Summit Hotel Properties, Inc. (INN)

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

Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations should be read in conjunction with our audited Consolidated Financial Statements and Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations in our Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2025, and our unaudited Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements included in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q.

Unless stated otherwise or the context otherwise requires, references in this report to “we,” “our,” “us,” “our company” or “the company” mean Summit Hotel Properties, Inc. and its consolidated subsidiaries.

Cautionary Statement about Forward-Looking Statements

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”). We intend 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 include this statement for purposes of complying with these safe harbor provisions. Forward-looking statements, which are based on certain assumptions and describe our future plans, strategies and expectations, are generally identifiable by use of the words “may,” “could,” “expect,” “intend,” “plan,” “seek,” “anticipate,” “believe,” “estimate,” “predict,” “forecast,” “project,” “potential,” “continue,” “likely,” “will,” “would” or similar expressions. Forward-looking statements in this report include, among others, statements about our business strategy, including acquisition and development strategies, industry trends, estimated revenues and expenses, ability to realize deferred tax assets and expected liquidity needs and sources (including capital expenditures and the ability to obtain financing or raise capital). You should not rely on forward-looking statements since they involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that are, in some cases, beyond our control and which could materially affect actual results, performance or achievements. Factors that may cause actual results to differ materially from current expectations include, but are not limited to:

•global, national, regional and local economic and geopolitical conditions and events, including wars or potential hostilities, such as future terrorist attacks, that may negatively affect business transient, group, international and other travel or consumer behavior;

•changes in federal or state regulations or policies, such as the effect of significantly increased tariffs or retaliatory responses to increased tariffs, that could affect the labor market or our business;

•the effect of government shutdowns;

•macroeconomic conditions related to, and our ability to manage, inflationary pressures for commodities, labor and other costs of our business;

•consumer purchasing power and overall behavior, or a potential recessionary environment, which could adversely affect our costs, liquidity, consumer confidence, and demand for travel and lodging;

•levels of spending for business and leisure travel;

•adverse changes in occupancy, average daily rate (“ADR”) and revenue per available room (“RevPAR”) and other lodging property operating metrics;

•potential changes in operations, including as a result of new regulations or changes in brand standards;

•financing risks, including the risk of leverage and the corresponding risk of default on our existing indebtedness and potential inability to refinance or extend the maturities of our existing indebtedness;

•effects of infectious disease outbreaks or pandemics;

•default by borrowers to which we lend or provide seller financing;

•supply and demand factors in our markets or sub-markets;

•the effect of alternative accommodations on our business;

•financial condition of, and our relationships with, third-party property managers and franchisors;

•the degree and nature of our competition;

•increased interest rates or continued high rates of interest;

•increased renovation costs, which may cause actual renovation costs to exceed our current estimates;

•supply-chain disruption, which may reduce access to operating supplies or construction materials and increase related costs;

•changes in zoning laws;

•significant increases in real property taxes;

•significant increases in insurance costs or availability, including losses in excess of estimates for self-insured risks;

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•risks associated with lodging property acquisitions, including the ability to ramp up and stabilize newly-acquired lodging properties with limited or no operating history or that require substantial amounts of capital improvements for us to earn economic returns consistent with our expectations at the time of acquisition;

•risks associated with dispositions of lodging properties, including our ability to successfully complete the sale of lodging properties under contract to be sold, including the risk that the purchaser may not have access to the capital needed to complete the purchase;

•the nature of our structure and transactions such that our federal and state taxes are complex and there is risk of successful challenges to our tax positions by the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) or other federal and state taxing authorities;

•availability of and the abilities of our property managers and us to retain qualified personnel at our lodging property and corporate offices;

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

•changes in our business or investment strategy;

•availability, terms and deployment of capital;

•general volatility of the capital markets and the market price of our common stock;

•environmental uncertainties and risks, including related to natural disasters;

