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ProfileEarnings HistoryForecast Stag Industrial EPS ResultsActual EPS$0.61Consensus EPS $0.18Beat/MissBeat by +$0.43One Year Ago EPSN/AStag Industrial Revenue ResultsActual RevenueN/AExpected Revenue$193.68 millionBeat/MissN/AYoY Revenue GrowthN/AStag Industrial Announcement DetailsQuarterQ4 2024Date2/12/2025TimeAfter Market ClosesConference Call DateThursday, February 13, 2025Conference Call Time10:00AM ETConference Call ResourcesConference Call AudioConference Call TranscriptSlide DeckPress Release (8-K)Annual Report (10-K)Earnings HistoryCompany ProfileSlide DeckFull Screen Slide DeckPowered by Stag Industrial Q4 2024 Earnings Call TranscriptProvided by QuartrFebruary 13, 2025 ShareLink copied to clipboard.Key Takeaways Industrial supply pipeline contracted by over 30% in 2024 with further declines expected in 2025, while tenant demand has reaccelerated post-election across commercial services, building products and air freight/logistics. Management has already secured 70% of the square footage it expects to lease in 2025, achieving average cash leasing spreads of 23.8%, in line with recent years’ momentum. Full-year 2024 core FFO rose 4.8% year-over-year to $2.40 per share, same-store cash NOI grew a record 5.8%, and net debt to EBITDA stood at 5.2x with $623 million of liquidity. 2025 guidance calls for core FFO of $2.46–$2.50 per share, same-store NOI growth of 3.5–4%, a 100 bp occupancy decline, and $350–$650 million in acquisitions at ~6.25–6.75% cap rates. The development pipeline comprises 2.5 million sq ft across 11 buildings (16% pre-leased, 43% leased on delivered space) plus a new 400k sq ft JV in Charlotte targeting a 7% stabilized yield. AI Generated. May Contain Errors.Conference Call Audio Live Call not available Earnings Conference CallStag Industrial Q4 202400:00 / 00:00Speed:1x1.25x1.5x2xTranscript SectionsPresentationParticipantsPresentationSkip to Participants Operator00:00:00Greetings, and welcome to the STAG Industrial Inc. Fourth Quarter twenty twenty four Earnings Conference Call. At this time, all participants are in a listen only mode. A brief question and answer session will follow the formal presentation. As a reminder, this conference is being recorded. Operator00:00:25It is now my pleasure to introduce your host, Steve Zarrows, Vice President, Investor Relations. Thank you, sir. You may begin. Steve XiarhosVice President - Capital Markets & Investor Relations at STAG Industrial00:00:32Thank you. Welcome to STAG Industrial's conference call covering the fourth quarter twenty twenty four results. In addition to the press release distributed yesterday, we have posted an unaudited quarterly supplemental information package on the company's website at www.stagindustrial.com under the Investor Relations section. On today's call, the company's prepared remarks and answers to your questions will contain forward looking statements as defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward looking statements address matters that are subject to risks and uncertainties and may cause actual results to differ from those discussed today. Steve XiarhosVice President - Capital Markets & Investor Relations at STAG Industrial00:01:06Examples of forward looking statements include forecasts of core FFO, same store NOI, G and A, acquisition and disposition volumes, retention rates and other guidance, leasing prospects, rent collections, industry and economic trends and other matters. We encourage all listeners to review the more detailed discussion related to these forward looking statements contained in the company's filings with the SEC and the definitions and reconciliations of non GAAP measures contained in the supplemental information package available on the company's website. As a reminder, our forward looking statements represent management's estimates as of today. Sac Industrial assumes no obligation to update any forward looking statements. On today's call, you will hear from Bill Crooker, Chief Executive Officer and Matt Spenard, our Chief Financial Officer. Steve XiarhosVice President - Capital Markets & Investor Relations at STAG Industrial00:01:49Also here with us today is Mike Chase, our Chief Investment Officer and Steve Kimbell, EVP of Real Estate Operations, who are available to answer questions specific to their areas of focus. I'll now turn the call over to Bill. William CrookerCEO, President & Director at STAG Industrial00:02:01Thank you, Steve. Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the fourth quarter earnings call for STAG Industrial. We're pleased to have you join us and look forward to discussing the fourth quarter and full year 2024 results. We will also provide our initial 2025 guidance. 2024 ended with an improved industrial supply backdrop and another solid quarter of operating results produced by our team. William CrookerCEO, President & Director at STAG Industrial00:02:26Supply pipeline continues to contract with deliveries down over 30% and this is expected to continue in 2025. In aggregate, 2024 national industrial leasing demand was muted compared to recent years. However, much of the weakness was specific to certain markets. Many of the markets we operate in remain healthy from both a supply and demand standpoint. We are seeing an increase in tenant demand since the election spanning a broad array of industries. William CrookerCEO, President & Director at STAG Industrial00:02:57Most active tenant industries have been commercial services, building products and air freight and logistics. In 2024, within our portfolio, we witnessed the strongest market rent growth in our non coastal and manufacturing markets. Airshoring and onshoring projects continue to progress. This along with pent up demand from delayed decision making by tenants should result in growing warehouse demand. Leasing activity has reaccelerated with tenants committing to space to serve their warehousing needs. William CrookerCEO, President & Director at STAG Industrial00:03:32This is demonstrated in the leasing progress we have achieved to date in our 2025 business plan. I'm happy to report that we've already leased 70% of our operating portfolio square feet we currently expect to lease in 2025, achieving cash leasing spreads of 23.8%. This level of leasing is on a similar place to last year and consistent over the last few years. With an update to last quarter, American Tire Distributors is still working through the bankruptcy process. As of today, all leases are current with zero missed rental payments. William CrookerCEO, President & Director at STAG Industrial00:04:08The ATD credit exposure is reflected in our initial 2025 guidance provided in yesterday's earnings release, including same store NOI and core FFO per share for the year. Moving to acquisitions, volume for the fourth quarter totaled $294,000,000 This consisted of 15 buildings with cash and straight line cap rates of six point two percent and six point nine percent respectively. In December, we closed on a portfolio of five single tenant buildings totaling 726,000 square feet and three different submarkets of Chicago. We acquired the portfolio for $73,000,000 at a cash cap rate of 6.5%. The portfolio was 100% occupied with a weighted average lease term of seven point one years and rents 12% below market. William CrookerCEO, President & Director at STAG