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Q2 2020 Earnings Call· Tue, Jul 21, 2020

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Operator

Operator

Good morning and welcome to the Agree Realty Second Quarter 2020 Conference Call. All participants will be in a listen-only mode. [Operator Instructions] After today’s presentation, there will be an opportunity to ask questions. [Operator Instructions] Please note this event is being recorded. I would like to turn the conference over to Clay Thelen, Chief Financial Officer. Please go ahead, Clay.

Clay Thelen

Analyst

Thank you, operator. Good morning everyone and thank you for joining us for Agree Realty’s second quarter 2020 earnings call. Joey will, of course, be joining me this morning to discuss our second quarter and first half results. Please note that during this call, we will make certain statements that may be considered forward-looking under federal securities laws. Our actual results may differ significantly from the matters discussed in any forward-looking statements for a number of reasons, including uncertainty related to the scope, severity and duration of the COVID-19 pandemic, the actions taken to contain the pandemic or mitigate its impact, and the direct and indirect economic effects of the pandemic and containment measures on us and on our tenants. Please see yesterday’s earnings release and our SEC filings, including our latest annual report on Form 10-K and subsequent reports, for a discussion of various risks and uncertainties underlying our forward-looking statements. In addition, we discuss non-GAAP financial measures, including core funds from operations or core FFO, adjusted funds from operations or AFFO, and net debt to recurring EBITDA. Reconciliations of these non-GAAP financial measures to the most directly comparable GAAP measures can be found in our earnings release, website and SEC filings. I’ll now turn the call over to Joey.

Joey Agree

Analyst

Thank you, Clay and thank you all for joining us this morning. I hope that all of our listeners and their families are staying healthy and safe during these challenging times. Before providing our standard update, I'd like to start by outlining the additional steps that we've taken to further strengthen our position in this ongoing crisis. As mentioned on last quarter's call, we created a cross functional COVID response team that consists of asset management, legal accounting and tenant relations. They've done an outstanding job helping us navigate through this pandemic. Since the beginning of the year, we've raised more than $825 million in gross equity proceeds positioning our company to execute on the high-quality opportunities that are emerging throughout this crisis. At quarter end pro forma for our outstanding forward equity, our fortified balance stood at 1.6 times net debt to recurring EBITDA. Our balance sheet and nearly $1 billion in liquidity provides us with an unparalleled optionality as we continue to execute on the numerous opportunities that we're uncovering. Given our record investment activity of more than $0.5 billion during the first half of the year, our fortress balance sheet and liquidity, we have continued to amass an incredibly high quality and robust pipeline. I am pleased to announce we have increased our acquisition guidance to a range of $900 million to $1.1 billion. As evidenced by the best in class nature of our year-to-date activity rest assured, we will maintain our disciplined underwriting standards that are focused on the premier retailers in the country. The quality of our carefully constructed portfolio is reflected in our second quarter in July rent collections data was continued to lead the retail sector. We received April, May and June rent payments from 90% to 89% of our portfolio respectively. In…

Clay Thelen

Analyst

Thank you, Joey. I'll start with the balance sheet update and highlights from our capital markets activities over the past quarter, some of which we discussed on last quarter's call. We had another very active quarter in the equity capital markets raising more than $400 million of common equity for the second consecutive quarter. In addition to capital raised we also generated approximately $25 million through our disposition activity in free cash flow after dividend during the quarter. On April 22, we closed an underwritten public offering of 6.2 million shares in connection with a forward sale agreement in which the shares were sold to Cohen & Steers. Commensurate with the Cohen & Steers transaction, we settled all of our then outstanding ATM for equity offerings, realizing net proceeds of approximately $267 million. Following the Cohen & Steers transaction, we were again active on our ATM program, entering into forward sale agreements to sell more than 740,000 shares of common stock at an average gross price of $66.61 for approximately $48 million of anticipated net proceeds. To date, we have not settled any of the Cohen & Steers or second quarter ATM forward offerings and have approximately $411 million of anticipated net proceeds available to us upon settlement. This capital raising activity further bolsters our balance sheet and provides the company with nearly $1 billion in liquidity. In addition to the $411 million of net proceeds available to us upon settlement of our outstanding foreign equity. We ended the quarter with full availability on our $500 million revolver and approximately $36 million in cash on hand. As of June 30, our net debt to recurring EBITDA was approximately 3.5 times. Pro forma for the settlement of our outstanding forward equity offerings, our net debt to recurring EBITDA was approximately 1.6…

Joey Agree

Analyst

Thank you, Clay. Operator, at this time we will open it up for any questions.

