Mark Peterson
Analyst · KeyBanc Capital Markets
Thank you, Greg. I’d like to remind everyone on the call that our quarterly investment supplemental can be downloaded from our website. Also, please note page 20 is a new page in the supplemental that provides future investment spending estimates for build-to-suit projects in process as of 12/31. Hope investors find this information useful. Now turning to the first slide, FFO for the fourth quarter increased $63.3 million or $1.23 per share from $41 million or $0.87 per share in the prior year. FFO as adjusted per share was $0.97 versus $0.96 in the prior year, an increase of approximately 1%. As you can see on the next slide, there are number of gains in the quarter that are included in net income, but is excluded from FFO as adjusted and I want to discuss these gains upfront before reviewing the other variances versus the prior year. First as Greg mentioned, we completed the acquisition of the remaining ownership interest in two joint ventures for 18.6 million. We had previously held minority interests in both of these entities and had made prior loans to them totaling 33.1 million, recognized a gain on acquisition of 3.2 million and a gain on previously held equity interests of 4.9 million, related to the fair value adjustments required as a result of the changes in control. Second, we recognized the deferred income tax benefit of 14.8 million during the quarter. This benefit was chartered by a Canadian tax law change effective 1/1/14 that limits the deductibility of intercompany interest expense for our Canadian entity that holds our four entertainment retail centers in Ontario. Because we now expect to be a tax payer going forward in Canada, we reversed the previous 100% allowance we had, had against our deferred tax assets. This non-cash benefit will reverse over time, but just as the non-cash benefit this quarter was excluded from FFO as adjusted so too will the non-cash deferred tax expense going forward be excluded from this calculation. Perhaps more importantly the actual cash taxes that we expect to pay will be included in our calculation of FFO as adjusted. We expect this number to be around 1.5 million in 2014. This amount has been considered in our 2014 guidance which I will discuss later in my comments. Third, we sold one vineyard and winery property for net proceeds of 3.3 million, which included a carry back note of 2.5 million. We recognized a gain of approximately 500,000. We now have only 7.6 million remaining net book value of vineyards and vineries related to two properties both of which are under lease. Now with that, let me walk through the rest of the quarter’s variances and explain the key variances from the prior year. Our total revenue increased 8% compared to the prior year to 89.4 million. Within the revenue category, rental revenue increased by 5.8 million versus the prior year to 66 million, and resulted primarily through new investments partially offset by net decreases in rental revenue on certain existing properties. Percentage rents for the quarter, included in rental revenue were approximately 372,000 or 725,000 in the prior year. The decrease relates primarily to the timing of our percentage rents earned on our TopGolf facilities. Due to the exceptional performances of these properties during 2013, we were able to recognize most of the percentage rent during the third quarter recognizing it during the fourth quarter in the prior year. Mortgage and other financing income was 18.6 million for the quarter, up approximately 1.5 million from last year. This increase is primarily due to additional real-estate lending activities. On the expense side, our property operating expense decreased by 500,000 versus the prior year, due primarily to lower bad debt expenses at our multi-tenant properties. G&A expense increased by 750,000 versus last year to 6.1 million for the quarter, due primarily to higher payroll related expenses including higher incentive compensation and stock grant amortization, as we continue to support our growth as well as higher professional fees. Additionally, I want to note that our G&A expense for the fourth quarter of 2013 included a re-class of certain state income in foreign withholding tax expense from previous quarters. These were re-classed to the new income tax line item on our income statement of approximately – and the total of that was 470,000. Our net interest expense for the quarter increased by 570,000 to 20.6 million. This increase resulted primarily from an increase in our outstanding borrowings during the quarter, and was partially offset by a decrease weighted average interest rates on our outstanding borrowing. As I mentioned previously, discontinued operations for the quarter includes a gain of approximately 500,000, related to the sale of vineyard winery property for total proceeds of 3.3 million. Finally, preferred dividends decreased by 552,000 to 6 million for the quarter, primarily due to the redemption of our Series D preferred shares in November of 2012. Now turning to our full year results on the next