•our ability to recover fully under third-party indemnities or our existing insurance policies for insurable losses and our ability to maintain adequate or full replacement cost “all-risk” property insurance policies on our properties on commercially reasonable terms;

•a data breach or significant disruption of our information technology systems and networks, or those of our brand or third-party property manager partners, due to cybersecurity incidents may result in losses that are greater than insurance coverages or indemnities from service providers. Cybersecurity incidents could also result in, among other things, a loss of business due to a decline in consumer confidence;

•our ability to manage rapidly advancing artificial intelligence technology related to our business;

•our ability to effectively manage our joint ventures with our joint venture partners;

•current and future changes to the IRC;

•our ability to continue to maintain an effective corporate responsibility program;

•our ability to successfully implement our share repurchase program or implement future share repurchase programs;

•the other factors discussed under the heading “Risk Factors” included in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2025.

Accordingly, there is no assurance that our expectations will be realized. Except as otherwise required by the federal securities laws, we disclaim any obligation or undertaking to publicly release any updates or revisions to any forward-looking statement contained herein (or elsewhere) to reflect any change in our expectations with regard thereto or any change in events, conditions or circumstances on which any such statement is based.

Overview

Summit Hotel Properties, Inc. is a self-managed lodging property investment company that was organized in June 2010 and completed its initial public offering in February 2011. We focus on owning lodging properties with efficient operating models that generate strong margins and investment returns. Our lodging properties are typically located in markets with multiple demand generators such as corporate offices and headquarters, retail centers, airports, state capitols, convention centers, and leisure attractions. Substantially all of our assets are held by, and all of our operations are conducted through, our operating partnership, Summit Hotel OP, LP (the “Operating Partnership”). Through a wholly-owned subsidiary, we are the sole general partner of the Operating Partnership. At June 30, 2026, we owned, directly and indirectly, approximately 89% of the Operating Partnership’s issued and outstanding common units of limited partnership interest (“Common Units”), and all of the Operating Partnership’s issued and outstanding 6.25% Series E and 5.875% Series F preferred units of limited partnership interest. NewcrestImage Holdings, LLC and NewcrestImage Holdings II, LLC own all of the issued and outstanding 5.25% Series Z Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Units of the Operating Partnership (“Series Z Preferred Units”), which were issued as part of the NCI Transaction (as defined in “Note 5 - Debt” to the accompanying Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements). We collectively refer to preferred units of limited partnership interests of our Operating Partnership as “Preferred Units.”

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At June 30, 2026, our portfolio consisted of 94 lodging properties with a total of 14,226 guestrooms located in 24 states of the United States of America. We own our lodging properties in fee simple, except for six lodging properties which are subject to ground leases or subleases. As of June 30, 2026, we own 100% of the outstanding equity interests in 52 of the 94 lodging properties. We own a 51% controlling interest in 39 lodging properties through a joint venture that was formed in July 2019 with USFI G-Peak, Ltd. (“GIC”), a private limited company incorporated in the Republic of Singapore (the “GIC Joint Venture”). We also own 90% equity interests in two separate joint ventures (the “Brickell Joint Venture” and the “Onera Joint Venture”). The Brickell Joint Venture owns two lodging properties, and the Onera Joint Venture owns one lodging property.

Our hotel properties primarily operate under premium franchise brands owned by Marriott® International, Inc. (“Marriott”), Hilton® Worldwide (“Hilton”), Hyatt® Hotels Corporation (“Hyatt”) and InterContinental® Hotels Group (“IHG”). We also own two independent lodging properties.

