Essex Announces Third Quarter 2024 Results and Raises Full-Year 2024 Guidance
Essex Property Trust reported strong Q3 2024 results, with Net Income per share rising 35.3% to $1.84 and Core FFO growing 3.4% to $3.91. Same-property revenue increased 3.5% year-over-year, with NOI growth of 2.6%. The company raised its full-year 2024 guidance, with Core FFO now expected between $15.50-$15.62 per share. Notable transactions include acquiring two San Jose properties for $290.5 million and issuing $200 million in senior unsecured notes at 5.1% yield. Portfolio occupancy remained stable at 96.2%, with strong performance across Southern California, Northern California, and Seattle markets.
Essex Property Trust ha riportato risultati solidi per il terzo trimestre del 2024, con un reddito netto per azione che è aumentato del 35,3% a $1,84 e un Core FFO in crescita del 3,4% a $3,91. I ricavi da proprietà comparabili sono aumentati del 3,5% rispetto all'anno precedente, con una crescita dell'NOI del 2,6%. L'azienda ha rivisto al rialzo le stime per l'intero anno 2024, prevedendo ora un Core FFO compreso tra $15,50 e $15,62 per azione. Tra le transazioni significative si annoverano l'acquisto di due proprietà a San Josè per $290,5 milioni e l'emissione di $200 milioni in obbligazioni senior non garantite con un rendimento del 5,1%. Il tasso di occupazione del portafoglio è rimasto stabile al 96,2%, con forti performance nei mercati della California meridionale, della California settentrionale e di Seattle.
Essex Property Trust informó resultados sólidos para el tercer trimestre de 2024, con un ingreso neto por acción que aumentó un 35,3% a $1,84 y un Core FFO que creció un 3,4% a $3,91. Los ingresos de propiedades comparables aumentaron un 3,5% en comparación con el año anterior, con un crecimiento del NOI del 2,6%. La compañía elevó su pronóstico para el año completo 2024, esperando ahora un Core FFO entre $15,50 y $15,62 por acción. Las transacciones notables incluyen la adquisición de dos propiedades en San José por $290,5 millones y la emisión de $200 millones en notas senior no garantizadas con un rendimiento del 5,1%. La ocupación de la cartera se mantuvo estable en el 96,2%, con un desempeño sólido en los mercados del sur de California, el norte de California y Seattle.
Essex Property Trust는 2024년 3분기 강력한 실적을 발표했으며, 주당 순이익이 35.3% 증가하여 $1.84에 달하고 Core FFO는 3.4% 성장하여 $3.91에 이릅니다. 동종 자산 수익은 전년 대비 3.5% 증가했으며, NOI 성장률은 2.6%입니다. 회사는 2024년 연간 가이던스를 상향 조정하여, 이제 Core FFO가 주당 $15.50에서 $15.62 사이로 예상됩니다. 주목할 만한 거래는 두 개의 샌호세(San Jose) 부동산을 $290.5 백만에 인수하고 5.1%의 수익률로 $200 백만의 선순위 무보증 채권을 발행한 것입니다. 포트폴리오의 점유율은 96.2%로 안정세를 유지하며, 남부 및 북부 캘리포니아와 시애틀 시장에서 강력한 성과를 보이고 있습니다.
Essex Property Trust a annoncé de solides résultats pour le troisième trimestre 2024, avec un revenu net par action en hausse de 35,3% à 1,84 $ et un Core FFO en augmentation de 3,4% à 3,91 $. Les revenus des propriétés comparables ont augmenté de 3,5 % d'une année sur l'autre, avec une croissance du NOI de 2,6 %. L'entreprise a relevé ses prévisions pour l'année entière 2024, avec un Core FFO désormais attendu entre 15,50 $ et 15,62 $ par action. Les transactions notables incluent l'acquisition de deux propriétés à San José pour 290,5 millions de dollars et l'émission de 200 millions de dollars en obligations senior non sécurisées à un rendement de 5,1 %. Le taux d'occupation du portefeuille est resté stable à 96,2 %, avec de fortes performances dans les marchés du sud de la Californie, du nord de la Californie et de Seattle.
