Company Analysis

Service Properties Trust (SVC)

Nasdaq: SVC · Real Estate Investment Trusts · Newton, MA · filing with the SEC since 1995
Grade3.0
◀ Past 2.7● Present 3.0▶ Future 3.1

The grade of Service Properties Trust

Nine metrics read from its own filings, by tense
Headline grade
3.0/10
◀ Past2.725% of the headline
● Present3.045% of the headline
▶ Future3.130% of the headline

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

All nine metrics read as filed from the record.

◀ Past

What did they actually do?

2.7/1025% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Surviving crises

as filed
2.0/10

Has it survived what it has been through?

2 warning events since 2017; the latest 2023-11-09.

weight 45% of this tense · 20th percentile among 174 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Service Properties Trust's filings since 2017 show 2 warning events of 2 kinds: a debt default or acceleration notice (8-K item 2.04, the latest 2023-11-09); an auditor change (8-K item 4.01, the latest 2020-06-15) (its current reports).

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

Track record

as filed
2.5/10

What has it actually done, year after year?

-1.3% a year over 10 filed years; profitable in 4 of 10.

weight 33% of this tense · 25th percentile among 156 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Service Properties Trust's 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $2.0 billion in fiscal 2016 to $1.8 billion in fiscal 2025, down 1.3% a year; it rose in 7 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 45% from fiscal 2019 to fiscal 2020; net income was positive in 4 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue growth over the filed span-1.3%bottom 15% of its family
  • the share of years revenue rosetop 49% of its family
  • the share of filed years with a profitbottom 13% of its family
  • the deepest fall from a revenue peak45.4%bottom 23% of its family

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

Shareholder treatment

as filed
4.7/10

How has it treated the people who own it?

Share count grew 0.2% a year. 33% of cash flow returned. Insiders: 3 sales, 5 purchases.

weight 22% of this tense · 47th percentile among 156 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, Service Properties Trust's diluted share count grew about 0.2% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 33% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 3 sales and 5 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-09-30, buying about $50 million (their Form 4 filings).

What it rests on

  • the share count over the yearstop 27% of its family
  • cash returned against operating cash flowbottom 20% 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?

3.0/1045% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Financial health

as filed
2.4/10

Is it financially healthy right now?

ROE -31%: lost 31¢ per shareholder dollar. Leverage 90%: owes 90¢ per asset dollar.

weight 45% of this tense · 24th percentile among 171 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, Service Properties Trust lost about 31 cents for every dollar of shareholders' money. Leverage: it owed about 90 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count grew 0.4% over the year (the filed statements).

What it rests on

  • what it owes per dollar of assetsbottom 10% of its family
  • return on equitybottom 3% of its family
  • the share count against the year beforetop 39% of its family

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

Industry position

as filed
3.8/10

How strong is its position in its industry?

bottom 38% of 157 in its family; net margin -11.1%.

weight 33% of this tense · 38th percentile among 157 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Service Properties Trust's standing among 157 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $1.8 billion in fiscal 2025 ranks in the top 23% by size; a net margin of -11.1% ranks in the bottom 18%; revenue growth of -0.9% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the bottom 19% (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the family$1.81Btop 23% of its family
  • net margin-11.1%bottom 18% of its family
  • three-year revenue growth-0.9%bottom 19% of its family

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

Leadership

as filed
2.8/10

What are the people in charge doing?

bottom 28% of 160 in its family for leadership; chief executive since 2025.

weight 22% of this tense · 28th percentile among 160 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Service Properties Trust's leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Bilotto, Christopher J. (President and CEO, as filed), filing under that title since 2025-03-10, 1.7 years (bottom 11% of its family); the 9 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 6.7 years (bottom 34%); 4 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 9 people in charge now (bottom 37%; 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 charge4 in three years among 9 peoplebottom 37% of its family
  • the median years the people in charge have filed6.7 yearsbottom 34% of its family
  • the chief executive's years on the record1.7 yearsbottom 11% 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?

3.1/1030% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Room to expand

as filed
1.0/10

How much room does it have to grow?

bottom 10% of 146 in its family for room to expand.

weight 22% of this tense · 10th percentile among 146 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Service Properties Trust's room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $347 million against debt of $5.5 billion leaves -79.5% of its assets as net cash, bottom 3% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 6.5% of revenue (bottom 18%) (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • cash less debt against assets-79.5%bottom 3% of its family
  • cash from operations less capital spending against revenue6.5%bottom 18% of its family

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

Growth drivers

as filed
4.3/10

What could actually drive growth from here?

bottom 43% of 153 in its family for growth drivers.

weight 33% of this tense · 43rd percentile among 153 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Service Properties Trust's growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew -0.9% a year over the last three filed years against -1.3% over all 10, speeding up (top 35% of its family); the newest year grew -4.3% (bottom 22%) (its annual reports). Service Properties Trust tags no split of its revenue by line in the annual report on file, so growth by line cannot be read here; research and capital spending are on the trend.

What it rests on

  • three-year growth against the whole span+0.5 points a yeartop 35% of its family
  • the newest year's revenue growth-4.3%bottom 22% of its family

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

Expectations vs reality

as filed
3.2/10

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

bottom 32% of 150 in its family for expectations against reality.

weight 45% of this tense · 32nd percentile among 150 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Service Properties Trust's newest year against its own record: revenue of $1.8 billion in fiscal 2025 came in 5.2% below the $1.9 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (bottom 34% of its family); net income of $202 million against a prior three-year average of $147 million (bottom 26%); a net margin of -11.1% against -7.8% before (bottom 36%) (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the prior three years' pace-5.2%bottom 34% of its family
  • net income against the prior three years' average-38%bottom 26% of its family
  • net margin against its prior average-3.4 pointsbottom 36% of its family

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

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

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