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FRP Holdings, Inc. (FRPH)

Q4 2017 Earnings Call· Wed, Mar 7, 2018

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Operator

Operator

Ladies and gentlemen, and thank you for patience and holding. We now have Mr. John Baker, Executive Chairman and CEO of FRP Holdings Incorporated in conference. [Operator Instructions] It is now my pleasure to introduce Mr. Baker, you may begin, sir.

John Baker

Analyst

Good afternoon. I'm John Baker, Chairman and CEO of FRP Holdings, Inc. and with me today are David deVilliers, our President; John Milton, our CFO; and John Klopfenstein, our Chief Accounting Officer. Before we begin, let me remind you that any statements on this conference call which relate to the future are by their nature subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results and events to differ materially from those indicated in such forward-looking statements. These include risks listed from time to time in our SEC filings including but not limited to our annual and quarterly reports. Net income for the fourth quarter of 2017 was $13,203,000 or $1.31 per share versus $1,682,000 or $0.17 per share in 2016. Fourth quarter numbers include $12,043,000 or $1.20 per share after taxes due to a reduction in the provision for income taxes, resulting from the company’s net deferred tax liabilities and reduction in corporate tax rates by the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017. Revenue for the quarter were $12,455,000, up 30.9% from last year, primarily because of the addition of rental revenues from our new D.C. apartment building, Dock 79. Net income for the full year 2017 was $41,750,000 or $4.16 per share versus $12,024,000 or $1.22 per share a year ago. The majority of this uptick in income is the result of our partnership interest in a pretax gain on remeasurement of investment of $39.7 million in our Dock 79 real estate partnership and the $12,043,000 gain I mentioned earlier as a result of the tax cuts. The increase in net income was also augmented by $1 million environmental charge in 2016 but mitigated by a $620,000 increase in a loss of joint ventures, primarily driven by the $5 million increase in depreciation, resulting from the write-up of Dock 79. As the numbers indicate, 2017 was a game changer for FRP Holdings. In addition to the swift run-up of Dock 79, we gained approval for Phase 2 of that project, which will also be an apartment building. We also received approvals allowing mining on our property that is leased to Vulcan Materials at Fort Myers, Florida, and the property leased to Cemex near Lake Louisa in Central Florida. These 2 projects will have a significant effect on the future growth of our royalties, and both will have development or potential when the mining reserves are exhausted. Finally, given the lower tax rates, we have decided not to proceed with the REIT election that we have discussed in previous conversations. Now if I could, let me turn it over to our President, David deVilliers, to walk you through to our segments.

David deVilliers

Analyst

Thank you, John, and good day to those on the call this afternoon. As John articulated in his opening remarks, we had a busy quarter in all of our business segments. Relative to the Asset Management segment, total revenues from our building platform for the quarter just ended, were up 6.8% to $7,816,000 over the same period last year, mainly due to higher reimbursements from operating expenses and higher straight line rents as a result of our increased building platform and increased occupancy. Net income -- net operating income was only up slightly versus the same period last year to $5,813,000. This is due primarily to the straight lining effect of new leases with free rent periods that contained an unrealized rent component, which is excluded from the NOI calculation. We ended this quarter with total occupied square feet of 3,707,724 square feet, an increase of 218,769 square feet, or 6.3% over the same period last quarter. Our occupancy level increased from the previous quarter ended September 30, to 93.1% from 91.3%, and leased square footage from 92% on September 30 to 94.8% at the end of December. As to same-store, average annual occupancy for the quarter decreased slightly by 40 basis points to 91.2% over the same quarter last year. And the corresponding NOI for the same period was down 2.6% to $5,365,000 from $5,508,000. This decrease is primarily due to several large, long-term single-tenanted building vacancies, partially offset by income from short-term, temporary leases. To our Mining and Royalty segment, revenues declined for the quarter just ended over the same period last year by 1% or $20,000 to $1,860,000. This is mainly due to decreases in tonnages sold at several locations because of weather and more normalized volumes at Keuka and Newberry Cement. Total operating profit in this…

John Baker

Analyst

Thank you, David. We're now happy to entertain any questions that any of you all might have.

Operator

Operator

[Operator Instructions] Our first question comes from Curtis Jensen with Robotti & Company.

Curtis Jensen

Analyst

What's -- just any kind of update on the kind of the multi-family outlook in the capital Riverfront, just supply and demand absorption, all of that?

David deVilliers

Analyst

Curtis, it's David deVilliers. We are -- we still remain pretty positive in those programs. We -- most of the apartment complexes in the area are doing pretty well as you can see from our occupancies and our leases. We're staying pretty close to a strong pro forma. We don't see any unforeseen -- unless something unforeseen happens, we feel pretty good about the things going forward.

John Baker

Analyst

Curtis, we just finished a marketing report for our Phase 2, and that further underlines what David had just said.

Curtis Jensen

Analyst

Great. And I guess some of the learning from Phase 1 will be applied to Phase 2. And so do you think when you net it all out and kind of your design and construction expenses and all of that, I don't know if it's -- you kind of expect similar economics to what happened with Phase 1? I guess it's a smaller building to some extent, but roughly, kind of proportionally similar economics or is that -- is it going to be...