Essex Property Trust hat solide Ergebnisse für das dritte Quartal 2024 berichtet, mit einem Nettoeinkommen pro Aktie, das um 35,3% auf $1,84 gestiegen ist, und einem Core FFO, das um 3,4% auf $3,91 gewachsen ist. Der Umsatz aus vergleichbaren Immobilien stieg im Jahresvergleich um 3,5%, mit einem NOI-Wachstum von 2,6%. Das Unternehmen hob seine Prognose für das Gesamtjahr 2024 an und erwartet nun einen Core FFO zwischen $15,50 und $15,62 pro Aktie. Zu den bemerkenswerten Transaktionen gehören der Erwerb von zwei Immobilien in San José für $290,5 Millionen und die Emission von $200 Millionen in unbesicherten Senior-Anleihen mit einer Rendite von 5,1%. Die Portfolioauslastung blieb stabil bei 96,2%, mit starker Leistung in den Märkten Südkalifornien, Nordkalifornien und Seattle.
- Net Income per share increased 35.3% to $1.84 in Q3 2024
- Core FFO grew 3.4% to $3.91 per share, exceeding guidance
- Same-property revenue increased 3.5% year-over-year
- Full-year 2024 guidance raised for Core FFO to $15.50-$15.62 per share
- Strong occupancy maintained at 96.2%
- Operating expenses increased 5.5% year-over-year
- Sequential NOI declined 0.7% from Q2 to Q3 2024
- Vacancy impact of -0.3% on same-property revenue growth
Insights
Essex Property Trust delivered strong Q3 2024 results, with
Portfolio performance shows resilience across markets, with Southern California leading at
The operational metrics reveal encouraging trends in Essex's West Coast markets. Occupancy remains robust at
The strategic consolidation of joint venture properties in San Jose at attractive valuations of
Net Income, Funds from Operations (“FFO”), and Core FFO per diluted share for the quarter ended September 30, 2024 are detailed below.
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Third Quarter 2024 Highlights:
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Reported Net Income per diluted share for the third quarter of 2024 of
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Grew Core FFO per diluted share by
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Achieved same-property revenue and net operating income (“NOI”) growth of
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Acquired and consolidated two joint venture apartment home communities located in
San Jose, CA at a combined valuation of$290.5 million - Raised full-year 2024 guidance range as detailed in the table below:
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Same-Property Operations
Same-property operating results exclude any properties that are not comparable for the periods presented. The table below illustrates the percentage change in same-property gross revenues for the quarter ended September 30, 2024 compared to the quarter ended September 30, 2023, and the sequential percentage change for the quarter ended September 30, 2024 compared to the quarter ended June 30, 2024, by submarket for the Company:
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The table below illustrates the components that drove the change in same-property revenue on a year-over-year basis for the three- and nine-month periods ended September 30, 2024 and on a sequential basis for the quarter ended September 30, 2024.
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Investment Activity
Acquisitions
In July, the Company acquired its joint venture partner’s
In September, the Company acquired its joint venture partner’s
Subsequent to quarter end, the Company acquired its joint venture partner’s
Dispositions
Subsequent to quarter end, the Company sold its
Other Investments
In July, the Company received cash proceeds of
Subsequent to quarter end, the Company received cash proceeds of
Liquidity and Balance Sheet
Common Stock
Year-to-date through October 28, 2024, the Company has not issued any shares of common stock through its equity distribution program or repurchased any shares through its stock repurchase plan.
Balance Sheet
In August, the Company issued
In September, the Company extended the maturity date of its
As of October 28, 2024, the Company had approximately
Guidance
For the third quarter of 2024, the Company exceeded the midpoint of the guidance range provided in its second quarter 2024 earnings release for Core FFO by
The following table provides a reconciliation of third quarter 2024 Core FFO per diluted share to the midpoint of the guidance provided in the Company’s second quarter 2024 earnings release.