Operator

Operator

Thank you. And we will now begin the question-and-answer session. [Operator Instructions] Our first question today will come from Rob Stevenson of Janney. Please go ahead.

Rob Stevenson

Analyst

Good morning, guys. Joey, what's the discussion like with tenants that are not paying and not under deferral agreements these days? Is there just an inability to come to an agreement or does come into any agreement with you limit their options going forward? Can you give us an idea of what's really going on behind the scenes there in internal terms?

Joey Agree

Analyst

Good morning. Good morning, Rob. I think it spans the full spectrum there. I think there's an inability, obviously to come to an agreement. We have tenants that are obviously in cash conservation mode. And then there are tenants that continue to be opportunistic in terms of seeking abatements, deferrals or other types of concessions. So obviously, it's the minority of our portfolio today, but we continue to make progress there. But at the same time, we've been very clear that we are not going to give up any contractual rights without consideration.

Rob Stevenson

Analyst

Okay, and so does that statement sort of lead you to just waiting it out rather than any benefit to moving now on these tenants and locations versus waiting for the bankruptcy filing, if that's, indeed what the sort of end results or just let it play out at this point in your positions better and bankruptcy?

Joey Agree

Analyst

Well, I think it's a case by case basis. I think the majority of our holdouts aren't - or I will tell you are not near-term bankruptcy threat. So our COVID response team evaluates every lease and every tenant with different options here in terms of legal options, and different remedies that we can pursue, but I would tell you, we will pursue litigation and collections and/or eviction in certain circumstances. At the same time, we'll work toward a mutually acceptable conclusion in others, but we'll remain flexible there with all our options on the table.

Rob Stevenson

Analyst

Okay, and then Clay, the uncollected contractual rents not subject to deferrals, I think it's like 3.5 to 7 million on page 14. Is that the amount that's fallen below the sort of 75% collectability test and had to be moved to cash accounting? Or is that sort of bucket somewhere else or another number?

Clay Thelen

Analyst

No. So the $3.5 million you're highlighting on page 14 is included in revenues and was still accrued for purposes of FFO and AFFO.

Rob Stevenson

Analyst

Have you had to move anybody into cash accounting because they've fallen below the collectability standards?

Clay Thelen

Analyst

We did. We moved three tenants to cash basis in the quarter, had an immaterial impact on our financials for the quarter, roughly $500,000, but it was three tenants in total.

Rob Stevenson

Analyst

Okay, and then Joey, I mean, you guys have been scooping up a bunch of Walmart's and obviously they're a great tenant and great credit quality. When you look at the portfolio just from a risk management standpoint, what's the sort of feeling in terms of the amount of Walmart exposure that's sort of prudent and that you guys are willing to take? I mean, if we keep going, seven, eight Walmart's a quarter on the last few quarters trend. You're going to be getting up there pretty high pretty soon.

Joey Agree

Analyst

Yeah, we're cognizant of all - of any tenant exposure in the aggregate. Obviously, Walmart Supercenters were extremely confluent. We started really pursuing Walmart Supercenters aggressively in Q4, which led to the Q1 acquisitions earlier this year. I mean, I'd remind everybody that many of these are ground leases. So beyond even the Walmart credit here, they're ground lease structures, and then we're targeting high performing stores. We enjoy a fantastic relationship with Walmart, as I mentioned the prepared remarks and we'll continue to target high performing stores with great underlying real estate and frankly, a low basis in terms of rental rates as well as our cost basis. So we're extremely comfortable, especially given the circumstances of the macro environment that we're in today, with Walmart being in that mid upper single digit range.

Rob Stevenson

Analyst

Okay, thanks, guys. Appreciate it.

Joey Agree

Analyst

Thanks, Rob.

Operator

Operator

Our next question today will come from Christy McElroy of Citi. Please go ahead.

Christy McElroy

Analyst

Hey, good morning, guys. Just a quick follow up on Rob's question. So just thinking about the 3.5 million that was accrued, but remains unresolved and that's net of what you wrote off, which you said was immaterial about 500,000. As you think about sort of that collectability assessment going forward and you don't keep a general reserve. I guess the question is, of that 3.5 million, is there a risk that more could be written off in future quarters, right?

