Hello, and thank you for standing by. My name is Regina, and I will be your conference operator today. At this time, I'd like to welcome everyone to the Braemar Hotels & Resorts, Inc. Third Quarter 2025 Results Conference Call. [Operator Instructions]. I'd now like to turn the conference over to Allison Beach, Director of Public Relations. Please go ahead.

Good morning, and welcome to today's call to review results for Braemar Hotels & Resorts for the third quarter of 2025 and to update you on recent developments. On the call today will be Richard Stockton, President and Chief Executive Officer; Deric Eubanks, Chief Financial Officer; and Chris Nixon, Executive Vice President and Head of Asset Management. The results as well as notice of accessibility of this conference call on a listen-only basis over the Internet were distributed yesterday in a press release. At this time, let me remind you that certain statements and assumptions in this conference call contain or are based upon forward-looking information and are being made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the federal securities regulations. Such forward-looking statements are subject to numerous assumptions, uncertainties and known or unknown risks, which could cause actual results to differ materially from those anticipated. These factors are more fully discussed in the company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The forward-looking statements included in this conference call are only made as of the date of this call, and the company is not obligated to publicly update or revise them. Statements made during this call do not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy any securities. Securities will be offered only by means of a registration statement and prospectus, which can be found at www.sec.gov. In addition, certain terms used in this call are non-GAAP financial measures, reconciliations of which are provided in the company's earnings release and accompanying tables or schedules, which have been filed on the Form 8-K with the SEC on November 4, 2025, and may also be accessed through the company's website at www.bhrreit.com. Each listener is encouraged to review these reconciliations provided in the earnings release, together with all the other information provided in the release. Also, unless otherwise stated, all reported results discussed in this call compare the third quarter ended September 30, 2025 and with the third quarter ended September 30, 2024. I will now turn the call over to Richard Stockton. Please go ahead, Richard.

Good morning. Welcome to our third quarter earnings conference call. Before I begin, I'd like to remind you that back in August, we announced the initiation of a sale process for Braemar. The company has engaged Robert W. Baird & Co as its financial adviser and the sale process has been initiated. On today's call, we will not be providing any update on that process or be able to address any questions about that process. As we highlighted in the press release, there's no deadline or definitive timetable set for completion of the sale process and there can be no assurance that this process will result in the sale of the company. Additionally, we do not expect to disclose or provide any update concerning developments related to this process unless until the Board of Directors has approved a specific transaction or other course of action requiring disclosure. With that said, let me begin today's call by providing an overview of our recent results and our strategic priorities for the remainder of 2025, then Deric will provide a review of our financial results and Chris will provide an update on our asset management activity. Afterwards, we will open the call for Q&A. We have a few key themes for today's call. First, I'm excited to report that our portfolio achieved 1.4% growth in comparable RevPAR in the third quarter and total comparable hotel EBITDA growth of 15.1%. Importantly, our resorts continue to show strong growth with comparable RevPAR growth of 5.5% for the quarter. Second, we have significant renovations in process at 3 hotels, which significantly impacted our portfolio results. If you exclude hotels under renovation during the quarter, our RevPAR growth was 3.4%. Third, from a liquidity perspective, we remain very well positioned having addressed our final 2025 debt maturity…

Thanks, Richard. It's important to remember that the third quarter is the weakest quarter for our portfolio from a seasonality perspective. For the quarter, we reported a net loss attributable to common stockholders of $8.2 million or $0.12 per diluted share and AFFO per diluted share of negative $0.19. Adjusted EBITDA for the quarter was $16.4 million. At quarter end, we had total assets of $2 billion. We had $1.2 billion of loans, of which $27.7 million related to our joint venture partner's share of the loan on the Capital Hilton. Our total combined loans at a blended average interest rate of 6.9%, taking into account in the money interest rate caps. Based on the current level of SOFR and our corresponding interest rate caps, approximately 13% of our debt is effectively fixed and approximately 87% is effectively floating. As of the end of the third quarter, we had approximately 43.2% net debt to gross assets. We ended the quarter with cash and cash equivalents of $116.3 million plus restricted cash of $47.7 million. The vast majority of that restricted cash is comprised of lender and manager held reserve accounts. At the end of the quarter, we also had $23.1 million in due from third-party hotel managers. This primarily represents cash held by one of our brand managers, which is also available to fund hotel operating costs. With regard to dividends, we again announced a quarterly common stock dividend of $0.05 per share or $0.20 per diluted share on an annualized basis. This equates to an annual yield of approximately 8% based on yesterday's stock price. As of September 30, 2025, our portfolio consisted of 14 hotels with 3,298 net rooms. Our share count currently stands at 73.6 million fully diluted shares outstanding, which is comprised of 68.2 million shares of common stock and 5.4 million OP units. This concludes our financial review. I'd now like to turn it over to Chris to discuss our asset management activities for the quarter.

