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Q2 2014 Earnings Call· Wed, Aug 13, 2014

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Operator

Operator

Greeting. And welcome to the Physicians Realty Trust Second Quarter 2014 Earnings Conference Call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. A question-and-answer session will follow the formal presentation. (Operator Instructions). As a reminder, this conference is being recorded. It is now my pleasure to introduce your host, David Burke of The Ruth Group. Thank you. You may begin.

David Burke

Management

Good morning and welcome to Physicians Realty Trust’s second quarter 2014 conference call and audio webcast. With me today are John Thomas, Chief Executive Officer; John Sweet, Chief Investment Officer; Jeff Theiler, Chief Financial Officer and John Lucey, Principle Accounting and Reporting Officer. I’d like to remind you that today’s call will contain forward-looking statements as defined by the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 that can be identified by words such as belief, expect, anticipate, plans, project, seek and similar expressions and involve numerous risks and uncertainties. Company’s actual results could differ materially from those anticipated or implied in such forward-looking statements as a result of certain factors as set forth in the company’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. With that I would now like to turn the call over to the company’s CEO, John Thomas. John?

John Thomas

Chief Executive Officer

Thank you, David. And thank you everyone for joining us this morning for our second quarter 2014 earnings conference call. I apologize I’m fighting back a little cold this morning. So, hopefully you’ll be able to understand me. As David mentioned, we have the entire DOC management team here and I’m very excited that we’ve completed our team this quarter. I’ll begin the call with a brief review of our first full year of operations and second quarter highlights. Jeff Theiler, will present his observations and vision for DOC, then John Lucey will present our second quarter financial results. We will then be pleased to take your questions. I would like to begin with a summary of the first year of our operations. Since our IPO on July 19, 2013 we have delivered the following results to our shareholders. Total shareholder return from July 19 through July 18 2014 was 36.8%, including dividends paid during the year. We paid as of August 1, 2014, $0.855 per share. Our predecessor had NOI of $3.8 million through the six months ended June 30, 2013 and our company had NOI of $15.7 million for the comparable period of 2014, an increase of $11.9 million or 310%. On the date of our IPO, we had 528,000 rentable square feet with 83% occupied and an average lease term of seven years remaining. On June 30, 2014, we had approximately 1.7 million rentable square feet of which 94.2% was occupied and with an average lease term of 9.65 years. When we made public, the predecessor company led by John Sweet and Mark Theine, contributed real-estate investments valued at $124 million. During the quarter ended June 30, 2014, John, Mark and our team had added $73.6 million new investments. And in July 2014, we added an additional…

Jeff Theiler

Chief Financial Officer

Thank you, John. I’m very pleased to be speaking to you today as part of the leadership team for Physicians Realty Trust. I’ve been here just a short time but have already been impressed by the caliber of the people serving the company starting with our distinguished board of trustees on to our Chief Executive Officer John Thomas, our Chief Investment Officer, John Sweet and extending throughout the rest of the company. I know some of you on this call from my time at Green Street Advisors, where I led the Healthcare REIT research effort for the past four years. During that time, I observed a transformation in the Healthcare REIT sector. During the first part of my tenure as a REIT Analyst, I watched the already large diversified healthcare REIT more than triple in size as they work to consolidate the industry creating outside shareholder value along the way. And then later on, the smaller and more focused healthcare REITs began to generate the best performance in the sector. These REITs demonstrated the ability to generate consistent external growth and their relatively small asset bases meant that each acquisition dollar contributed more to the bottom line growth than their larger peers. So, it was with great interest that I watched Physicians Realty Trust complete its initial public offering just over a year ago. In DOC, I saw a small REIT with a large opportunity ahead of it in the medical office building sector. The sector by the way that I consider to have the best risk adjusted return profile in healthcare. The biggest question I had as an outside observer was whether the REIT had a fuelling place that could source a significant number of high-quality acquisition opportunities. When I saw the first quarter 2014 investment results of nearly…

John Lucey

Management

Thank you Jeff, and good morning. As I have stated in previous calls, prior to the completion of our IPO on July 24, 2013, the Trust had no operations. Therefore, results of operations for the second quarter of this year represent results of the Trust while results for the comparable period of 2013 reflect the results of operations of our predecessor. For the second quarter of 2014, our normalized FFO was approximately $5.2 million or $0.17 per diluted share and normalized FAD was approximately $4.9 million or $0.16 per diluted share. Second quarter 2014 total revenues increased by 233.1% to $11.4 million from $3.4 million in the second quarter of 2013. The year-over-year in total revenues was attributable to $7.7 million increase in rental revenues which totaled $10.2 million for the quarter ended June 30, 2014. Expense recoveries and other revenue also increased by $304,000, a 33.7% increase over the comparable period of last year. The strong growth in rental revenues of over 304% from the second quarter of 2013 is attributable to our portfolio expansion as we add a total of 49 properties contributing to our results during the 2014 quarter which had a combined square footage of approximately 1.7 million square feet and an occupancy rate of 94.2%. Our predecessor had 19 properties and 500,000 square feet in the comparable period and occupancy of approximately 83%. As previously announced, we completed $73.6 million in property acquisitions during the second quarter of 2014. On a pro forma basis, had all the acquisitions occurred on the first day of the quarter, we would have reported an additional $1 million of revenue. General and administrative costs were $2.4 million compared to $102,000 in the comparable period of 2013. The increase in expenses resulted from the build-out of our public company infrastructure…

