Company Analysis

Chatham Lodging Trust (CLDT)

NYSE: CLDT · Real Estate Investment Trusts · West Palm Beach, FL · filing with the SEC since 2009
Grade5.0
◀ Past 5.4● Present 5.2▶ Future 4.5
1 est.

The grade of Chatham Lodging Trust

Nine metrics read from its own filings, by tense
Headline grade
5.0/10
◀ Past5.425% of the headline
● Present5.245% of the headline
▶ Future4.530% of the headline

All three tenses have at least two readings, so the archetype blend applies as printed.

Of the nine metrics, 8 read as filed from the record and 1 is an SI estimate, each with its reasoning, its confidence and what would change it on its card.

◀ Past

What did they actually do?

5.4/1025% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Surviving crises

as filed
7.0/10

Has it survived what it has been through?

No warning events in its filings since 2017.

weight 45% of this tense · 70th percentile among 174 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Chatham Lodging Trust's filings since 2017 show no warning events in the scan: no bankruptcy or receivership notice, no debt default notice, no exchange listing notice, no restatement warning, no auditor change, no material cyber incident and no late-report notice (its current reports).

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Track record

as filed
4.2/10

What has it actually done, year after year?

-2.6% a year over 3 filed years; profitable in 3 of 3.

weight 33% of this tense · 42nd percentile among 156 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Chatham Lodging Trust's 3 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $311 million in fiscal 2023 to $295 million in fiscal 2025, down 2.6% a year; it rose in 1 of 2 years; the deepest fall was 7% from fiscal 2024 to fiscal 2025; net income was positive in 3 of 3 of those years (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue growth over the filed span-2.6%bottom 11% of its family
  • the share of years revenue rosebottom 13% of its family
  • the share of filed years with a profittop 20% of its family
  • the deepest fall from a revenue peak7.0%top 38% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Shareholder treatment

as filed
4.0/10

How has it treated the people who own it?

Share count grew 0.6% a year. 26% of cash flow returned. Insiders: 0 sales, 0 purchases.

weight 22% of this tense · 39th percentile among 156 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, Chatham Lodging Trust's diluted share count grew about 0.6% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 26% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 0 sales and 0 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-09-30 (their Form 4 filings).

What it rests on

  • the share count over the yearstop 38% of its family
  • cash returned against operating cash flowbottom 17% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

● Present

What are they doing right now?

5.2/1045% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Financial health

as filed
5.6/10

Is it financially healthy right now?

ROE 2%: 2¢ of profit per shareholder dollar. Leverage 34%: owes 34¢ per asset dollar.

weight 45% of this tense · 56th percentile among 171 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, Chatham Lodging Trust earned about 2 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money. Leverage: it owed about 34 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count grew 2.2% over the year (the filed statements).

What it rests on

  • what it owes per dollar of assetstop 6% of its family
  • return on equitybottom 36% of its family
  • the share count against the year beforebottom 38% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Industry position

as filed
2.9/10

How strong is its position in its industry?

bottom 29% of 157 in its family; net margin 5.1%.

weight 33% of this tense · 29th percentile among 157 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Chatham Lodging Trust's standing among 157 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $295 million in fiscal 2025 ranks in the bottom 34% by size; a net margin of 5.1% ranks in the bottom 38%; revenue growth of -2.6% a year over the last 2 filed years ranks in the bottom 15% (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the family$295Mbottom 34% of its family
  • net margin5.1%bottom 38% of its family
  • three-year revenue growth-2.6%bottom 15% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Leadership

as filed
7.7/10

What are the people in charge doing?

top 23% of 160 in its family for leadership; chief executive since 2010.

weight 22% of this tense · 77th percentile among 160 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Chatham Lodging Trust's leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Fisher, Jeffrey H (President and CEO, as filed), filing under that title since 2010-04-27, 16.5 years (top 15% of its family); the 9 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 9.8 years (top 28%); 2 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 9 people in charge now (top 27%; fewer changes for each person reads higher) (the Form 4 record, its Form 8-K reports). Years count from a person's first filing in the SEC's data sets, which begin in 2006, so each is a floor.

What it rests on

  • officer and director changes on Form 8-K, against the people in charge2 in three years among 9 peopletop 27% of its family
  • the median years the people in charge have filed9.8 yearstop 28% of its family
  • the chief executive's years on the record16.5 yearstop 15% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

▶ Future

What are they set up to do next?

4.5/1030% of the headline grade · 2 of 3 filed, 1 estimated

Room to expand

as filed
4.5/10

How much room does it have to grow?

bottom 44% of 146 in its family for room to expand.

weight 22% of this tense · 44th percentile among 146 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Chatham Lodging Trust's room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $24 million against debt of $339 million leaves -26.9% of its assets as net cash, top 48% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 21.7% of revenue (bottom 37%) (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • cash less debt against assets-26.9%top 48% of its family
  • cash from operations less capital spending against revenue21.7%bottom 37% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Growth drivers

as filed
3.8/10

What could actually drive growth from here?

bottom 38% of 153 in its family for growth drivers.

weight 33% of this tense · 38th percentile among 153 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Chatham Lodging Trust's growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew -2.6% a year over the last three filed years against -2.6% over all 3, speeding up (top 39% of its family); the newest year grew -7% (bottom 15%) (its annual reports). Chatham Lodging Trust reported 3 product lines in fiscal 2025: Occupancy at $269 million (92%), Hotel Other at $18 million (6%), Food and Beverage at $7 million (2%); 0 of 3 grew against the year before (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • three-year growth against the whole span+0.0 points a yeartop 39% of its family
  • the newest year's revenue growth-7.0%bottom 15% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Expectations vs reality

SI estimate
5.0/10

Did its newest year beat what its own record pointed to?

SI estimate 5.0/10, confidence 20 of 100 (family median).

weight 45% of this tense · 50th percentile among 150 sector filers · read for its shareholders

SI estimate Inferred, not read as filed

Why it is an estimate
The record does not carry four filed years of revenue and two of the three parts: revenue against the prior pace, earnings against the prior average, the margin change, so the desk assumes the typical reading of its industry family, the median of 150 members with one.
What the record cannot read
The record does not carry four filed years of revenue and two of the three parts: revenue against the prior pace, earnings against the prior average, the margin change.
How it was reasoned
family median, 150 readings behind it.
Confidence
20 of 100
What would change it
Its next annual report on file with the inputs replaces this estimate with the filed reading.

From the record

SI estimate, not a filed reading: Chatham Lodging Trust's expectations vs reality is put at 5.0 of 10 with a confidence of 20 of 100, because the record does not carry four filed years of revenue and two of the three parts: revenue against the prior pace, earnings against the prior average, the margin change, so the desk assumes the typical reading of its industry family, the median of 150 members with one. Its next annual report on file with the inputs replaces this estimate with the filed reading.

The grade is the company against its own industry, from its filings. It is not a view on the share price. How the grade is made

SI Assistanton CLDT · research, not advice