Thank you, Deric. Despite temporary headwinds from ongoing renovations at several properties, our portfolio continued to demonstrate resilience during the third quarter. Comparable hotel RevPAR increased 1.4% and driven by a 4.7% improvement in ADR compared to the same period last year. During the third quarter, our portfolio GOP margin expanded by 160 basis points compared to the prior year period. During the third quarter, our resort properties were a key driver of performance, delivering a 5.5% increase in comparable RevPAR and a 57.7% increase in comparable hotel EBITDA. The Four Seasons Resort in Scottsdale was a standout with third quarter RevPAR up 24.9% and GOP growing 231.6% compared to the prior year period. The portfolio delivered strong third quarter results despite temporary disruption from ongoing renovations at Cameo Beverly Hills, Park Hyatt Beaver Creek and Hotel Yountville. Excluding these properties, RevPAR increased 3.4% for the third quarter compared to the prior year period. We remain confident in our ability to sustain operating momentum and deliver strong results in the periods ahead. I would now like to highlight a few of the key accomplishments achieved during the quarter. Group room revenue remained strong across the portfolio despite softening trends industry-wide. Group room revenue pace for the full year 2025 is up 9.1% compared to the prior year. For the third quarter, group room revenue finished 1.3% above the prior year period. The Ritz-Carlton Lake Tahoe was a standout during the third quarter, delivering exceptional group room revenue growth of 80.2% compared to the prior year period, driven by a sharp increase in group demand following its extensive 2024 renovation. The property realized more than 2,400 additional room nights during the period and achieved a $30 improvement in ADR compared to the prior year period. This momentum supported not only growth…

Thank you, Chris. In summary, I'd like to reiterate that we continue to be pleased with the performance of our hotels, in particular, the return to normalized growth for our resort assets. We also remain well positioned with a solid balance sheet and promising outlook. We look forward to updating you on our progress in the quarters ahead. This concludes our prepared remarks, and we will now open the call for Q&A. Thank you.

[Operator Instructions]. Our first question will come from the line of Tyler Batory with Oppenheimer.

A portfolio question for you first in terms of CapEx. Just a multipart question. What do you think is a good maintenance run rate CapEx number to think about for your portfolio, whether that's a dollar number or a percentage of revenue? And given some of the CapEx projects you completed over the past few years. Just talk about the overall quality of the portfolio as it stands today, if there's anything deferred or any sort of catch-up CapEx that might potentially be contemplated in the next couple of years?

Yes, Tyler. I'll take that. So in terms of maintenance CapEx, we typically target a percentage of revenue, I would say it's low single digits, in terms of maintenance and mechanical. In addition to that, we've got ROI CapEx and some of these larger renovations and repositionings. From a deferred standpoint, we've got a process by which the properties put in capital requests, and we've got an engineering team within our Ashford CapEx team that works with our property engineers to make sure that any mechanical or maintenance projects are being addressed appropriately. So we review those. We prioritize them. We'll will then deploy capital against the ones that we think are high priority. But there's nothing, I would say, significant or out of the ordinary that's been deferred.

Okay. Great. And then my other question on RevPAR and portfolio performance. Obviously, you initiated the sales process at the end of the summer, and that was made public. Is that something that you think is weighed on results at all? Or maybe it's not that much of a distraction in the hotel level employees perhaps aren't really thinking about that?

Yes. I don't think it's affected anything at the property level or in terms of how our asset management team is working with the hotels. We were actually quite pleased with the results given some of the headwinds that we mentioned in our prepared remarks. We've got 3 significant hotels that are under major renovations. We've got a major repositioning. We've got some impact from government and some other segments. And with all -- despite all that, the portfolio grew RevPAR, we grew EBITDA. We grew EBITDA margin. We're still finding efficiencies. We're still finding controlling labor, controlling expenses, how is profit margin expanded within the quarter to last year. And so I think from a property level, as it rolls up to the portfolio, I think performance was quite strong in the quarter, and I don't think the sales process has impacted our approach at all.