Joey Agree

Analyst

Well, I think, yeah, there is a risk. I'll tell you that the bulk of that is two tenants, one in the health and fitness industry and one in the entertainment retail, you can see in terms of the collection data on page seven of our release, and I think you can imagine who those two are. So yeah, there is a risk. I'd tell you that both are leading operators in the spaces. I think the risk here is truly only probably maybe Dr. Fauci knows. The risk is really how long this ongoing health crisis goes on and then their ability to reopen. And so you'll see we did have some rent collection, specifically in the health and fitness sector in Q2 20%. The entertainment retail sector specifically at 0% is our three Dave & Buster's.

Christy McElroy

Analyst

And I guess, what's the risk that any of those tenants might fall out, right. How should we be thinking about potentially modeling a dip in occupancy as we move forward later in the year?

Joey Agree

Analyst

Yeah, Christy, again, I think it really comes down to the health crisis here, right. It really comes down to the underlying COVID-19 pandemic and the ability for these operators to open their doors and/or get alternative financing. And we've seen Dave & Buster's raise, I think it was $200 million in equity. And so there are sporadic openings, obviously sporadic closings now or re-closings and so I would hate to predict here the underlying health crisis. I'll tell you obviously, the July collections at 94% were stronger. So we all know and we see states, municipalities counties, closing doors on certain types of establishments here and those two types of establishments still are in that wheelhouse for doors being shut.

Christy McElroy

Analyst

Okay and then just a bigger picture question on acquisitions. I guess, in regard to the transaction, market and understand that you're buying high quality investment grade stuff. You're sticking with a narrow band of tenants. Just as you think more broadly about the next year and you have significant dry powder to invest. Do you anticipate further changes to the investment landscape, any sort of big changes in terms of pipeline and pricing? What do you see as the biggest opportunity to take advantage of here in terms of disruption that is occurring or could occur?

Joey Agree

Analyst

Well, I think we're investing in the 99 percentile of retail. From my perspective, 99% of retail is almost on investable or very difficult to underwrite, if you're willing to invest in it. And so we're playing the top 1% that is what we call our sandbox, the 20 to 30 tenants, we acquired I think 17 different tenants this quarter. My expectation frankly is the cap rates could or lease remain stable for that one percentile for that 99 percentile, I should say or even potentially compress. So and I'm sitting here looking at the 10-year unsecured bonds for many of the retailers that we are acquiring and reminds me very similarly of the Great Recession. Different interest rates, different cap rates. But if we think back to the Great Recession over 10 years ago, the 10-year Treasury was approximately 3%. We're acquiring – and high credit quality, we're trading at approximately 8% on a transactional basis. So basically about a 500 basis points spread. Today, when you look at the landscape, Walmart 10-year paper today is trading at 112, Costco is at 13, TJ Maxx at 165. We're acquiring again at a 500 basis points spread to where they're unsecured 10-year paper is trading. And so it's a very similar situation, obviously a much lower interest rate environment, a different cost of capital for us specifically, but for some acquirers out there in the marketplace. And so I think we're going to see high demand for high credit quality, the unique capabilities that we bring in the table is obviously our balance sheet, our cost of capital and liquidity. But most importantly, I would stress to everybody is the relationships we have with our retail partners and our ability for our team, which has done a fantastic job to source opportunities that fit within their long-term strategy.

Christy McElroy

Analyst

Thanks, Joey.

Joey Agree

Analyst

Thank you.

Operator

Operator

Our next question is from Nate Crossett of Berenberg. Please go ahead.

Nate Crossett

Analyst

Hey, good morning, guys. I was wondering if you could just touch on competition over the last three months. Obviously, your cost of capital is a lot better than most of the peers in this space. So any color on competition over the last month or two would be helpful.

Joey Agree

Analyst

I appreciate the questions Nate, I mean, undoubtedly there is less competition right now, given that many potential purchases are on their heels or dealing with defensive oriented measures due to COVID-19. Look, so this is a broad, broad fragmented space. It's a huge space as we talked about before, 65% of US retail GLA is net leased. So we face competition. That said the team here is second to none. Our relationships, as I mentioned with Christy's question, are second to none. And frankly, we're not having trouble finding opportunities to strike out.

Nate Crossett

Analyst

Okay, and just on the more challenged tenants, we're obviously following all of those and some of those guys have gotten funding from either the public markets or PEE. So I'm just wondering, have you noticed kind of a change in the dialogue once that funding is secured?