Industrial00:05:00This transaction offered an attractive combination of current income and long term NOI growth. Subsequent to quarter end, we acquired one building for $16,600,000 at a 6.4% cash cap rate. The recent volatility with interest rates caused an initial slowdown in the transaction market to start the year. We anticipate the acquisition market will gain momentum as we move through the year. In terms of dispositions this quarter, we sold two buildings for aggregate proceeds of $29,000,000 1 of those buildings was a non core asset. William CrookerCEO, President & Director at STAG Industrial00:05:36The other building was in Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin, resulting in proceeds of $26,000,000 reporting a cash cap rate of 5.7. In January, the company sold one building in Nashua, New Hampshire for gross proceeds of $67,000,000 representing a cash cap rate of 4.9%. On the development front, as of twelvethirty one, we have approximately 2,500,000 square feet of activity across 11 buildings in The U. S. I'd like to highlight two events in the development portfolio. William CrookerCEO, President & Director at STAG Industrial00:06:10First, on the leasing front, roughly 50% of the 2,500,000 square feet is under construction and 16% is pre leased. The remaining 50% has been delivered and is currently 43% leased. This includes a full building lease set to commence 05/01/2025 for our 474,000 square foot cross stock building in Greer, South Carolina. The existing customer expanded their footprint with STAG and we use this space for the production and distribution of consumer products. Second, in December, STAG entered a 9,010 joint venture development partnership to construct approximately 400,000 square feet across two rear load buildings in the Charlotte market. William CrookerCEO, President & Director at STAG Industrial00:06:56Project is in the Concord submarket Northeast of the city. It has a project cost of approximately $56,000,000 and expected stabilized yield of 7%. The site has secured favorable zoning, which position us well and is high barrier to entry market. With that, I will turn it over to Mats, who will cover our remaining results and guidance for 2025. Matts PinardCFO at STAG Industrial00:07:19Thank you, Bill, and good morning, everyone. Core FFO per share was $0.61 for the quarter and $2.4 for the year, representing an increase of 4.8% as compared to 2023. Cash available for distribution totaled $370,000,000 in 2024. This past year, we retained approximately $95,000,000 of free cash flow after dividends paid. Net debt to annualized run rate adjusted EBITDA was 5.2x at year end with liquidity of $623,000,000 During the quarter, we commenced 23 leases totaling 2,400,000 square feet, which generated cash and straight line leasing spreads of 19.434.9% respectively. Matts PinardCFO at STAG Industrial00:08:01For the year, we achieved cash and straight line leasing spreads of 28.341.8% respectively. Same store cash NOI grew 4.4% for the quarter and we achieved record same store cash NOI growth of 5.8% for the year. Retention was 76.9% for the quarter and 76.6 for the year. As mentioned by Bill, we have accomplished 70% of the operating portfolio square feet we currently expect to lease in 2025, achieving 23.8% cash leasing spreads, demonstrating the strength of our portfolio. Moving to capital market activity, we repaid the $50,000,000 private placement no day, which matured on October 1. Matts PinardCFO at STAG Industrial00:08:44All forward equity proceeds have been settled and we do not have any forward equity contracts outstanding. There are minimal debt maturities in 2025. We are pleased to provide guidance, which can be found on Page 20 of our supplemental package, which is available in the Investor Relations section of our website. Same store cash NOI growth is expected to range between 3.5% to 4%. Components of our same store cash NOI guidance include the following: retention to range from 70% to 75% cash leasing spreads are projected to be approximately twenty five percent and fourteen million square feet of budgeted new and renewal leasing for the year. Matts PinardCFO at STAG Industrial00:09:22We expect same store occupancy to decrease 100 basis points during the year. Given the volatile capital market environment, acquisition volume guidance ranges from $350,000,000 to $650,000,000 with a cash capitalization rate between 6.256.75%. Acquisition timing will be more heavily weighted to the back end of this year. Disposition volume guidance ranges from $100,000,000 to $200,000,000 G and A is expected to be between $52,000,000 and $54,000,000 Incorporating these components, we're initiating a core FFO per share range of $2.46 to $2.5 per share. I will now turn it back over to Bill. William CrookerCEO, President & Director at STAG Industrial00:10:04Thank you, Matt, and thank you to our team for the 2024 achievements. I'm really proud of all we have accomplished over the course of the year and look forward to a strong 2025. We'll now turn it back to the operator for questions. Operator00:10:20Thank you. We will now be conducting a question and answer session. Our first question comes from Craig Mailman with Citi. Please proceed with your question. Craig MailmanManaging Director & Equity Research Analyst at Citigroup Global Markets Inc.00:10:56Hey, good morning guys. Maybe one question in two parts. On leasing and spreads here, you guys had a good year overall in 2024 on the spread side, but fourth quarter was a little bit lighter at 19% and you're expected to reaccelerate to 24% and the 70% you did so far. Is that 24% a good kind of place to think about the full year to be? And then just separately, the 14,000,000 square feet of plan for 2025, if you kind of look last quarter, you guys are closer to 15,000,000 square feet. Craig MailmanManaging Director & Equity Research Analyst at Citigroup Global Markets Inc.00:11:41What's going on with the volatility or how should we think about that in terms of the overall plan of gross leasing? William CrookerCEO, President & Director at STAG Industrial00:11:48Yes. Hey, Craig. Very interesting way you phrased the question to get a couple of questions into one, but I appreciate it. So the leasing spreads for Q4 were a little lower. That was related to some fixed rate renewal options in Q4. William CrookerCEO, President & Director at STAG Industrial00:12:05That was factored into our original guidance. If you exclude those, our leasing spreads in Q4 would have been 34%. And then looking into 25%, we're approximately 24% today for about 70% of the leasing we expect to do. So I think leasing spreads for 25% will be in and around 25%, twenty four %, twenty five %. So we get a pretty good chunk of that done already. William CrookerCEO, President & Director at STAG Industrial00:12:31And then with respect to prior views on leasing activity versus current views on leasing activities, a couple of things happened there. One, we sold the building in Nashville, New Hampshire in Q1. That was a building that we were repositioning in Q4 and we were planning on leasing it. Ultimately, we decided to sell it just due to the economics, very interesting transaction there. That was a drop in leasing activity that we're prior previously expected to lease in '24, but now we've sold the building. William CrookerCEO, President & Director at STAG