of the amended credit agreement. Subject to certain conditions, including covenant compliance and payment of additional fees, the maturity date of the $130 million term loan facility may be extended by the Company to July 25, 2027. The credit agreement for the $130 million term loan facility contains customary affirmative and negative covenants, restrictions on certain investments and customary events of default. The Company may make voluntary prepayments, in whole or in part, at any time, subject to certain conditions.

$85 Million Term Loan Facility

On December 31, 2019, the Company entered into an unsecured $85 million term loan facility with a maturity date of December 31, 2029, consisting ofone term loan funded at closing (the “$85 million term loan facility”). Interest on the $85 million term loan facility, subject to certain exceptions, is generally payable monthly, with interest rates that have historically been equal to an annual rate of theone-month SOFR plus a 0.10% SOFR spread adjustment plus a margin ranging from 1.70% to 2.55%, depending upon the Company’s leverage ratio, as calculated under the terms of the credit agreement. The credit agreement for the $85 million term loan facility contains customary affirmative and negative covenants, restrictions on certain investments and customary events of default. The Company may make voluntary prepayments, in whole or in part, subject to certain conditions.

$50 Million Senior Notes Facility

On March 16, 2020, the Company entered into an unsecured $50 million senior notes facility with a maturity date of March 31, 2030, consisting of senior notes totaling $50 million funded at closing (the “$50 million senior notes facility”). The Company may make voluntary prepayments, in whole or in part, at any time, subject to certain conditions, including make-whole provisions. Interest payments on the $50 million senior notes facility are due quarterly, and the interest rate, subject to certain exceptions, ranges from an annual rate of 3.60% to 4.35% depending on the Company’s leverage ratio, as calculated under the terms of the note agreement.

$75 Million Senior Notes Facility

On June 2, 2022, the Company entered into an unsecured $75 million senior notes facility with a maturity date of June 2, 2029, consisting of senior notes totaling $75 million funded at closing (the “$75 million senior notes facility”, and collectively with the $1.2 billion credit facility, the $225 million term loan facility, the $130 million term loan facility, the $85 million term loan facility and the $50 million senior notes facility, the “unsecured credit facilities”). The Company may make voluntary prepayments, in whole or in part, at any time, subject to certain conditions, including make-whole provisions. Interest payments on the $75 million senior notes facility are due quarterly, and the interest rate, subject to certain exceptions, ranges from an annual rate of 4.88% to 5.63% depending on the Company’s leverage ratio, as calculated under the terms of the note agreement.

As of December 31, 2025 and 2024, the details of the Company’s unsecured credit facilities were as set forth in the table below. All dollar amounts are in thousands.

Outstanding Balance
Interest Rate · MaturityDate · December 31, 2025 · December 31, 2024
Revolving credit facility (1)SOFR + 0.10% + 1.40% to 2.25%7/25/2026(2)$61,000$82,500
Term loans and senior notes
$275 million term loanSOFR + 0.10% + 1.35% to 2.20%7/25/2027275,000275,000
$300 million term loanSOFR + 0.10% + 1.35% to 2.20%1/31/2028300,000300,000
$50 million term loanSOFR + 0.10% + 1.35% to 2.20%8/2/2025(3)-50,000
$175 million term loanSOFR + 0.10% + 1.65% to 2.50%8/2/2025(3)-175,000
$385 million term loanSOFR + 1.35% to 2.20%7/31/2030385,000-
$130 million term loanSOFR + 0.10% + 1.35% to 2.20%7/25/2026(4)130,000130,000
$85 million term loanSOFR + 0.10% + 1.70% to 2.55%12/31/202985,00085,000
$50 million senior notes3.60% to 4.35%3/31/203050,00050,000
$75 million senior notes4.88% to 5.63%6/2/202975,00075,000
Term loans and senior notes at stated value1,300,0001,140,000
Unamortized debt issuance costs(6,159)(4,825)
Term loans and senior notes, net1,293,8411,135,175
Credit facilities, net (1)$1,354,841$1,217,675
Weighted-average interest rate (5)4.83%4.88%

(1)

Excludes unamortized debt issuance costs related to the Revolving Credit Facility totaling approximately $0.8 million and $2.1 million as of December 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024, respectively, which are included in other assets, net in the Company’s consolidated balance sheets.

(2)

The Revolving Credit Facility matures on July 25, 2026, but it can be extended up to one year, subject to certain conditions including covenant compliance and payment of additional fees. The Company presently has the ability to exercise this extension, however, it plans to pursue refinancing of the maturing debt.

(3)

On July 24, 2025, the Company repaid all amounts outstanding under the $225 million term loan facility and entered into a new term loan facility with a principal amount of $385 million and a maturity date of July 31, 2030. See the "$385 Million Term Loan Facility" section above for details.

(4)

This loan matures on July 25, 2026, but it can be extended up to one year, subject to certain conditions including covenant compliance and payment of additional fees. The Company presently has the ability to exercise this extension, however, it plans to pursue refinancing of the maturing debt.

(5)

Interest rate represents the weighted-average effective annual interest rate at the balance sheet date which includes the effect of interest rate swaps in effect on$685.0 million and $735.0 million of the outstanding variable-rate debt as of December 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively. See Note 5 for more information on the interest rate swap agreements. The one-month SOFR at December 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024 was 3.69% and 4.33%, respectively.

Credit Facilities Covenants

The credit agreements governing the unsecured credit facilities (collectively, the “credit agreements”) contain customary affirmative and negative covenants, restrictions on certain investments and events of default, including the following financial and restrictive covenants (capitalized terms not defined below are defined in the credit agreements):

A ratio of Consolidated Total Indebtedness to Consolidated EBITDA (“Maximum Consolidated Leverage Ratio”) of not more than 7.25 to 1.00;

A ratio of Consolidated Secured Indebtedness to Consolidated Total Assets (“Maximum Secured Leverage Ratio”) of not more than 45%;

A minimum Consolidated Tangible Net Worth of approximately $3.4 billion plus an amount equal to 75% of the Net Cash Proceeds from issuances and sales of Equity Interests occurring after the Closing Date, July 25, 2022, subject to adjustment;

A ratio of Adjusted Consolidated EBITDA to Consolidated Fixed Charges (“Minimum Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio”) of not less than 1.50 to 1.00 for the trailing four full quarters;

A ratio of Unencumbered Adjusted NOI to Consolidated Implied Interest Expense for Consolidated Unsecured Indebtedness (“Minimum Unsecured Interest Coverage Ratio”) of not less than 2.00 to 1.00 for the trailing four full quarters;

A ratio of Consolidated Unsecured Indebtedness to Unencumbered Asset Value (“Maximum Unsecured Leverage Ratio”) of not more than 60% (subject to a higher level in certain circumstances); and

A ratio of Consolidated Secured Recourse Indebtedness to Consolidated Total Assets (“Maximum Secured Recourse Indebtedness”) of not more than 10%.