Joey Agree

Analyst

It's a good question. It's a broad question. I tell you, there's such a range of conversations that our COVID response team is happening, led by Laith Hermiz, our COO and Danielle Spehar, our General Counsel that it's tough to paint with a broad brush. I think that isn't the case for many of our tenants where private equity has stepped in or outside the Dave & Buster's equity raise. I think there was a block trade. That isn't the case, so I'd be hesitant to really draw any conclusions therefore.

Nate Crossett

Analyst

Okay and I'm just wondering on the G&A, you guys are obviously acquiring quite a bit and that's ramping up. In terms of the workforce do you see many additions next year? Are you kind of all set?

Joey Agree

Analyst

No, we will continue to grow the team in all aspects as I mentioned. We'll surpass the 1,000 properties in short order here. We'll continue to grow. We were very pleased to be named one of the best places in real estate to work recently and we'll continue to attract and retain talent and we're very focused on the full talent management cycle. That said, in terms of G&A, we have also spent several hundred thousand dollars and we'll continue to invest in IT and our systems. That's been a huge push for us over the last three years, and probably will never end, but we're obvious – we are seeing a lot of efficiencies from our IT improvements. We anticipate seeing additional efficiencies and capabilities from them. But there's no question this team will continue to grow as the platform continues to grow.

Nate Crossett

Analyst

Okay, great quarter. Thanks, guys.

Joey Agree

Analyst

Thank you. Appreciate it.

Operator

Operator

Our next question is from Linda Tsai of Jefferies. Please go ahead.

Linda Tsai

Analyst

Hi, thanks for taking my question. Those three tenants you moved into cash accounting totaling $500,000. What industries were those three tenants in?

Joey Agree

Analyst

Go ahead Clay.

Clay Thelen

Analyst

The vast majority was related to a tenant in the health and fitness sector. The other two were pretty small.

Linda Tsai

Analyst

Got it, maybe this answers the next question. The 3.5 million of uncollected rents not subject to deferral, in your view, do those – the entertainment fitness tenants, do they fall more in the category of inability to pay or unwillingness to pay?

Joey Agree

Analyst

That's a good question, Linda. I would tell you, it's more unwilling necessarily at this time to pay. We've had different and varied proposals, which included partial payment, included deferred payment or partial abatements and so this is in binary where they are unable to pay. That said are they conserving cash, definitely. But I think we'll continue to see as we did in July, additional collections and then we're just dealing with effectively rehearse or unless they are really re-shutdown. And then again, decide not to pay.

Linda Tsai

Analyst

Thanks for that. And then last one on selling the Art Van store. I think you said in the past you were a little bit more bearish on commoditized furniture stores. So what kind of due diligence did you do for this tenant or what makes you comfortable that they're sustainable?

Joey Agree

Analyst

Yeah. So Loves obviously took a number of the Art Van stores. I think given the difficulty in the overall leasing environment in the midst of a pandemic, with minimal landlord costs here on our end, we felt comfortable allowing Loves to take that space at 100% of the firmer rents. Now, we are hopeful that Loves will thrive as a company. We are very confident in the underlying real estate and specifically this unit, this store and so look, I guess that we're hopeful that they'll thrive. If not, this is a fantastic piece of future real estate, but given the overall leasing environment, given the minimal landlord cost here and investment and frankly $0.100 [ph] on the dollar that we recovered, we thought it made sense to enter into this transaction.

Linda Tsai

Analyst

Got it, thanks.

Joey Agree

Analyst

Thank you, Linda.

Operator

Operator

Our next question is from Todd Stender of Wells Fargo. Please go ahead.

Todd Stender

Analyst

Hi, thanks. And Joey, you gave some bond coupons as some of the larger tenants who have access to capital in the debt markets have been fairly open. How about other tenants who may not have that kind of access? How is the trajectory I guess, of sale leaseback discussions gone through this COVID period?

Joey Agree

Analyst

Very few and far between for us Todd, the only sale leaseback we've entered into the National Tire and Battery sale leaseback. And so again, we're playing in a really tight sandbox here with the best and brightest retailers in the country. The vast majority of those have access to both the debt and equity markets. The debt markets are obviously very favorable today and so very few sale leaseback discussions. Again, it's a capability. We'll deploy selectively and we're more than happy to discuss it, but it's really not our MO.