Industrial00:13:08And there was also another like non renewal that we expected to renew on the back half of next year that it didn't reduce. So now we're planning to lease back half of 2025, now we're planning to lease in 2026. Operator00:13:29Our next question comes from Nick Thielman with Baird. Please proceed with your question. Nicholas ThillmanSenior Research Analyst at Robert W. Baird & Co00:13:35Hey, good morning guys. Wanted to touch a little bit on the development and more specifically on kind of the yields you're seeing within that portfolio. The Tampa construction just finished up and was moved into the completed but not in service and we noticed kind of the yield still stayed at 5.5%. Is there anything in that and I know originally you guys are saying mid-6s on that. We thought the composition would be drift a little higher. Nicholas ThillmanSenior Research Analyst at Robert W. Baird & Co00:14:00Is there anything in there that's causing that? Did you have to change any underwriting for any of those specific assets? And also, just a little commentary on the activity you're seeing in Spartanburg, obviously signed the lease, but curious on the other properties? William CrookerCEO, President & Director at STAG Industrial00:14:15Yes, Nick, I'm not sure where the mid-5s were for the Tampa, but we're still expecting mid-6s for stabilization on those two assets. And we're, as I previously said, expecting we under our twelve month downtime. So end of twenty twenty five for leasing on those assets. With respect to Spartanburg, that's a market, as I mentioned previously too, that had some oversupply. But there was some leasing getting done there that has created more of a sense of urgency amongst tenants in that market. William CrookerCEO, President & Director at STAG Industrial00:14:51We were able to strike a lease at our Cross Sock facility 474,000. So a little bit ahead of the revised timing last quarter. I think I mentioned we're expecting this to be middle, call it, end of Q2. That lease is expected to start May 1. So we're really happy with that outcome. William CrookerCEO, President & Director at STAG Industrial00:15:15We're seeing a lot of tours on the rear load building there, the 240,000 square foot facility. And then on the other building, the Casual Drive facility, we have part of that building leased right now. We're getting some really good inquiries on the remaining pieces, remaining two suites of that building. Nicholas ThillmanSenior Research Analyst at Robert W. Baird & Co00:15:37That's helpful. Maybe just a point of clarification. I was talking about like the mid-5s was for the Spartanburg, but I assume that moving to Tampa into the portfolio that yield would drift higher. Did you adjust any yields for the Spartanburg assets? William CrookerCEO, President & Director at STAG Industrial00:15:51Yes. So the one we leased was approximately 5%. That was part of the change. Nicholas ThillmanSenior Research Analyst at Robert W. Baird & Co00:15:59Okay. Thank you. William CrookerCEO, President & Director at STAG Industrial00:16:01Yes. Operator00:16:04Our next question comes from Jason Pilcher with Wells Fargo. Please proceed with your question. Jason BelcherAnalyst at Wells Fargo00:16:11Good morning. Just wondering if you could touch on the topic of tariffs a little bit, maybe share anything you're hearing from your tenants on that front, as well as any trends you might be seeing across your tenants or tenant industries in your portfolio that you might attribute to tariff concerns? And then if you can just kind of comment generally on how you're thinking about tariffs and potential impact, is it something you think could hit in the next six to twelve months in terms of what you see in results or you think it's further out than that? William CrookerCEO, President & Director at STAG Industrial00:16:45Yes, it's a good question. I think there's just a lot of uncertainty with respect to the tariffs. Some have been announced, some have been delayed, expecting some more to be announced today or soon. And so the question is, what products are getting impacted and when? And I don't think our tenants really know. William CrookerCEO, President & Director at STAG Industrial00:17:10I mean, the feedback that we've been hearing from tenants is it's a little too early to tell. Certainly seeing this really was a trend last year, tenants storing more finished goods in the facilities ahead of tariffs. On shoring, dialogue, near shoring, dialogue increasing, but those decisions take a little bit of time. And so the question is if tenants are thinking that these tariffs are going to be in place for the long term, then I think it will spur more on shoring. And depending on what happens with your neighbors maybe some additional near shoring. William CrookerCEO, President & Director at STAG Industrial00:17:48I just think right now it's a little too early to tell and from our tenants it's just a lot of uncertainty. Jason BelcherAnalyst at Wells Fargo00:17:56Got it. Thank you. William CrookerCEO, President & Director at STAG Industrial00:17:57Thank you. Operator00:18:00Our next question comes from Vince Tibbani with Green Street. Please proceed with your question. Vince TiboneManaging Director and Head of US Industrial & Mall Research at Green Street Advisors, LLC00:18:07Hi, good morning. Can you discuss recent trends in the private transaction market? And specifically, I mean, have you seen any slowdown in transaction activity or a notable change in pricing since the ten year has climbed pretty significantly from the trough in September? William CrookerCEO, President & Director at STAG Industrial00:18:25I mean, there's been some interesting trends in the private market. There was some portfolios that got executed last year. There was some big appetites for some of the larger private equity shops. The largest private equity shops are actually selling more, which I think you know who I'm referencing. But right now, there's a little bit of probably a pause in the private market. William CrookerCEO, President & Director at STAG Industrial00:18:55We are seeing and hearing of some portfolios coming out that may trade and those may trade at is a little bit tighter yields, because they're shorter lease terms that they can get higher yields in the next three years. But Mike, I don't know if there's anything else you want to touch on there? Michael ChaseExecutive VP & Chief Investment Officer at STAG Industrial00:19:14Yes. No, Bill, I think you hit on that. The year end was a little bit slower. It was a fast year end for closing deals, but it was a slower year end for deals coming out to market. That trickled into January, but we've seen a little bit of an uptick in February and we expect that to accelerate throughout the rest of the year. Vince TiboneManaging Director and Head of US Industrial & Mall Research at Green Street Advisors, LLC00:19:40Great. Thank you. William CrookerCEO, President & Director at STAG Industrial00:19:42Thanks. Operator00:19:44Our next question comes from Steve Sakwa with Evercore ISI. Please proceed with your question. Steve SakwaSenior Managing Director & Senior Equity Research Analyst at Evercore ISI00:19:51Yes. Thanks. Good morning. Bill, I was just wondering, we've heard from many of your peers and some brokers that leasing activity seem to noticeably pick up once the election was over. And