The Company was in compliance with the applicable covenants at December 31, 2025.

Mortgage Debt

As of December 31, 2025, the Company had approximately$184.3 million in outstanding mortgage debt secured by 10 properties with maturity dates ranging from June 2026 to May 2038, and both stated interest rates and effective interest rates ranging from 3.40% to 4.37%. The loans generally provide for monthly payments of principal and interest on an amortized basis and defeasance or prepayment penalties if prepaid. The following table sets forth the hotel properties securing each loan, the interest rate, loan assumption or origination date, maturity date, the principal amount assumed or originated, and the outstanding balance prior to any fair value adjustments or debt issuance costs as of December 31, 2025 and 2024 for each of the Company’s mortgage debt obligations. All dollar amounts are in thousands.

Location · Brand · InterestRate (1) · LoanAssumptionorOriginationDate · MaturityDate · PrincipalAssumedorOriginated · Outstandingbalanceas ofDecember 31,2025 · Outstandingbalanceas ofDecember 31,2024
Westford, MAResidence Inn4.28%3/18/20154/11/2025(2)10,000-7,391
Denver, COHilton Garden Inn4.46%9/1/20166/11/2025(2)34,118-26,229
Oceanside, CACourtyard4.28%9/1/201610/1/2025(2)13,655-11,381
Omaha, NEHilton Garden Inn4.28%9/1/201610/1/2025(2)22,681-18,904
Boise, IDHampton4.37%5/26/20166/11/2026(3)24,00019,60120,156
Burbank, CACourtyard3.55%11/3/201612/1/2026(3)25,56418,83919,698
San Diego, CACourtyard3.55%11/3/201612/1/2026(3)25,47318,77219,628
San Diego, CAHampton3.55%11/3/201612/1/2026(3)18,96313,97514,611
Burbank, CASpringHill Suites3.94%3/9/20184/1/202828,47022,49823,385
Santa Ana, CACourtyard3.94%3/9/20184/1/202815,53012,27212,756
Richmond, VACourtyard3.40%2/12/20203/11/203014,95013,17413,509
Richmond, VAResidence Inn3.40%2/12/20203/11/203014,95013,17413,509
Portland, MEResidence Inn3.43%3/2/20203/1/203233,50030,50030,500
San Jose, CAHomewood Suites4.22%12/22/20175/1/203830,00021,46022,643
$311,854184,265254,300
Unamortized fair value adjustment of assumed debt-192
Unamortized debt issuance costs(522)(715)
Total$183,743$253,777

(1)

Interest rates are the rates per the loan agreement. For loans assumed, the Company adjusted the interest rates per the loan agreement to market rates and amortized the adjustments to interest expense over the life of the loan.

(2)

Represents date loan was repaid in full.

(3)

The Company plans to pay the outstanding amount and service payments due upon the upcoming debt maturity date using funds from operations, borrowings under its Revolving Credit Facility and/or proceeds from new financing.

The total fair value, net premium adjustment for all of the Company’s debt assumptions were amortized as a reduction to interest expense over the remaining term of the respective mortgages using a method approximating the effective interest rate method, and totaled approximately $0.2 million, $0.3 million and $0.3 million for the years ended December 31, 2025, 2024 and 2023, respectively. The fair value net premium adjustment of assumed debt was fully amortized as of December 31, 2025.

Debt issuance costs related to the assumption or origination of debt are amortized over the period to maturity of the applicable debt instrument, as an addition to interest expense, and totaled approximately $3.9 million, $3.8 million and $3.6 million for the three years ended December 31, 2025, 2024 and 2023, respectively.

The Company’s interest expense in 2025, 2024 and 2023 is net of interest capitalized in conjunction with hotel renovations totaling approximately $1.6 million, $1.4 million and $1.5 million, respectively.

Note 5

Fair Value of Financial Instruments

Except as described below, the carrying value of the Company’s financial instruments approximates fair value due to the short-term nature of these financial instruments.

Debt

The Company estimates the fair value of its debt by discounting the future cash flows of each instrument at estimated market rates consistent with the maturity of a debt obligation with similar credit terms and credit characteristics, which are Level 3 inputs under the fair value hierarchy. Market rates take into consideration general market conditions and maturity. As of December 31, 2025, both the carrying value and estimated fair value of the Company’s debt were approximately$1.5 billion. As of December 31, 2024, the carrying value and estimated fair value of the Company’s debt were approximately $1.5 billion and $1.4 billion, respectively. Both the carrying value and the estimated fair value of the Company’s debt (as discussed above) are net of unamortized debt issuance costs related to term loans, senior notes and mortgage debt for each specific year.

Derivative Instruments

Currently, the Company uses interest rate swaps to manage its interest rate risk on variable-rate debt. Throughout the terms of these interest rate swaps, the Company pays a fixed rate of interest and receives a floating rate of interest equal to theone-month SOFR with nine out of the eleven swaps also including an additional 0.10%SOFR spread adjustment. The swaps are designed to effectively fix the interest payments on variable-rate debt instruments. These swap instruments are recorded at fair value and, if in an asset position, are included in other assets, net, and, if in a liability position, are included in accounts payable and other liabilities in the Company’s consolidated balance sheets. The fair values of the Company’s interest rate swap agreements are determined using the market standard methodology of netting the discounted future fixed cash payments and the discounted expected variable cash receipts, which is considered a Level 2 measurement under the fair value hierarchy. The variable cash receipts are based on an expectation of future interest rates (forward curves) derived from observable market interest rate curves. The following table sets forth information for each of the Company’s interest rate swap agreements outstanding as of December 31, 2025 and 2024. All dollar amounts are in thousands.

