Pebblebrook Boosts EBITDA Outlook
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Pebblebrook Hotel Trust increased their 2024 EBITDA and AFFO outlook despite reducing their RevPAR outlook, anticipating a stronger 2025.
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In Thursday's coverage of Pebblebrook Hotel Trust's earnings report, we focused so much on their commentary about leisure and group travel that we left out that they increased their 2024 EBITDA and AFFO outlook despite reducing their RevPAR outlook. While PEB is cautious about the rest of 2024, they are looking at 2025 being stronger. It really is about rate in the second half of the year for the reduced RevPAR outlook, offset by strong out-of-room spending from increased occupancy and significant remerchandising efforts across their redeveloped portfolio.
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