so just taking your comments about tariffs and the uncertainty into account, just like what have you seen on the actual just kind of pace of leasing activity towards your pipeline? Steve SakwaSenior Managing Director & Senior Equity Research Analyst at Evercore ISI00:20:16And is there a big difference in that pickup between kind of the existing portfolio and maybe the development pipeline? Thanks. William CrookerCEO, President & Director at STAG Industrial00:20:25Thanks, Steve. We've seen a pretty material uptick in tours, calls, inquiries to start this year. We're seeing it it's really broad based across our markets. We're seeing it a lot in Greenville Spartanburg, Milwaukee, Chicago, the Sunbelt, certainly the Nashville market. The new builds are getting a lot of looks. William CrookerCEO, President & Director at STAG Industrial00:20:53I think there's a lot of commentary in the market that there's a flight to quality. But we're seeing a lot of demand in our existing buildings as well. It takes a little bit of time for those tours increased calls to convert to trading papers and signing leases, but the activity has increased and probably at a level we haven't seen in twelve months or so. So we're really happy with the activity we're seeing. Steve SakwaSenior Managing Director & Senior Equity Research Analyst at Evercore ISI00:21:24Great. Thank you. William CrookerCEO, President & Director at STAG Industrial00:21:26Thank you. Operator00:21:28Our next question comes from John Kim with BMO Capital Markets. Please proceed with your question. John KimManaging Director - US Real Estate at BMO Capital Markets00:21:36Thank you. Can you tie in the 100 basis point occupancy loss you expect this year with the 9,700,000 square feet that you've addressed for 2025 and also the 6,900,000 square feet that is expiring. I'm just doesn't seem like it's apples to apples to me. So I just wanted to clarify. William CrookerCEO, President & Director at STAG Industrial00:22:01I don't know if I can connect all those dots, but we certainly we can drill down more detailed maybe after the call, John. But I mean, what we're seeing here is what our expected leasing for 2025 is around 14,000,000 ish square feet. We've done 70% of our leasing in our operating portfolio. So math there is we've got another 4,000,000 square feet in our operating portfolio we expect to lease and then there's about 2,000,000 square feet we expect to lease outside of the operating portfolio, which is a higher number that we've had in the past. But I think it speaks to what we've been doing with our developments, our redevelopments, our repositioning. William CrookerCEO, President & Director at STAG Industrial00:22:48And so that's all I think it's a great shift, but there's still a fair amount of wood to chop as we move through the year. John KimManaging Director - US Real Estate at BMO Capital Markets00:22:58I guess what's in that expected leasing number? There's 25 expirations, there's developments, there's existing vacancy, I just wanted to mention that bucket. William CrookerCEO, President & Director at STAG Industrial00:23:07Also vacancy that there's you've got new leasing that is from either existing vacancy or vacancy that we think is going to not renew early in the year and maybe it gets leased up later. You've got renewal leasing and then you've got non operating portfolio leasing that is that additional 2,000,000 square feet I was referencing, which includes developments and some other repositioning assets. John KimManaging Director - US Real Estate at BMO Capital Markets00:23:40Okay. Got it. Thank you. Matts PinardCFO at STAG Industrial00:23:43Yes, John, this is Matt. So I'll jump in here. Matts PinardCFO at STAG Industrial00:23:45I think one point of clarification here is when we talk about the square feet we expect to lease in 2025, that's not simply addressing expiries to Bill's point, it includes new speculative leasing that we have in our budget as well. I think that's going to help bridge the numbers you're looking at. Great. Thanks. Operator00:24:07Our next question comes from Mike Carroll with RBC Capital Markets. Please proceed with your question. Hi, good morning. Analyst00:24:14This is Didi on for Mike. I guess just thinking about how you think about development starts for 2025. Analyst00:24:20Are you planning on leasing some projects that are currently under construction before starting breaking ground on new things? Just wanted to know your thoughts. William CrookerCEO, President & Director at STAG Industrial00:24:29I mean, right now, we're really happy with the way the development platform is running. We expect and we hope to have some additional development starts. I mean, we just leased our biggest building in our development pipeline at four hundred and seventy four thousand square feet. So even if it was apples to apples, we would add at least that hopefully. It really comes down to opportunities. William CrookerCEO, President & Director at STAG Industrial00:24:58The assets that we're putting in our development pipeline are in really strong markets. We're seeing really attractive yields. We just was able to put two buildings in our development pipeline in Concord, North Carolina. Those sites fit the market well. In total, it's call it $55,000,000 So we're really happy with the development pipeline right now and we'll add to it for sure if the right opportunities come around. Analyst00:25:32Great. Thank you. William CrookerCEO, President & Director at STAG Industrial00:25:33Thank you. Operator00:25:37Our next question comes from Brendan Lynch with Barclays. Please proceed with your question. Brendan LynchDirector at Barclays Capital00:25:42Great. Thanks for taking my question. Maybe you could put your 70% the 70% of renewals that you've addressed already into historical contexts. And is it normal to have that level completed at this point in the year? And are you reaching out to clients earlier than in the past? Brendan LynchDirector at Barclays Capital00:26:00Are they coming to you earlier? Any color around that would be helpful. William CrookerCEO, President & Director at STAG Industrial00:26:04Yes, the 70% that we've done to date for 2025 is consistent with last year and really consistent with the past few years. So, we're always in front of our tenants. I don't think there is a strategic push to change whether we are going to trying to renew tenants early or not. It's a back and forth conversation. So we've similar pace to last year and the last few years. Brendan LynchDirector at Barclays Capital00:26:37Great. And maybe just a follow-up there. At what point do you turn your attention to 2026? William CrookerCEO, President & Director at STAG Industrial00:26:45We've leased 8% of 2026 already. So we're always looking to make the best transactions and decisions for the company. And part of that is tenants may come to us with their 2026 lease expirations and say, hey, I want to renew early. And if the economics work and we like the transaction, then we'll execute on it. So we're about 8% of our way through our 2026 at this point. Brendan LynchDirector at Barclays Capital00:27:18Great. Thank you for the color. William CrookerCEO, President & Director at STAG Industrial00:27:20Thank you. Operator00:27:23There are no further questions at this time. I would now like to turn the floor back over to Bill Kerkirfer. William CrookerCEO, President & Director at STAG Industrial00:27:31Thank you. And I just want to thank everybody for participating in the call today and certainly want to thank the analysts for their questions and look forward to seeing everyone at the upcoming conferences. Thank you. Operator00:27:47This concludes today's teleconference. You may disconnect your lines at this time.Read moreParticipantsExecutivesWilliam CrookerCEO, President & DirectorMichael ChaseExecutive VP & Chief Investment OfficerAnalystsSteve XiarhosVice President - Capital Markets & Investor Relations at STAG IndustrialMatts PinardCFO at STAG IndustrialCraig MailmanManaging Director & Equity Research Analyst at Citigroup Global Markets Inc.Nicholas ThillmanSenior Research Analyst at Robert W. 