Fair Value Asset (Liability)
Notional Amount at December 31, 2025 · OriginationDate · EffectiveDate · MaturityDate · Swap FixedInterestRate · December 31,2025 · December 31,2024
Active interest rate swaps designated as cash flow hedges at December 31, 2025:
$75,0008/21/20195/18/20215/18/20261.29%6882,924
125,00011/3/202311/3/202311/18/20264.51%(1,061)(860)
50,0008/2/20248/2/20248/18/20273.63%(196)590
50,0008/1/20248/5/20248/31/20273.84%(373)344
50,0003/17/20233/20/20233/18/20283.50%(133)910
50,0003/17/20233/20/20233/20/20283.49%(144)900
50,0008/1/20248/5/20248/18/20283.75%(491)554
50,0008/1/20258/1/20258/31/20283.38%(114)-
50,0008/1/20258/1/20258/31/20283.38%(117)-
50,0007/11/20247/18/20247/18/20293.96%(890)270
85,00012/31/201912/31/201912/31/20291.87%5,0828,510
685,0002,25114,142
Matured interest rate swaps at December 31, 2025:
75,0008/21/20195/18/20205/18/20251.26%-887
50,0006/1/20181/31/20196/30/20252.88%-361
25,00012/6/20181/31/20206/30/20252.74%-197
$150,000-1,445
$2,251$15,587

The Company assesses, both at inception and on an ongoing basis, the effectiveness of its qualifying cash flow hedges. As of December 31, 2025, all 11 active interest rate swap agreements listed above were designated as cash flow hedges. The change in the fair value of the Company’s designated cash flow hedges is recorded to accumulated other comprehensive income, a component of shareholders’ equity in the Company’s consolidated balance sheets.

Amounts reported in accumulated other comprehensive income will be reclassified to interest and other expense, net as interest payments are made or received on the Company’s variable-rate derivatives. The Company estimates that approximately $0.5 million of net unrealized gains included in accumulated other comprehensive income at December 31, 2025 will be reclassified as a decrease to interest and other expense, net within the next 12 months.

The following tables present the effect of derivative instruments in cash flow hedging relationships in the Company’s consolidated statements of operations and comprehensive income for the years ended December 31, 2025, 2024 and 2023 (in thousands):

Net Unrealized Gain (Loss) Recognized in Other Comprehensive Loss
202520242023
Interest rate derivatives in cash flow hedging relationships$(5,318)$15,200$5,870
Net Unrealized Gain Reclassified from Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income to Interest and Other Expense, net
202520242023
Interest rate derivatives in cash flow hedging relationships$8,018$20,017$22,347

Note 6

The Company has engaged in, and is expected to continue to engage in, transactions with related parties. These transactions cannot be construed as being at arm’s length, and the results of the Company’s operations may have been different if these transactions were conducted with non-related parties. The Company’s independent members of the Board of Directors oversee and annually review the Company’s related party relationships (including the relationships discussed in this section) and are required to approve any significant modifications to the existing relationships, as well as any new significant related party transactions. The Board of Directors is not required to approve each individual transaction that falls under the related party relationships. However, under the direction of the Board of Directors, at least one member of the Company’s senior management team approves each related party transaction. Below is a summary of the significant related party relationships in effect and transactions that occurred during each of the three years ended December 31, 2025, 2024 and 2023, respectively.

Glade M. Knight, Executive Chairman of the Company, owns Apple Realty Group, Inc. (“ARG”), which receives support services from the Company and reimburses the Company for the cost of these services as discussed below. Mr. Knight is also currently a partner and Chief Executive Officer of Energy 11 GP, LLC and Energy Resources 12 GP, LLC, which are the respective general partners of Energy 11, L.P. and Energy Resources 12, L.P., each of which receives support services from ARG.

The Company provides support services, including the use of the Company’s employees and corporate office, to ARG and is reimbursed by ARG for the cost of these services. Under this cost sharing structure, amounts reimbursed to the Company include both compensation for personnel and office-related costs (including office rent, utilities, office supplies, etc.) used by ARG. The amounts reimbursed to the Company are based on the actual costs of the services and a good faith estimate of the proportionate amount of time incurred by the Company’s employees on behalf of ARG. Total reimbursed costs allocated by the Company to ARG for the years ended December 31, 2025, 2024 and 2023 totaled approximately $1.4 million, $1.5 million and $1.2 million, respectively, and are recorded as a reduction to general and administrative expenses in the Company’s consolidated statements of operations.

As part of the cost sharing arrangement, certain day-to-day transactions may result in amounts due to or from the Company and ARG. To efficiently manage cash disbursements, the Company or ARG may make payments for the other company. Under this cash management process, each company may advance or defer up to $1 millionat any time. Each quarter, any outstanding amounts are settled between the companies. This process allows each company to minimize its cash on hand and reduces the cost for each company. The amounts outstanding at any point in time are not significant to either of the companies. As of December 31, 2025 and 2024, total amounts due from ARG for reimbursements under the cost sharing structure totaled approximately $0.5 million for each year, and are included in other assets, net in the Company’s consolidated balance sheets.

The Company, through its wholly-owned subsidiary, Apple Air Holding, LLC, owns an aircraft used primarily for acquisition, asset management, renovation, investor, corporate and public relations and other business purposes. The aircraft may from time to time be leased to affiliates of the Company based on third-party rates. Lease activity was not significant during the reporting periods.

From time to time, the Company utilizes aircraft, owned by an entity that is owned by the Company’s Executive Chairman, for acquisition, asset management, renovation, investor, corporate and public relations and other business purposes, and reimburses this entity at third-party rates. Total costs incurred for the use of the aircraft during 2025, 2024 and 2023 were less than $0.1 million in each respective year and are included in general and administrative expenses in the Company’s consolidated statements of operations.

Note 7

Shareholders’ Equity

Distributions

For the three years ended December 31, 2025, 2024 and 2023, the Company paid distributions of $1.01, $1.01 and $1.04 per common share, respectively, for a total of approximately $240.4 million, $243.7 million and $238.3 million, respectively. Additionally, in December 2025, the Company declared a monthly cash distribution of $0.08 per common share, totaling $18.9 million, which was recorded as a payable as of December 31, 2025 and paid on January 15, 2026. For the year ended December 31, 2024, in addition to the regular monthly cash distribution of $0.08 per common share approved by the Board of Directors in December 2024, the Board of Directors approved a special one-time distribution of $0.05 per common share for a combined distribution of $0.13 per common share, totaling $31.2 million, which was recorded as a payableas of December 31, 2024 and paid in January 2025. These accrued distributions were included in accounts payable and other liabilities in the Company’s consolidated balance sheets at December 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively.

