Earnings Sentiment

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Bullish Statements during Earnings call

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I think it's a very good place to be
This competitive advantage enhances the quality of our asset management decisions through unique insights gleaned from our proprietary data analytics platform
The resilience, tenacity and range of our One Team has been impressive, culminating in the signing of the merger agreement with Spirit Realty, which we announced last week
In conclusion as further demonstrated in the quarter, Realty Income has a well-established growth-focused business model that provides stable and predictable cash flows to fund the payout of our monthly dividend
As Sumit mentioned previously, the Spirit transaction provides us with the opportunity for meaningful earnings accretion in the coming years
We are confident in our ability to source and allocate capital and scale and with efficiency and we are deeply focused on delivering attractive risk-adjusted returns to our shareholders
Our anticipated acquisition of Spirit provides a solid building block for growth, as we head into 2024 and our existing portfolio continues to perform well
Combined with our dividend, we are pleased to have delivered an annualized total operational return up approximately 9%
The accretion from the transaction once completed creates the foundation for AFFO per share growth in the coming year and puts us in a unique situation where we've had good visibility to an attractive forward earnings growth rate potential two months prior to the start of the new year
So Linda was a very favorable reaction and constructive feedback from the rating agencies both Moody's and S&P they came out and reaffirmed the A3 ratings stable outlooks
In fact, we believe our conservative underwriting of the portfolio provides for meaningful upside potential to our headline accretion expectations
We expect our increased size diversification, trading liquidity and overall presence in the market will enable us to access the capital markets even more efficiently, while also improving our ability to digest larger deals without creating concentration issues within our portfolio
We are excited about the attractive cost basis, earnings accretion and enhanced ability to buy in bulk that will be effectuated through this transaction
I would like to express great appreciation for the Spirit and Realty Income teams, given their hard work and collaboration, which enabled us to successfully progress the transaction
The better-than-expected same-store rent growth in the quarter has enabled us to raise our full year guidance to approximately 1.5%
A testament to our ability to source, negotiate and close on transactions that are less trafficked amongst other net lease companies both public and private
We're excited for the future of our business
As such we find ourselves in a favorable position to produce high single or low double-digit operational returns, while offering the same stability that has defined this platform for decades
Our third quarter results demonstrate the consistency of our earnings profile through varying economic environments and the attractive internal growth of our high-quality real estate portfolio, while highlighting the capabilities of our One Team and platform
One of the largest renewals was Circle K and where we looked at 100 of their assets and we're able to enter into long-term lease discussions at very favorable rates
We are proud of the solid execution we've delivered on our strategy in the third quarter and maintain a favorable outlook for our business
Obviously, what this is implying Josh is that, if there are assets that we believe based on some of the things that I just shared with you that we can do better than the current in-place rent
From an operating perspective, our portfolio continues to be healthy and performed well
This outcome is better than our historical average of 102.3% and results in year-to-date rent recapture of 104.3% on 661 new and renewed leases
And the improving recapture rates in recent years is a testament to our asset management expertise and the unparalleled historical data we have at our disposal
And as you can tell we obviously have a very healthy pipeline
And the fact that they don't have a an investment-grade rating is not an issue for us given how we were able to price it, the fact that these are top quartile assets that we were able to get and have inherent growth profiles that will continue to pay dividend in years to come
I am talking single digit basis points that they don’t have much of an impact on the overall portfolio, where by and large given the essential retail that we've targeted, those clients are doing well
We believe that to be one of the core differentiators of realty income and anybody else in this space the ability to do these $1 billion transaction, $2 billion transactions and not have to worry about diversification
From a balance sheet perspective, the Spirit team has done a great job in curating a well-laddered debt maturity schedule, which limits our future refinancing risk in any given year
       

Bearish Statements during earnings call

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Which obviously we may have a bit of a negative drag on occupancy levels, because we want to take control and despite our best efforts sometimes when you take control, there's a bit of a lag time between getting this new client into this building at that elevated rents
This is down slightly from last quarter's historically high occupancy level of 99% and it is a result of expected client move-outs
So you tell me, if buying Asda and Morrisons is diluting the quality of the asset pool at realty income handle
This is a decline of 120 basis points from the second quarter and is primarily the result of removing Cineworld from the watch list following our amendment, which became effective on October 1
So that's definitely going to be a headwind and the way we are thinking about it is forecasting out what the forward curve looks like today, what we think we'll be able to refinance that $1.8 billion of debt and what's the negative impact running through the income statement and therefore to the AFFO per share
But again that could be in some quarters 40%, in some quarters it could even be less than that
And look, where it makes sense, we will continue to sell assets vacant, if we believe that that is the most economically desirable outcome that holding on to those assets does have a cost and that just continues to drag into the return profile
And I think we've said this before, but we've historically realized about a 25 basis point credit loss in the portfolio at any given year
This is a decline of 30 basis points from last quarter, which is a result of the significant increase in the cost of capital – felt across the capital markets in a short amount of time
There are certainly some bankruptcies in the casual dining side, on the franchisee side that they are such a small portion of our overall portfolio
What we are seeing, however is that, when there is pressure on the client i.e
The high-grade share and cap rates, seemed low
It's a tough environment to be in when we are entering into transactions six months, seven months in advance of closing a transaction and the cap rate environment – I mean the cost of capital environment changes and when you are permanently financing it, it sort of eats into what you had originally underwritten
Following the sharp changes in the public debt and equity markets during the quarter, the private market cap rates have not adequately adjusted
Eric, I don't know if you're looking for anything more that we are not expecting to give you a surprise that because of the Cineworld transaction there's going to be a drag on anything that we've shared with you
It is that stickiness that causes the cap rate movements to drag and that's no different today
   

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