---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-25-251736"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "SOHOO"
cik: "0001301236"
company_name: "Sotherly Hotels Inc."
filed_at: "2025-10-27T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T02:09:02.707563+00:00"
event_type: "dividend"
sentiment: "negative"
materiality_score: 0.75
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Sotherly defers preferred dividends on three series, suspends future payments

## Summary
- Deferred Series B, C, D preferred dividends due Nov 20, 2025; Oct 31 record date cancelled.
- Company suspending all future preferred stock dividends indefinitely.
- No mention of common dividend or financial impact; move signals liquidity pressure.
- Press release issued October 27, 2025.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-25-251736
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: SOHOO
- cik: 0001301236
- company_name: Sotherly Hotels Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-10-27T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: dividend
- sentiment: negative
- materiality_score: 0.75
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1301236/000119312525251736/0001193125-25-251736-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1301236/000119312525251736/soho-20251027.htm

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