Announces Preferred Dividend

Chatham Lodging Trust (NYSE: CLDT), a hotel real estate investment trust (REIT) focused on investing in upscale, extended-stay hotels and premium-branded, select-service hotels, today announced that its board of trustees has raised its quarterly common dividend by 29 percent, or $0.02 per common share, to $0.09 per share. Additionally, the board of trustees declared its regular preferred dividend. Both the $0.09 per share common dividend and preferred share dividend of $0.41406 per preferred share are payable on April 15, 2025, to shareholders of record as of March 31, 2025.

Fisher highlighted, “Our management team and board of trustees are confident in our future. We have emerged from the pandemic and a meaningful wave of maturing debt over the past two years in a financially strong position with low leverage and capacity to make meaningful, accretive acquisitions and investments. Operationally, our RevPAR growth continues to outperform the industry, and our operating margins have stabilized and are growing. All of these positive developments increase distributable free cash flow, allowing us to return more money to our shareholders moving forward.”

About Chatham Lodging Trust

Chatham Lodging Trust is a self-advised, publicly traded real estate investment trust (REIT) focused primarily on investing in upscale, extended-stay hotels and premium-branded, select-service hotels. The company owns 36 hotels totaling 5,475 rooms/suites in 15 states and the District of Columbia. Additional information about Chatham may be found at chathamlodgingtrust.com.

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