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PresentationSkip to Participants Operator00:00:00Greetings, and welcome to the STAG Industrial Inc. Fourth Quarter twenty twenty four Earnings Conference Call. At this time, all participants are in a listen only mode. A brief question and answer session will follow the formal presentation. As a reminder, this conference is being recorded. Operator00:00:25It is now my pleasure to introduce your host, Steve Zarrows, Vice President, Investor Relations. Thank you, sir. You may begin. Steve XiarhosVice President - Capital Markets & Investor Relations at STAG Industrial00:00:32Thank you. Welcome to STAG Industrial's conference call covering the fourth quarter twenty twenty four results. In addition to the press release distributed yesterday, we have posted an unaudited quarterly supplemental information package on the company's website at www.stagindustrial.com under the Investor Relations section. On today's call, the company's prepared remarks and answers to your questions will contain forward looking statements as defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward looking statements address matters that are subject to risks and uncertainties and may cause actual results to differ from those discussed today. Steve XiarhosVice President - Capital Markets & Investor Relations at STAG Industrial00:01:06Examples of forward looking statements include forecasts of core FFO, same store NOI, G and A, acquisition and disposition volumes, retention rates and other guidance, leasing prospects, rent collections, industry and economic trends and other matters. We encourage all listeners to review the more detailed discussion related to these forward looking statements contained in the company's filings with the SEC and the definitions and reconciliations of non GAAP measures contained in the supplemental information package available on the company's website. As a reminder, our forward looking statements represent management's estimates as of today. Sac Industrial assumes no obligation to update any forward looking statements. On today's call, you will hear from Bill Crooker, Chief Executive Officer and Matt Spenard, our Chief Financial Officer. Steve XiarhosVice President - Capital Markets & Investor Relations at STAG Industrial00:01:49Also here with us today is Mike Chase, our Chief Investment Officer and Steve Kimbell, EVP of Real Estate Operations, who are available to answer questions specific to their areas of focus. I'll now turn the call over to Bill. William CrookerCEO, President & Director at STAG Industrial00:02:01Thank you, Steve. Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the fourth quarter earnings call for STAG Industrial. We're pleased to have you join us and look forward to discussing the fourth quarter and full year 2024 results. We will also provide our initial 2025 guidance. 2024 ended with an improved industrial supply backdrop and another solid quarter of operating results produced by our team. William CrookerCEO, President & Director at STAG Industrial00:02:26Supply pipeline continues to contract with deliveries down over 30% and this is expected to continue in 2025. In aggregate, 2024 national industrial leasing demand was muted compared to recent years. However, much of the weakness was specific to certain markets. Many of the markets we operate in remain healthy from both a supply and demand standpoint. We are seeing an increase in tenant demand since the election spanning a broad array of industries. William CrookerCEO, President & Director at STAG Industrial00:02:57Most active tenant industries have been commercial services, building products and air freight and logistics. In 2024, within our portfolio, we witnessed the strongest market rent growth in our non coastal and manufacturing markets. Airshoring and onshoring projects continue to progress. This along with pent up demand from delayed decision making by tenants should result in growing warehouse demand. Leasing activity has reaccelerated with tenants committing to space to serve their warehousing needs. William CrookerCEO, President & Director at STAG Industrial00:03:32This is demonstrated in the leasing progress we have achieved to date in our 2025 business plan. I'm happy to report that we've already leased 70% of our operating portfolio square feet we currently expect to lease in 2025, achieving cash leasing spreads of 23.8%. This level of leasing is on a similar place to last year and consistent over the last few years. With an update to last quarter, American Tire Distributors is still working through the bankruptcy process. As of today, all leases are current with zero missed rental payments. William CrookerCEO, President & Director at STAG Industrial00:04:08The ATD credit exposure is reflected in our initial 2025 guidance provided in yesterday's earnings release, including same store NOI and core FFO per share for the year. Moving to acquisitions, volume for the fourth quarter totaled $294,000,000 This consisted of 15 buildings with cash and straight line cap rates of six point two percent and six point nine percent respectively. In December, we closed on a portfolio of five single tenant buildings totaling 726,000 square feet and three different submarkets of Chicago. We acquired the portfolio for $73,000,000 at a cash cap rate of 6.5%. The portfolio was 100% occupied with a weighted average lease term of seven point one years and rents 12% below market. William CrookerCEO, President & Director at STAG Industrial00:05:00This transaction offered an attractive combination of current income and long term NOI growth. Subsequent to quarter end, we acquired one building for $16,600,000 at a 6.4% cash cap rate. The recent volatility with interest rates caused an initial slowdown in the transaction market to start the year. We anticipate the acquisition market will gain momentum as we move through the year. In terms of dispositions this quarter, we sold two buildings for aggregate proceeds of $29,000,000 1 of those buildings was a non core asset. William CrookerCEO, President & Director at STAG Industrial00:05:36The other building was in Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin, resulting in proceeds of $26,000,000 reporting a cash cap rate of 5.7. In January, the company sold one building in Nashua, New Hampshire for gross proceeds of $67,000,000 representing a cash cap rate of 4.9%. On the development front, as of twelvethirty one, we have approximately 2,500,000 square feet of activity across 11 buildings in The U. S. I'd like to highlight two events in the development portfolio. William