Issuance of Shares

On February 23, 2024, the Company entered into an equity distribution agreement pursuant to which the Company may sell, from time to time, up to an aggregate of $500 million of its common shares under an at-the-market offering program (the “ATM Program”)under the Company’s current shelf registration statement. During the years ended December 31, 2025 and 2024, the Company didnot sell any common shares under the ATM Program, andno common shares were sold during the year ended December 31, 2024 under the previous $300 million at-the-market offering program, which was terminated in February 2024 in connection with the commencement of the current ATM Program. As of December 31, 2025, approximately $500 million remained available for issuance under the ATM Program. The Company plans to use future net proceeds from the sale of shares under the ATM Program, or a similar successor program, for general corporate purposes, which may include, among other things, acquisitions of additional properties, the repayment of outstanding indebtedness, capital expenditures, improvement of properties in its portfolio and working capital. The Company may also use the future net proceeds to acquire another REIT or other company that invests in income-producing properties.

In May 2025, the Company’s Board of Directors approved aone-year extension of its existing share repurchase program, authorizing share repurchases up to an aggregate of $262.6 million (the “Share Repurchase Program”). The Share Repurchase Program may be suspended or terminated at any time by the Company and will end in July 2026 if not terminated or extended earlier. The Company previously entered into and expects to continue to enter into written trading plans as part of the Share Repurchase Program that provide for share repurchases in open market transactions that are intended to comply with Rule 10b5-1 under the Exchange Act. During the year ended December 31, 2025, the Company purchased, under its Share Repurchase Program, approximately 4.6 million of its common shares at a weighted-average market purchase price of approximately $12.55 per common share for an aggregate purchase price, including commissions, of approximately $58.3 million. Purchases under the Share Repurchase Program have been funded, and the Company intends to fund future share repurchases, with cash on hand, proceeds from dispositions or availability under its unsecured credit facilities, subject to applicable restrictions under the Company’s unsecured credit facilities (if any). The timing of share repurchases and the number of common shares to be purchased under the Share Repurchase Program will also depend upon prevailing market conditions, regulatory requirements and other factors. As of December 31, 2025, approximately $242.5 million remained available for purchase under the Share Repurchase Program.

Preferred Shares

No preferred shares of the Company are issued and outstanding. The Company’s amended and restated articles of incorporation authorize issuance of up to 30 million preferred shares.

Note 8

Compensation Plans

In March 2024, the Board of Directors adopted the Company’s 2024 Omnibus Incentive Plan (the “2024 Omnibus Plan”), and in May 2024, the Company’s shareholders approved the 2024 Omnibus Plan, terminating the 2014 Omnibus Incentive Plan (the “2014 Omnibus Plan”) with respect to any common shares that were not subject to any outstanding awards under the plan. Following its termination, no additional awards can be made under the 2014 Omnibus Plan, but the terms and conditions of any outstanding awards granted under the 2014 Omnibus Plan (which, as of December 31, 2025, consists of a remaining 75,962 fully vested deferred stock units from the Non-Employee Director Deferral Program) were not affected. Upon termination of the 2014 Omnibus Plan on May 23, 2024, approximately 1.1 million shares were subject to outstanding awards (which included an estimated number of common shares based on “target” performance with respect to February 2024 awards authorized under the 2014 Omnibus Plan in February 2024, which were outstanding but not yet earned under the 2014 Omnibus Plan).

The 2024 Omnibus Plan permits the grant of awards of stock options, stock appreciation rights, restricted stock, stock units, deferred stock units, unrestricted stock, dividend equivalent rights, performance shares and other performance-based awards, other equity-based awards, and cash bonus awards to any employee, officer, or director of the Company or an affiliate of the Company, a consultant or adviser currently providing services to the Company or an affiliate of the Company, or any other person whose participation in the 2024 Omnibus Plan is determined by the Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors (the “Compensation Committee”) to be in the best interests of the Company. The maximum number of the Company’s common shares available for issuance under the 2024 Omnibus Plan is 7.25 million. As of December 31, 2025, there were approximately 7.19 million common shares available for issuance under the 2024 Omnibus Plan.

The Company annually establishes an incentive plan for its executive management team, which is approved by the Compensation Committee. Under the incentive plan for 2025 (the “2025 Incentive Plan”), participants are eligible to receive incentive compensation based on the achievement of certain 2025 performance measures, withone-half (50%) of incentive compensation based on operational metrics and performance goals and one-half (50%) of incentive compensation based on shareholder return metrics. With respect to the shareholder return metrics,75% of the target was based on shareholder return relative to a peer group and 25% was based on total shareholder return metrics over one-year, two-year, and three-year periods. With respect to the operational metrics and performance goals,75% of the operational performance target was based on the following metrics: Comparable Hotels RevPAR growth, Comparable Hotels Adjusted Hotel EBITDA margin, Adjusted EBITDAre and Modified Funds from Operations per share, equally weighted at 18.75% (non-GAAP financial measures are defined elsewhere within this Annual Report on Form 10-K). The remaining 25% of the operational performance target was based on an operational performance goal focused on the management of balance sheet maturities and allocation of capital to drive shareholder returns. As of December 31, 2025, the range of potential aggregate payouts under the 2025 Incentive Plan was $0 - $29.8 million. Based on performance during 2025, the Company accrued approximately $6.7 million as a liability for executive incentive compensation payments under the 2025 Incentive Plan, which is included in accounts payable and other liabilities in the Company’s consolidated balance sheet as of December 31, 2025 and in general and administrative expenses in the Company’s consolidated statement of operations for the year ended December 31, 2025. Additionally, approximately $1.2 million, which is subject to vesting on December 11, 2026, will be recognized proportionally throughout 2026. Approximately 25% of target awards under the 2025 Incentive Plan will be paid in cash, and 75% will be issued in common shares under the Company’s 2024 Omnibus Plan. The portion of awards under the 2025 Incentive Plan payable in common shares will be issued under the Company’s 2024 Omnibus Plan during the first quarter of 2026, approximatelytwo-thirds of which will be unrestricted andone-third of which will be restricted and is subject to vesting on December 11, 2026.

