Park Hotels & Resorts posted a $277 million net loss in 2025, spent $300 million on renovations, and is now guiding for $69-99 million in net income this year. The gap between those numbers tells a story about capital recycling that every REIT investor should decompose before buying the narrative.
Park Hotels & Resorts posted a massive Q4 miss driven by $248 million in impairment charges on non-core assets, but the headline obscures what's actually happening: a REIT deliberately burning down part of its portfolio to concentrate on properties generating 90% of its EBITDA.
Park Hotels is guiding $580-$610M in Adjusted EBITDA for 2026 after posting $609M in 2025, which itself was a 6.6% decline from 2024's $652M. The headline says "modest growth." The math says something more complicated.