Todd Stender

Analyst

Okay and how about visibility for tenants and/or I guess, for you guys with your PCS platform to maybe break ground this fall. How are you viewing your pipelined and breaking ground and maybe tenants thinking about their growth?

Joey Agree

Analyst

So as I mentioned in the prepared remarks, we have a number of projects that we anticipate announcing commensurate with our third quarter earnings. They're either going through the entitlement of permitting process currently. There are tenants in this country that continue to grow. The dollar stores obviously, are growing. The auto parts retailers, the discount grocers are continuing to grow. Tractor Supply is continuing to grow amongst others. And so we'll continue to work with those retailers in our sandbox on either development or PCS projects. At the same time, we will deploy that capable very selectively. Given the robust nature and high-quality nature of our pipeline right now, this is a very busy team and we want to be careful where we spend our time, which is our most precious commodity.

Todd Stender

Analyst

All right, just last one from me. You have pretty good acquisition volume obviously, in the quarter and you've raised it and the cap rate was a 6.5. Can you discuss what the range of cap rates were in the quarter just to see how far you'll go maybe into the fives and maybe how high you'll go? Thanks.

Joey Agree

Analyst

Yeah, I tell you generally we're operating between a 5.5 and 7.5 dependent upon lease structure, term credit, underlying real estate, we made some very unique acquisitions during the quarter inclusive of the Walmart's, the CarMax, the QuikTrip portfolio, amongst others. And so I will tell you, that kind of averages out into that 6.5 range there. And that's kind of what we see going forward. Now, our Q3 pipeline, which I mentioned in the call, is sizable. It has some very unique qualities to it. We're very excited about it. It has a number of ground lease opportunities in it where we've been able to find some really one of a kind opportunities that we're excited about. And so that 6.5 will vacillate up and down, call it maybe 10 basis points. But again, that's kind of the midpoint of our stride per say.

Todd Stender

Analyst

Thank you.

Joey Agree

Analyst

Thanks Todd.

Operator

Operator

[Operator Instructions] Our next question is from John Massocca of Ladenburg Thalmann. Please go ahead.

John Massocca

Analyst

Good morning.

Joey Agree

Analyst

Good morning John.

John Massocca

Analyst

So maybe building a little bit on that kind of last line of questioning. Can you provide a little color on how much of your kind of investment opportunities today come from – on the acquisition side, come from developer sellers? And is there a possibility that maybe you see some headwinds in terms of that opportunity set as you look out maybe six to three months from now, maybe even nine months from now?

Joey Agree

Analyst

Yeah, I can't give you an exact number. I'll tell you we work with a number of developers slash repeat sellers on a direct basis. I don't anticipate that that would – typically those are smaller price point assets, the auto parts retailers of the world amongst them. So I wouldn't anticipate that becoming any headwind for us in terms of acquisition volume. It's a piece of what we do, but I'd remind everybody that we're acquiring from large institutional sellers all the way for the individual owners who own a single piece of net lease real estate. And so it's a wide range and a myriad of transaction types that really has no rhyme or reason on a quarter-to-quarter basis.

John Massocca

Analyst

Okay, and then just specifically, though, with the developer sellers, they – and they kind of bounce back or are they relatively healthy or do a little bit of stress on there and they don't – it doesn't affect your in place portfolio, just kind of think about that acquisition vertical.

Joey Agree

Analyst

It varies from developer, right. I mean, there are developers that got outside of their typical wheelhouse and maybe got into shopping centers or mixed use, but it really varies upon individual developers. I don't have much insight. Again, it's – we don't rely upon any single developer for a large piece of our pipeline or I tell you even a small piece of our pipeline and so I really don't have insight into their individual financial situations today. But again, it's – we continue to see those opportunities, but they're just a small piece of what we do.

John Massocca

Analyst

Okay and then switching gears a little bit to the in place portfolio. Can you provide some color maybe on your rent collections, the movie theatre industry? I just noticed because there was kind of a significant increase in the quarterly collection versus what you had collected in April.

Joey Agree

Analyst

Yeah, we had guys say. I mean, that's the bottom-line guys decided. Guys decided to pay. And so I think that has a – both the re-openings, their willingness to pay, our ongoing negotiations and tactics the COVID response team is taking resulted again. I'd remind everybody we only have five movie theatres here. AMC, Regal and Cinemark and so it's not a big subset obviously, of our portfolio and probably not representative of the overall theatre industry. But in July, you saw that payment activity definitely tick up there.