Under the incentive plan for 2024 (the “2024 Incentive Plan”), the Company accrued approximately $15.0 million including $9.3 million in share-based compensation as noted below, as a liability for executive incentive compensation payments, which was included in accounts payable and other liabilities in the Company’s consolidated balance sheet as of December 31, 2024 and in general and administrative expenses in the Company’s consolidated statement of operations for the year ended December 31, 2024. Under the incentive plan for 2023 (the “2023 Incentive Plan”), the Company accrued approximately $20.9 million, including $14.8 million in share-based compensation as noted below, as a liability for executive incentive compensation payments, which was included in general and administrative expenses in the Company’s consolidated statement of operations for the year ended December 31, 2023.

Share-Based Compensation Awards

The following table sets forth information pertaining to the share-based compensation issued under the 2024 Incentive Plan, the 2023 Incentive Plan and the incentive plan for 2022 (the “2022 Incentive Plan”):

2024 Incentive Plan · 2023 Incentive Plan · 2022 Incentive Plan
Period common shares issued · First Quarter 2025 · First Quarter 2024 · First Quarter 2023
Common shares earned under each incentive plan766,6011,110,664935,189
Common shares surrendered on issuance date to satisfy tax withholding obligations221,309306,346263,026
Common shares earned and issued under each incentive plan, net of common shares surrendered on issuance date to satisfy tax withholding obligations545,292804,318672,163
Average of the high and low stock price on issuance date$14.48$16.27$16.70
Total share-based compensation earned, including the surrendered shares (in millions)$11.1(1)$18.1(2)$15.6(3)
Of the total common shares earned and issued, total common shares unrestricted at time of issuance302,438399,842360,176
Of the total common shares earned and issued, total common shares restricted at time of issuance242,854404,476311,987
Restricted common shares vesting dateDecember 12, 2025December 13, 2024December 8, 2023
Common shares surrendered on vesting date to satisfy tax withholding requirements resulting from vesting of restricted common shares102,615170,970134,085

(1)

Of the total 2024 share-based compensation, approximately $9.3 million was recognized as share-based compensation expense during the year ended December 31, 2024, and included in accounts payable and other liabilities in the Company’s consolidated balance sheet at December 31, 2024, and the remaining $1.8 million, which vested on December 12, 2025 and excludes any restricted shares forfeited or vested prior to that date, was recognized as share-based compensation expense during the year ended December 31, 2025.

(2)

Of the total 2023 share-based compensation, approximately $14.8 million was recognized as share-based compensation expense during the year ended December 31, 2023, and included in accounts payable and other liabilities in the Company's consolidated balance sheet at December 31, 2023, and the remaining $3.3 million, which vested on December 13, 2024 and excludes any restricted shares forfeited or vested prior to that date, was recognized as share-based compensation expense during the year ended December 31, 2024.

(3)

Of the total 2022 share-based compensation, approximately $2.6 million, which vested on December 8, 2023 and excludes any restricted shares forfeited or vested prior to that date, was recognized as share-based compensation expense during the year ended December 31, 2023.

Additionally, in conjunction with the appointment offive new officers of the Company on April 1, 2020, the Company issued to the new officer group a total of approximately 200,000 restricted common shares with an aggregate grant date fair value of approximately $1.8 million. For each grantee, the restricted shares vested on March 31, 2023. The expense associated with the awards was amortized over the 3-year vesting period. For the year ended December 31, 2023, the Company recognized approximately $0.1 million of share-based compensation expense related to these awards. Upon vesting on March 31, 2023, approximately 83,000 shares were surrendered to satisfy tax withholding obligations.

Non-Employee Director Deferral Program

In 2018, the Board of Directors adopted the Non-Employee Director Deferral Program (the “Director Deferral Program”) under the Omnibus Plan for the purpose of providing non-employee members of the Board of Directors the opportunity to elect to defer receipt of all or a portion of the annual retainer payable to them for their service on the Board of Directors, including amounts payable in both cash and fully vested shares of the Company’s common shares, in the form of deferred cash fees (“DCFs”) and/or deferred stock units (“DSUs”). DCFs and DSUs that are issued to the Company’s non-employee directors are fully vested and non-forfeitable on the grant date. The grant date fair values of DCFs are equal to the dollar value of the deferred fee on the grant date, while the grant date fair values of DSUs are equal to the fair market value of the Company’s common shares on the grant date. DCFs are settled for cash and DSUs are settled for shares of the Company’s common stock, which are deliverable upon either: i) termination of the director’s service from the Board of Directors, ii) a date previously elected by the director, or iii) the earlier of the two dates, as determined by the director at the time he or she makes the election. The deferred amounts will also be paid if prior to the date specified by the director, the Company experiences a change in control or upon the death of the director. During the years ended December 31, 2025, 2024 and 2023, non-employee directors participating in the Director Deferral Program deferred approximately $0.2 million, $0.1 million and $0.2 million, respectively, which is recorded as deferred compensation expense in general and administrative expenses in the Company’s consolidated statements of operations for the years then ended. On each quarterly deferral date (the date that a portion of the annual retainer would be paid), dividends earned on DSUs are credited to the deferral account in the form of additional DSUs based on dividends declared by the Company on its outstanding common shares during the quarter and the fair value of the common shares on such date. Outstanding DSUs at December 31, 2025 and 2024 were approximately 92,000 and 81,000, with weighted-average grant date fair valueof $14.79 and $15.48, respectively, valued at approximately $1.4 million and $1.3 million, respectively, which is included in common stock, a component of shareholders’ equity in the Company’s consolidated balance sheets as of December 31, 2025 and 2024.

In 2024, the Director Deferral Program was amended and restated for the purpose of continuing the plan with respect to awards under the 2024 Omnibus Plan.

Note 9

Each of the Company’s 217 hotels owned as of December 31, 2025 is operated and managed under a separate management agreement with one of the following management companies or one of their affiliates, none of which are affiliated with the Company:

ManagerNumber ofHotels
LBAM-Investor Group, LLC (“LBA”)32
Dimension Hospitality, LLC (“Dimension”)30
Crestline Hotels & Resorts, LLC (“Crestline”)25
Raymond Management Company, Inc. (“Raymond”)21
Hersha Hospitality Management L.P. (“HHM”)19
Texas Western Management Partners, LP (“Western”)16
North Central Hospitality, LLC (“North Central”)14
MHH Management, LLC (“McKibbon”)13
Newport Hospitality Group, Inc. (“Newport”)10
InnVentures IVI, LP (“InnVentures”)(1)9
Marriott International, Inc. (“Marriott”)9
Chartwell Hospitality, LLC (“Chartwell”)8
Concord Hospitality Enterprises Company, LLC (“Concord”)4
White Lodging Services Corporation (“White Lodging”)3
Highgate Hotels, L.P. ("Highgate")2
Huntington Hotel Group, LP (“Huntington”)2
Total217

(1)

InnVentures is a subsidiary of Highgate.

