Completes Additional Accretive Common and Preferred Stock Repurchases

ALISO VIEJO, Calif., May 5, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Sunstone Hotel Investors, Inc. (the "Company" or "Sunstone") (NYSE: SHO) today announced results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2026.

First Quarter 2026 Operational Results (as compared to First Quarter 2025):

• Net Income: Net income attributable to common stockholders was $16.0 million, or $0.08 per diluted share, as compared to $1.3 million, or $0.01 per diluted share.
• RevPAR: RevPAR for all hotels in the portfolio increased 14.6% to $255.04. The average daily rate was $344.19 and occupancy was 74.1%. RevPAR excluding Andaz Miami Beach increased 5.7%.
• Total RevPAR: Total RevPAR for all hotels in the portfolio increased 13.4% to $411.28. Total RevPAR excluding Andaz Miami Beach increased 5.3%.
• Adjusted EBITDAre: Adjusted EBITDAre increased 18.3% to $67.7 million.
• Adjusted FFO: Adjusted FFO attributable to common stockholders per diluted share increased 28.6% to $0.27.

Information regarding the non-GAAP financial measures disclosed in this release is provided below in "Non-GAAP Financial Measures." Reconciliations of non-GAAP financial measures to the most comparable GAAP measure for each of the periods presented are included later in this release.

Bryan A. Giglia, Chief Executive Officer, stated, "We are pleased with our performance in the first quarter which came in ahead of our expectations despite weather-related headwinds at several hotels throughout the quarter. While the strength was broad based, we were particularly encouraged by our resort portfolio, including solid first quarter performance at Andaz Miami Beach. Our first quarter results demonstrate the embedded growth potential of our portfolio as we benefit from our prior investments and some of our larger markets continue to normalize. We are revising our full year outlook higher to reflect the outperformance in the first quarter, and while trends in the initial months of 2026 give us reasons to be optimistic about the remainder of the year, we retain a level of caution given the uncertain backdrop."

Mr. Giglia continued, "We remain committed to addressing the valuation discount at which we trade and realizing the embedded value of our portfolio for our shareholders. While the transaction market has been quiet in recent years, we are beginning to see incremental activity, which may provide a more constructive backdrop in which to execute our capital recycling strategy. In the interim, we continue to deliver value through accretive buyback activity and have repurchased $49.2 million of common and preferred stock since the start of the year at attractive implied yields."

Unaudited Selected Statistical and Financial Data ($ in millions, except RevPAR, ADR and per share amounts).

Recent Developments

Stock Repurchase Program. During the first quarter of 2026, the Company repurchased an aggregate amount of $36.4 million, before expenses, of its common and preferred stock. From the start of this year through May 1, 2026, the Company has allocated a total of $49.2 million, before expenses, into repurchases of its common and preferred stock. The Company believes this repurchase activity has been completed at a discount and generated significant value for its stockholders. As of May 1, 2026, the Company has $458.3 million remaining under its existing stock repurchase program authorization.

• Common stock: During the first quarter of 2026, the Company repurchased 3,184,768 shares at an average purchase price per share of $9.13 for a total repurchase amount before expenses of $29.1 million. From the start of this year through May 1, 2026, the Company has repurchased 3,860,813 shares at an average purchase price per share of $9.11 for a total repurchase amount before expenses of $35.2 million. The average purchase price per share represents a substantial discount to consensus estimates of net asset value and implies a highly attractive valuation multiple on the Company's stabilized cash flow.
  
  
• Series H Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Stock: During the first quarter of 2026, the Company repurchased 242,762 shares at an average purchase price per share of $20.77 for a total repurchase amount before expenses of $5.0 million. From the start of this year through May 1, 2026, the Company has repurchased 345,493 shares at an average purchase price per share of $20.76 for a total repurchase amount before expenses of $7.2 million. The average repurchase price per share reflects a 17.0% discount to the preferred stock liquidation value.
  
