Healthcare Realty Trust Reports Results For the Third Quarter

NASHVILLE, Tenn., Oct. 30, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Healthcare Realty Trust Incorporated (NYSE:HR) today announced results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2024. Net (loss) income attributable to common stockholders for the three months ended September 30, 2024 was $(93.0) million, or $(0.26) per diluted common share.

• Normalized FFO per share of $0.39, up 1.2% over the prior year period
• $875 million of proceeds from JV and asset sale transactions through October
• $447 million of share repurchases year-to-date through October
• 159,000 square feet, or 49 basis points, of multi-tenant absorption
• 431,000 square feet of signed new leases in the quarter, the fifth consecutive quarter above 400,000
  

• The Company closed joint venture and asset sale transactions since the second quarter totaling $478 million bringing proceeds to approximately $875 million through October, which includes the following:
  • $522 million from joint venture transactions
  • $353 million from asset sales
• The Company has additional transactions under contract and letters of intent that are expected to increase proceeds to approximately $1.1 billion for the year.
• Through October, the Company has repurchased 27.1 million shares totaling $446.8 million at an average price of $16.48 per share.

• Multi-tenant sequential occupancy gains continue to track towards full year 2024 expectations provided in the February 2024 Investor Presentation as shown below:
  

• The multi-tenant portfolio occupancy rate was 86.5% and the leased percentage was 87.8% at September 30.
• Multi-tenant occupancy has increased by 164 basis points over the trailing-twelve-month period. For the Legacy HTA properties, multi-tenant occupancy has increased by 230 basis points for the same period.
• An updated multi-tenant occupancy and NOI bridge can be found on page 5 of the Key Highlights Investor Presentation located on the Company's website.

• Portfolio leasing activity that commenced in the third quarter totaled 1,641,000 square feet related to 455 leases:
  • 1,054,000 square feet of renewals
  • 587,000 square feet of new and expansion lease commencements
• The Company signed new leases totaling 431,000 square feet in the quarter, the fifth consecutive quarter above 400,000.
  

• Same Store cash NOI for the third quarter increased 3.1% over the same quarter in the prior year.
• Tenant retention for the third quarter was 80.5%.
• Operating expenses decreased 1.5% over the same quarter in the prior year.
• Third quarter predictive growth measures in the Same Store portfolio include:
  • Average in-place rent increases of 2.8%.
  • Future annual contractual increases of 3.1% for leases commencing in the quarter.
  • Weighted average MOB cash leasing spreads of 3.9% on 847,000 square feet renewed:
    • 7% (<0% spread)
    • 7% (0-3%)
    • 58% (3-4%)
    • 28% (>4%)

• As of September 30, 2024, net debt to adjusted EBITDA was 6.7 times. Net debt to adjusted EBITDA is expected to be 6.5 times at the end of the year.
• In October, the Company repaid the remaining $100 million outstanding of Unsecured Term Loan maturing July 2025.
• As of September 30, 2024, the Company had approximately $1.3 billion of availability under its credit facility.

• A dividend of $0.31 per share was paid in August 2024. A dividend of $0.31 per share will be paid on November 27, 2024 to stockholders and OP unitholders of record on November 12, 2024.

• The Company's 2024 per share guidance ranges are as follows:
  
  

• The Company's 2024 guidance range includes activities outlined in the Components of Expected FFO on page 29 of the Supplemental Information.
  

The 2024 annual guidance range reflects the Company's view of current and future market conditions, including assumptions with respect to rental rates, occupancy levels, interest rates, and operating and general and administrative expenses. The Company's guidance does not contemplate impacts from gains or losses from
dispositions, potential impairments, or debt extinguishment costs, if any. There can be no assurance that the Company's actual results will not be materially higher or lower than these expectations. If actual results vary from these assumptions, the Company's expectations may change.

• On Wednesday, October 30, 2024, at 11:00 a.m. Eastern Time, Healthcare Realty Trust has scheduled a conference call to discuss earnings results, quarterly activities, general operations of the Company and industry trends.
• Simultaneously, a webcast of the conference call will be available to interested parties at https://investors.healthcarerealty.com/corporate-profile/webcasts under the Investor Relations section. A webcast replay will be available following the call at the same address.
• Live Conference Call Access Details:
  • Domestic Toll-Free Number: +1 404-975-4839 access code 470628;
  • All Other Locations: +1 833-470-1428 access code 470628.
• Replay Information:
  • Domestic Toll-Free Number: +1 929-458-6194 access code 780754;
  • All Other Locations: +1 866-813-9403 access code 780754.

Healthcare Realty (NYSE: HR) is a real estate investment trust (REIT) that owns and operates medical outpatient buildings primarily located around market-leading hospital campuses. The Company selectively grows its portfolio through property acquisition and development. As the first and largest REIT to specialize in medical outpatient buildings, Healthcare Realty's portfolio includes over 650 properties totaling nearly 40 million square feet concentrated in 15 growth markets.

