NEW YORK, NY — (Marketwired) — 05/07/13 — W. P. Carey Inc. (NYSE: WPC), a real estate investment trust (“REIT”), today reported financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2013.
Reported Funds from operations — as adjusted (“AFFO”) of $1.03 per diluted share
Structured $193 million of investments on behalf of the managed REITs
Completed a $72 million sale-leaseback with Kraft Foods Group
Raised annualized dividend rate to $3.28 per share, an increase of 24% versus the fourth quarter of 2012 and WPC-s 48th consecutive quarterly increase
Generated total shareholder return of approximately 31%
WPC acquired the main European distribution center of the Tommy Hilfiger Group for approximately $39 million
AFFO for the first quarter of 2013 was $72.3 million or $1.03 per diluted share, compared to $40.1 million or $0.99 per diluted share for the first quarter of 2012. The increased AFFO in the first quarter of 2013 as compared to the same quarter in 2012 was primarily due to income from the properties we acquired in our Merger with CPA®:15 on September 28, 2012, partially offset by the cessation of asset management revenue received from CPA®:15 after the Merger was completed. Per share data for the 2013 period also reflects the issuance of 28.2 million shares in connection with the Merger to the stockholders of CPA®:15. Further information concerning AFFO, a non-GAAP supplemental performance metric, is presented in the accompanying tables and related notes.
Total revenues net of reimbursed expenses for the first quarter of 2013 were $101.4 million, compared to $49.6 million for the first quarter of 2012. Reimbursed expenses are excluded from total revenues because they have no impact on net income.
Net Income for the first quarter of 2013 was $14.2 million, compared to $12.3 million for the same period in 2012.
For the quarter ended March 31, 2013, we received approximately $14.7 million in cash distributions from our equity ownership in the CPA® REITs including $7.9 million in Available Cash distributions related to our special general partnership interests in the CPA® REITs.
In January 2013, W. P. Carey completed a $72 million sale-leaseback with Kraft Foods Group for its corporate headquarters, located in Northfield, Illinois.
In April 2013, W. P. Carey acquired the main European distribution center of the Tommy Hilfiger Group for approximately EUR 30 million ($39 million). The facility is located in Vanlo, Netherlands and is subject to an existing net lease with Tommy Hilfiger Europe B.V., which has been owned since 2010 by PVH Corp, one of the world-s largest apparel companies.
The W. P. Carey owned portfolio currently consists of 422 leased properties comprising 39 million square feet leased to approximately 124 corporate tenants. The average lease term of the portfolio is 8.8 years and the occupancy rate is approximately 98.8%.
W. P. Carey is the advisor to the CPA® REITs and CWI, which had aggregate real estate assets of $7.9 billion, cash of approximately $800 million and total assets of $8.6 billion as of March 31, 2013. The average occupancy rate for the 83.2 million square feet owned by the CPA® REITs was approximately 98.5%.
CPA®:17 – GLOBAL ACTIVITY
We completed three transactions on behalf of CPA®:17 – Global during the first quarter of 2013, including two sale-leaseback transactions totaling $26 million and, separately, a $39 million build-to-suit transaction for an existing tenant, Harbor Freight Tools.
CAREY WATERMARK INVESTORS ACTIVITY
From the beginning of its initial public offering through April 30, 2013, our lodging-focused non-traded REIT offering has raised approximately $265 million.
During the first quarter of 2013, Carey Watermark invested in six hotels for a total of approximately $125 million.
The W. P. Carey Board of Directors raised the quarterly cash dividend to $0.82 per share for the first quarter of 2013. This represents a 24% increase from the fourth quarter of 2012. The dividend — our 48th consecutive quarterly increase — was paid on April 15, 2013 to stockholders of record as of March 28, 2013.