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Per Diluted
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Guidance midpoint of Core FFO per diluted share for Q3 2024 |
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3.87 |
NOI from Consolidated Communities |
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0.04 |
FFO from Co-Investments |
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0.01 |
G&A and Other |
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Core FFO per diluted share for Q3 2024 reported |
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3.91 |
The table below provides key updates to the Company’s 2024 full-year assumptions for Net Income, Total FFO, Core FFO per diluted share, and same-property growth. For additional details regarding the Company’s 2024 Core FFO guidance range, please see page S-13 of the accompanying supplemental financial information.
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Q4 2024 Core FFO |
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The midpoint of the Company’s same-property revenues and NOI on a GAAP basis are |
Conference Call with Management
The Company will host an earnings conference call with management to discuss its quarterly results on Wednesday, October 30, 2024 at 10:00 a.m. PT (1:00 p.m. ET), which will be broadcast live via the Internet at www.essex.com, and accessible via phone by dialing toll-free, (877) 407-0784, or toll/international, (201) 689-8560. No passcode is necessary.
A rebroadcast of the live call will be available online for 30 days and digitally for 7 days. To access the replay online, go to www.essex.com and select the third quarter 2024 earnings link. To access the replay, dial (844) 512-2921 using the replay pin number 13749248. If you are unable to access the information via the Company’s website, please contact the Investor Relations Department at investors@essex.com or calling (650) 655-7800.
Upcoming Events
The Company is scheduled to participate in the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts (“NAREIT”) REITWorld Conference held at the Wynn Las Vegas in
Corporate Profile
Essex Property Trust, Inc., an S&P 500 company, is a fully integrated real estate investment trust (REIT) that acquires, develops, redevelops, and manages multifamily residential properties in selected West Coast markets. Essex currently has ownership interests in 254 apartment communities comprising approximately 62,000 apartment homes. Additional information about the Company can be found on the Company’s website at www.essex.com.
This press release and accompanying supplemental financial information has been furnished to the Securities and Exchange Commission electronically on Form 8-K and can be accessed from the Company’s website at www.essex.com. If you are unable to obtain the information via the Web, please contact the Investor Relations Department at (650) 655-7800.
FFO Reconciliation
FFO, as defined by the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts (“NAREIT”), is generally considered by industry analysts as an appropriate measure of performance of an equity REIT. Generally, FFO adjusts the net income of equity REITs for non-cash charges such as depreciation and amortization of rental properties, impairment charges, gains on sales of real estate and extraordinary items. Management considers FFO and FFO which excludes non-core items, which is referred to as “Core FFO,” to be useful supplemental operating performance measures of an equity REIT because, together with net income and cash flows, FFO and Core FFO provide investors with additional bases to evaluate the operating performance and ability of a REIT to incur and service debt and to fund acquisitions and other capital expenditures and to pay dividends. By excluding gains or losses related to sales of depreciated operating properties and land and excluding real estate depreciation (which can vary among owners of identical assets in similar condition based on historical cost accounting and useful life estimates), FFO can help investors compare the operating performance of a real estate company between periods or as compared to different companies. By further adjusting for items that are not considered part of the Company’s core business operations, Core FFO allows investors to compare the core operating performance of the Company to its performance in prior reporting periods and to the operating performance of other real estate companies without the effect of items that by their nature are not comparable from period to period and tend to obscure the Company’s actual operating results. FFO and Core FFO do not represent net income or cash flows from operations as defined by
The following table sets forth the Company’s calculation of diluted FFO and Core FFO for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2024 and 2023 (in thousands, except for share and per share amounts):
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Nine Months Ended
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Funds from Operations attributable to common stockholders and unitholders |
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2024 |
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2023 |
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2024 |
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2023 |
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Net income available to common stockholders |
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118,424 |
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87,282 |
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484,069 |
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340,434 |
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Adjustments: |
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Depreciation and amortization |
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146,439 |
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137,357 |
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431,785 |
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410,422 |
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Gains not included in FFO |
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(31,583) |
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(169,909) |
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(59,238) |
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Casualty loss |
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- |
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433 |
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Impairment loss from unconsolidated co-investments |
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- |
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3,726 |
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Depreciation and amortization from unconsolidated co-investments |
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16,417 |
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18,029 |
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52,267 |