CrookerCEO, President & Director at STAG Industrial00:06:10First, on the leasing front, roughly 50% of the 2,500,000 square feet is under construction and 16% is pre leased. The remaining 50% has been delivered and is currently 43% leased. This includes a full building lease set to commence 05/01/2025 for our 474,000 square foot cross stock building in Greer, South Carolina. The existing customer expanded their footprint with STAG and we use this space for the production and distribution of consumer products. Second, in December, STAG entered a 9,010 joint venture development partnership to construct approximately 400,000 square feet across two rear load buildings in the Charlotte market. William CrookerCEO, President & Director at STAG Industrial00:06:56Project is in the Concord submarket Northeast of the city. It has a project cost of approximately $56,000,000 and expected stabilized yield of 7%. The site has secured favorable zoning, which position us well and is high barrier to entry market. With that, I will turn it over to Mats, who will cover our remaining results and guidance for 2025. Matts PinardCFO at STAG Industrial00:07:19Thank you, Bill, and good morning, everyone. Core FFO per share was $0.61 for the quarter and $2.4 for the year, representing an increase of 4.8% as compared to 2023. Cash available for distribution totaled $370,000,000 in 2024. This past year, we retained approximately $95,000,000 of free cash flow after dividends paid. Net debt to annualized run rate adjusted EBITDA was 5.2x at year end with liquidity of $623,000,000 During the quarter, we commenced 23 leases totaling 2,400,000 square feet, which generated cash and straight line leasing spreads of 19.434.9% respectively. Matts PinardCFO at STAG Industrial00:08:01For the year, we achieved cash and straight line leasing spreads of 28.341.8% respectively. Same store cash NOI grew 4.4% for the quarter and we achieved record same store cash NOI growth of 5.8% for the year. Retention was 76.9% for the quarter and 76.6 for the year. As mentioned by Bill, we have accomplished 70% of the operating portfolio square feet we currently expect to lease in 2025, achieving 23.8% cash leasing spreads, demonstrating the strength of our portfolio. Moving to capital market activity, we repaid the $50,000,000 private placement no day, which matured on October 1. Matts PinardCFO at STAG Industrial00:08:44All forward equity proceeds have been settled and we do not have any forward equity contracts outstanding. There are minimal debt maturities in 2025. We are pleased to provide guidance, which can be found on Page 20 of our supplemental package, which is available in the Investor Relations section of our website. Same store cash NOI growth is expected to range between 3.5% to 4%. Components of our same store cash NOI guidance include the following: retention to range from 70% to 75% cash leasing spreads are projected to be approximately twenty five percent and fourteen million square feet of budgeted new and renewal leasing for the year. Matts PinardCFO at STAG Industrial00:09:22We expect same store occupancy to decrease 100 basis points during the year. Given the volatile capital market environment, acquisition volume guidance ranges from $350,000,000 to $650,000,000 with a cash capitalization rate between 6.256.75%. Acquisition timing will be more heavily weighted to the back end of this year. Disposition volume guidance ranges from $100,000,000 to $200,000,000 G and A is expected to be between $52,000,000 and $54,000,000 Incorporating these components, we're initiating a core FFO per share range of $2.46 to $2.5 per share. I will now turn it back over to Bill. William CrookerCEO, President & Director at STAG Industrial00:10:04Thank you, Matt, and thank you to our team for the 2024 achievements. I'm really proud of all we have accomplished over the course of the year and look forward to a strong 2025. We'll now turn it back to the operator for questions. Operator00:10:20Thank you. We will now be conducting a question and answer session. Our first question comes from Craig Mailman with Citi. Please proceed with your question. Craig MailmanManaging Director & Equity Research Analyst at Citigroup Global Markets Inc.00:10:56Hey, good morning guys. Maybe one question in two parts. On leasing and spreads here, you guys had a good year overall in 2024 on the spread side, but fourth quarter was a little bit lighter at 19% and you're expected to reaccelerate to 24% and the 70% you did so far. Is that 24% a good kind of place to think about the full year to be? And then just separately, the 14,000,000 square feet of plan for 2025, if you kind of look last quarter, you guys are closer to 15,000,000 square feet. Craig MailmanManaging Director & Equity Research Analyst at Citigroup Global Markets Inc.00:11:41What's going on with the volatility or how should we think about that in terms of the overall plan of gross leasing? William CrookerCEO, President & Director at STAG Industrial00:11:48Yes. Hey, Craig. Very interesting way you phrased the question to get a couple of questions into one, but I appreciate it. So the leasing spreads for Q4 were a little lower. That was related to some fixed rate renewal options in Q4. William CrookerCEO, President & Director at STAG Industrial00:12:05That was factored into our original guidance. If you exclude those, our leasing spreads in Q4 would have been 34%. And then looking into 25%, we're approximately 24% today for about 70% of the leasing we expect to do. So I think leasing spreads for 25% will be in and around 25%, twenty four %, twenty five %. So we get a pretty good chunk of that done already. William CrookerCEO, President & Director at STAG Industrial00:12:31And then with respect to prior views on leasing activity versus current views on leasing activities, a couple of things happened there. One, we sold the building in Nashville, New Hampshire in Q1. That was a building that we were repositioning in Q4 and we were planning on leasing it. Ultimately, we decided to sell it just due to the economics, very interesting transaction there. That was a drop in leasing activity that we're prior previously expected to lease in '24, but now we've sold the building. William CrookerCEO, President & Director at STAG Industrial00:13:08And there was also another like non renewal that we expected to renew on the back half of next year that it didn't reduce. So now we're planning to lease back half of 2025, now we're planning to lease in 2026. Operator00:13:29Our next question comes from Nick Thielman with Baird. Please proceed with your question. Nicholas ThillmanSenior Research Analyst at Robert W. Baird & Co00:13:35Hey, good morning guys. Wanted to touch a little bit on the development and more specifically on kind of the yields you're seeing within that portfolio. The Tampa construction just finished up and was moved into the completed but not in service and we noticed kind of the yield still stayed at 5.5%. Is there anything in that and I know originally you guys are saying mid-6s on that. We thought the composition would be drift a little higher. Nicholas ThillmanSenior Research Analyst at Robert W. Baird & Co00:14:00Is there anything in there that's causing that? Did you have to change any underwriting for any of those specific assets? And also, just a little commentary on the activity you're seeing in