David Hegarty
Analyst · RBC Capital Market. Please go ahead
Thank you, Brad. And good morning, everyone. Thank you for joining us this morning on today's second quarter earnings call. Earlier in this morning we reported normalized funds from operations or normalized FFO of $0.47 per share for the second quarter, an increase of 6.8% year-over-year. As Rick will explain later we've removed estimates of percentage rent from our calculation of a normalized FFO. The impact of this change on the quarter was a reduction of a $0.01 per share of normalized FFO, or we otherwise would have reported $0.48 per share. The strong performance was achieved through solid operating results across all sectors and attractive financing during the quarter. In the second quarter, we continue to focus on adding value through selective accretive acquisition, internal growth, more efficient operation as well as lining up attractive long-term financing which close after the quarter end. Highlights for this quarter were that we grew normalized FFO per share year-over-year by 6.8%, grew consolidated same property cash NOI by 2% year-over-year, achieved the solid 8.5% same store NOI growth in our managed senior living portfolio year-over-year. Continue to lead the healthcare REIT sector with the 97% private pay portfolio, skilled nursing facility that are dependent upon government programs account only 2.6% of our portfolio. Maintained our normalized FFO payout ratio at 83%, achieved the year-to-date total return on the stock of over 50%. During the quarter, acquired seven triple net lease senior living communities for $112 million, one managed senior living communities for $8.4 million and one life science medical office building in Florida for $45 million. This brings our year-to-date total acquisition to approximately $188 million. We sold one skill nursing facility for $9.1 million and subsequent to quarter end sold four MOBs for $20.2 million, bringing our year-to-date total disposition to approximately $30 million. And finally subsequent to quarter end we closed on a $620 million ten year secured financing allowing us to term up the majority of the outstanding borrowings under the revolving credit facility. Our carefully constructed portfolio continues to illustrate our strategy of owning well diversified private pay focused healthcare assets. In the second quarter, approximately 40% of our NOI was attributed to triple net lease senior living communities. 16% to managed senior living communities and 42% to medical office buildings. At the end of the second quarter, our triple net lease senior living portfolio consisted of 236 properties generating quarterly NOI of $66 million, a 7.6% increase over the prior year. These communities continued to perform very well with same store cash NOI increasing 1.4% year-over-year. The triple net senior living portfolio had a combined occupancy of 85.4% and rent coverage of 1.33x for the 12 months ended March 31, 2016. The coverage ratio of our leases remains very strong overall. We've seen occupancies impacted on the margin by new competition in certain market and several of tenants are focused on stressing rate growth over occupancy. We continue to be comfortable with our tenants' ability to cover the rent due to us. At the end of the second quarter, our managed senior living portfolio consisted of 67 properties generating quarterly NOI of $26 million, a 78% increase over the prior year. The percentage of NOI that the managed senior living portfolio represents remains relatively small percentage of our total NOI at 16%. On the same store basis NOI at our 46 managed senior living communities grew 8.5% year-over-year. This performance was driven by the same store margin increasing over 200 basis points to 25.7% from 23.6% last year. While revenue in occupancy were down, average monthly rates increased 1.7% and our managers continued to be very focused on controlling labor and other operating costs. We will try to increase occupancy at our managed portfolio by investing capital in our communities, retaining quality professionals and maintaining a preferred status as a provider of choice in our markets. Our operators have done a great job enhancing and maintaining services for our residents while also tightly controlling cost. At the end of the second quarter, our MOB portfolio was comprised of 123 properties with over 11.6 million square feet, generating quarterly NOI of $68 million which is 2.7% increase over the prior year. Overall occupancy at the end of the second quarter in our MOB portfolio was a strong 95.9%. Occupancy in the same store MOB portfolio decreased 60 basis points to 95.8% in the second quarter, while the NOI remain flat year-over-year on a GAAP basis, and was up 70 basis points on a cash basis. Although our reported same store occupancy experienced a modest decline, if we had excluded the properties we had classified as held for sale, year-over-year occupancy would have been down only 6 basis points to 96.3%. Similarly, our same store NOI would have increased $300,000 or 47 basis points while same store cash basis NOI would have increased $650,000 or 1.1%. Turning to our acquisition and disposition activities, as mentioned on our last call in the second quarter, we acquired a senior living community in Georgia for $8.4 million and our life science MOB in Florida for $45 million. In June, we entered into a sale leaseback transaction with Five Star for seven senior living communities for approximately $112 million. The leases have initial expiration of 2028 with two 15 year renewal options and pay a rental rate of 7.5% of the purchase price with 1.25x coverage. It also carries the same cost to fall provision and get corporate guarantees as the existing lease. This transaction provides many benefits to us as the senior living community owner beyond an attractive and stable return. This transaction with Five Star improves the balance sheet of our largest tenant and operating partner and supports our continued investment in Five Star which we believe remain undervalued in the public market. Simultaneously with the sale leaseback, we amended certain management agreement which will create greater incentive and improve performance at our managed community. The second quarter acquisition bringing our total acquisition volume to approximately $188 million year-to-date. In June, we sold one skill nursing facility located in Pennsylvania for approximately $9.1 million, subsequent to quarter end in July we sold four MOBs located in Oklahoma for approximately $20.2 million, bringing our total disposition volume to $30 million year-to-date. These MOBs and one other MOB located in Pennsylvania were classified as held for sale at quarter end. We continue to monitor the investment opportunity in the senior living and medical office market. And are being patient for maximizing our risk adjust to return. Acquisition activity for the foreseeable future will continue to be modest with individual properties in small portfolios. I'd now like to turn over to Rick to provide detailed discussions on our financial results for the quarter.