EPR Properties Q2 2026 Earnings Report

EPR Properties EPS Results

• Actual EPS: $0.79
• Consensus EPS: $0.75
• Beat/Miss: Beat by +$0.05
• One Year Ago EPS: $1.26

EPR Properties Revenue Results

• Actual Revenue: $196.08 million
• Expected Revenue: $158.13 million
• Beat/Miss: Beat by +$37.95 million
• YoY Revenue Growth: +30.40%

EPR Properties Announcement Details

• Quarter: Q2 2026
• Date: 7/29/2026
• Time: After Market Closes
• Conference Call Date: Thursday, July 30, 2026
• Conference Call Time: 8:30AM ET

EPR Properties (NYSE:EPR) is a real estate investment trust that specializes in experiential properties across the United States, Canada and select international markets. Established in 1997 and headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri, the company targets properties in the entertainment, recreation and education sectors. Its portfolio includes movie theaters, ski resorts, family entertainment centers, charter schools and other venues that benefit from consumer-driven experiences.

The trust employs long-term, triple-net lease agreements, where tenants are responsible for real estate taxes, insurance and maintenance. This structure provides EPR Properties with predictable rent streams while allowing tenants to focus on their core operations. Key tenants include nationally recognized cinema chains, operators of amusement parks, and educational institutions under charter school arrangements.

Over its history, EPR Properties has grown through strategic acquisitions and portfolio diversification. The company went public in 1998 under the name Education Properties Trust and rebranded in 2006 to reflect its broader focus on experiential real estate. Its assets span more than 40 U.S. states, several Canadian provinces and select international jurisdictions, positioning the trust to benefit from diverse demographic and economic trends.

The company is led by Gregory R. Bilde, who serves as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, supported by a senior management team with extensive experience in real estate investment, finance and operations. EPR Properties’ governance framework emphasizes disciplined underwriting, active asset management and a commitment to sustainable property enhancements that drive tenant and shareholder value over the long term.

EPR Properties Q2 2026 Earnings Call Transcript

Key Takeaways

• Positive Sentiment: Strong quarterly growth: Revenue rose 10.1%, while adjusted FFO per share increased 12.7% year over year to $1.42 and AFFO per share rose 15.3% to $1.43.
• Positive Sentiment: EPR invested a post-COVID quarterly record of $440.8 million, including the Six Flags portfolio, new attractions, fitness and wellness assets, and its first Netflix House property. Full-year investment guidance was raised to $600 million–$700 million from $500 million–$600 million.
• Positive Sentiment: Portfolio performance remained resilient, with unit-level rent coverage steady at approximately 2.0 times and occupancy at 99%. Box office revenue was up about 10% year to date, while fitness, wellness, attractions, and Eat & Play trends were generally stable or improving.
• Positive Sentiment: Management raised 2026 adjusted FFO guidance to $5.41–$5.57 per share, representing 7.2% growth at the midpoint versus 2025, citing investment activity, strong portfolio performance, and lower-than-expected bad debt.
• Positive Sentiment: The company strengthened liquidity by establishing a new $1.6 billion credit agreement, including a $600 million delayed-draw term loan due in 2032. Management said available liquidity and expected cash sources exceed anticipated investment needs and debt maturities for the remainder of 2026.

Presentation

[Operator]

Hello, welcome to the EPR Properties Q2 2026 Earnings Call. We ask that you please hold all questions until the completion of the formal remarks, at which time you will be given instructions for the question and answer session. Also, as a reminder, this conference is being recorded today. If you have any objections, please disconnect at this time. I will now hand the call over to Brian Moriarty, Senior Vice President of Corporate Communications.

[Brian Moriarty, SVP of Corporate Communications at EPR Properties]

Thank you. Thanks for joining us today for our second quarter 2026 earnings call and webcast. Participants on today's call are Greg Silvers, Chairman and CEO, Ben Fox, Executive Vice President and CIO, and Mark Peterson, Executive Vice President and CFO. I will start the call by informing you that this call may include forward-looking statements as defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, identified by such words as will be, intend, continue, believe, may expect, hope, anticipate, or other comparable terms. Company's actual financial condition and the results of operations may vary materially from those contemplated by such forward-looking statements. Discussion of these factors that could cause results to differ materially from these forward-looking statements are contained in the company's SEC filings, including the company's reports on Form 10-K and 10-Q.

[Brian Moriarty, SVP of Corporate Communications at EPR Properties]

Additionally, this call will contain references to certain non-GAAP measures which we believe are useful in evaluating the company's performance. A reconciliation of these measures to the most directly comparable GAAP measures are included in today's earnings release and supplemental information furnished to the SEC under Form 8-K. If you wish to follow along, today's earnings release supplemental and earnings call presentation are all available on the investor center page of the company's website, www.eprkc.com. Now I will turn the call over to Greg Silvers.