Operator

Operator

(Operator Instructions). Thank you. Our first question is coming from the line of Karin Ford with KeyBanc Capital Markets. Please proceed with your question. Karin Ford – KeyBanc Capital Markets: Hi, good morning. My first question is just on the pipeline, I wanted to ask about what the composition of the pipeline looks like, is it similar to the recent fill that you’ve done on the past? And also talk about what the trends you’ve been seeing in pricing it seems like cap rates have come in quite a bit in recent months? Just want to get your thoughts on that.

John Thomas

Chief Executive Officer

Yes, good morning, Karin. This is John, John Thomas. I’ll speak a little bit about it and let John Sweet to make a couple of comments. But the pipeline as Jeff mentioned is robust, primarily medical office building and with large multi-specialty groups and half the affiliation so typical of what we’ve been buying and good strong healthcare market. On pricing, generally, in where we’ve seen a big move in the last, since the IPO frankly is in the post Q and surgical hospital space where a pricing on those assets has moved more aggressively toward MOB rates. We believe there should be a pricing differential there, our risk reward, our risk adjusted return that’s better – a better place to put investments. So, you’ll see less of that from us but still seeing some really good opportunities in the – primarily in the surgical hospital space unless the post Q care world right now. John?

John Sweet

Analyst · KeyBanc Capital Markets

Yes, good morning Karin. We are seeing a little bit of compression in cap rates. The popularity of the asset class continues to be very, very strong. We’ve been fortunate in recent months by virtue of referrals that are coming from folks who are in properties that we have acquired over the past year. That’s kind of kept the market, kept them out of the larger market and we’ve been able to be pretty successful in negotiating some transactions. But there is some compression out there right now. Karin Ford – KeyBanc Capital Markets: Thanks for the color. My second question is just on G&A, came in at $3.4 million including I think roughly $0.5 million of non-cash comp. Just, I think in the last call you sort of said its $1.7 million you thought was a good run rate, even though higher. I wanted to get your thoughts on what we should be looking at from here? And also what the impact is as the change in the shared services agreement on G&A?

Jeff Theiler

Chief Financial Officer

Hi, Karin, it’s Jeff. So, in terms of G&A, one of the great things about being a small company is that you have outsized growth opportunity. One of the disadvantage frankly is you have a higher G&A as a percentage of assets. So, as we look to build a long-term company versus just putting a portfolio together, we’re investing in the people and the systems that are going to make that possible. So, as we look out into the future for G&A, I think a sustainable run-rate for the foreseeable future in G&A is probably about $7.5 million to $8.5 million of cash G&A going forward on an annualized basis. Karin Ford – KeyBanc Capital Markets: Okay. And what impact is the change in the shared services agreement going to have versus the savings?

Jeff Theiler

Chief Financial Officer

The change in the shared services over the longer term it’s going to be positive for sure. I think in the near term, before we really start scaling up, I think it’s probably about a neutral cost impact. Karin Ford – KeyBanc Capital Markets: Okay. And then just last question, was there any material leasing done in the quarter say in the Lansing property or the Columbus property that you guys want to share with us?

John Thomas

Chief Executive Officer

Yes, I’m sorry Karin, allow us to for a second, color on the Columbus property or the Lansing property, is that what you asked? Karin Ford – KeyBanc Capital Markets: Yes.

John Thomas

Chief Executive Officer

Okay. The Columbus property, we’ve entered into a sale agreement to sell that to a frankly it’s a retail use. And we’re pretty pleased to move – go and move that asset off of our books. And we expect that or hope that will close this quarter. And we’re working through the time there. But it’s assigned purchased agreement just the seller working through with the buyers, working through their diligence. On Lansing, we’ve had tremendous amount of traffic flow. I think each quarter we’ve reported lots of tenant activity but we’d continue to have a great deal of expectation that that would be leased to a healthcare provider and we’ll contribute to the core NOI in the future, so. Karin Ford – KeyBanc Capital Markets: Okay. Thanks very much.

John Thomas

Chief Executive Officer

Yes.

Operator

Operator

Thank you. The next question is coming from the line of Craig Kucera with Wunderlich Securities. Please proceed with your question. Craig Kucera – Wunderlich: Hi, good morning guys.

John Thomas

Chief Executive Officer

Hi Craig. Craig Kucera – Wunderlich: Nice quarter by the way. You’ve expanded the line of credit to $200 million, it’s a secured facility. If you were to move to an unsecured facility, you have a feeling for kind of the pricing differential or would it be material?