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53,486 |
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Noncontrolling interest related to Operating Partnership units |
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4,206 |
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3,072 |
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17,075 |
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11,982 |
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Depreciation attributable to third party ownership and other |
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(370) |
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(371) |
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(1,149) |
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(1,095) |
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Funds from Operations attributable to common stockholders and unitholders |
$ |
253,533 |
$ |
245,369 |
$ |
817,864 |
$ |
756,424 |
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FFO per share – diluted |
$ |
3.81 |
$ |
3.69 |
$ |
12.30 |
$ |
11.37 |
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Expensed acquisition and investment related costs |
$ |
- |
$ |
31 |
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68 |
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375 |
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Tax (benefit) expense on unconsolidated co-investments (1) |
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(441) |
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404 |
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(1,199) |
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1,237 |
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Realized and unrealized (gains) losses on marketable securities, net |
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(5,697) |
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4,577 |
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(10,645) |
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(4,294) |
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Provision for credit losses |
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(182) |
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17 |
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(116) |
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51 |
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Equity income from non-core co-investments (2) |
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(555) |
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(538) |
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(6,282) |
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(1,422) |
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Co-investment promote income |
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- |
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(1,531) |
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Income from early redemption of preferred equity investments and notes receivable |
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General and administrative and other, net |
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13,956 |
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1,743 |
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22,403 |
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2,570 |
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Insurance reimbursements, legal settlements, and other, net (3) |
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(612) |
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(283) |
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(43,912) |
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(9,082) |
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Core Funds from Operations attributable to common stockholders and unitholders |
$ |
260,002 |
$ |
251,320 |
$ |
776,650 |
$ |
745,574 |
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Core FFO per share – diluted |
$ |
3.91 |
$ |
3.78 |
$ |
11.68 |
$ |
11.21 |
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Weighted average number of shares outstanding diluted (4) |
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66,551,838 |
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66,445,256 |
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66,500,412 |
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66,537,111 |
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Represents tax related to net unrealized gains or losses on technology co-investments. |
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Represents the Company's share of co-investment income or loss from technology co-investments. |
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Includes legal settlement gains of |
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Assumes conversion of all outstanding limited partnership units in Essex Portfolio, L.P. (the “Operating Partnership”) into shares of the Company’s common stock and excludes DownREIT limited partnership units. |
Net Operating Income (“NOI”) and Same-Property NOI Reconciliations
NOI and Same-Property NOI are considered by management to be important supplemental performance measures to earnings from operations included in the Company’s consolidated statements of income. The presentation of same-property NOI assists with the presentation of the Company’s operations prior to the allocation of depreciation and any corporate-level or financing-related costs. NOI reflects the operating performance of a community and allows for an easy comparison of the operating performance of individual communities or groups of communities. In addition, because prospective buyers of real estate have different financing and overhead structures, with varying marginal impacts to overhead by acquiring real estate, NOI is considered by many in the real estate industry to be a useful measure for determining the value of a real estate asset or group of assets. The Company defines same-property NOI as same-property revenues less same-property operating expenses, including property taxes. Please see the reconciliation of earnings from operations to NOI and same-property NOI, which in the table below is the NOI for stabilized properties consolidated by the Company for the periods presented (dollars in thousands):
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2024 |
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2023 |
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2024 |
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2023 |
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Earnings from operations |
$ |
128,790 |
$ |
131,784 |
$ |
398,599 |
$ |
454,001 |
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Adjustments: |
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Corporate-level property management expenses |
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12,150 |
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11,504 |
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36,004 |