  
• Series I Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Stock: During the first quarter of 2026, the Company repurchased 122,333 shares at an average purchase price per share of $18.58 for a total repurchase amount before expenses of $2.3 million. From the start of this year through May 1, 2026, the Company has repurchased 363,082 shares at an average purchase price per share of $18.96 for a total repurchase amount before expenses of $6.9 million. The average repurchase price per share reflects a 24.1% discount to the preferred stock liquidation value.

Balance Sheet and Liquidity Update

As of March 31, 2026, the Company had $166.7 million of cash and cash equivalents, including restricted cash of $75.5 million, total assets of $3.0 billion, including $2.8 billion of net investments in hotel properties, total debt of $955.0 million and stockholders' equity of $1.9 billion.

Capital Investments Update

The Company invested $31.0 million into its portfolio during the first quarter of 2026. The Company currently expects to invest approximately $95 million to $115 million into its portfolio in 2026, with a majority of the investment related to the completion of the meeting space at Hilton San Diego Bayfront, renovation work at Oceans Edge Resort & Marina, storm-related restoration work at Wailea Beach Resort, and various other projects across the remaining hotels in the portfolio.

2026 Outlook

The Company is updating its 2026 outlook based on Management's expectations and information available as of the date of this release. Geopolitical developments, changes in economic policies, changes in the health of the economy, or changes in business and consumer sentiment, among other factors, could lead to further revisions to the Company's outlook or cause the Company to withdraw its outlook altogether.

For the full year 2026, the Company now expects:

Full year 2026 guidance is based in part on the following full year assumptions:

• Full year interest and other income of approximately $3 million to $4 million.
• Full year corporate overhead expense (excluding deferred stock amortization) of approximately $20 million to $21 million.
• Full year interest expense of approximately $51 million to $54 million, including approximately $4 million in amortization of deferred financing costs and $2 million of noncash reduction to interest expense on derivatives. Excluding the noncash interest on derivatives, this range is unchanged from the Company's prior estimate.
• Full year preferred stock dividends of approximately $16 million to $17 million, which includes the Series G, H, and I cumulative redeemable preferred stock.

Dividend Update 

On May 4, 2026, the Company's Board of Directors authorized a cash dividend of $0.09 per share of its common stock. The Company's Board of Directors also authorized cash dividends of $0.812500 per share payable to its Series G cumulative redeemable preferred stockholder, $0.382813 per share payable to its Series H cumulative redeemable preferred stockholders, and $0.356250 per share payable to its Series I cumulative redeemable preferred stockholders. The common and preferred dividends will be paid on July 15, 2026 to stockholders of record as of June 30, 2026.

The Company currently expects to continue to pay a quarterly cash common dividend throughout 2026. The level of any future quarterly dividends will be determined by the Company's Board of Directors after considering long-term operating projections, expected capital requirements, and risks affecting the Company's business.

Supplemental Disclosures

Contemporaneous with this release, the Company has furnished a Form 8-K with unaudited financial information. This additional information is being provided as a supplement to the information in this release and other filings with the SEC. The Company has no obligation to update any of the information provided to conform to actual results or changes in the Company's portfolio, capital structure or future expectations.

Earnings Call

The Company will host a conference call to discuss first quarter results on May 5, 2026, at 11:00 a.m. Eastern Time (8:00 a.m. Pacific Time). A live webcast of the call will be available via the Investor Relations section of the Company's website at www.sunstonehotels.com. Alternatively, interested parties may dial 1-800-715-9871 and reference conference ID 1026321 to listen to the live call. A transcript of the webcast will also be archived on the website.

About Sunstone Hotel Investors, Inc.

Sunstone Hotel Investors, Inc. is a lodging real estate investment trust ("REIT") that as of the date of this release owns 14 hotels comprised of approximately 7,000 rooms, the majority of which are operated under nationally recognized brands. Sunstone's strategy is to create long-term stakeholder value through the acquisition, active ownership, and disposition of well-located hotel and resort real estate. For further information, please visit Sunstone's website at www.sunstonehotels.com. The Company's website is provided as a reference only and any information on the website is not incorporated by reference in this release.