David deVilliers

Analyst

I would say, Curtis, first of all, the building is a different shape, but -- which causes a little bit of an increase in the cost per square foot. But general construction costs alone have gone up dramatically. But once again, like John articulated a little earlier that we had a market study done and that everything is pretty favorable going forward. So we have a pretty conservative outlook on what we believe the market rates are going to be, but we feel pretty comfortable that the program going forward will do well for us.

John Baker

Analyst

Rental rates -- Curtis, rental rates have gone up very nicely since we started Phase 1, and of course, that helps offset the cost, as well. So we're -- our pro formas probably were about the same as they were when we did them for Phase 1 and they turned out to be a lot better on Phase 1 because of the rental rates going up. And hopefully that will happen again but none of us are smart enough to be sure of that.

David deVilliers

Analyst

To add to John, the mix is a little different as it relates to size, bedrooms and that sort of thing, but nothing dramatic.

Curtis Jensen

Analyst

Okay. I guess there's been a little bit of movement on the Frederick Douglass Bridge, and is that...

David deVilliers

Analyst

Yes sir, it has.

Curtis Jensen

Analyst

Good news I guess, but it's still a few years off, is it impacting any of your thinking at this point for further development on 3 and 4, or is it -- that's just way too premature right now?

David deVilliers

Analyst

Actually, they've started. They initiated the construction for this about a couple of months ago. I think you'll see some pretty dramatic activity down there in July after the All-Star Game. It is played at the Nationals' Baseball Stadium. And that's going to -- we're going to outline their limits of the service and they're off and running actually. They have a contractor, they have a design build and they're up and running. And so it's about a 4 to 5-year construction project. And we think that, that kind of fits pretty well within the program that we have for 3 and 4.

Operator

Operator

[Operator Instructions] Our next question comes from Bill Chen with Rhizome Partners.

Bill Chen

Analyst · Rhizome Partners.

I was just wondering if you could talk about the industrial leasing front. What you're seeing in the market as we have a lot of leases coming off. Just kind of -- is there an opportunity to re-tenant those spaces at higher or similar kind of rental rates going forward. And the -- with there a conference recently, industrial reality conference, and I don't think I've seen such bullishness at an industry conference. So just wondering if you could comment on what you guys are seeing on the ground.

David deVilliers

Analyst · Rhizome Partners.

First of all, Bill, it's David. We see some -- there's some strong velocity in the marketplace as I alluded or as I said in my notes to you all earlier. We did a pretty good job of backfilling and renewing in '17. I mean, the lease and renew over 1 million square feet on a 4 million square-foot portfolio is a pretty interesting task. And going forward, we'd like to think we're still pretty bullish on being able to do that, and we've been able to get some greater rent than we had anticipated. Because in a lot of cases, these are long-term tenants that have been there 7, 10 years with 3% annual bonds. So those rents will start running off pretty high as you know, but we've been able to capture some pretty good rental rates for some of these renewals of the larger tenants. So we feel pretty good about the program, and we'd like to think that we'll meet or exceed our expectations for the year.

Bill Chen

Analyst · Rhizome Partners.

Got you. And just on Hollander, which is kind of right on 95, are we seeing any interest to potentially develop more sites at that location? Because I've been through there a few times and it just seems like it's right in the center of everything.

David deVilliers

Analyst · Rhizome Partners.

Well, as you know, we just finished the lately, the -- I guess not the last spec we did, but the one before, we leased up to a single tenant over a 16-year period, that's up and that's a pretty strong lease and a strong tenant. The other building that we have is the multi-tenanted building. And over the last 12 months, we've had a lot of movement around those 2, go through expand. We did lose the tenant to down the street, but we instantly back filled them with another one and expanded another, and that building is a 100% occupied. So we're taking a long hard look at the possibility of starting another spec there sooner rather than later.

Bill Chen

Analyst · Rhizome Partners.

Got you. That's helpful. And also just can't help but notice that the Amazon HQ2 kind of have 3 locations that are geographically somewhat -- it's Montgomery county, Northern Virginia and D.C. Could you maybe just kind of help me -- help us think about, if it does land in any of those 3 locations, how do you think that impacts our footprint and our portfolio?

David deVilliers

Analyst · Rhizome Partners.

It's interesting, Bill. The -- one of the locations is right down at the Anacostia there in the Southeast, which would be an interesting dynamic for that area, but I don't know that, that area needs a whole lot more with the interesting dynamic with the new soccer stadium and everything else going up. The Montgomery county space, which I guess you're alluding to, is just outside of 495 on the Beltway. We don't have any other budding product near there other than, I guess, you could say [ Manassas], which is 100% -- pretty much 100% build-out. And then up near Baltimore, Washington International Airport and those buildings are all in -- been pretty good shape. So it's hard really to say what could happen if one of the 3,000-pound gorilla shows up at your front door, and how you're going to react to that.

Operator

Operator

At this time we have no other questioners in the queue.

John Baker

Analyst

Okay. Well thank you all for joining us today. As we mentioned, we are very bullish about our markets. David talked about the fact that we do have about 10% of our tenants' leases expiring, and yet a year ago that would have been donning. And at this point, we're very, very bullish about going up those spaces much quicker than we would've normally expected. So you all have been great to have an interest in our company, and we look forward to talking to you next quarter. Thank you.

Operator

Operator

Ladies and gentlemen, that concludes today's presentation. You may disconnect your phone lines and thank you for joining us this afternoon.