DiamondRock Hospitality Co (DRH)

Item 2.Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations

This report contains certain forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”). The Company intends such forward-looking statements to be covered by the safe harbor provisions for forward-looking statements contained in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and includes this statement for purposes of complying with these safe harbor provisions. These forward-looking statements are generally identifiable by use of the words “will,” “believe,” “expect,” “intend,” “anticipate,” “estimate,” “project” or similar expressions, whether in the negative or affirmative. Forward-looking statements are based on management’s current expectations and assumptions and are not guarantees of future performance. Factors that may cause actual results to differ materially from current expectations include, but are not limited to, the risks discussed herein and the risk factors discussed from time to time in our periodic filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including in Part I, Item 1A “Risk Factors” of our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2025 as updated by our subsequent Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and Current Reports on Form 8-K. Accordingly, there is no assurance that the Company’s expectations will be realized. Except as otherwise required by the federal securities laws, the Company disclaims any obligations or undertaking to publicly release any updates or revisions to any forward-looking statement contained in this report to reflect events, circumstances or changes in expectations after the date of this report.

Some of the risks and uncertainties that may cause our actual results, performance or achievements to differ materially from those expressed or implied by forward-looking statements include, among others, the following:

•negative developments in the economy, including, but not limited to elevated interest rates and costs due to recent inflation, job loss or growth trends, an increase in unemployment, other macroeconomic effects due to global instability or conflict or a decrease in corporate earnings and investment;

•increased competition in the lodging industry and from alternative lodging channels or third party internet intermediaries in the markets in which we own properties;

•failure to effectively execute our long-term business strategy and successfully identify and complete acquisitions and dispositions;

•risks and uncertainties affecting hotel management, operations and renovations (including, without limitation, elevated inflation, construction delays, increased construction costs, disruption in hotel operations and the risks associated with our management and franchise agreements);

•risks associated with the availability and terms of financing and the use of debt to fund acquisitions and renovations or refinance existing indebtedness, including the impact of higher interest rates on the cost and/or availability of financing;

•risks associated with our level of indebtedness and our ability to satisfy our obligations under our debt agreements;

•risks associated with the lodging industry overall, including, without limitation, decreases in the frequency of travel and increases in operating costs;

•risks and uncertainties associated with our obligations under our management agreements;

•risks associated with natural disasters and other unforeseen catastrophic events;

•the adverse impact of any future pandemic, epidemic or outbreak of any highly infectious disease on the U.S., regional and global economies, travel, the hospitality industry, and on our financial condition and results of operations and our hotels;

•costs of compliance with government regulations, including, without limitation, the Americans with Disabilities Act;

•potential liability for uninsured losses and environmental contamination;

•risks associated with security breaches through cyber-attacks or otherwise, as well as other significant disruptions of our and our hotel managers’ information technologies and systems, which support our operations and those of our hotel managers;

•risks associated with our potential failure to maintain our qualification as a real estate investment trust (“REIT”) under the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”);

•possible adverse changes in tax and environmental laws; and

•risks associated with our dependence on key personnel whose continued service is not guaranteed.

Overview

DiamondRock Hospitality Company is a self-managed and self-administered lodging-focused REIT that owns a portfolio of premium hotels and resorts. As of June 30, 2026, we owned a portfolio of 34 premium hotels and resorts that contain 9,400 guest rooms located in 26 different markets in the United States. The markets that we target for ownership are those that we believe align with our strategic objectives, which include those in destination markets with constrained supply trends, those that provide geographic diversity relative to our existing portfolio, and those we consider to have high demand growth potential.

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Each hotel is positioned to maximize its cash flow and value; accordingly, we choose to operate nearly 40% of our portfolio as independent hotels, with the remainder operating under a brand owned by one of the leading global lodging brand companies.

Our primary business is to acquire, own, renovate and asset manage premium hotel properties in the United States. All of our hotels are managed by a third party, either an independent operator or a brand operator, such as Marriott. We are an owner, as opposed to an operator, of the hotels in our portfolio. As an owner, we receive all operating profits or losses generated by our hotels after we pay fees to the hotel managers, which are based on the revenues and profitability of the hotels, and the hotel brands, in the case of franchised hotels, which are based on the revenues of the hotels.

Our strategy is to apply aggressive asset management, prudent financial strategy, and disciplined capital allocation to high quality lodging properties in U.S. urban and resort markets with superior growth prospects and high barriers-to-entry. Our goal is to drive long-term stockholder returns that exceed those generated by our peers by growing free cash flow per share through disciplined capital allocation, including reinvestment in our portfolio and capital recycling, while returning capital through share repurchases and dividends.