Jeff Theiler

Chief Financial Officer

Hi Craig, this is Jeff. Yes, I think it would – obviously we’re at the stage in our company’s lifecycle, where we’re starting to investigate all types of additional capital avenues, unsecured facilities certainly one of those. We would expect pricing on an unsecured facility to be somewhere slightly over 100 basis points inside of our current pricing on the secured facility. Craig Kucera – Wunderlich: Got it. And then, when you think about the company moving forward to being investment grade because I know that’s the goal that you guys have clearly made, present to the Street for a while, could it happen next year that’s certainly the goal. What do you think that would mean overall to your change in your cost of financing?

John Thomas

Chief Executive Officer

Look, I think that, if we hit investment grade metrics, certainly you get another little bump on any kind of unsecured facility that we would have out. And then I think importantly for us, it provides the opportunity to put long-term financing in place for our assets. And that’s really the goal of ours. So it’s difficult to say what the cost of capital for an investment grade unsecured debt is going to be in the future. But certainly it’s worth it for us to – because of their answer quickly to kind of wait for that window of opportunity and execute when we can. Craig Kucera – Wunderlich: Got it. And then finally, there was actually a significant announcement in the space between HC and the Main Street were there setting up a development partnership. Is something like that attractive to you at any point in the near term or are you guys finding plenty of products now, that’s existing, at cap rate so they’re still quite attractive?

John Thomas

Chief Executive Officer

Yes, Craig, this is John Thomas again. That’s a great opportunity there. That’s a nice portfolio. But again, it’s mostly in your housing and post skilled care but great assets. Congratulate and help for REIT on that acquisition. We’re continuing to focus on the medical office and again these specialized hospitals from time to time so we can find attractive yield opportunities. The development world in the MOB space is picking up, but larger health systems sponsoring large, highly leased MOB development opportunities. So we’re keeping an eye on those. But those are things that will come online a year from now. And so, hopefully we’ll have the opportunity to and have a cost of capital to be competitive for takeout other type of arrangements there. Development for us is something in the future and something we’ll pursue where we can find attractive long-term higher yields in the acquisition market. And right now that’s more of a future opportunity in the near term, plenty of acquisition opportunities for us in the near term for growth. Craig Kucera – Wunderlich: Okay. Thanks guys.

Operator

Operator

(Operator Instructions). Our next question is coming from the line of Wilkes Graham with Compass Point. Please proceed with your question. Wilkes Graham – Compass Point: Hi, good morning everyone.

John Thomas

Chief Executive Officer

Good morning, Wilkes. Wilkes Graham – Compass Point: And Jeff, welcome to the company.

Jeff Theiler

Chief Financial Officer

Thank you. Wilkes Graham – Compass Point: I think most of my questions have been answered. I think the only I might have is your guidance for the second half of the year, $150 million to $300 million. Obviously that’s a pretty good number the mid-point of that is obviously above the $400 million you talked about before. But can you talk about maybe what goes into such a wide range for the second half of the year, is it just certainty of timing before December 31, or is it a function of the due diligence that maybe after (inaudible) assets?

John Thomas

Chief Executive Officer

Wilkes, this is John Thomas. I think it is timing it is the biggest variability there. We’ve got a near-term pipeline that, have fairly good certain color on when it’s going to close. It’s probably the fourth quarter and timing of getting transactions closed, is the only real variability there. Wilkes Graham – Compass Point: Okay. And I know, Karin asked before about Cap rate compression. But have cap rates moved or are you seeing a continued compression off late that concerns you at all about your ability to continue to grow into next year?

John Thomas

Chief Executive Officer

All the high profile large portfolio trades are somewhere in the 5.8% to below 6% range depending upon how you do the math and what year of NOI you’re looking at in the transaction. So and we’re still finding, historically we’ve said, we’ve been finding things in 7% to 10% range. If we over the past year, some of the higher yielding as I mentioned before assets have been, and the opportunities have been in the post Q care space or the surgical hospital space. And there has been contraction there that we’ve just avoided, which means most of our acquisition for medical office buildings and we’re finding lots of high grade opportunities there in the 7% to 8% range. And where you see us, but they’re below 7% it’s for quality and size and bulk and you’ll start to see some of that as our cost of capitals come down. So the short answer and sorry to ramble a little bit is 7% to 8% is still a good number for us primarily because it’s mostly medical office buildings, they’re below 6%, they’re below 7% be very clear about that. They’re below 7% if we see really high quality, larger acquisition that makes sense in a great market with a great healthcare or tenants in the building. We have some opportunities above 8% where there is some risk adjustment premium available so. Wilkes Graham – Compass Point: Thanks John.

Operator

Operator

Thank you. It appears there are no further questions at this time. I would now like to turn the floor back over to Mr. Thomas for any additional concluding comments.

John Thomas

Chief Executive Officer

I think you can tell we’re very excited and very proud of our first year and accomplishment. We had our Annual Shareholder Meeting last week and actually had several shareholders drive from a long way away from around the country to come. So we’re very excited, very pleased. Thank you for our time this morning. We’ll be happy to have follow-up calls and discussion with you. And we welcome Jeff Theiler and his expertise and track record and a long bright future with DOC. So, thanks everyone.