Spartanburg, obviously signed the lease, but curious on the other properties? William CrookerCEO, President & Director at STAG Industrial00:14:15Yes, Nick, I'm not sure where the mid-5s were for the Tampa, but we're still expecting mid-6s for stabilization on those two assets. And we're, as I previously said, expecting we under our twelve month downtime. So end of twenty twenty five for leasing on those assets. With respect to Spartanburg, that's a market, as I mentioned previously too, that had some oversupply. But there was some leasing getting done there that has created more of a sense of urgency amongst tenants in that market. William CrookerCEO, President & Director at STAG Industrial00:14:51We were able to strike a lease at our Cross Sock facility 474,000. So a little bit ahead of the revised timing last quarter. I think I mentioned we're expecting this to be middle, call it, end of Q2. That lease is expected to start May 1. So we're really happy with that outcome. William CrookerCEO, President & Director at STAG Industrial00:15:15We're seeing a lot of tours on the rear load building there, the 240,000 square foot facility. And then on the other building, the Casual Drive facility, we have part of that building leased right now. We're getting some really good inquiries on the remaining pieces, remaining two suites of that building. Nicholas ThillmanSenior Research Analyst at Robert W. Baird & Co00:15:37That's helpful. Maybe just a point of clarification. I was talking about like the mid-5s was for the Spartanburg, but I assume that moving to Tampa into the portfolio that yield would drift higher. Did you adjust any yields for the Spartanburg assets? William CrookerCEO, President & Director at STAG Industrial00:15:51Yes. So the one we leased was approximately 5%. That was part of the change. Nicholas ThillmanSenior Research Analyst at Robert W. Baird & Co00:15:59Okay. Thank you. William CrookerCEO, President & Director at STAG Industrial00:16:01Yes. Operator00:16:04Our next question comes from Jason Pilcher with Wells Fargo. Please proceed with your question. Jason BelcherAnalyst at Wells Fargo00:16:11Good morning. Just wondering if you could touch on the topic of tariffs a little bit, maybe share anything you're hearing from your tenants on that front, as well as any trends you might be seeing across your tenants or tenant industries in your portfolio that you might attribute to tariff concerns? And then if you can just kind of comment generally on how you're thinking about tariffs and potential impact, is it something you think could hit in the next six to twelve months in terms of what you see in results or you think it's further out than that? William CrookerCEO, President & Director at STAG Industrial00:16:45Yes, it's a good question. I think there's just a lot of uncertainty with respect to the tariffs. Some have been announced, some have been delayed, expecting some more to be announced today or soon. And so the question is, what products are getting impacted and when? And I don't think our tenants really know. William CrookerCEO, President & Director at STAG Industrial00:17:10I mean, the feedback that we've been hearing from tenants is it's a little too early to tell. Certainly seeing this really was a trend last year, tenants storing more finished goods in the facilities ahead of tariffs. On shoring, dialogue, near shoring, dialogue increasing, but those decisions take a little bit of time. And so the question is if tenants are thinking that these tariffs are going to be in place for the long term, then I think it will spur more on shoring. And depending on what happens with your neighbors maybe some additional near shoring. William CrookerCEO, President & Director at STAG Industrial00:17:48I just think right now it's a little too early to tell and from our tenants it's just a lot of uncertainty. Jason BelcherAnalyst at Wells Fargo00:17:56Got it. Thank you. William CrookerCEO, President & Director at STAG Industrial00:17:57Thank you. Operator00:18:00Our next question comes from Vince Tibbani with Green Street. Please proceed with your question. Vince TiboneManaging Director and Head of US Industrial & Mall Research at Green Street Advisors, LLC00:18:07Hi, good morning. Can you discuss recent trends in the private transaction market? And specifically, I mean, have you seen any slowdown in transaction activity or a notable change in pricing since the ten year has climbed pretty significantly from the trough in September? William CrookerCEO, President & Director at STAG Industrial00:18:25I mean, there's been some interesting trends in the private market. There was some portfolios that got executed last year. There was some big appetites for some of the larger private equity shops. The largest private equity shops are actually selling more, which I think you know who I'm referencing. But right now, there's a little bit of probably a pause in the private market. William CrookerCEO, President & Director at STAG Industrial00:18:55We are seeing and hearing of some portfolios coming out that may trade and those may trade at is a little bit tighter yields, because they're shorter lease terms that they can get higher yields in the next three years. But Mike, I don't know if there's anything else you want to touch on there? Michael ChaseExecutive VP & Chief Investment Officer at STAG Industrial00:19:14Yes. No, Bill, I think you hit on that. The year end was a little bit slower. It was a fast year end for closing deals, but it was a slower year end for deals coming out to market. That trickled into January, but we've seen a little bit of an uptick in February and we expect that to accelerate throughout the rest of the year. Vince TiboneManaging Director and Head of US Industrial & Mall Research at Green Street Advisors, LLC00:19:40Great. Thank you. William CrookerCEO, President & Director at STAG Industrial00:19:42Thanks. Operator00:19:44Our next question comes from Steve Sakwa with Evercore ISI. Please proceed with your question. Steve SakwaSenior Managing Director & Senior Equity Research Analyst at Evercore ISI00:19:51Yes. Thanks. Good morning. Bill, I was just wondering, we've heard from many of your peers and some brokers that leasing activity seem to noticeably pick up once the election was over. And so just taking your comments about tariffs and the uncertainty into account, just like what have you seen on the actual just kind of pace of leasing activity towards your pipeline? Steve SakwaSenior Managing Director & Senior Equity Research Analyst at Evercore ISI00:20:16And is there a big difference in that pickup between kind of the existing portfolio and maybe the development pipeline? Thanks. William CrookerCEO, President & Director at STAG Industrial00:20:25Thanks, Steve. We've seen a pretty material uptick in tours, calls, inquiries to start this year. We're seeing it it's really broad based across our markets. We're seeing it a lot in Greenville Spartanburg, Milwaukee, Chicago, the Sunbelt, certainly the Nashville market. The new builds are getting a lot of looks. William CrookerCEO, President & Director at STAG Industrial00:20:53I think there's a lot of commentary in the market that there's a flight to quality. But we're seeing a lot of demand in our existing buildings as well. It takes a little bit of time for those tours increased calls to convert to trading papers and signing leases, but