Spirit Realty Announces Pricing of Preferred Stock Offering

DALLAS, Sept. 27, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Spirit Realty Capital, Inc. (NYSE: SRC) ("Spirit" or the "Company") announced today that it has priced an underwritten public offering of 6,000,000 shares of 6.000% Series A Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Stock with a liquidation preference of $25.00 per share for net proceeds of $144.8 million after deducting the underwriting discount and the Company's estimated expenses. The Company has also granted the underwriters a 30-day option to purchase from the Company up to an additional 900,000 shares of 6.000% Series A Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Stock. 

The preferred stock offering is expected to close on October 3, 2017, subject to customary closing conditions. 

The Company intends to contribute the net proceeds from the preferred stock offering to Spirit Realty, L.P., its operating partnership (the "Operating Partnership"), in exchange for preferred units of the Operating Partnership. The Operating Partnership intends to use the net proceeds from the preferred stock offering to repay amounts outstanding under its revolving credit facility and for general corporate purposes.

Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated and Wells Fargo Securities, LLC are the joint book-running managers for the preferred stock offering. 

The preferred stock offering was made under an effective shelf registration statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. A copy of the prospectus supplement and the accompanying prospectus relating to the preferred stock offering may be obtained, when available, by contacting: (a) Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, 180 Varick Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10014, Attention: Prospectus Department; (b) Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated, 200 North College Street, NC1-004-03-43, Charlotte, NC 28255-0001, Attention: Prospectus Department (telephone: 1-800-294-1322 or email: [email protected]); or (c) Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, 608 2nd Avenue South, Suite 1000, Minneapolis, MN 55402, Attention: WFS Customer Service (telephone: 1-800-645- 3751 or email: [email protected]).

This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy the preferred stock or any other securities, nor shall there be any offer, solicitation or sale of the preferred stock or any other securities in any jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful. 

ABOUT SPIRIT REALTY

Spirit Realty Capital, Inc. (NYSE: SRC) is a net-lease real estate investment trust ("REIT") that primarily invests in operationally essential real estate, subject to long-term, net leases.

As of June 30, 2017, our diversified portfolio was comprised of 2,549 properties, including properties securing mortgage loans made by the Company. The Company's properties comprise an aggregate gross leasable area of approximately 51 million square feet, are leased to approximately 432 tenants across 49 states and 30 industries.

FORWARD-LOOKING AND CAUTIONARY STATEMENTS

This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and other federal securities laws. These forward-looking statements can be identified by the use of words such as "expect," "plan," "will," "estimate," "project," "intend," "believe," "guidance," and other similar expressions that do not relate to historical matters. These forward-looking statements are subject to known and unknown risks and uncertainties that can cause actual results to differ materially from those currently anticipated due to a number of factors, which include, but are not limited to, Spirit's continued ability to source new investments, risks associated with using debt to fund Spirit's business activities (including refinancing and interest rate risks, changes in interest rates and/or credit spreads, changes in the price of our common stock, and conditions of the equity and debt capital markets, generally), unknown liabilities acquired in connection with acquired properties or interests in real-estate related entities, general risks affecting the real estate industry and local real estate markets (including, without limitation, the market value of our properties, the inability to enter into or renew leases at favorable rates, portfolio occupancy varying from our expectations, dependence on tenants' financial condition and operating performance, and competition from other developers, owners and operators of real estate), the financial performance of our retail tenants and the demand for retail space, particularly with respect to challenges being experienced by general merchandise retailers, potential fluctuations in the consumer price index, risks associated with our failure to maintain our status as a REIT under the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, risks and uncertainties related to the completion and timing of Spirit's proposed spin-off of properties leased to Shopko Retail Shops Holding Corp. and certain of its affiliates and assets that collateralize Master Trust 2014 and the impact of the spin-off on Spirit's business, and other additional risks discussed in Spirit's most recent filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its Annual Report on Form 10-K. Spirit expressly disclaims any responsibility to update or revise forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by law.

SOURCE Spirit Realty Capital, Inc.

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