Forensic Analysis · Hospitality & Leisure · as of Aug 8, 2026

Xenia Hotels & Resorts, Inc. (XHR)

A forensic read on Xenia Hotels & Resorts, Inc. built from its complete SEC filings — financial-health screens, earnings quality, red flags and a price-aware rating. Reproducible math, not opinion.

C · Mixed — selective

Forensic grade

Clean

Earnings quality

Forensic signals

-259.5

P / E (ttm)

5.6%

ROE

$1.8B

Market cap

3.80%

Dividend yield

3.8%

Revenue growth

This free snapshot doesn't read filing or proxy text, so the auditor-quality and governance checks that can lower a grade were not evaluated (red flags, auditor quality, say on pay, board independence). Those checks only ever lower a grade, so the full analysis can land below the grade above but never above it — treat it as the most favourable reading, not the settled one.

Xenia Hotels & Resorts, Inc. earns a C (Mixed — selective) forensic quality grade. 4 forensic signals were flagged in its latest SEC filings, led by return on invested capital.

What the filings flag

4.0%

FY2025

Return on invested capital. Return on invested capital is 4.0% in the latest fiscal year and steady — well below its ~8% cost of capital, so reinvested dollars may be destroying value, not building it.

135% of FCF

FY2025

Shareholder returns. Returned $121M to shareholders (buybacks + dividends) in FY2025 — 135% of free cash flow, but 69% of operating cash flow. Returns run ahead of free cash flow, with the gap funded by debt or cash reserves rather than the cash the business itself throws off; the payout itself is still covered by operating cash. Counting the $13M of stock-based comp paid out in shares on top of that, the combined claim on free cash flow is 149%.

$30M

FY2019–FY2020

Goodwill impairments. Took $30M of goodwill writedowns across 2 years (FY2019 ($9M), FY2020 ($20M)). Writedowns mean past acquisitions underperformed what was paid for them.

-100%

FY2020→FY2021

Dividend — cut. The payout was CUT ~100% in FY2021 (from FY2020) and hasn't been restored since. It still returns some cash, but it is NOT the dependable, rising dividend an unbroken streak implies.

Key fundamentals

Latest Revenue$1.08B

Revenue Growth YoY+3.8%

Revenue CAGR (3yr)+2.6%

Net Margin5.8%

Free Cash Flow$89.9M

Return on Equity5.6%

Debt / Equity1.25x

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Data from SEC EDGAR public filings · metrics as of Aug 8, 2026. Forensic signals flag probability, not certainty.