We have elected to be taxed as a REIT for federal income tax purposes commencing with our short taxable year ended December 31, 2011. To qualify as a REIT, we cannot operate or manage our lodging properties. Accordingly, all of our lodging properties are leased to our taxable REIT subsidiaries (“TRS Lessees” or “TRSs”). All of our lodging properties are operated pursuant to lodging property management agreements between our TRS Lessees and professional, third-party lodging property management companies that are not affiliated with us as follows:

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

Industry Trends and Outlook

Room-night demand in the U.S. lodging industry is generally correlated to certain macroeconomic trends. Key drivers of demand, and therefore lodging revenues, include changes in gross domestic product, corporate profits, capital investments, employment, government policy, inbound international travel, and consumer and corporate sentiment. From a cost perspective, elevated inflation increased the cost of salaries, wages, supplies, material, freight, insurance, and energy in recent years. A portion of these costs were partially offset by increases in average guestroom rates for lodging properties. Expense growth has moderated to a pace consistent with historical long-term inflation rates; however, certain costs remain above historical levels and could be further affected by changes in tariff policies and agreements.

During 2025, we experienced a modest same-store revenue decline resulting primarily from a reduction in government-related and inbound international travel. Ongoing macroeconomic uncertainty has had a negative effect on consumer and corporate sentiment and spending, and resulted in modest near-term pricing pressure in certain lodging demand segments. This uncertainty has been driven by various factors, including the current political environment, recent policy changes, such as tariff policies, and ongoing concerns related to inflationary pressures. The medium- and long-term outlook for the industry remain favorable as forecasted room night demand growth and increases in average daily rate, coupled with minimal supply growth, are expected to drive industry RevPAR growth over the next several years.

Operating Performance Metrics

We use a variety of performance indicators 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 GAAP, as well as other financial information that is not prepared in accordance with 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 lodging properties, groups of lodging properties 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:

•Hotel EBITDA — Hotel EBITDA is a measure of the operating performance of our lodging properties after excluding the effects of financing decisions, tax systems, and non-cash expenses such as depreciation and amortization.

•Hotel Gross Operating Profit — Hotel Gross Operating Profit (“GOP”) is a measure of the profitability of our lodging properties from core operations and represents Hotel EBITDA exclusive of property taxes, insurance, and management fees.

•Occupancy — Occupancy represents the total number of guestrooms occupied divided by the total number of guestrooms available.

•Average Daily Rate — ADR represents total room revenues divided by the total number of paid occupied guestrooms.

•Revenue Per Available Room — RevPAR is the product of ADR and Occupancy.

Occupancy, ADR and RevPAR are commonly used measures within the lodging industry to evaluate operating performance. RevPAR is an important metric for monitoring operating performance at the individual lodging property level and across our business as a whole. We evaluate individual lodging property RevPAR performance on an absolute basis with comparisons to budget and prior periods, as well as on a company-wide and market-by-market basis. ADR and RevPAR are based only on room revenue. Room revenue depends on demand (as measured by occupancy), pricing (as measured by ADR), and our available supply of lodging property guestrooms. Our ADR, occupancy and RevPAR performance may be affected by macroeconomic factors such as regional and local employment growth, personal income and corporate earnings, office vacancy rates and business relocation decisions, air travel and other business and leisure travel, new lodging property construction, and the pricing strategies of competitors. In addition, our ADR, occupancy and RevPAR performance is dependent on the continued success of our partners, franchisors and brands.

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Lodging Property Portfolio Activity

We continually evaluate alternatives to refine our portfolio to drive growth and create value. In the normal course of business, we evaluate opportunities to acquire additional properties that meet our investment criteria and opportunities to recycle capital through the disposition of properties. As such, the composition and size of our portfolio of properties may change materially over time. Significant changes to our portfolio of properties could have a material effect on our Consolidated Financial Statements.

During the fourth quarter of 2023, the GIC Joint Venture entered into a purchase and sale agreement with a third-party to sell the 127-guestroom Hyatt Place Dallas (Plano), TX for $10.3 million. We reclassified the property in Assets held for sale, net at December 31, 2023 and recorded a write-down of $4.0 million in the fourth quarter of 2023 for the excess of the net carrying amount of the portfolio of properties over the net selling price less estimated costs to sell. We completed the sale of the property in February 2024 under the terms described above.

