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Getty Realty Corp. (GTY)

Q3 2015 Earnings Call· Thu, Nov 5, 2015

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Operator

Operator

Good day and welcome to the Getty Realty Corp Third Quarter 2015 Earnings Conference Call. Today's conference is being recorded. At this time, I would like to turn the conference over to Mr. Joshua Dicker, Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary. Please go ahead.

Joshua Dicker

President

Thank you very much. I would like to thank you all for joining us for Getty Realty's quarterly earnings conference call. Yesterday afternoon, the Company released its financial results for the quarter ended September 30, 2015. The Form 8-K and earnings release are available in the Investor Relations section of our Web site at gettyrealty.com. Certain statements made in the course of this call are not based on historical information and may constitute forward-looking statements. These statements are based on management's current expectations and beliefs and are subject to trends, events, and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those described in the forward-looking statements. Examples of forward-looking statements include our 2015 guidance and may also include statements made by Mr. Driscoll or Mr. Constant in their remarks and in response to questions, including regarding lease restructuring, future Company operations, future financial performance, and the Company's acquisition or redevelopment plans and opportunities. We caution you that such statements reflect our best judgment based on factors currently known to us and that actual events or results could differ materially. I refer you to the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2014, as well as our quarterly reports on Form 10-Q and our other filings with the SEC for a more detailed discussion of the risks and other factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied in any forward-looking statements made today. You should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements, which reflect our view only as of the date hereof. The Company undertakes no duty to update any forward-looking statements that may be made in the course of this call. Also, please refer to our earnings release for a discussion of our use of non-GAAP financial measures, including our revised definition of AFFO and our reconciliation of those measures to net earnings. With that said, let me turn the call over to David Driscoll, our Chief Executive Officer.

David Driscoll

Chief Executive Officer

Thank you, Josh. Good morning everyone and welcome to our call for the third quarter of 2015. This was another active quarter for Getty that continued to show consistent improvement in our operating results represented by growth in FFO and AFFO per share. The main headlines for the quarter was dispositions of 60 locations to $19 million, despite of our ongoing transitional activities, revenue increasing by 20% which contributed to an AFFO per share increase of almost 9% and our receipt of approximately $10.8 million as our final distribution from the GPMI estate. This distribution brings our total receipt from the GPMI lawsuit to more than $50 million, but not the end of that chapter. In addition, yesterday afternoon, I announced that I will retire as Chief Executive Officer of Getty and from our Board of Directors effective December 31, 2015. It has been both an honor and privilege to lead Getty through its transformation with challenging circumstances that we face. I want to thank the Board for giving me the opportunity, and our employees, for their dedication, hard work and support. We also announced yesterday that our Chief Financial Officer, Chris Constant will succeed me as Chief Executive Officer. Chris and I have worked closely together for nearly 15 years. By now, he’s the capable and ready to take on this challenge. And with that, to prove how confident I am in him, I want to turn this call over to him to let him walk you through the additional details of the quarter.

Chris Constant

Chief Financial Officer

Thank you, David. First off I want to thank the Board for the opportunity to succeed David and leave the Company starting on January 1st. I also want to thank David for being an outstanding mentor and great friend during our five year together at Getty and many years before. The Company has been through a tremendous transformation during Dave five plus years at the helm, and he is certainly leaving us in a better place. We wish him well on his future endeavors. I’ll now turn to an update on our portfolio. We ended the quarter with a total of 866 properties with 771 properties as core net leased, meaning they are subject to long term triple net leasing. The 95 remaining properties are considered transitional, meaning that the properties are either in the process of being installed or being leased generally on a long term triple net basis. There is a lot of activity in this part of our portfolio and I anticipate being able to report additional progress in the coming quarters. For the quarter ended September 30, 2015, we acquired one property in Connecticut for $1.4 million, bringing our year-to-date activities to 79 properties acquired for $218.3 million. The majority of our acquisition activity this year stems from our Apro acquisition in Q2, which added 77 locations in key markets such as California, Colorado, Oregon, and Washington D.C. As part of the capital recycling efforts David touched on earlier, we sold 50 properties during the quarter for $19 million, bringing our year-to-date activity to 72 properties sold, or $22.3 million. The bulk of the activity in Q3 was for sale of 48 sites located in the Southern New Jersey and Pennsylvania, which we’ve previously identified as transitions. The cumulative result of our acquisition and leasing activities…

Operator

Operator

Thank you [Operator Instructions]. And we will take our first question from Gene Nussbaum [ph] with JP Morgan.

