W. P. Carey Inc. Announces First Quarter 2016 Financial Results

NEW YORK, May 5, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- W. P. Carey Inc. (NYSE: WPC) (W. P. Carey or the Company), an internally-managed global net lease real estate investment trust, today reported its financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2016.

Total Company Update – First Quarter 2016

• Net revenues of $244.2 million

• Net income of $57.4 million, or $0.54 per diluted share

• Adjusted EBITDA of $193.3 million

• AFFO of $139.5 million, or $1.31 per diluted share

• 2016 AFFO guidance range of $5.00 to $5.20 per diluted share announced subsequent to quarter end

• Quarterly cash dividend raised to $0.9742 per share, equivalent to an annualized dividend rate of $3.90 per share

Business Segment Update – First Quarter 2016

Owned Real Estate

• Adjusted EBITDA contribution of $182.0 million

• AFFO contribution of $129.2 million, or $1.21 per diluted share

• Entered into agreements for two acquisitions totaling $384.0 million and to provide $128.0 million in build-to-suit financing, subsequent to quarter end

• Disposed of four properties and a parcel of vacant land for total proceeds of $102.2 million

• Net lease portfolio occupancy of 98.5%

Investment Management

• Adjusted EBITDA contribution of $11.3 million 

• AFFO contribution of $10.3 million, or $0.10 per diluted share 

• Structured $411.7 million of investments on behalf of the Managed REITs

• Investor capital inflows of $206.3 million, including Distribution Reinvestment Plan proceeds, net of redemptions

• Assets under management of $11.6 billion

• Filed a registration statement for CPA^®:19 – Global, a diversified non-traded REIT, subsequent to quarter end

Strategic Update

• Comprehensive business plan announced; focused on growth, diversification, operational efficiency, balance sheet strength and flexibility, proactive asset management and transparency

• Formal review reaffirms the strategic value of the Company's diversified business model

• Annualized pre-tax estimated cost reductions of $20 million identified

MANAGEMENT COMMENTARY

"For the 2016 first quarter we generated AFFO per diluted share of $1.31, up 7.4% from the prior year period driven primarily by growth in assets under management within our investment management business and lower general and administrative expenses, partly offset by lower structuring revenues," said Mark J. DeCesaris, Chief Executive Officer of W. P. Carey.

"After a careful and thorough process, covering a wide range of alternatives, our formal strategic review has reaffirmed the benefits of our diversified business model. Accordingly, with the full support of our board, we are implementing a comprehensive business plan designed to best position the Company to generate long-term value for our shareholders focused on six key priorities — growth, diversification, operational efficiency, balance sheet strength and flexibility, proactive asset management and transparency. By executing on this plan, including identified annualized pre-tax cost savings of approximately $20 million, we currently expect to generate AFFO of between $5.00 and $5.20 per diluted share for the 2016 full year."

FINANCIAL RESULTS

Revenues

• Total Company: Revenues excluding reimbursable costs (net revenues) for the 2016 first quarter totaled $244.2 million, up 19.2% from $204.8 million for the 2015 first quarter, due primarily to higher net revenues from Owned Real Estate.

• Owned Real Estate: Owned Real Estate revenues excluding reimbursable tenant costs (net revenues from Owned Real Estate) for the 2016 first quarter were $214.7 million, up 25.9% from $170.5 million for the 2015 first quarter, due primarily to $32.2 million of lease termination income related to one lease, and additional lease revenues from properties acquired since the start of the 2015 first quarter.

• Investment Management: Investment Management revenues excluding reimbursable costs (net revenues from Investment Management) for the 2016 first quarter were $29.5 million, down 14.2% from $34.4 million for the 2015 first quarter, due primarily to lower structuring revenue, partly offset by higher asset management revenue.

Adjusted Funds from Operations (AFFO)

• AFFO for the 2016 first quarter was $1.31 per diluted share, up 7.4% compared to $1.22 per diluted share for the 2015 first quarter. The increase was due primarily to higher asset management fees and distributions of available cash from the Company's interests in the operating partnerships of the Managed REITs, driven by growth in assets under management within the Company's Investment Management business, and lower general and administrative expenses, partly offset by lower structuring revenues, net of associated costs, as a result of lower investment volume on behalf of the Managed REITs.

• Note: Further information concerning AFFO, a non-GAAP supplemental performance metric, is presented in the accompanying tables and related notes.

Dividend

• As previously announced, on March 21, 2016, the Company's Board of Directors declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.9742 per share, equivalent to an annualized dividend rate of $3.90 per share. The dividend was paid on April 15, 2016 to stockholders of record as of March 31, 2016.