W. P. Carey President and CEO Trevor Bond, noted, “We are very pleased with our first quarter results, which continue to demonstrate the benefits of our merger with CPA®:15 and conversion to a REIT. The significant increase in our real estate under ownership and resulting AFFO growth enabled us to raise our dividend by 24%, as compared with the previous quarter. As we have for four decades, we will continue to focus our activities on identifying net lease assets that support our strategy of generating stable cash flows for investors.”
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Celebrating its 40th anniversary, W. P. Carey Inc. is a publicly traded REIT (NYSE: WPC) that provides long-term sale-leaseback and build-to-suit financing for companies worldwide and owns and manages an investment portfolio totaling approximately $15.2 billion. The largest owner/manager of net lease assets, WPC-s corporate finance-focused credit and real estate underwriting process is a constant that has been successfully leveraged across a wide variety of industries and property types. Our portfolio of long-term leases with creditworthy tenants has an established history of generating stable cash flows that have enabled the Company to deliver consistent dividend income to investors for nearly four decades.
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Federal securities laws. Examples of such forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, the statements made by Mr. Bond. A number of factors could cause W. P. Carey-s actual results, performance or achievement to differ materially from those anticipated. Among those risks, trends and uncertainties are the general economic climate; the supply of and demand for office and industrial properties; interest rate levels; the availability of financing; and other risks associated with the acquisition and ownership of properties, including risks that the tenants will not pay rent, or that costs may be greater than anticipated. For further information on factors that could impact W. P. Carey, reference is made to W. P. Carey-s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
These financial highlights include the non-GAAP financial measure, funds from operations — as adjusted (“AFFO”). A description of this non-GAAP financial measure and a reconciliation to the most directly comparable GAAP measure is provided on the following pages.
Funds from Operations (“FFO”) is a non-GAAP measure defined by the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts (“NAREIT”). NAREIT defines FFO as net income or loss (as computed in accordance with GAAP) excluding: depreciation and amortization expense from real estate assets, impairment charges on real estate, gains or losses from sales of depreciated real estate assets and extraordinary items; however, FFO related to assets held for sale, sold or otherwise transferred and included in the results of discontinued operations are included. These adjustments also incorporate the pro rata share of unconsolidated subsidiaries. FFO is used by management, investors and analysts to facilitate meaningful comparisons of operating performance between periods and among our peers. Although NAREIT has published this definition of FFO, companies often modify this definition as they seek to provide financial measures that meaningfully reflect their distinctive operations.
We modify the NAREIT computation of FFO to include other adjustments to GAAP net income to adjust for certain non-cash charges such as amortization of real estate-related intangibles, deferred income tax benefits and expenses, straight-line rents, stock compensation, gains or losses from extinguishment of debt and deconsolidation of subsidiaries and unrealized foreign currency exchange gains and losses. Additionally, we exclude expenses related to the Merger which are considered non-recurring, and realized gains/losses on foreign exchange and derivatives, which are not considered fundamental attributes of our business plan and do not affect our overall long-term operating performance. We refer to our modified definition of FFO as AFFO. We exclude these items from GAAP net income as they are not the primary drivers in our decision making process. Our assessment of our operations is focused on long-term sustainability and not on such non-cash items, which may cause short-term fluctuations in net income but have no impact on cash flows, and we therefore use AFFO as one measure of our operating performance when we formulate corporate goals, evaluate the effectiveness of our strategies, and determine executive compensation.
We believe that AFFO is a useful supplemental measure for investors to consider because it will help them to better assess the sustainability of our operating performance without the potentially distorting impact of these short-term fluctuations. However, there are limits on the usefulness of AFFO to investors. For example, impairment charges and unrealized foreign currency losses that we exclude may become actual realized losses upon the ultimate disposition of the properties in the form of lower cash proceeds or other considerations. We use our FFO and AFFO measures as supplemental financial measures of operating performance. We do not use our FFO and AFFO measures as, nor should they be considered to be, alternatives to net earnings computed under GAAP or as alternatives to cash from operating activities computed under GAAP or as indicators of our ability to fund our cash needs.
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