Summit Hotel Properties, Inc. (NYSE:INN) to Issue Quarterly Dividend of $0.08

Summit Hotel Properties, Inc. (NYSE:INN) declared a quarterly dividend on Thursday, July 25th, NASDAQ reports. Stockholders of record on Friday, August 16th will be paid a dividend of 0.08 per share by the real estate investment trust on Friday, August 30th. This represents a $0.32 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 5.23%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Friday, August 16th.

Summit Hotel Properties has increased its dividend by an average of 32.6% per year over the last three years. Summit Hotel Properties has a payout ratio of -228.6% meaning the company cannot currently cover its dividend with earnings alone and is relying on its balance sheet to cover its dividend payments. Equities research analysts expect Summit Hotel Properties to earn $0.95 per share next year, which means the company should continue to be able to cover its $0.32 annual dividend with an expected future payout ratio of 33.7%.

Summit Hotel Properties Stock Performance

Shares of NYSE INN traded up $0.20 during mid-day trading on Friday, hitting $6.12. The company had a trading volume of 899,890 shares, compared to its average volume of 723,078. The stock has a market cap of $662.12 million, a price-to-earnings ratio of -25.50 and a beta of 2.03. Summit Hotel Properties has a 12 month low of $5.31 and a 12 month high of $6.98. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.08, a current ratio of 1.13 and a quick ratio of 1.13. The firm’s 50 day simple moving average is $5.94 and its two-hundred day simple moving average is $6.25.

Summit Hotel Properties (NYSE:INN) last announced its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, May 1st. The real estate investment trust reported ($0.02) earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of $0.18 by ($0.20). The company had revenue of $188.14 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $181.40 million. Summit Hotel Properties had a negative return on equity of 0.56% and a negative net margin of 1.04%. During the same period last year, the business posted $0.22 EPS. As a group, equities research analysts forecast that Summit Hotel Properties will post 0.88 earnings per share for the current year.

About Summit Hotel Properties

Summit Hotel Properties, Inc is a publicly traded real estate investment trust focused on owning premium-branded lodging properties with efficient operating models primarily in the upscale segment of the lodging industry. As of November 1, 2023, the Company's portfolio consisted of 101 assets, 57 of which are wholly owned, with a total of 15,035 guestrooms located in 24 states.