Edward Aldag
Analyst · KeyBanc Capital Markets. Please proceed
Thank you, Charles. Good morning everyone and thank you for listening in on today’s earnings call. This summer has been a very successful summer for MPT. Since the last earnings call, we've announced almost $1.1 billion in acquisitions, bringing our total investments year-to-date to $1.5 billion. This already exceeds the record-setting total we acquired in 2014. We expect the second half of 2015 to continue to add significantly to this number. With the results announced this quarter, we continue to provide double digit growth in our normalized FFO per share. Our total assets today are approaching $6 billion and our diversification is better than ever. Let me start this morning with the announcement we made concerning Capella Healthcare. We first used the structure when we along with management purchased Ernest Health in 2012. This has proved to be a truly successful partnership. We're delighted to be able to use essentially the same structure to purchase Capella Healthcare with the existing management team. We've signed definitive agreements and expect the transaction to close in the second half of 2015. As the genesis of our company over 12 years ago, our business model has always been to use our hospital operating knowledge to obtain not just real estate returns, but in certain circumstances operating returns as well. We accomplished that with our very first investment with Vibra Healthcare even before RIDEA was available and our investments in Ernest Health and our investments in numerous other smaller transactions. With this release, we announced at MPT has executed definitive documents to acquire $600 million of acute-care real estate interest and invest approximately an additional $300 million in support of a management led refinancing of Capella's operations. Even with this transaction our RIDEA type investments represent only 7% of our assets. Just like with Ernest Health, we are not utilizing a third-party equity investor. MPT is providing the capital for this comprehensive refinancing of Capella and will continue to have a significant stake in the operations of the business. Among the many highlights of this transaction, real estate investments in seven acute care hospitals producing top-tier industry margins and patient outcomes. Each facility is the number one or number two player in its respective market. The total portfolio generates a current EBITDAR coverage of 2.3 to 2.4 times trailing 12 months. If you prefer to look at it using EBITDAR coverage, the coverage jumps to 2.9 to 3 times. We expect to continue to see good improvement on the same-store coverage for these facilities for the next few years. With the completion of this transaction our diversification levels will make tremendous improvements across the board. Operator, single largest tenant now down to 18%; 15% at MEDIAN RHM are not merged, Geography increases US-based assets to almost 80% and no single state representing more than 24%. Property-type, 75% of the US assets are now acute care, single property down to 2% of our portfolio, which is you all know we think is the most critical metric, provides immediate accretion to MPT FFO of $0.04 per share, not including the additional accretion we believe we will get from our partial ownership in operations. A built-in pipeline for future acquisitions provides an opportunity for MPT to continue to grow its strong asset base of acute care hospitals. The investment is made in an attractive 7.8 times trailing EBITDAR. Our portfolio now includes four of the top 10 largest investor owned acute-care hospital operators in the US. 69% of our pro forma lease maturities are 2025 or beyond, adding even more stability to our business. This transaction is an execution of the business plan that was created when MPT was formed. We had been and expect to continue to lease the financing source of choice to leading hospital operators. Capella management’s decision to partner with MPT is a further validation of our experience and expertise in the structuring and executing of these types transactions. We continue to be a leader in our space through innovative transactions and our early expansions to Western Europe while not straining from the investment thesis that has produced fantastic risk-adjusted returns for our stakeholders. Obviously, today's report has been dominated by Capella, which is appropriate giving a scale in our belief and the quality of the investment. However, I want to make sure that our announcement regarding a strategic relationship with AXA Real Estate Investment Management does not get overlooked. As many of you know AXA is one of the largest financial services firms in the world. AXA Real Estate brings country level expertise that can be coupled with MPT's expertise in hospital. As part of the actual relationship, we are announcing two investments today; the first is in Spain for an acute care hospital with approximately 200 beds, leased to one of Spain's leading operators, this will be a 30 year lease. The second is in Northern Italy for a portfolio of seven acute care hospitals with approximately 800 beds and one outpatient clinic. These hospitals will be leased to one of Italy's largest private hospital operators for 24 years under a master lease type structure with one six-year extension. In both cases MPT will own 50% of the JV and funds affiliated with or managed by AXA Real Estate will own the other half. Our investment in Italy will be approximately €90 million and in Spain it will be approximately €21.4 million. We’re excited that a firm like AXA would seek to work with MPT. And while there are no limitations created by these arrangements, we are all very hopeful that this is the beginning of a growing and long-lived partnership with AXA. Subsequent to closing, which is subject to completion of definitive documentation and customary conditions, we will share with you more detail about these very high quality facilities and their operators. This is a continuation of our prudent steps to invest in the attractive regions of Western Europe. We have been a leader in this trend and expect that to continue in the near future. We continue to see growth in the Ernest Health portfolio. We added two facilities this past quarter; one through an acquisition of an existing facility housing both in LTAC and in IRF for $44 million in Lubbock, Texas; and another one is a development facility to be operated as an IRF by Ernest in Toledo, Ohio for $20 million. This brings the total number of Ernest facilities to 26, 10 more than our original purchase with them. Steve will update you more on the details, but we’ve completed most of the loan to sell leaseback conversions for MEDIAN. We expect the remaining five facilities to convert during the remainder of the year. You probably noticed that we included the same-store EBITDAR rent coverage in our supplemental informational Page 12. This page gives you detailed information on coverage for our main property types both on a year-over-year and a quarter-over-quarter basis. We also break out the number of properties and investment amount for different stratification. We hope this information will provide you with a better detailed picture of just how well our portfolio is performing. Generally speaking, the coverages were essentially flat at 4.6 times for the acute-care; 1.9 times for the LTACs and 2.8 times for the IRFs. Earlier in this presentation, I discussed the potential for a built-in pipeline for future hospital acquisitions by Capella. I also discussed the additional hospitals we've added to the original Ernest portfolio. Repeat business is a very important part of our overall organic growth and our business model. We've been very successful at building relationships. Our first investment with Prime Healthcare was one hospital and $28 million, today our total investments with Prime is $901 million; Ernest started at $396 million, today we have $572 million invested. Our original investment with ISIS was $66 million, it now stands at $348 million; we started with $100 million at Adeptus, today its $500 million. Our first investment with Waterland of RHM and MEDIAN Kliniken was €175 million, less than two years later it was €940 million. This track record bodes very well for our future growth. Now I will call on Steve to walk you through the financial details of the quarter. Steve?