Sotherly Hotels Inc. 8.0% Series B Cumulative Redeemable Perpetual Preferred Stock (SOHOB) fair value

ACCE thesis

Sotherly Hotels is a US lodging REIT whose preferred stock, SOHOB, pays an 8.0% cumulative coupon on a perpetual, redeemable security sitting in the capital structure ahead of common equity. The appeal of the preferred is the fixed coupon and the cumulative feature, which means unpaid dividends accrue and must be cleared before common holders receive anything. Against that, the operating picture is weak: revenue is down 6.1% year on year, operating margin is slightly negative at -1.5%, and return on equity sits at -22.3%, with the company earning nothing to cover the payout on a trailing basis. At a $66M market cap, the issue is small and the name carries no index membership, so liquidity and coverage will be thin, and the thesis rests almost entirely on whether management keeps paying the coupon through a soft hotel cycle. The 28/100 score reflects that tension, and this is worth a deeper look only if the question is the credit and dividend-safety profile of the preferred, not the equity story.