We critically evaluate each of our hotels to ensure that we own a portfolio of hotels that conforms to our vision, supports our mission and corresponds with our strategy. On a regular basis, we analyze our portfolio to identify opportunities to invest capital in certain projects or market non-core assets for sale to increase our portfolio quality. We are committed to a conservative capital structure with prudent leverage. We regularly assess the availability and affordability of capital in order to maximize stockholder value and minimize enterprise risk. In addition, we are committed to following sound corporate governance practices and to being open and transparent in our communications with our stockholders.

Our Revenues and Expenses

Our revenue is primarily derived from hotel operations, including but not limited to, rooms revenue, food and beverage revenue and other operating revenue, which consists of parking, spa, resort fees, other guest services, and tenant leases.

Our operating costs and expenses consist of the costs to provide hotel services, including rooms expense, food and beverage expense, other departmental and support expenses, management and franchise fees, and other property-level expenses. Rooms expense includes housekeeping and front office wages and payroll taxes, room supplies, laundry services and other costs. Food and beverage expense includes the cost of food, beverages, and associated labor costs. Other departmental and support expenses include labor and other costs associated with the other operating department revenue, as well as labor and other costs associated with administrative departments, sales and marketing, information technology systems, repairs and maintenance and utility costs. Our hotels that are subject to franchise agreements are charged a royalty fee, plus additional fees for marketing, central reservation systems and other franchisor costs, in order for the hotel properties to operate under the respective brands. Franchise fees are based on a percentage of room revenue, and for certain hotels, additional franchise fees are charged for food and beverage revenue. We enter into management agreements with independent third-party management companies to operate our hotels. The management companies typically earn base and incentive management fees based on the levels of revenues and profitability of each individual hotel. Other property-level expenses include property taxes, insurance, ground lease expense, and other fixed costs.

Key Indicators of Financial Condition and Operating Performance

We use a variety of operating and other information to evaluate the financial condition and operating performance of our business. These key indicators include financial information that is prepared in accordance with U.S. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (“U.S. GAAP”), as well as other financial information that is not prepared in accordance with U.S. GAAP. In addition, we use other information that may not be financial in nature, including statistical information and comparative data. We use this information to measure the performance of individual hotels, groups of hotels and/or our business as a whole. We periodically compare historical information to our internal budgets as well as industry-wide information. These key indicators include:

•Occupancy percentage;

•Average Daily Rate (“ADR”);

•Rooms Revenue per Available Room (“RevPAR”);

•Total Revenue per Available Room (“Total RevPAR”);

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•Earnings Before Interest, Income Taxes, Depreciation and Amortization (“EBITDA”), Earnings Before Interest, Income Taxes, Depreciation and Amortization for real estate (“EBITDAre”), Adjusted EBITDA, and Hotel Adjusted EBITDA; and

•Funds From Operations (“FFO”) and Adjusted FFO.

Occupancy, ADR, RevPAR, and Total RevPAR are commonly used measures within the hotel industry to evaluate operating performance. RevPAR, which is calculated as the product of ADR and occupancy percentage, and Total RevPAR, which is calculated as total revenues divided by room nights available, are important statistics for monitoring operating performance at the individual hotel level and across our portfolio. We evaluate individual hotel RevPAR and Total RevPAR performance on an absolute basis with comparisons to budget and prior periods, as well as on a company-wide and regional basis. Room revenue comprised approximately 64% of our total revenues for the six months ended June 30, 2026 and is dictated by demand, as measured by occupancy percentage, pricing, as measured by ADR, and our available supply of hotel rooms.

Our ADR, occupancy percentage, RevPAR, and Total RevPAR performance may be impacted by macroeconomic factors such as U.S. economic conditions generally, inflation, interest rates, tariffs, regional and local employment growth, personal income and corporate earnings, office vacancy rates and business relocation decisions, airport and other business and leisure travel, increased use of lodging alternatives, new hotel construction and the pricing strategies of our competitors. In addition, our ADR, occupancy percentage, RevPAR, and Total RevPAR performance is dependent on the continued success of our hotels' global brands and our hotel oper

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Item 7. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations

The following discussion should be read in conjunction with the consolidated financial statements and related notes thereto included elsewhere in this report. This discussion contains forward-looking statements about our business. These statements are based on current expectations and assumptions that are subject to risks and uncertainties. Actual results could differ materially because of factors discussed in "Special Note About Forward-Looking Statements" and "Risk Factors" contained in this Annual Report on Form 10-K and in our other reports that we file from time to time with the SEC.