Unidentified Analyst

Analyst · JP Morgan

Chris congratulations again on your promotion. I have a question on the guidance that you provided from the press release that year-to-date AFFO is up [indiscernible]. Can you just bridge what’s been year-to-date and we should expect in 4Q?

Chris Constant

Chief Financial Officer

The year-to-date number has $0.22 of income from the GPMI estate. So when we did our guidance range, we backed that number out.

Unidentified Analyst

Analyst · JP Morgan

And we should be looking at like about 7 for the first nine months?

Chris Constant

Chief Financial Officer

I think it’s $1.03.

Unidentified Analyst

Analyst · JP Morgan

Just switching over to new rules, are there any changes that you want to make right away?

Chris Constant

Chief Financial Officer

Other than finding a replacement for myself, not at this time, no.

Unidentified Analyst

Analyst · JP Morgan

Okay.

David Driscoll

Chief Executive Officer

Well, I am going to jump in on this one and say that I can tell looking around the table that we might lose time as part of the core and the office.

Unidentified Analyst

Analyst · JP Morgan

Last, one more question, and I’ll get back into the queue. Just so, what kind of growth opportunities are you seeing? And then what are you planning to use the source of funding for growth that you’re cancelling [ph] in?

Chris Constant

Chief Financial Officer

On the growth front, I think I used the word opportunistic on the call. So from both and external acquisition and from a redevelopment perspective, we’ll look to see are we going to achieve the highest return. And at this point I think we’re pretty comfortable with our current capital structure. So we’ll look to fund from either our current facility or our operations.

Operator

Operator

Thank you [Operator Instructions]. And there are no other questions at this time. Actually we just have another question coming from Gene with JP Morgan.

Unidentified Analyst

Analyst · JP Morgan

Can you quantify the development opportunities that you alluded to earlier?

Chris Constant

Chief Financial Officer

Not right now, I think what you’ll see is our strategy more transparent on that as we go forward.

Unidentified Analyst

Analyst · JP Morgan

And is there specific debt to EBITDA or leverage metric that you’re looking to manage the balance sheet?

Chris Constant

Chief Financial Officer

No, I think we’re very comfortable with where it is right now. So, we’ll monitor that as we go forward. I don’t think anyone around the table wants to run the business at a leverage level and that’s above what our stock base is, even no one for our sector.

Unidentified Analyst

Analyst · JP Morgan

Okay, thank you.

Operator

Operator

And we’ll go next to Peter Cooke with Logan Capital.

Peter Cooke

Analyst

I have one question, are there any properties that are still to be disclosed of, or from the marketing once you gotten the marketing as they’ve all been taken care of at this point? I know you have some of the Connecticut where there is some lawsuits involved or they didn’t go along with the settlement, I was just curious. Has that all been pretty much taken care of now?

David Driscoll

Chief Executive Officer

We still have 95 transitional properties the majority of those are from the GPMI and marketing portfolio, and a portion of those we expect to sell.

Peter Cooke

Analyst

Are you getting revenues out of those, some of those, or are they…

David Driscoll

Chief Executive Officer

Yes.

Operator

Operator

And there are no other questions at this time. And I’d like to turn the conference back over to Mr. Driscoll for any closing remarks.

David Driscoll

Chief Executive Officer

I just want to thank everybody for listening in on the call and for all of the confidence and support over the years. And I am sure that Chris will be more than up to the task of leading this Company going forward. Thank you, and have a great day.

Operator

Operator

Thank you everyone. That does conclude today’s conference. We thank you for your participation.