In April 2024, we completed the sale of the 202-guestroom Courtyard by Marriott and the 208-guestroom SpringHill Suites by Marriott, both located in New Orleans, LA, for an aggregate selling price of $73.0 million, which resulted in a gain of approximately $28.3 million.

In April 2024, the GIC Joint Venture completed the sale of the 119-guestroom Hilton Garden Inn - Bryan (College Station), TX for $11.0 million. The net selling price of the lodging property approximated its net book value on the closing date.

In October 2024, we completed the sale of the 101-guestroom Four Points by Marriott San Francisco Airport for $17.7 million, which resulted in a gain of approximately $0.4 million.

In December 2024, the GIC Joint Venture acquired the Hampton Inn located in Revere (Boston), MA and the Hilton Garden Inn located in Tysons Corner (Vienna), VA with an aggregate total of 399 guestrooms for a combined purchase price of $96.0 million. The purchase price (including approximately $0.3 million of acquisition costs) was funded through a combination of a $2.9 million escrow deposit, capital contributions from our GIC Joint Venture partner totaling $21.5 million, $49.5 million of borrowings on our expanded GIC Joint Venture Credit Facility (See “Part II – Item 8. – Financial Statements and Supplementary Data – Note 6 - Debt”), and our capital contribution of $22.4 million from proceeds from the sale of the Four Points by Marriott San Francisco Airport and cash on hand.

In February 2025, we closed on the sale of a 5.99-acre parcel of undeveloped land in San Antonio, TX for a selling price of $1.3 million, which approximated its carrying amount.

In October 2025, the GIC Joint Venture completed the sale of the 107-guestroom Courtyard by Marriott, Amarillo, Texas for a selling price of $20.0 million, which resulted in a gain of approximately $4.2 million.

In October 2025, we completed the sale of the 123-guestroom Courtyard by Marriott in Kansas City, MO for a selling price of $19 million, which resulted in a gain of approximately $2.5 million.

In November 2025, the GIC Joint Venture entered into a purchase and sale agreement to sell the 122-guestroom Hilton Garden Inn, Longview, TX for a selling price of $12.3 million. We reclassified the carrying value of the property to Assets held for sale, net at December 31, 2025 and recorded a write-down of $1.8 million in the fourth quarter of 2025 for the excess of the net carrying amount of the lodging property over the net selling price less estimated costs to sell. We completed the sale of the property on February 20, 2026 under the terms described above.

See “Part II – Item 8. – Financial Statements and Supplementary Data –Note 3 - Investments in Lodging Property, net” to the Consolidated Financial Statements for additional information concerning our asset acquisitions, development, and dispositions.

Revenues and Operating Expenses

Our revenues are derived from lodging operations and consist of room revenue, food and beverage revenue and other revenue. As a result of our focus on lodging properties with efficient operating models, substantially all of our revenues are related to the sales of guestrooms. Our other revenue consists of ancillary revenues related to meeting rooms, parking and other guest services provided at certain of our properties.

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Our property operating expenses consist primarily of expenses incurred in the day-to-day operation of our lodging properties. Many of our expenses are fixed, such as essential lodging property staff, real estate taxes, insurance, and depreciation. These expenses generally do not decrease even if the revenues at our lodging properties decrease. Room expense includes housekeeping and front office wages and payroll taxes, room supplies, laundry services and other costs. Food and beverage expense primarily includes the cost of food, the cost of beverages and associated labor costs. Other operating expenses include labor and other costs associated with administrative departments, sales and marketing, repair and maintenance, utility costs and franchise fees.

Results of Operations

The comparisons that follow should be reviewed in conjunction with the Consolidated Financial Statements included elsewhere in this Annual Report on Form 10-K.

Comparison of 2025 to 2024

The following table contains key operating metrics for our total portfolio and our same-store portfolio for the year ended December 31, 2025 compared with the year ended December 31, 2024 (dollar amounts in thousands, except ADR and RevPAR). Our same-store portfolio consists of properties that we owned as of December 31, 2025 and that we have owned at all times since January 1, 2024.

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