[Greg Silvers, Chairman and CEO at EPR Properties]

Thank you, Brian. Good morning, everyone, welcome to our second quarter 2026 earnings call and webcast. Over the last several quarters, we have highlighted our focus on accelerating growth, the second quarter marked a significant step forward in executing that strategy. For the quarter, revenue increased 10.1%, FFO, as adjusted per share, increased 12.7% compared with the same period in 2025. These results demonstrate the strength of our platform and the continued momentum we are building across the business. On the investments front, we set a new post-COVID high for investment activity in a single quarter, totaling more than $440 million. In addition to our previously announced acquisition of the Six Flags seven-property portfolio, we further diversified our experiential portfolio with additional investments in attractions and fitness and wellness.

[Greg Silvers, Chairman and CEO at EPR Properties]

As part of these investments, we are pleased to welcome Netflix as a new partner through our acquisition of Netflix House in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania. These properties allow Netflix to deepen customer connections by transforming popular digital intellectual property into physical, immersive experiences. This level of investment spending reflects both the depth of our opportunity set and our disciplined approach to deploying capital into durable experiential assets. It also reinforces our confidence in the portfolio's long-term growth trajectory as we move through the balance of the year. Turning to our portfolio, tenant performance remains solid as we maintain coverage of two times across the portfolio. The box office is up approximately 10% year to date, driven by a compelling mix of major studio tentpole releases and lower-budget breakout films that have broadened attendance and reinforced the enduring appeal of the shared theatrical experience.

[Greg Silvers, Chairman and CEO at EPR Properties]

Notably, titles such as "Backrooms" and "Obsessions," both from filmmakers who built early audiences on YouTube, demonstrate how new creator-driven voices are expanding the theatrical audience and generating outsized box office results. Outside of theaters, fitness and wellness continues to be resilient as consumers increasingly treat it as a protected non-discretionary category. Our Eat & Play tenants are also reporting steady, healthy trends. We also continue to strengthen our financial position, establishing a new $1.6 billion credit agreement that addresses our maturities later this year and ensures our balance sheet remains a source of strength in support of the pace of our investment growth. With that, I'm also pleased to report that we're increasing both our 2026 investment spending and earnings guidance. At the midpoint, our updated earnings guidance represents a 7.2% increase over 2025. We believe this underscores our confidence in the durability of our growth.

[Greg Silvers, Chairman and CEO at EPR Properties]

Finally, I want to note that this summer offered an extraordinary reminder of the power of congregate entertainment. The FIFA World Cup, the largest in history, shattered the all-time attendance record as millions of fans traveled across North America and spent at record levels, not for a thing, but to be present for a moment. This is the same consumer impulse that is at the heart of our business, the demand for shared location-based experiences that cannot be replicated at home. We built this company around that enduring demand. This summer afforded a powerful reminder of its continued relevance. Now I'll turn the call over to Ben, who will review the business in greater detail.

[Ben Fox, EVP and CIO at EPR Properties]

Thank you, Greg. As Greg just noted, the second quarter marked another strong step forward in our growth strategy, building on the momentum we established at the start of the year. During the quarter, we invested $440.8 million at an average initial cash yield of approximately 8.5%.

[Ben Fox, EVP and CIO at EPR Properties]

Bringing our year-to-date total investments to $492.2 million. This investment volume is inclusive of our previously announced acquisition of 17 parks formerly operated by Six Flags, as well as two additional attractions properties, a new investment in golf, and a new investment in Hot Springs. On the Netflix House investment, not only is Netflix an A-rated corporate credit, but as one of the leading streaming platforms, our partnership with them further validates the powerful role that physical experiences play in an increasingly digital world. Equally noteworthy is the continued diversification of our portfolio and the corresponding decrease in our theater concentration from 36% reported last quarter to roughly a third of the portfolio today.

[Ben Fox, EVP and CIO at EPR Properties]

Beyond these investments, as of June 30th, we expect approximately $92 million in additional investment for existing experiential development and redevelopment projects, of which approximately $65 million is anticipated to be funded throughout the remainder of 2026. Given the velocity of investment activity in the first half of the year and the expanded breadth and depth of our pipeline, we're pleased to increase our 2026 investment guidance to $600 million-$700 million. We continue to expect investment activity for 2026 to be tilted more toward acquisitions than development. To reiterate a theme from the first quarter, our investment pipeline is sourced almost exclusively from non-marketed investments generated by direct relationships our investment team has established over many years. Demonstrating that EPR is the partner of choice for experiential real estate, approximately half of our investment pipeline represents repeat relationships.

[Ben Fox, EVP and CIO at EPR Properties]

On market pricing, we continue to see investment yields holding steady despite volatility in the debt capital markets. Turning now to an update on the portfolio. At the end of the second quarter, our portfolio represented $7.5 billion of gross investment value, consisting of 346 properties, which were 99% leased or operated. 95% of this value reflects investments across our core experiential categories. These 291 properties are operated by 57 clients and continue to be 99% leased or operated. The remaining 5% of the portfolio represents our education segment, comprised of 55 properties leased by five operators. At the end of the quarter, these properties were 100% leased. The portfolio remains resilient, with unit-level rent coverage steady at two times. As consumers redefine wellness and human connection as essential rather than discretionary, we expect to see these trends translate into continued strength in the portfolio.