Additional information regarding the Company, including this quarter's operations, can be found at www.healthcarerealty.com. In addition to the historical information contained within, this press release contains certain forward-looking statements with respect to the Company. Forward-looking statements are statements that are not descriptions of historical facts and include statements regarding management’s intentions, beliefs, expectations, plans or predictions of the future, within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Because such statements include risks, uncertainties and contingencies, actual results may differ materially and in adverse ways from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. These risks, uncertainties and contingencies include, without limitation, the following: the Company's expected results may not be achieved; failure to realize the expected benefits of the Merger; significant transaction costs and/or unknown or inestimable liabilities; risks related to future opportunities and plans for the Company, including the uncertainty of expected future financial performance and results of the Company; the possibility that, if the Company does not achieve the perceived benefits of the Merger as rapidly or to the extent anticipated by financial analysts or investors, the market price of the Company’s common stock could decline; general adverse economic and local real estate conditions; changes in economic conditions generally and the real estate market specifically; legislative and regulatory changes, including changes to laws governing the taxation of REITs and changes to laws governing the healthcare industry; the availability of capital; changes in interest rates; competition in the real estate industry; the supply and demand for operating properties in the Company’s proposed market areas; changes in accounting principles generally accepted in the US; policies and guidelines applicable to REITs; the availability of properties to acquire; the availability of financing; pandemics and other health concerns, and the measures intended to prevent their spread and the potential material adverse effect these matters may have on the Company’s business, results of operations, cash flows and financial condition. Additional information concerning the Company and its business, including additional factors that could materially and adversely affect the Company’s financial results, include, without limitation, the risks described under Part I, Item 1A - Risk Factors, in the Company’s 2023 Annual Report on Form 10-K and in its other filings with the SEC.

Management considers funds from operations ("FFO"), FFO per share, normalized FFO, normalized FFO per share, and funds available for distribution ("FAD") to be useful non-GAAP measures of the Company's operating performance. A non-GAAP financial measure is generally defined as one that purports to measure historical financial performance, financial position or cash flows, but excludes or includes amounts that would not be so adjusted in the most comparable measure determined in accordance with GAAP. Set forth below are descriptions of the non-GAAP financial measures management considers relevant to the Company's business and useful to investors.

The non-GAAP financial measures presented herein are not necessarily identical to those presented by other real estate companies due to the fact that not all real estate companies use the same definitions. These measures should not be considered as alternatives to net income (determined in accordance with GAAP), as indicators of the Company's financial performance, or as alternatives to cash flow from operating activities (determined in accordance with GAAP) as measures of the Company's liquidity, nor are these measures necessarily indicative of sufficient cash flow to fund all of the Company's needs.

FFO and FFO per share are operating performance measures adopted by the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts, Inc. (“NAREIT”). NAREIT defines FFO as “net income (computed in accordance with GAAP) excluding depreciation and amortization related to real estate, gains and losses from the sale of certain real estate assets, gains and losses from change in control, and impairment write-downs of certain real assets and investments in entities when the impairment is directly attributable to decreases in the value of depreciable real estate held by the entity.” The Company defines Normalized FFO as FFO excluding acquisition-related expenses, lease intangible amortization and other normalizing items that are unusual and infrequent in nature. FAD is presented by adding to Normalized FFO non-real estate depreciation and amortization, deferred financing fees amortization, share-based compensation expense and rent reserves, net; and subtracting maintenance capital expenditures, including second generation tenant improvements and leasing commissions paid and straight-line rent income, net of expense. The Company's definition of these terms may not be comparable to that of other real estate companies as they may have different methodologies for computing these amounts. FFO, Normalized FFO and FAD do not represent cash generated from operating activities determined in accordance with GAAP and are not necessarily indicative of cash available to fund cash needs. FFO, Normalized FFO and FAD should not be considered an alternative to net income as an indicator of the Company’s operating performance or as an alternative to cash flow as a measure of liquidity. FFO, Normalized FFO and FAD should be reviewed in connection with GAAP financial measures.

Management believes FFO, FFO per share, Normalized FFO, Normalized FFO per share, and FAD provide an understanding of the operating performance of the Company’s properties without giving effect to certain significant non-cash items, including depreciation and amortization expense. Historical cost accounting for real estate assets in accordance with GAAP assumes that the value of real estate assets diminishes predictably over time. However, real estate values instead have historically risen or fallen with market conditions. The Company believes that by excluding the effect of depreciation, amortization, gains or losses from sales of real estate, and other normalizing items that are unusual and infrequent, FFO, FFO per share, Normalized FFO, Normalized FFO per share and FAD can facilitate comparisons of operating performance between periods. The Company reports these measures because they have been observed by management to be the predominant measures used by the REIT industry and by industry analysts to evaluate REITs and because these measures are consistently reported, discussed, and compared by research analysts in their notes and publications about REITs.

Cash NOI and Same Store Cash NOI are key performance indicators. Management considers these to be supplemental measures that allow investors, analysts and Company management to measure unlevered property-level operating results. The Company defines Cash NOI as rental income and less property operating expenses. Cash NOI excludes non-cash items such as above and below market lease intangibles, straight-line rent, lease inducements, lease termination fees, tenant improvement amortization and leasing commission amortization. Cash NOI is historical and not necessarily indicative of future results.

Same Store Cash NOI compares Cash NOI for stabilized properties. Stabilized properties are properties that have been included in operations for the duration of the year-over-year comparison period presented. Accordingly, stabilized properties exclude properties that were recently acquired or disposed of, properties classified as held for sale, properties undergoing redevelopment, and newly redeveloped or developed properties.

The Company utilizes the redevelopment classification for properties where management has approved a change in strategic direction for such properties through the application of additional resources including an amount of capital expenditures significantly above routine maintenance and capital improvement expenditures.

Any recently acquired property will be included in the same store pool once the Company has owned the property for eight full quarters. Newly developed or redeveloped properties will be included in the same store pool eight full quarters after substantial completion.

Ron Hubbard
Vice President, Investor Relations
P: 615.269.8290