John Massocca

Analyst

Was that kind of unprompted or was that maybe potentially given kind of conversations you had had with them relatively expected?

Joey Agree

Analyst

I would say nothing is overly unprompted. We're engaged in active dialogue with all of our tenants, most notably probably the non-payers or the late payers, so it definitely not unprompted. In terms of expectations I think it varies across the board, some are surprising. These conversations – to be frank, these conversations are very fluid. They're very dynamic. And sometimes frankly, a check or a wire just shows up out of nowhere. And so there really is no rhyme or reason sometimes for these conversations. I think everyone has to remember that here – the default is that tenants are responsible for their rent. This pandemic was not a force majeure event. We have not breached quiet enjoyment. Their unilateral unwillingness to pay is a breach. It will eventually turn into a default and then we have a host of remedies based upon the contractual right, contractual remedies in the leases. And so there are tenants that are – we had one this weekend that just decided after four months of nonpayment and partial payment and all different types of payment that they're just going to pay everything now because frankly, I think they've realized that they have bigger problems to deal with in our three or four stores that we owe. So we anticipate that these collection numbers will continue to tick up. And a lot of them, frankly, are just a function of extended conversations here with these tenants.

John Massocca

Analyst

Okay, and as we kind of think about the July collections versus 2Q, was there any specific industries that drove that or was it pretty broad based?

Joey Agree

Analyst

I think it's pretty broad based. I think, notable in there obviously, was the theatre collections 71%. But I think –

John Massocca

Analyst

I was thinking from kind of June to July.

Joey Agree

Analyst

Yeah, I think it was pretty broad based, I think between gyms and theatres, you're right. You have some additional collection activity in there. And other tenants that were either potentially either able to open in certain regions and/or decided that payment was appropriate at this time, given the different pressures that they face.

John Massocca

Analyst

Okay, that's it for me. Thank you all very much.

Joey Agree

Analyst

Great, thanks John.

Operator

Operator

Our next question is a follow up from Christie McElroy of Citi. Please go ahead.

Michael Bilerman

Analyst

Hey, it's Michael Bilerman here with Christy. So Joey, I was wondering if you think about sort of acquisitions, are you willing to do any sort of larger portfolios or even larger scale M&A where you would obviously, not get 100% of this top 1% in terms of the type of assets that you normally buy, but given the size of the company portfolio today, are you willing to take on some non-core properties to be able to get a larger set of investments that fit your criteria? I guess are you willing to take the risk of selling non-core to deploy more capital?

Joey Agree

Analyst

Yeah. No, I appreciate the question, Michael. We are consistently looking at larger opportunities, diversified portfolios and the challenge we always run into is, again is, are we willing to take on and/or have to dispose of that bottom tier. And that is typically our largest challenge. Now, given the organic nature of our pipeline, given the depth, breath and I would tell you the quality of the pipeline right now, I mean, this is a conservative organization to take our midpoint of our guidance up 33%. People should take that with a – pretty strongly. It obviously isn't necessary for us. So it's something that we will look at, we will continue to look at, it's always been a challenge. My number one threshold here has always been we are not going to dilute the quality of this portfolio. And we are on a significant march, 1,400 basis points in terms of investment grade exposure. I think qualitatively this portfolio is improved. You're going to see it consistently improve quarter-over-quarter. And my biggest challenge with larger portfolios, as you mentioned, is always been taking on the bottom quartile of assets there or sometimes even larger.

Michael Bilerman

Analyst

All right, but even taking, let's say you find an M&A deal of let's say $1 billion, right and bottom quarter will be 250 million, all of a sudden, 250 million over perform a portfolio 4.5 billion is not that much, right. And I would argue 25% is probably a high number in terms of non-core in a portfolio. So I just don't know – I can understand maybe two years ago or even three, four years ago, and the company was a lot smaller, those sorts of transactions would have a much higher hurdle rate. I just don't know if we've sort of crossed the Rubicon at this point where you would pursue those because the resulted non-cores is not a significant enough of a percentage just as the pro forma total.