Forward-Looking Statements

This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of federal securities laws and regulations. These forward-looking statements are identified by their use of terms and phrases such as "anticipate," "believe," "continue," "could," "estimate," "expect," "intend," "may," "plan," "predict," "project," "should," "will" and other similar terms and phrases, including opinions, references to assumptions and forecasts of future results. Forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause the actual results to differ materially from those anticipated at the time the forward-looking statements are made. These risks, uncertainties, and other factors include, but are not limited to, those described in the sections entitled "Special Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements," "Risk Factors," and "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations" in the Company's 2025 Annual Report on Form 10-K, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on February 27, 2026, and other risks and uncertainties associated with the Company's business described in its filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Although the Company believes the expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements are based upon reasonable assumptions, it can give no assurance that the expectations will be attained or that any deviation will not be material. All forward-looking information provided herein is as of the date of this release, and the Company undertakes no obligation to update any forward-looking statement to conform the statement to actual results or changes in the Company's expectations.

This release should be read together with the consolidated financial statements and notes thereto included in our most recent reports on Form 10-K and Form 10-Q. Copies of these reports are available on our website at www.sunstonehotels.com and through the SEC's Electronic Data Gathering Analysis and Retrieval System ("EDGAR") at www.sec.gov.

Non-GAAP Financial Measures

We present the following non-GAAP financial measures that we believe are useful to investors as key supplemental measures of our operating performance: earnings before interest expense, taxes, depreciation and amortization for real estate, or EBITDAre; Adjusted EBITDAre (as defined below); funds from operations attributable to common stockholders, or FFO attributable to common stockholders; Adjusted FFO attributable to common stockholders (as defined below); hotel Adjusted EBITDAre; and hotel Adjusted EBITDAre margins. These measures should not be considered in isolation or as a substitute for measures of performance in accordance with GAAP. In addition, our calculation of these measures may not be comparable to other companies that do not define such terms exactly the same as us. These non-GAAP measures are used in addition to and in conjunction with results presented in accordance with GAAP. They should not be considered as alternatives to net income (loss), cash flow from operations, or any other operating performance measure prescribed by GAAP. These non-GAAP financial measures reflect additional ways of viewing our operations that we believe, when viewed with our GAAP results and the reconciliations to the corresponding GAAP financial measures, provide a more complete understanding of factors and trends affecting our business than could be obtained absent this disclosure. We strongly encourage investors to review our financial information in its entirety and not to rely on a single financial measure.

We present EBITDAre in accordance with guidelines established by the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts ("Nareit"), as defined in its September 2017 white paper "Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation and Amortization for Real Estate." We believe EBITDAre is a useful performance measure to help investors evaluate and compare the results of our operations from period to period in comparison to our peers. Nareit defines EBITDAre as net income (calculated in accordance with GAAP) plus interest expense, income tax expense, depreciation and amortization, gains or losses on the disposition of depreciated property (including gains or losses on change in control), impairment write-downs of depreciated property and of investments in unconsolidated affiliates caused by a decrease in the value of depreciated property in the affiliate, and adjustments to reflect the entity's share of EBITDAre of unconsolidated affiliates.

We make additional adjustments to EBITDAre when evaluating our performance because we believe that the exclusion of certain additional items described below provides useful information to investors regarding our operating performance, and that the presentation of Adjusted EBITDAre, when combined with the primary GAAP presentation of net income, is beneficial to an investor's complete understanding of our operating performance. In addition, we use both EBITDAre and Adjusted EBITDAre as measures in determining the value of hotel acquisitions and dispositions.

We believe that the presentation of FFO attributable to common stockholders provides useful information to investors regarding our operating performance because it is a measure of our operations without regard to specified noncash items such as real estate depreciation and amortization, any real estate impairment loss and any gain or loss on sale of real estate assets, all of which are based on historical cost accounting and may be of lesser significance in evaluating our current performance. Our presentation of FFO attributable to common stockholders conforms to Nareit's definition of "FFO applicable to common shares." Our presentation may not be comparable to FFO reported by other REITs that do not define the terms in accordance with the current Nareit definition, or that interpret the current Nareit definition differently than we do.