Okay. Then moving on, just a couple of strategic questions quickly here. Obviously, the company is externally advised was there plans or have ever been planned, discussions in terms of an internalization process? And just kind of wondering if you could unpack behind the scenes, if you did look at that and just kind of what you thought about it?

Yes. Tyler, it's Richard Stockton. So yes, no, this is something that the Board has considered. When we announced that we're looking at various strategic alternatives. That was one of them. And so that was something that was thoroughly vetted by the Board. Ultimately, the conclusion was to opt for a company sale instead. And so that's the route that was chosen for various reasons.

Okay. And then more broadly, Richard, I'll try to keep this question general here, but just any commentary or perspective you could provide on the acquisition backdrop for hotels, the appetite out there, availability of capital, things like that. Just interested to some of the larger entities, perhaps what they're view is on your portfolio of transactions and just kind of the overall environment out there and the desire to own hotels.

Yes. That's a good question. I'd say it continues to improve. We saw the debt capital markets become much more favorable earlier this year. There is a widespread debt availability A lot of that is being provided through either the CMBS market or through private credit markets. That's a good thing. But also the big private equity funds and a lot of the private players are getting more interested in deploying equity capital into the sector. And that's something that we're seeing with some of our discussions and we're seeing that interest in size. So it does feel that whereas a lot of buyers have been on the sidelines, they're coming off the sidelines. Now I also think that our portfolio is pretty unique. Dare I say, it's the most attractive hotel portfolio on the market, for sure. And it's just the opportunity to acquire and own this kind of portfolio doesn't come around that long. So I think for that reason, I think people are certainly more interested than otherwise. But the general trend is very positive in terms of private capital looking at hotel assets. And so more to come on that.

Our next question will come from the line of Michael Bellisario with Baird.

Thanks. Good morning, everyone. Two questions probably both for Chris here. But just first on D.C., can you just give us an overview of what you're seeing on the ground, how the government pullback affected the third quarter results? And then what the shutdown might do to near-term performance at the property?

Yes. I'd be happy to speak to that. So the government will primarily impact our asset in BC, which is Cap Hilton. Luckily for that asset, because of its location and the ADRs and demand, we're able to command, it doesn't have a lot of exposure to the government segment, government transient. It does single digits as a percentage of its mix in government transient business. And so we haven't seen a significant impact there. We are seeing some group cancellations, some negative rebounds where group sizes are shrinking and some catering impact from some programs in D.C. Besides that hotel, the impact of -- that we've kind of seen the government is fairly muted. We're seeing a little bit in Philly and some other markets. But in those other markets outside of D.C., the corporate business has been strong and it's been able to offset that. So again, in D.C., at capelin, has been primarily in the group segment. I cited for the portfolio group pace is up significantly for 2025. And Q3 and Q4 are up. And so on the whole, we've been able to mitigate that impact in government that's primarily come through group at cap.

Got it. That's helpful. And then just on leisure trends more broadly, what did you see in the third quarter relative to your expectations? Any change in consumer spending, out of room spend, booking channels? Are you having to discount more or less offer more promotions? Any commentary there would be helpful.

Yes, Michael. Leisure overall, revenue was up in the third quarter. So we're seeing leisure strength Occupancy was down slightly and ADR was very strong. And so what we're seeing from that luxury consumer is less price sensitivity. So they still want to travel. They're willing to pay a premium for the experience when they travel. We saw increased ancillary spend when they're on property, both in F&B and other departments. And so when they're there, they're willing to spend more. So overall, it was kind of -- it was what we expected. I think we've been pleasantly surprised with just the lack of price sensitivity to that customer and how resilient they are and wanting to travel and wanting to pay for experiences. So on the whole, the leisure segment has been a standout for us.

And that will conclude our question-and-answer session. I'll turn the call back to management for any closing comments.

Thank you for joining us on our third quarter earnings call, and we look forward to speaking with you again next quarter.

This concludes our call today. Thank you all for joining. You may now disconnect.