Strategic Hotels & Resorts Reports Second Quarter 2014 Financial Results

Published on : Tuesday, August 5, 2014

StrategicHotels“Building upon the positive momentum from the first quarter, we drove continued high performance among all our key metrics in the first half of 2014, perhaps most notably within group room nights and related ancillary spend,” said Raymond L. “Rip” Gellein, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Strategic Hotels & Resorts, Inc. “Total RevPAR grew 7.2% while EBITDA margins expanded 170 basis points leading to a 14.3% increase in Comparable EBITDA and a 50.0% increase in Comparable FFO per share in the second quarter; which were all above consensus estimates.

From a transactional perspective, the Company has completed nearly $2.7 billion in gross transactions since the beginning of the year, with second quarter highlights including the acquisition of the remaining interest in the iconic Hotel del Coronado, raising or refinancing nearly $1.0 billion of capital and retiring $200 million of high cost preferred equity. This has allowed us to continue building the highest quality portfolio in the industry, while lowering our cost of capital and further deleveraging our balance sheet. I remain very optimistic about the second half of the year, which is why we have upwardly revised the lower end of our guidance ranges.”
 
Second Quarter Highlights
Total consolidated revenues were $276.2 million in the second quarter of 2014, a 21.6 percent increase over the prior year period.

 
Net income attributable to common shareholders was $80.8 million, or $0.35 per diluted share, in the second quarter of 2014, compared with $3.3 million, or $0.01 per diluted share, in the second quarter of 2013.

 
Comparable FFO was $0.21 per diluted share in the second quarter of 2014, compared with $0.14 per diluted share in the prior year period, a 50.0 percent increase over the prior year period.

 
Comparable EBITDA was $68.9 million in the second quarter of 2014, compared with $60.3 million in the prior year period, a 14.3 percent increase between periods.
Total United States portfolio RevPAR increased 5.3 percent in the second quarter of 2014, driven by a 4.9 percent increase in ADR and a 0.3 percentage point increase in occupancy compared to the second quarter of 2013. Total RevPAR increased 7.2 percent between periods with non-rooms revenue increasing by 9.4 percent between periods.

 

 
Transient occupied room nights in the Total United States portfolio increased 0.6 percent in the second quarter 2014 and group occupied room nights were flat compared to the second quarter of 2013. Transient ADR increased 5.5 percent compared to the second quarter of 2013 and group ADR increased 3.9 percent.

 

 
Total United States portfolio EBITDA margins expanded 170 basis points in the second quarter of 2014, compared to the second quarter of 2013.
Group room nights currently booked for 2014 are 7.2 percent higher compared to room nights booked for 2013 at the same time last year, with rates 3.2 percent higher, resulting in a 10.6 percent RevPAR increase.

 

 

Source:-Strategic Hotels

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