We also present Adjusted FFO attributable to common stockholders when evaluating our operating performance because we believe that the exclusion of certain additional items described below provides useful supplemental information to investors regarding our ongoing operating performance and may facilitate comparisons of operating performance between periods and our peer companies.

We adjust EBITDAre and FFO attributable to common stockholders for the following items, which may occur in any period, and refer to these measures as either Adjusted EBITDAre or Adjusted FFO attributable to common stockholders:

• Amortization of deferred stock compensation: we exclude the noncash expense incurred with the amortization of deferred stock compensation as this expense is based on historical stock prices at the date of grant to our corporate employees and does not reflect the underlying performance of our hotels.
  
  
• Amortization of contract intangibles: we exclude the noncash amortization of any favorable or unfavorable contract intangibles recorded in conjunction with our hotel acquisitions. We exclude the noncash amortization of contract intangibles because it is based on historical cost accounting and is of lesser significance in evaluating our actual performance for the current period.
  
  
• Gains or losses from debt transactions: we exclude the effect of finance charges and premiums associated with the extinguishment of debt, including the acceleration of deferred financing costs from the original issuance of the debt being redeemed or retired because, like interest expense, their removal helps investors evaluate and compare the results of our operations from period to period by removing the impact of our capital structure.
  
  
• Cumulative effect of a change in accounting principle: from time to time, the FASB promulgates new accounting standards that require the consolidated statement of operations to reflect the cumulative effect of a change in accounting principle. We exclude these one-time adjustments, which include the accounting impact from prior periods, because they do not reflect our actual performance for that period.
  
  
• Other adjustments: we exclude other adjustments that we believe are outside the ordinary course of business because we do not believe these costs reflect our actual performance for the period and/or the ongoing operations of our hotels. Such items may include: lawsuit settlement costs; the write-off of development costs associated with abandoned projects; property-level restructuring, severance, and management transition costs; pre-opening costs associated with extensive renovation projects; debt resolution costs; lease terminations; property insurance restoration proceeds or uninsured losses; and other nonrecurring identified adjustments.

In addition, to derive Adjusted EBITDAre, we exclude the amortization of our right-of-use assets and related lease obligations as these expenses are based on historical cost accounting and do not reflect the actual rent amounts due to the respective lessors or the underlying performance of our hotels. We also exclude the effect of gains and losses on the disposition of undepreciated assets because we believe that including them in Adjusted EBITDAre is not consistent with reflecting the ongoing performance of our assets.

To derive Adjusted FFO attributable to common stockholders, we also exclude the noncash interest on our derivatives as we believe that these items are not reflective of our ongoing finance costs. Additionally, we exclude the real estate amortization of our right-of-use assets and related lease obligations (with the exception of our corporate operating lease) as these expenses are based on historical cost accounting and do not reflect the actual rent amounts due to the respective lessors or the underlying performance of our hotels. We also exclude gains or losses on the redemptions or repurchases of preferred stock, changes to deferred tax assets, liabilities or valuation allowances, and income tax benefits or provisions associated with the application of net operating loss carryforwards, uncertain tax positions or with the sale of assets.

In presenting hotel Adjusted EBITDAre and hotel Adjusted EBITDAre margins, miscellaneous non-hotel items have been excluded. We believe the calculation of hotel Adjusted EBITDAre results in a more accurate presentation of the hotel Adjusted EBITDAre margins for our hotels, and that these non-GAAP financial measures are useful to investors in evaluating our property-level operating performance.

Reconciliations of net income to EBITDAre, Adjusted EBITDAre, FFO attributable to common stockholders, Adjusted FFO attributable to common stockholders, hotel Adjusted EBITDAre and hotel Adjusted EBITDAre margins are set forth in the following pages of this release.

For Additional Information:
Aaron Reyes
Sunstone Hotel Investors, Inc.
(949) 382-3018

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