AFFO GUIDANCE

• For the 2016 full year, the Company expects to report AFFO of between $5.00 and $5.20 per diluted share based on the following key assumptions:
  (i) acquisitions for the Company's Owned Real Estate portfolio of between $400 million and $600 million;
  (ii) dispositions from the Company's Owned Real Estate portfolio of between $650 million and $850 million; and
  (iii) acquisitions on behalf of the Managed REITs of between $1.8 billion and $2.3 billion.

BALANCE SHEET AND CAPITALIZATION

• On January 29, 2016, the Company exercised its option to extend its Term Loan Facility by an additional year to January 31, 2017. The Company has a second option to extend the maturity date of the Term Loan Facility by another year.

OWNED REAL ESTATE

Acquisitions

• During the 2016 first quarter, the Company did not complete any property acquisitions for its Owned Real Estate portfolio.

• Subsequent to quarter end, the Company entered into agreements for two acquisitions for its Owned Real Estate portfolio totaling $384.0 million, including transaction-related costs and fees, and to provide $128.0 million in build-to-suit financing over the next four years.

Dispositions

• During the 2016 first quarter, as part of its active capital recycling program, the Company disposed of four properties and a parcel of vacant land from its Owned Real Estate portfolio for total proceeds of $102.2 million, before transaction-related costs and fees.

Composition

• As of March 31, 2016, the Company's Owned Real Estate portfolio consisted of 866 net lease properties, comprising 89.3 million square feet leased to 220 tenants and two hotels, which are considered to be operating properties. As of that date, the weighted-average lease term of the net lease portfolio was 9.0 years and the occupancy rate was 98.5%.

INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT

• W. P. Carey is the advisor to CPA^®:17 – Global and CPA^®:18 – Global (the CPA^® REITs), Carey Watermark Investors Incorporated (CWI 1) and Carey Watermark Investors 2 Incorporated (CWI 2) (the CWI REITs, and together with the CPA^® REITs, the Managed REITs) and Carey Credit Income Fund (CCIF) (together with the Managed REITs, the Managed Programs).

Acquisitions

• During the 2016 first quarter, the Company structured new investments totaling $411.7 million on behalf of the Managed REITs, including transaction-related costs and fees.

Assets Under Management

• As of March 31, 2016, the Managed Programs had total assets under management of approximately $11.6 billion, up 22.1% from $9.5 billion as of March 31, 2015.

Net Investor Capital Inflows

• During the 2016 first quarter, investor capital inflows for the Managed Programs, including Distribution Reinvestment Plan proceeds, net of redemptions, totaled $206.3 million, due primarily to inflows into CWI 2.

Product Update

• On May 4, 2016, the Company filed a registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for CPA^®:19 – Global, a diversified non-traded REIT. The registration statement is subject to review by the SEC, so there can be no assurances as to whether or when the related offering will be commenced.

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Supplemental Information

The Company has provided supplemental unaudited financial and operating information regarding the 2016 first quarter, including a description of non-GAAP financial measures and reconciliations to GAAP measures, in a Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the SEC on May 5, 2016.

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W. P. Carey Inc.

W. P. Carey Inc. is a leading internally-managed net lease REIT that provides long-term sale-leaseback and build-to-suit financing solutions for companies worldwide. At March 31, 2016, the Company had an enterprise value of approximately $10.8 billion. In addition to its owned portfolio of diversified global real estate, W. P. Carey manages a series of non-traded publicly registered investment programs with assets under management of approximately $11.6 billion. Its corporate finance-focused credit and real estate underwriting process is a constant that has been successfully leveraged across a wide variety of industries and property types. Furthermore, its portfolio of long-term leases with creditworthy tenants has an established history of generating stable cash flows, enabling it to deliver consistent and rising dividend income to investors for over four decades.
www.wpcarey.com

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Cautionary Statement Concerning Forward-Looking Statements:

Certain of the matters discussed in this communication constitute forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Securities Act of 1933 and the Exchange Act of 1934, both as amended by the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. The forward-looking statements include, among other things, statements regarding the intent, belief, or expectations of W. P. Carey and can be identified by the use of words such as "may," "will," "should," "would," "assume," "outlook," "seek," "plan," "believe," "expect," "anticipate," "intend," "estimate," "forecast" and other comparable terms. These forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, the statements made by Mr. DeCesaris, as well as statements regarding our formal strategic review, our comprehensive business plan, including cost reductions, annualized dividends, adjusted funds from operations coverage and guidance, including underlying assumptions, capital recycling and intended results thereof, and anticipated future financial and operating performance and results, including underlying assumptions and estimates of growth. These statements are based on the current expectations of the management of W. P. Carey. It is important to note that W. P. Carey's actual results could be materially different from those projected in such forward-looking statements. There are a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from the forward-looking statements. Other unknown or unpredictable factors could also have material adverse effects on future results, performance or achievements of W. P. Carey. Discussions of some of these other important factors and assumptions are contained in W. P. Carey's filings with the SEC and are available at the SEC's website at http://www.sec.gov, including Item 1A. Risk Factors in W. P. Carey's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2015, as filed with the SEC on February 26, 2016. In light of these risks, uncertainties, assumptions and factors, the forward-looking events discussed in this communication may not occur. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date of this communication, unless noted otherwise. Except as required under the federal securities laws and the rules and regulations of the SEC, W. P. Carey does not undertake any obligation to release publicly any revisions to the forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date of this communication or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events.

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Non-GAAP Financial Disclosure

Due to certain unique operating characteristics of real estate companies, as discussed below, the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts, Inc., or NAREIT, an industry trade group, has promulgated a non-GAAP measure known as FFO, which we believe to be an appropriate supplemental measure, when used in addition to and in conjunction with results presented in accordance with GAAP, to reflect the operating performance of a REIT. The use of FFO is recommended by the REIT industry as a supplemental non-GAAP measure. FFO is not equivalent to nor a substitute for net income or loss as determined under GAAP.

We define FFO, a non-GAAP measure, consistent with the standards established by the White Paper on FFO approved by the Board of Governors of NAREIT, as revised in February 2004. The White Paper defines FFO as net income or loss computed in accordance with GAAP, excluding gains or losses from sales of property, impairment charges on real estate, and depreciation and amortization from real estate assets; and after adjustments for unconsolidated partnerships and jointly-owned investments.  Adjustments for unconsolidated partnerships and jointly-owned investments are calculated to reflect FFO. Our FFO calculation complies with NAREIT's policy described above.

We modify the NAREIT computation of FFO to include other adjustments to GAAP net income to adjust for certain non-cash charges such as amortization of real estate-related intangibles, deferred income tax benefits and expenses, straight-line rents, stock compensation, gains or losses from extinguishment of debt and deconsolidation of subsidiaries and unrealized foreign currency exchange gains and losses. Our assessment of our operations is focused on long-term sustainability and not on such non-cash items, which may cause short-term fluctuations in net income but have no impact on cash flows. Additionally, we exclude non-core income and expenses such as property acquisition and other expenses, which includes costs recorded related to the restructuring of Hellweg 2 and our formal strategic review, the reversal of liabilities for German real estate transfer taxes that were previously recorded in connection with the CPA^®:15 merger, certain lease termination income, and expenses related to restructuring and other compensation-related expenses resulting from a reduction in headcount and employment severance arrangements. We also exclude realized gains/losses on foreign exchange transactions, other than those realized on the settlement of foreign currency derivatives, which are not considered fundamental attributes of our business plan and do not affect our overall long-term operating performance. We refer to our modified definition of FFO as AFFO. We exclude these items from GAAP net income as they are not the primary drivers in our decision making process and excluding these items provides investors a view of our portfolio performance over time and makes it more comparable to other REITs which are currently not engaged in acquisitions, mergers and restructuring which are not part of our normal business operations. We use AFFO as one measure of our operating performance when we formulate corporate goals, evaluate the effectiveness of our strategies, and determine executive compensation.

We believe that AFFO is a useful supplemental measure for investors to consider as we believe it will help them to better assess the sustainability of our operating performance without the potentially distorting impact of these short-term fluctuations. However, there are limits on the usefulness of AFFO to investors. For example, impairment charges and unrealized foreign currency losses that we exclude may become actual realized losses upon the ultimate disposition of the properties in the form of lower cash proceeds or other considerations. We use our FFO and AFFO measures as supplemental financial measures of operating performance. We do not use our FFO and AFFO measures as, nor should they be considered to be, alternatives to net earnings computed under GAAP or as alternatives to cash from operating activities computed under GAAP or as indicators of our ability to fund our cash needs.

Institutional Investors:
Peter Sands
W. P. Carey Inc.
212-492-1110
[email protected]

Individual Investors:
W. P. Carey Inc.
212-492-8920
[email protected]

Press Contact:
Guy Lawrence
Ross & Lawrence
212-308-3333
[email protected]

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