slide; our total revenue increased 8% to prior year to approximately 343 million, and net income and FFO were up 68% and 18% respectively, impart through the gains I discussed earlier as well as the growth of our portfolio. FFO as adjusted per share increased about 6% versus the prior year to $3.90 from $3.69. Turning the next slide, I’d now like to use some of the company key credit ratios. As you can see from this multi-year summary, our coverage ratios have been consistently strong and remained strong for the year with fixed charge coverage at 2.7 times, debt service coverage at three times and interest coverage 3.5 times. We increased our common dividend by 5% in 2013 and our FFO as adjusted payout ratio was consistent with the prior year at 81%. Our debt to adjusted EBITDA was 4.8 times for the fourth quarter annualized, and our debt to gross assets ratio was 40% at December 31st. As you can tell by these metrics, our balance sheet continues to be in very good shape. Let’s turn to the next slide of about our capital markets and liquidity update. At quarter end, we had total outstanding debt of 1.5 billion, all of about 50 million of this debt is either fixed rate debt or debt that has been fixed through interest rate swaps with a blending coupon of approximately 5.5%. We had no balance in our senior[ph] and our line of credit and we had 8 million cash on hand. We are in excellent shape with debt maturities. As of December 31st, we have no scheduled loan maturities and less than 100 million of such maturities in each of the next three years thereafter. Turning to the next slide, as disclosed previously, during the fourth quarter, we issued 3.6 million common shares in a registered public offering for net proceeds of approximately 174 million. The offering is very well allowing us to upsize it by 20% and executed in all in cost of slightly over 3%. The proceeds from this offer were primarily used to pay up our line of credit which had a balance of 160 million at the time of the offering. During the year, we also issued approximately 938,000 common shares on our dividend reinvestment and direct share purchase plan, for net proceeds of approximately 46 million. Additionally under this plan, subsequent to year-end, we have raised approximately 65 million net proceeds. This plan works very well in raising common equity in low cost and monthly increments and matches up nicely with funding our build-to-suit projects. Looking back at the full year 2013, we raised 300 million of new unsecured debt and approximately 220 million in common equity. We also paid off approximately 170 million of secured debt as we continued to move to an unsecured debt model, while always being mindful of maintaining a conservative capital structure and a well latter debt maturity profile. With the full amount available on our 475 million line of credit year-end, and no near-term debt balloon payments due, we are well positioned from a balance sheet liquidity perspective as we begin 2014. Turning to next slide, we are confirming guidance for 2014 FFO as adjusted per share of $4.12 and $4.22 and guidance of investment spending of 500 million to 550 million, which is an expected increase of 30% at the midpoint versus 2013. As Greg mentioned, of this spending guidance approximately 60% relates to spending on projects that have already commenced in 2013. Because most of our expected investment spending in 2014 relates to build-to-suit projects have generally nine to 12 month build cycles, it’s important to note that most of the earnings impact related to our investment spending is in the year following the actual spending report. Therefore, much of our projected build-to-suit investment spending at 2014 will be realized in our 2015 as opposed to 2014 FFO per share results. I think it’s also helpful to investor to reiterate our key assumptions regarding G&A expense and our land in the Catskills contained in our 2014 guidance. First we expect G&A expense to be approximately 28 million to 29 million for 2014. Our G&A expense is expected to be approximately 600,000 higher in the first quarter than the full year number divided by four, primarily due to certain employee benefit expenses that are recognized in Q1 as in prior years. This fact and other timing differences often make our Q1 FFO as adjusted per share results lower than the fourth quarter than prior year. Second, our FFO as adjusted per share in investment spending guidance includes the Catskills project at its status quo. We believe this is prudent given the continuances which remain for this project to move to forward and they expect the timing of this project as we have previously outlined. Also as I mentioned last quarter, the non-refundable option payments we expect to continue to receive from Empire, while they seek approval for a full scale gaming license, will be initially deferred and recognized as income at a future date, likely beyond fiscal 2014. Therefore, our guidance for 2014 includes no income recognition of related to such payments. Now I’ll turn it over back to David for his closing remarks.