Joey Agree

Analyst

I agree, I think it's obviously with the growth of the company and the portfolio. And then the de minimis exposure to that non-core, they would – that a pro forma transaction would result in gives us more ability to look at those transactions and to scrutinize them. That said, we have no problem and I'll tell you the other challenge with these types of portfolios, the team here, the acquisition team here is the best team in the business period. We can go assemble most of these portfolios, frankly, at higher cap rates when we combine them on a one-off basis. Now, we save frictional costs, obviously, in time and transactional costs and everything else. But there isn't a portfolio in this country that we can assemble. I would tell you probably within 120 days if we just went notate and so given everything that you said and I think there is merit and I think there will be – the size of this company now does open up different avenues for us, potential avenues like say to grow. I think what's more interesting is just the sheer success. And frankly, the velocity of the success we're having on the organic one-off nature right now make those transactions I think even less attractive on the portfolio basis right. That's the struggle we have.

Michael Bilerman

Analyst

And then are you able to break down in terms of the pipeline by sort of one off single asset, portfolios, types of retailers just to give a cent and then how large it is because obviously, some stuff will fall out, just as we think about the next six to 12 months in terms of deployment.

Joey Agree

Analyst

Did you ask if we could break it down?

Michael Bilerman

Analyst

Yeah, just give more color around the pipeline where you talked about the largest pipelines organic.

Joey Agree

Analyst

Yeah, it's in full transparency. It's the largest pipeline that we've ever had. It is of similar quality to what you've seen from us from Q1 and Q2, over 80% in investment grade. I tell you, there are some small portfolios typically single credit that is two, three, four assets, for example, for O'Reilly Auto Parts or to Tractor Supply's. There are some larger price point ground leases that we are very excited about. There are some unique pieces of real estate, I would tell you not overly dissimilar from the Hamptons, Home Goods that we acquired. So it's really an aggregation of very different property types. But I tell you, its top tier. There's no question about that.

Michael Bilerman

Analyst

And then just lastly, I guess if you're not willing to buy non-core to get to a core portfolio, are you going to accelerate the disposition volumes of what remains non-core today and what is that estimate in your mind? Is it 10%, 15%, 20% of the portfolio? I guess if you had your druthers and you're able to execute it prices that you feel comfortable with, what percentage of the portfolio would you seek to liquidate? Thanks.

Joey Agree

Analyst

So we've been very aggressive obviously in the franchise restaurants space with that down to 1.5% we sold for Taco Bell, the Buffalo Wild Wings, the Burger King and Wendy's during Q2. Subsequent to quarter end, we have a couple additional sales that are very similar. I would love to sell the LA Fitness to Dave & Buster's and the movie theatre. So if anyone would like them, please give us a call. I mean, that's what I truly view as non-core today. The marketability of those assets obviously, is in question, but we really pared back fairly aggressively here and at aggressive cap rates at a six three in Q2. The non-core, generally lower price point 1031 transactions that we sell into that market, but I think the distressed tenants are the watch lists that everyone is focused on is what we've effectively – is our non-core portfolio.

Michael Bilerman

Analyst

And so what percentage remains?

Joey Agree

Analyst

Let's a call it 6%, 7% when you take the three entertainment retail assets, the five movie theatres and the health and fitness operator we have.

Michael Bilerman

Analyst

Are you worried about the 1031market at all and potential changes?

Joey Agree

Analyst

No, I think I think frankly, we were very aggressive. We sold 30 plus restaurants, franchise restaurants into the 1031 market over the past call it 50 months. And so we were very aggressive, I think, taking the 1031 market or I wouldn't say taken offline, but shifting dynamics, the 1031 market. It'll be interesting to see the implications. But I think those implications will be for the lower price point assets potentially like those restaurants, which we really divested of. I would tell you our average transaction this year has picked up from the $4.2 million last year with intent, really driven by that 13 or 14 Walmart's, we've already announced the acquisition of, as well as some Home Depot and Lowe's activity, typically ground leases. And so we don't see a lot of 1031 competition in that space. That was typically dominated by more institutional purchasers who we really don't see competing at the same level anymore.

Michael Bilerman

Analyst

All right, Joey. Thanks for the time.

Joey Agree

Analyst

Thank you, Michael.

Operator

Operator

Ladies and gentlemen, this will conclude our question-and-answer session. At this time, I'd like to turn the conference back over to Joey Agree for any closing remarks.

Joey Agree

Analyst

Well, thank you for your patience. Everyone, please be safe and good luck to the rest of earning seasons and we will talk to you shortly. Thank you.

Operator

Operator

The conference has now concluded. We thank you for attending today's presentation. And you may now disconnect your lines.