The management agreements generally provide for initial terms ofone to 30 years and are terminable by the Company for either failure to achieve performance thresholds, certain events of default, upon sale of the property or without cause. As of December 31, 2025, approximately 81% of the Company’s hotels operated under a variable management fee agreement, with an average initial term of approximatelyone totwo years, which the Company believes better aligns incentives for each hotel manager to maximize each property’s performance than a base-plus-incentive management fee structure, as described below, which is more common throughout the industry. Under the variable fee structure, the management fee earned for each hotel is generally within a range of 2.5% to 3.5% of gross revenues. The performance measures are based on various financial and quality performance metrics. The Company’s remaining hotels operate under a management fee structure which generally includes the payment of base management fees and an opportunity for incentive management fees. Under this structure, base management fees are calculated as a percentage of gross revenues and the incentive management fees are calculated as a percentage of operating profit in excess of a priority return to the Company, as defined in the management agreements. In addition to the above, management fees for all of the Company’s hotels generally include accounting fees and other fees for centralized services, which are allocated among all of the hotels that receive the benefit of such services. For the years ended December 31, 2025, 2024 and 2023, the Company incurred approximately$47.1 million,$46.7 million and$44.3 million, respectively, in management fees.

Nine of the Company’s hotels are managed by affiliates of Marriott as of December 31, 2025; however, all of these hotels subsequently transitioned, in January 2026, to management companies not affiliated with Marriott, Hilton or Hyatt. The remainder of the Company’s hotels are also managed by companies that are not affiliated with Marriott, Hilton or Hyatt, and as a result, the branded hotels are required to obtain and maintain separate franchise agreements with each respective franchisor. The franchise agreements generally provide for initial terms of approximately 10 to 30 years and the Company has historically been able to renew the franchise agreements upon the expiration of the terms. The Company pays various fees under these agreements, including the payment of royalty fees, marketing fees, reservation fees, a communications support fee, brand loyalty program fees and other similar fees based on room revenues. For the years ended December 31, 2025, 2024 and 2023, the Company incurred approximately$62.6 million,$64.0 million and$59.3 million, respectively, in franchise royalty fees.

Note 10

Lease Commitments

The Company is the lessee on certain ground leases, hotel equipment leases and office space leases. As of December 31, 2025, the Company had 14 properties subject to ground leases andthree parking lot ground leases with remaining terms ranging from approximately 13 to 93 years, excluding renewal options. Certain of its ground leases have options to extend beyond the initial lease term by periods ranging from five to 120 years.

Leases with durations greater than 12 months are recognized on the balance sheet as right-of-use (“ROU”) assets and lease liabilities. The Company’s leases are classified as operating or finance leases. For leases with terms greater than 12 months, at inception of the lease the Company recognizes an ROU asset and lease liability at the estimated present value of the minimum lease payments over the lease term. ROU assets represent the Company’s right to use an underlying asset for the lease term and lease liabilities represent the Company’s obligation to make lease payments arising from the lease. Many of the Company’s leases include rental escalation clauses (including fixed scheduled rent increases) and renewal options that are factored into the determination of lease payments, when appropriate, which adjusts the present value of the remaining lease payments. The Company determines the present value of the lease payments utilizing interest rates implicit in the lease if determinable or, if not, it estimates its incremental borrowing rate from information available at lease commencement, such as estimates of rates the Company would pay for senior collateralized loans with terms similar to each lease.

Operating Leases

Twelve of the Company’s hotel and parking lot ground leases as well as certain applicable hotel equipment leases and office space leases are classified as operating leases, for which the Company has recorded ROU assets and lease liabilities. The ROU assets are included in other assets, net and the lease liabilities are included in accounts payable and other liabilities in the Company’s consolidated balance sheet. In addition, the Company’s ROU asset balance includes intangible assets for below market ground leases and intangible liabilities for above market ground leases, as well as accrued straight-line lease liabilities related to these operating leases. Lease expense is recognized on a straight-line basis over the term of the respective lease and the value of each lease intangible is amortized over the term of the respective lease. Costs related to operating ground leases and hotel equipment leases are included in hotel operating expense and property taxes, insurance and other expense, and costs related to office space leases are included in general and administrative expense in the Company’s consolidated statements of operations.

Finance Leases

Five of the Company’s ground leases are classified as finance leases, for which the Company recorded ROU assets and lease liabilities. The ROU assets are recorded as finance ground lease assets within investment in real estate, net and the lease liabilities are recorded as finance lease liabilities in the Company’s consolidated balance sheet. In addition, the Company’s ROU asset balance includes intangible assets for below market ground leases and intangible liabilities for above market ground leases related to these finance leases. The ROU asset and value of each lease intangible are amortized over the term of the respective lease. Costs related to finance ground leases are included in depreciation and amortization expense and interest and other expense, net in the Company’s consolidated statement of operations.

Under the terms of the Company’s ground leases, certain minimum lease payments are subject to change based on criteria specified in the lease. Changes in minimum lease payments that are not fixed scheduled increases are reflected in the ROU asset and lease liability when the payments become fixed and determinable based on the actual criteria defined in the lease. Minimum lease payments may be estimated if the change date occurs and the new minimum lease payments are not yet determinable.

Lease Position as of December 31, 2025 and 2024

The following table sets forth the lease-related assets and liabilities included in the Company’s consolidated balance sheet as of December 31, 2025 and 2024. All dollar amounts are in thousands.

December 31,
Consolidated Balance SheetClassification · 2025 · 2024
Assets
Operating lease assets, netOther assets, net$23,259$24,331
Finance ground lease assets, net (1)Investment in real estate, net80,91683,954
Total lease assets$104,175$108,285
Liabilities
Operating lease liabilitiesAccounts payable and other liabilities$10,452$10,962
Finance lease liabilitiesFinance lease liabilities111,094111,585
Total lease liabilities$121,546$122,547
Weighted-average remaining lease term
Operating leases37 years
Finance leases28 years
Weighted-average discount rate
Operating leases5.53%
Finance leases5.32%

(1)

Finance ground lease assets are net of accumulated amortization of approximately $21.2 million and $18.1 million as of December 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively.

