Ashford Hospitality Trust Inc · NYSE:AHT

Ashford Hospitality Trust — Investor Presentation (May 2008)

17 slides from Ashford Hospitality Trust's investor presentation, May 22, 2008

  1. Slide 1: Ashford Hospitality Trust May 2008

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  2. Slide 2: Safe Harbor

    Safe Harbor In keeping with the SEC's "Safe Harbor" guidelines, certain statements made during this presentation could be considered forward-looking and subject to certain risks and uncertainties that could cause results to differ materially from those projected. When we use the words "will likely r

  3. Slide 3: Ashford Advantage

    Ashford Advantage AHT's diversified platform should perform better in periods of economic uncertainty AHT's risk profile is mitigated by its capital recycling strategies AHT's strategies are designed to further secure the dividend AHT's dividend is covered by the operating business. Its capital recy

  4. Slide 4: Ashford Snapshot

    Ashford Snapshot Portfolio Statistics AHT Total Enterprise Value (1) $3.7 Bil Peer Comparison (2) 2nd largest # of Hotels 109 # of Rooms 25,165 ADR (3) $145.53 RevPAR (3) $102.85 Financial Statistics # Shares Outstanding(4) 139.8 M Avg. Daily Trading Volume (3 Month) 1.3 M TTM FFO per Share / Y-o-Y

  5. Slide 5: AHT provides attractive risk adjusted returns despite economic uncertainty

    Despite economic uncertainty, AHT provides attractive risk adjusted returns: Diversified hotel portfolio yields less volatile income stream Chain scale Brand Geography Investment strategy Flexible capital recycling provides opportunities throughout the entire hotel cycle Mezz Stock buybacks ROI cape

  6. Slide 6: Attractive Dividend

    Attractive Dividend Dividend covered by operating business Strong dividend CAD/AFFO coverage: TTM - 1.17x CAD coverage TTM - 1.52x AFFO coverage Consistently paid one of the highest covered dividends of lodging REIT peers Highest in peer group with dividend yield of 13.1%(1) Assumes 5/16/08 stock pr

  7. Slide 7: Capital Strategy

    Capital Strategy Because of AHT's flexible capital recycling platform, several accretive opportunities exist in the near-term AHT's capital recycling strategies are currently match funded through asset sales and cash flow above our dividend 2008 Capital Strategy 2008 Capital Strategy Sources of Capi

  8. Slide 8: Potential Asset Sales

    Potential Asset Sales Since its IPO, AHT has sold 41 assets, including 2 office buildings, for $522 million Weighted average cap on TTM NOI of 6.7% In 2007, AHT sold 22 assets for $380 million Year to date, AHT has sold 3 assets, including 1 office tower, for $81 million and has 2 hotels under contr

  9. Slide 9: PREI Joint Venture

    PREI Joint Venture AHT has partnered with Prudential Real Estate Investors (PREI) to form a hotel lending joint venture Advantage of JV structure Provides opportunity to achieve outsized yields at same or less risky LTVs Creates access to a greater number of deals, which increases diversity, reduces

  10. Slide 10: Recent Mezzanine Originations

    Recent Mezzanine Originations Westin Resort Portfolio Hotel La Jolla Ritz-Carlton Key Biscayne JER Portfolio Properties 2 Westin resorts (Tucson, AZ) (Hilton Head, SC) Hotel La Jolla (La Jolla, CA) Ritz-Carlton Key Biscayne (Miami, FL) 22 full-service 7 select-service Keys 899 108 302 188 Condo Unit

  11. Slide 11: Share Buybacks

    Share Buybacks $50m share repurchase program approved by the Board in December 2007 AHT repurchased 700,800 shares of common stock at an average price of $6.54 during the first quarter Approx. $27 million of share repurchase authorization remains Accretive use of capital given AHT's current stock pr

  12. Slide 12: Debt Swap Strategy

    Debt Swap Strategy AHT swapped $1.8 billion of its existing fixed-rate debt for floating-rate debt in March 2008 5-year swap Weighted average interest rate on fixed-rate debt of 5.84% Interest rate on swapped fixed-rate debt of L + 264 25 bps reduction in LIBOR yields annual net interest expense sav

  13. Slide 13: Debt Maturity Schedule

    Debt Maturity Schedule Debt Maturities ($m) Note: Company estimates as of 1Q '08. Last dollar of debt includes debt attributable to JV partners, mezzanine platform valuation at book value, 1Q '08 room count, and excludes debt associated with Hyatt Dulles. Debt maturity schedule assumes extendable lo

  14. Slide 14: Ashford has the broadest diversification of hotel assets

    Ashford has the broadest diversification of hotel assets Advantages: Diversifies exposure across economic markets High quality select service assets provide stability 36% of TTM EBITDA High concentration of EBITDA in top 25 markets 77% of TTM EBITDA Less concentrated risk to new supply Mezzanine len

  15. Slide 15: Broad Portfolio Mix

    Broad Portfolio Mix Brand Manager Note: Proforma based on TTM 3/31/08 owned EBITDA for the 109 hotels in continuing operations. 42% 18% 27% 1% 2% 7% 3% Marriott Remington Hilton Hyatt Starwood Interstate Hotel Equities 49% 34% 7% 3% 7% 0% Marriott Hilton Hyatt Starwood IHG Other

  16. Slide 16: Ashford Advantage

    Ashford Advantage AHT's diversified platform should perform better in periods of economic uncertainty AHT's risk profile is mitigated by its capital recycling strategies AHT's strategies are designed to further secure the dividend AHT's dividend is covered by the operating business. Its capital recy

  17. Slide 17: Ashford Hospitality Trust May 2008

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