Overview

DiamondRock Hospitality Company (the “Company”, “we”, or "our") is a self-managed and self-administered lodging-focused real estate investment trust ("REIT") that owns a portfolio of premium hotels and resorts. As of December 31, 2025, we owned 35 hotels with 9,595 rooms located in 26 markets in the United States. The markets that we target for ownership are those that we believe align with our strategic objectives, which include those in destination markets with constrained supply trends, those that provide geographic diversity relative to our existing portfolio, and those we consider to have high demand growth potential. We are an owner, as opposed to an operator, of the hotels in our portfolio. As an owner, we receive all operating profits or losses generated by our hotels after we pay fees to the hotel managers, which are based on the revenues and profitability of the hotels, and the hotel brands, in certain cases, which are based on the revenues of the hotels. Each hotel is positioned to maximize its cash flow and value; accordingly, we choose to operate nearly 40% of our portfolio as an independent hotel and the remainder are operated under a brand owned by one of the leading global lodging brand companies (Marriott International, Hilton Worldwide, or IHG Hotels & Resorts).

We are a REIT for U.S. federal income tax purposes. We conduct our business through a traditional umbrella partnership REIT, or UPREIT, in which our hotel properties are owned by our operating partnership, DiamondRock Hospitality Limited Partnership, or subsidiaries of our operating partnership. The Company is the sole general partner of our operating partnership and owns 99.5% of the limited partnership units (“common OP units”) of our operating partnership as of December 31, 2025. The remaining 0.5% of the common OP units are held by third parties and current and former executive officers of the Company. See Note 9 for additional disclosures related to common OP units.

Key Indicators of Financial Condition and Operating Performance

We use a variety of operating and other information to evaluate the financial condition and operating performance of our business. These key indicators include financial information that is prepared in accordance with U.S. Generally Accepted

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Accounting Principles (“U.S. GAAP”), as well as other financial information that is not prepared in accordance with U.S. GAAP. In addition, we use other information that may not be financial in nature, including statistical information and comparative data. We use this information to measure the performance of individual hotels, groups of hotels and/or our business as a whole. We periodically compare historical information to our internal budgets as well as industry-wide information. These key indicators include:

•Occupancy percentage;

•Average Daily Rate (“ADR”);

•Rooms Revenue per Available Room (“RevPAR”);

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•Total Revenue per Available Room (“Total RevPAR”);

•Earnings Before Interest, Income Taxes, Depreciation and Amortization (“EBITDA”), Earnings Before Interest, Income Taxes, Depreciation and Amortization for real estate (“EBITDAre”), Adjusted EBITDA, and Hotel Adjusted EBITDA; and

•Funds From Operations (“FFO”) and Adjusted FFO.

Occupancy, ADR, RevPAR, and Total RevPAR are commonly used measures within the hotel industry to evaluate operating performance. RevPAR, which is calculated as the product of ADR and occupancy percentage, and Total RevPAR, which is calculated as total revenues divided by room nights available, are important statistics for monitoring operating performance at the individual hotel level and across our portfolio. We evaluate individual hotel RevPAR and Total RevPAR performance on an absolute basis with comparisons to budget and prior periods, as well as on a company-wide and regional basis. Room revenue comprised approximately 65% of our total revenues for the year ended December 31, 2025 and is dictated by demand, as measured by occupancy percentage, pricing, as measured by ADR, and our available supply of hotel rooms.

Our ADR, occupancy percentage, RevPAR, and Total RevPAR performance may be impacted by macroeconomic factors such as U.S. economic conditions generally, inflation, interest rates, tariffs, regional and local employment growth, personal income and corporate earnings, office vacancy rates and business relocation decisions, airport and other business and leisure travel, increased use of lodging alternatives, new hotel construction and the pricing strategies of our competitors. In addition, our ADR, occupancy percentage, RevPAR, and Total RevPAR performance is dependent on the continued success of our hotels' global brands and our hotel operators.

We also use EBITDA, EBITDAre, Adjusted EBITDA, Hotel Adjusted EBITDA, FFO and Adjusted FFO as measures of the financial performance of our business. See “Non-GAAP Financial Measures” for further discussion on these financial measures.

Our Hotels

The following table sets forth certain operating information for the year ended December 31, 2025 for each of the hotels we owned during 2025.

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(1)The percentage change from 2024 RevPAR reflects the comparable period in 2024 to our 2025 ownership period from January 1, 2025 until the hotel was sold on February 19, 2025.

(2)The hotel was acquired on November 12, 2024. The percentage change from 2024 RevPAR reflects the comparable period in 2024 to our 2025 ownership period.

(3)During the fourth quarter 2025, Orchards Inn Sedona and L'Auberge de Sedona were combined and operate as one hotel. Amounts presented have been adjusted to reflect the combination.

Outlook for 2026

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