Lease Costs for the Years Ended December 31, 2025, 2024 and 2023

The following table sets forth the lease costs related to the Company’s operating and finance ground leases included in the Company’s consolidated statement of operations for the years ended December 31, 2025, 2024 and 2023 (in thousands):

Year Ended December 31,
Consolidated Statement ofOperations Classification202520242023
Operating lease costs (1)Property taxes, insurance and other expense$1,885$1,886$1,776
Finance lease costs:
Amortization of lease assetsDepreciation and amortization expense3,0383,0383,038
Interest on lease liabilitiesInterest and other expense, net5,8475,8675,877
Total lease costs$10,770$10,791$10,691

(1)

Represents costs related to ground leases, including variable lease costs. Excludes costs related to hotel equipment leases, which are included in hotel operating expense and property taxes, insurance and other expense, and costs related to office space leases, which are included in general and administrative expense in the Company’s consolidated statement of operations. These costs are not significant for disclosure.

Undiscounted Cash Flows

The following table reconciles the undiscounted cash flows for each of the next five years and total of the remaining years to the operating lease liabilities and finance lease liabilities included in the Company’s consolidated balance sheet as of December 31, 2025 (in thousands):

Operating Leases · Finance Leases
2026$899$6,500
20277306,700
20287146,879
20297427,056
20307457,275
Thereafter28,147202,344
Total minimum lease payments31,977236,754
Less: amount of lease payments representing interest21,525125,660
Present value of lease liabilities$10,452$111,094

Supplemental Cash Flow Information

The following table sets forth supplemental cash flow information related to the Company’s operating and finance leases for the years ended December 31, 2025, 2024 and 2023 (in thousands):

Year Ended December 31,
202520242023
Cash paid for amounts included in the measurement of lease liabilities:
Operating cash flows for operating leases$1,113$1,100$1,106
Operating cash flows for finance leases5,6355,6595,651
Financing cash flows for finance leases703515340

Note 11

Income Taxes

The Company is operated as, and has elected to be taxed as, a REIT under Sections 856 to 860 of the Code. As a REIT, the Company is generally not subject to corporate level income taxes on REIT taxable income that is distributed to its shareholders. Income related to the Lessee, as a taxable REIT subsidiary (“TRS”) of the Company, is subject to federal and state income taxes.

The components ofincome tax expense (benefit) are as follows (in thousands):

Year Ended December 31,
202520242023
Current:
Federal · $ · - · $ · - · $ · -
State9599471,135
Deferred:
Federal---
State---
Income tax expense$959$947$1,135

Income tax expense for the years ended December 31, 2025, 2024 and 2023 was $1.0 million, $0.9 million and $1.1 million, respectively. Texas franchise tax comprises more than 50% of the Company’s total state income tax expense. No other state or jurisdiction represented more than 20% of the Company’s total income tax expense.

Below is a reconciliation between the provision for income taxes and the amounts computed by applying the federal statutory income tax rate to the income or loss before taxes (in thousands):

Year Ended December 31,
2025Percent of income before income taxes2024Percent of income before income taxes2023Percent of income before income taxes
Statutory federal tax expense$37,02821%$44,95421%$37,27321%
Federal tax impact of REIT election(46,325)-26%(50,456)-23%(39,865)-22%
Statutory federal tax expense (benefit) at TRS(9,297)-5%(5,502)-3%(2,592)-1%
State income tax expense (benefit), net of federal tax benefit7580%7480%8971%
Change in valuation allowance9,4985%5,7013%2,8302%
Income tax expense$9591%$9470%$1,1351%

Income taxes paid are as follows (in thousands):

Year Ended December 31,
202520242023
Cash paid for income taxes:
Federal · $ · - · $ · - · $ · -
Texas682666619
Oregon26087290
Ohio*54*
Illinois**70
Other state and local jurisdictions9669314
Total income taxes paid, net$1,038$876$1,293
  • Indicates the amount of income taxes paid for this jurisdiction does not meet the 5% disaggregation threshold for the period.

As of December 31, 2025, the Company had deferred tax assets of approximately $43 million consisting primarily of net operating loss carryforwards. A portion of the federal loss carryforwards expire beginning in 2029; however, a portion of the federal loss carryforwards do not expire. The state loss carryforwards have various expiration dates; however, for certain states some loss carryforwards do not expire. The TRS had a net operating loss carryforward for U.S. federal income tax purposes of approximately $155 million as of December 31, 2025, and $110 million as of December 31, 2024. The TRS has historical cumulative operating losses and is expected to be in a cumulative loss for the foreseeable future. As a result, the realizability of the Company’s deferred tax assets as of December 31, 2025 and 2024 is not reasonably assured. Therefore, the Company has recorded a valuation allowance equal to the full 100% of the net deferred tax assets as of December 31, 2025 and 2024.

Characterization of Distributions

For income tax purposes, distributions paid consist of ordinary income, capital gains, return of capital or a combination thereof. For the years ended December 31, 2025, 2024 and 2023, distributions per share were characterized as follows (unaudited):

Year Ended December 31,
2025 · 2024 · 2023
Amount of distributions per share$0.96$1.01$1.01
Characterized as:
Ordinary income100%100%97%
Capital gain distributions0%0%0%
Return of capital0%(1)0%3%

(1)

Percentage is less than 1%.

Distributions of $0.13 per common share declared in December 2023 and paid in January 2024 were treated as 2023 distributions for tax purposes. Distributions of $0.13 per common share declared in December 2024 and paid in January 2025 were treatedas 2024 distributions for tax purposes. Distributions of $0.08 per common share declared in December 2025 and paid in January 2026 were treated as 2025 distributions for tax purposes.

No provision for U.S. federal income taxes has been included in the Company’s financial statements for the years ended December 31, 2025, 2024 and 2023 related to its REIT activities.

