Company: DRH-PA
Filing Date: 2025-11-28
Form Type: 8-A12B
Source: 0001298946-25-000098
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Company: DiamondRock Hospitality Co
Filing Date: 2025-11-28
Form: 8-A12B
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UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION Washington, D.C. 20549 FORM 8-A FOR REGISTRATION OF CERTAIN CLASSES OF SECURITIES PURSUANT TO SECTION 12(b) or (g) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934 DiamondRock Hospitality Company (Exact name of registrant as specified in charter)

| Maryland                                                       |     | 20-1180098                          |
| (State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization) |     | -I.R.S. Employer Identification No. |

2 Bethesda Metro Center, Suite 1400 Bethesda, MD 20814 (Address of Principal Executive Offices) (Zip Code) Se curities to be registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:

| Title of each class           
 to be so registered           |     | Name of each exchange on which 
 each class is to be registered |
| Common Stock, $0.01 par value |     | The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC    |

If this form relates to the registration of a class of securities pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Exchange Act and is effective pursuant to General Instruction A. (c) or (e), check the following box. ☒ If this form relates to the registration of a class of securities pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Exchange Act and is effective pursuant to General Instruction A. (d) or (e), check the following box. ☐ If this form relates to the registration of a class of securities concurrently with a Regulation A offering, check the following box. ☐ Securities Act registration statement or Regulation A offering statement file number to which this form relates: Not applicable Securities to be registered pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Act: None

EXPLANATORY NOTE DiamondRock Hospitality Company (the “Company”) is filing this Form 8-A in connection with the transfer of the listing of its common stock, $0.01 par value per share (the “Common Stock”), from the New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”) to The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC (“Nasdaq”), effective as of the close of business Friday, November 28, 2025. The Company expects that trading of the Common Stock will begin on Nasdaq at market open on Monday, December 1, 2025.

| Item 1. |     | Description of Registrant’s Securities to be Registered. |

The description of the Common Stock of the Company is included in Exhibit 4.3 to the Company’s