the activity has increased and probably at a level we haven't seen in twelve months or so. So we're really happy with the activity we're seeing. Steve SakwaSenior Managing Director & Senior Equity Research Analyst at Evercore ISI00:21:24Great. Thank you. William CrookerCEO, President & Director at STAG Industrial00:21:26Thank you. Operator00:21:28Our next question comes from John Kim with BMO Capital Markets. Please proceed with your question. John KimManaging Director - US Real Estate at BMO Capital Markets00:21:36Thank you. Can you tie in the 100 basis point occupancy loss you expect this year with the 9,700,000 square feet that you've addressed for 2025 and also the 6,900,000 square feet that is expiring. I'm just doesn't seem like it's apples to apples to me. So I just wanted to clarify. William CrookerCEO, President & Director at STAG Industrial00:22:01I don't know if I can connect all those dots, but we certainly we can drill down more detailed maybe after the call, John. But I mean, what we're seeing here is what our expected leasing for 2025 is around 14,000,000 ish square feet. We've done 70% of our leasing in our operating portfolio. So math there is we've got another 4,000,000 square feet in our operating portfolio we expect to lease and then there's about 2,000,000 square feet we expect to lease outside of the operating portfolio, which is a higher number that we've had in the past. But I think it speaks to what we've been doing with our developments, our redevelopments, our repositioning. William CrookerCEO, President & Director at STAG Industrial00:22:48And so that's all I think it's a great shift, but there's still a fair amount of wood to chop as we move through the year. John KimManaging Director - US Real Estate at BMO Capital Markets00:22:58I guess what's in that expected leasing number? There's 25 expirations, there's developments, there's existing vacancy, I just wanted to mention that bucket. William CrookerCEO, President & Director at STAG Industrial00:23:07Also vacancy that there's you've got new leasing that is from either existing vacancy or vacancy that we think is going to not renew early in the year and maybe it gets leased up later. You've got renewal leasing and then you've got non operating portfolio leasing that is that additional 2,000,000 square feet I was referencing, which includes developments and some other repositioning assets. John KimManaging Director - US Real Estate at BMO Capital Markets00:23:40Okay. Got it. Thank you. Matts PinardCFO at STAG Industrial00:23:43Yes, John, this is Matt. So I'll jump in here. Matts PinardCFO at STAG Industrial00:23:45I think one point of clarification here is when we talk about the square feet we expect to lease in 2025, that's not simply addressing expiries to Bill's point, it includes new speculative leasing that we have in our budget as well. I think that's going to help bridge the numbers you're looking at. Great. Thanks. Operator00:24:07Our next question comes from Mike Carroll with RBC Capital Markets. Please proceed with your question. Hi, good morning. Analyst00:24:14This is Didi on for Mike. I guess just thinking about how you think about development starts for 2025. Analyst00:24:20Are you planning on leasing some projects that are currently under construction before starting breaking ground on new things? Just wanted to know your thoughts. William CrookerCEO, President & Director at STAG Industrial00:24:29I mean, right now, we're really happy with the way the development platform is running. We expect and we hope to have some additional development starts. I mean, we just leased our biggest building in our development pipeline at four hundred and seventy four thousand square feet. So even if it was apples to apples, we would add at least that hopefully. It really comes down to opportunities. William CrookerCEO, President & Director at STAG Industrial00:24:58The assets that we're putting in our development pipeline are in really strong markets. We're seeing really attractive yields. We just was able to put two buildings in our development pipeline in Concord, North Carolina. Those sites fit the market well. In total, it's call it $55,000,000 So we're really happy with the development pipeline right now and we'll add to it for sure if the right opportunities come around. Analyst00:25:32Great. Thank you. William CrookerCEO, President & Director at STAG Industrial00:25:33Thank you. Operator00:25:37Our next question comes from Brendan Lynch with Barclays. Please proceed with your question. Brendan LynchDirector at Barclays Capital00:25:42Great. Thanks for taking my question. Maybe you could put your 70% the 70% of renewals that you've addressed already into historical contexts. And is it normal to have that level completed at this point in the year? And are you reaching out to clients earlier than in the past? Brendan LynchDirector at Barclays Capital00:26:00Are they coming to you earlier? Any color around that would be helpful. William CrookerCEO, President & Director at STAG Industrial00:26:04Yes, the 70% that we've done to date for 2025 is consistent with last year and really consistent with the past few years. So, we're always in front of our tenants. I don't think there is a strategic push to change whether we are going to trying to renew tenants early or not. It's a back and forth conversation. So we've similar pace to last year and the last few years. Brendan LynchDirector at Barclays Capital00:26:37Great. And maybe just a follow-up there. At what point do you turn your attention to 2026? William CrookerCEO, President & Director at STAG Industrial00:26:45We've leased 8% of 2026 already. So we're always looking to make the best transactions and decisions for the company. And part of that is tenants may come to us with their 2026 lease expirations and say, hey, I want to renew early. And if the economics work and we like the transaction, then we'll execute on it. So we're about 8% of our way through our 2026 at this point. Brendan LynchDirector at Barclays Capital00:27:18Great. Thank you for the color. William CrookerCEO, President & Director at STAG Industrial00:27:20Thank you. Operator00:27:23There are no further questions at this time. I would now like to turn the floor back over to Bill Kerkirfer. William CrookerCEO, President & Director at STAG Industrial00:27:31Thank you. And I just want to thank everybody for participating in the call today and certainly want to thank the analysts for their questions and look forward to seeing everyone at the upcoming conferences. Thank you. Operator00:27:47This concludes today's teleconference. You may disconnect your lines at this time.Read moreParticipantsExecutivesWilliam CrookerCEO, President & DirectorMichael ChaseExecutive VP & Chief Investment OfficerAnalystsSteve XiarhosVice President - Capital Markets & Investor Relations at STAG IndustrialMatts PinardCFO at STAG IndustrialCraig MailmanManaging Director & Equity Research Analyst at Citigroup Global Markets Inc.Nicholas ThillmanSenior Research Analyst at Robert W. Baird & CoJason BelcherAnalyst at Wells FargoVince TiboneManaging Director and Head of US Industrial & Mall Research at Green Street Advisors, LLCSteve SakwaSenior Managing Director & Senior Equity Research Analyst at Evercore ISIJohn KimManaging Director - US Real Estate at BMO Capital MarketsAnalystBrendan LynchDirector at Barclays CapitalPowered by