Note 12

Reportable Segments

The Company owns hotel properties throughout the U.S. that generate guest room rental, food and beverage, and other property-related income. There are no foreign operations from which the Company derives revenues and no assets are held in a foreign country. There are no material concentrations of 10% or more of total revenues allocated to a single customer for the reporting periods presented. The Chief Operating Decision Maker (“CODM”) separately evaluates the performance, allocates capital resources and manages the overall operating and investing strategy of each of its hotel properties individually; therefore, the Company considers each hotel to be an operating segment. However, because each hotel is not individually significant, serves a similar class and mix of business and leisure customers, has similar economic characteristics and risks, facilities, and services, utilizes similar methods to distribute their products and services through third-party management companies, and is subject to similar regulatory environments, the properties have been combined into asingle operating segment for reporting purposes. The CODM, who is the Chief Executive Officer of the Company, assesses the performance of each operating segment on a monthly basis using adjusted hotel earnings (loss) before interest expense, income taxes and depreciation and amortization (“Adjusted Hotel EBITDA”), the measure by which the CODM makes day-to-day operating decisions, compares actual results with budgeted and prior year results, invests in capital improvements, and performs competitive analysis over the Company’s operating performance against industry peers.

Adjusted Hotel EBITDA, presented herein, is calculated as EBITDA from hotel operations with further exclusions as noted below. EBITDA is a commonly used measure of performance in many industries and is defined as net income (loss) excluding interest, income taxes, depreciation and amortization. The Company believes EBITDA is useful to investors because it helps the Company and its investors evaluate the ongoing operating performance of the Company by removing the impact of its capital structure (primarily interest expense) and its asset base (primarily depreciation and amortization). In addition, certain covenants included in the agreements governing the Company’s indebtedness use EBITDA, as defined in the specific credit agreement, as a measure of financial compliance. The Company further excludes the following items that are not reflective of its ongoing operating performance or incurred in the normal course of business, and thus not utilized in the CODM’s analysis to allocate resources and assess operating performance of the Company’s business:

gains and losses from the sale of certain real estate assets (including gains and losses from change in control);

real estate related impairments;

non-cash straight-line operating ground lease expense;

actual corporate-level general and administrative expense for the Company; and

operating results from the non-hotel property.

The Company believes Adjusted Hotel EBITDA provides useful supplemental information to investors regarding operating performance and it is used by management to measure the performance of the Company’s hotels and effectiveness of the operators of the hotels.

The following table reconciles the Company’s single reportable segment Adjusted Hotel EBITDA to GAAP net income for the years ended December 31, 2025, 2024 and 2023 (in thousands):

Year Ended December 31,
202520242023
Total revenue$1,412,386$1,431,468$1,343,800
Less:
Significant hotel operating expenses
Operating361,994357,352332,714
Hotel administrative125,943123,086114,071
Sales and marketing127,031126,938117,538
Utilities51,43450,06547,422
Repair and maintenance71,31369,69765,412
Franchise fees62,55064,01759,315
Management fees47,05746,71644,253
Total significant hotel operating expenses847,322837,871780,725
Other expenses
Property taxes, insurance & other89,73284,38279,307
Other (1)(1,193)(329)1,876
88,53984,05381,183
Adjusted Hotel EBITDA476,525509,544481,892
General and administrative(32,293)(42,542)(47,401)
Impairment of depreciable real estate(5,724)(3,055)(5,644)
Depreciation and amortization(192,627)(190,603)(183,242)
Gain on sale of real estate13,11619,744-
Other (1)(1,193)(329)1,876
Interest expense, net(81,481)(77,748)(68,857)
Income tax expense(959)(947)(1,135)
Net income$175,364$214,064$177,489

(1)

Includes operating results of the New York Property when classified as a non-hotel property from May 2023 through March 2025. On April 4, 2025, the Company recovered possession of the New York Property and reinstated operationsof the hotel’s 209 guest rooms through a third-party manager engaged by the Company. Additionally, for the twelve months ended December 31, 2025, 2024 and 2023, expenses relating to amortization of favorable and unfavorable operating leases and non-cash straight-line operating ground lease expense are included. These items have been included for the purpose of ensuring their exclusion from Adjusted Hotel EBITDA, as they do not reflect the underlying operating performance of the Company’s hotels.

Disclosure of the reportable segment’s revenue and profit or loss is included in the Company’s consolidated statements of operations and comprehensive income, disclosure of the reportable segment’s assets is presented in the Company’s consolidated balance sheets, and disclosure of the reportable segment’s significant noncash items is provided in the Company’s consolidated statements of cash flows, all within this Annual Report on Form 10-K. For the years ended December 31, 2025, 2024 and 2023, the Company invested approximately $88.2 million, $78.3 million and $76.8 million in capital expenditures, respectively.

Note 13

Contract Commitments

Purchase Contract Commitments

As of December 31, 2025, the Company hadone outstanding contract, which was entered into during the third quarter of 2025, for the potential purchase of a hotel in Anchorage, Alaska for an expected purchase price of approximately $65.5 million. The hotel is under development as a 160-guest-room AC Hotel and is currently planned to be completed and opened for business in the fourth quarterof 2027. As of December 31, 2025, a $2.0 million contract deposit (refundable if the seller does not meet its obligations under the contract) had been paid. If the closing occurs, the Company plans to utilize its available cash or borrowings, including borrowings under its unsecured credit facilities available at closing, to purchase the hotel under contract. Although the Company is working towards acquiring this hotel, there are a number of conditions to closing that have not yet been satisfied, and there can be no assurance that closing on this hotel will occur under the outstanding purchase contract. If the seller meets all of the conditions to closing, the Company is obligated to specifically perform under the purchase contract and acquire this hotel. As this hotel is under development, at this time, the seller has not met all of the conditions to closing.

Development Project

During the third quarter of 2025, the Company entered into a contract with a third party to develop a dual-branded property, consisting of an AC Hotel and a Residence Inn, on Company-owned land in Las Vegas, Nevada, adjacent to its existing SpringHill Suites. The Company expects to spend a total of approximately $143.7 million to develop the hotels, which are currently planned to be completed and opened for business in the second quarter of 2028. Upon completion, the AC Hotel and Residence Inn are expected to contain approximately 237 and 160 guest rooms, respectively. As of December 31, 2025, the Company has paid $1.6 million in refundable(if contracted developer does not meet its obligation under the contract) deposits.

Note 14

Subsequent Events

On January 15, 2026, the Company paid approximately $18.9 million, or $0.08 per common share, in distributions to shareholders of record as of December 31, 2025.

On January 20, 2026, the Company declared a monthly cash distribution of $0.08 per common share. The distribution was paid on February 17, 2026, to shareholders of record as of January 30, 2026.

On February 17, 2026, the Company declared a monthly cash distribution of $0.08 per common share. The distribution is payable on March 16, 2026, to shareholders of record as of February 27, 2026.

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