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34,387 |
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Depreciation and amortization |
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146,439 |
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137,357 |
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431,785 |
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410,422 |
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Management and other fees from affiliates |
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(2,563) |
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(2,785) |
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(7,849) |
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General and administrative |
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29,067 |
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14,611 |
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67,374 |
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43,735 |
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Expensed acquisition and investment related costs |
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31 |
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68 |
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375 |
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Casualty loss |
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- |
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- |
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433 |
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Gain on sale of real estate and land |
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(59,238) |
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NOI |
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313,883 |
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292,502 |
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925,981 |
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875,787 |
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Less: Non-same property NOI |
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(26,431) |
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(12,390) |
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(66,748) |
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(40,504) |
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Same-Property NOI |
$ |
287,452 |
$ |
280,112 |
$ |
859,233 |
$ |
835,283 |
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Safe Harbor Statement Under The Private Litigation Reform Act of 1995:
This press release includes “forward-looking statements” 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. Forward-looking statements are statements which are not historical facts, including statements regarding the Company's expectations, estimates, assumptions, hopes, intentions, beliefs and strategies regarding the future. Words such as “expects,” “assumes,” “anticipates,” “may,” “will,” “intends,” “plans,” “projects,” “believes,” “seeks,” “future,” “estimates,” and variations of such words and similar expressions are intended to identify such forward-looking statements. Such forward-looking statements include, among other things, statements regarding the Company’s fourth quarter and full-year 2024 guidance (including net income, Total FFO and Core FFO, same-property growth and related assumptions) and anticipated yield on certain investments. While the Company's management believes the assumptions underlying its forward-looking statements are reasonable, such forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors, many of which are beyond the Company’s control, which could cause the actual results, performance or achievements of the Company to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. The Company cannot assure the future results or outcome of the matters described in these statements; rather, these statements merely reflect the Company’s current expectations of the approximate outcomes of the matters discussed.
Factors that might cause the Company’s actual results, performance or achievements to differ materially from those expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, the following: assumptions related to our fourth quarter and full-year 2024 guidance; occupancy rates and rental demand may be adversely affected by competition and local economic and market conditions; there may be increased interest rates, inflation, escalated operating costs and possible recessionary impacts; geopolitical tensions and regional conflicts, and the related impacts on macroeconomic conditions, including, among other things, interest rates and inflation; the terms of any refinancing may not be as favorable as the terms of existing indebtedness; the Company’s inability to maintain our investment grade credit rating with the rating agencies; the Company may be unsuccessful in the management of its relationships with its co-investment partners; the Company may fail to achieve its business objectives; time of actual completion and/or stabilization of development and redevelopment projects; estimates of future income from an acquired property may prove to be inaccurate; future cash flows may be inadequate to meet operating requirements and/or may be insufficient to provide for dividend payments in accordance with REIT requirements; changes in laws or regulations and the anticipated or actual impact of future changes in laws or regulations; unexpected difficulties in leasing of future development projects; volatility in financial and securities markets; the Company’s failure to successfully operate acquired properties; unforeseen consequences from cyber-intrusion; government approvals, actions and initiatives, including the need for compliance with environmental requirements; and those further risks, special considerations, and other factors referred to in the Company’s annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2023, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, and those risk factors and special considerations set forth in the Company's other filings with the SEC which may cause the actual results, performance or achievements of the Company to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. All forward-looking statements are made as of the date hereof, the Company assumes no obligation to update or supplement this information for any reason, and therefore, they may not represent the Company’s estimates and assumptions after the date of this press release.
Definitions and Reconciliations
Non-GAAP financial measures and certain other capitalized terms, as used in this earnings release, are defined and further explained on pages S-17.1 through S-17.4, "Reconciliations of Non-GAAP Financial Measures and Other Terms," of the accompanying supplemental financial information. The supplemental financial information is available on the Company's website at www.essex.com.
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Loren Rainey
Director, Investor Relations
(650) 655-7800
lrainey@essex.com
Source: Essex Property Trust, Inc.
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