Jay Sugarman
Analyst · Mizuho. Please go ahead.
Sure. Thanks for the question. So, iStar has been a huge believer in what we're building has been important part of helping us get to that scale that you talked about. From an investment standpoint, we think there's still a very large embedded asset at Safehold that the market hasn't yet recognized, or we don't believe is reflected in our share price. So at least from a valuation standpoint, this is still an undervalued situation. And I think you'd still see, iStar be a buyer when things are trading at $0.50 on the dollar historically, iStar has been pretty aggressive about acquiring things like that. So right now, I think, their goal for Safehold is to continue to educate and get the market to reflect the value. And what we have said is once that value is fully reflected, once we've scaled the portfolio, I'd say, closer to that $5 billion of ground lease number. There's a conversation that should and very likely will be had between iStar and Safehold about, okay, we've got a great five-year run. We built a big scale business. We've educated the market. The market knows everything we know. What is the right path forward? And that's an opportunity where the alignment between iStar and Safehold will really come into play because as the largest shareholder iStar once started doing as well as it can. And so, we may look at the architecture between the two companies and say, if there's a better path forward, we'd like to have a more broadly distributed shareholder base. We think that external management may not be the perfect solution. All those things will be on the table is my guess. Our first step though towards that date is to get the shares fully valued and fairly valued. And we think there's a big component of value as you know that we're just starting to talk about that most of the market doesn't really know about or doesn't have the tools yet to understand why it's so valuable. So, more work to do on our side in terms of Safehold, expanding our shareholder base or helping them to see the full value, and then that will naturally lead, I think, into a conversation with iStar about the go-forward strategy, what's the way to maximize value for the Safehold shares, and it still feels like that sort of end of 2022 before we'll get to the sort of magic size, scale, valuation, where that's going to be a good conversation.