[Ben Fox, EVP and CIO at EPR Properties]

Within our theater segment, the second quarter saw a continuation of the outperformance witnessed in the first quarter. Ticket sales are approximately 10% above the same point in 2025 as the industry demonstrates sustainable growth. What's especially encouraging is that younger moviegoers are helping fuel the comeback. 87% of Gen Z-ers and 82% of millennials saw at least one movie in a cinema during the past 12 months. Within the eat and play segment, rent coverage is stable, with positive trends emerging at Topgolf from early operational enhancements post-separation from Callaway. Attractions delivered strong performance in the second quarter with a reversal of some of the prior year's negative weather impact and the removal of certain geopolitical variables, which adversely impacted 2025. Our fitness and wellness segment continues to deliver solid performance with stabilizing trends at some of our recently renovated and expanded properties.

[Ben Fox, EVP and CIO at EPR Properties]

Lastly, our education portfolio continues to remain healthy despite industry-wide labor headwinds. Pivoting to dispositions, as referenced on the first quarter's call, the pace of dispositions is moderating given our renewed focus on opportunistic sales relative to defensive sales. This shift is reflective of the general health of our portfolio and the outstanding work done by the asset management team in reducing legacy vacancies. Accordingly, we are maintaining our disposition guidance of $50 million-$100 million. In summary, our company benefits from durable demographic and consumer spending tailwinds. These same forces fueling our growth also reinforce the stability of our portfolio. We see significant opportunities ahead and look forward to continuing to expand and diversify. With that, I'll turn it over to Mark for a review of our financial performance.

[Mark Peterson, EVP and CFO at EPR Properties]

Thank you, Ben. Today, I will discuss our strong financial performance for the second quarter, provide an update on our balance sheet, and close by discussing the increases in our earnings and investment spending guidance for the year. FFO as adjusted for the quarter, was $1.42 per share versus $1.26 in the prior year, an increase of 12.7%, and AFFO for the quarter was $1.43 per share, compared to $1.24 in the prior year, an increase of 15.3%. Moving to a few key variances. Total revenue for the quarter was $196.1 million versus $178.1 million in the prior year, an increase of $18 million. This increase was primarily due to the impact of investment spending, as well as rent and interest bumps. Percentage rents and participating interest for the quarter were $4.8 million, up slightly from $4.6 million in the prior year.

[Mark Peterson, EVP and CFO at EPR Properties]

An increase in percentage rents accrued related to the RIO lease was partially offset by a decrease in percentage rent related to our Northern California ski property that was impacted by unfavorable weather conditions. Additionally, during the quarter, we recognized $500,000 in defeasance fee income related to the prepayment in full of a $10.8 million mortgage note receivable secured by an Eat and Play property. On the expense side, interest expense net increased by $5 million due to an increase in average borrowings and a decrease in capitalized interest versus the prior year. Partially offsetting this was an increase in interest income related to short-term investments. Lastly, equity and loss from joint ventures for the quarter was $1 million, compared to $1.7 million in the prior year, and was due to better performance at our two RV park joint ventures.

[Mark Peterson, EVP and CFO at EPR Properties]

FFO as adjusted for the six months ended June 30th was $2.67 per share, compared to $2.45 in the prior year, an increase of 9%, and AFFO for the same period was $2.71 per share, compared to $2.44 in the prior year, an increase of 11.1%. Turning to the next slide, I will review some of the company's key credit ratios. As you can see, our coverage ratios continue to be very strong, with fixed charge coverage at 3.4 times and both interest and debt service coverage ratios at 4.0 times. Our pro forma net debt to annualized adjusted EBITDAre was 5.1 times at quarter end, which is at the low end of our targeted range of 5 to 5.6 times. Pro forma net debt is calculated by subtracting the estimated net proceeds from all forward sales agreements under our ATM program from net debt.

[Mark Peterson, EVP and CFO at EPR Properties]

Additionally, our pro forma net debt to gross assets was 41% on a book basis at quarter end, and our common dividend continues to be very well covered with an AFFO payout ratio of 65% for the second quarter. Let's move on to the debt and capital markets activities and our balance sheet, which is in great shape to support our continued growth. At quarter end, we had consolidated debt of $3.3 billion, of which $3 billion is either fixed-rate debt or debt that has been fixed through interest rate swaps with an overall blended coupon of approximately 4.4%. During the quarter, we entered into two forward sales agreements under our ATM program for initial gross sales proceeds of $23.4 million, or an average sale price of $59.70 per share.

[Mark Peterson, EVP and CFO at EPR Properties]

No forward sales agreements were settled during the quarter. As of quarter end, we had total estimated net proceeds from unsettled forward sales agreements of $69.5 million, representing just under $1.2 million common shares. Subsequent to quarter end on July 17th, we were pleased to also enter into a new amended and restated $1.6 billion credit agreement that, among other things, extends the maturity date and reduces the interest rate on our $1 billion revolving credit facility and establishes a new $600 million delayed draw term loan facility that is due in 2032, with interest based on our current credit ratings at SOFR plus 115 basis points. Our bank group, which was expanded as part of this financing, was very supportive of these new facilities. We want to thank them once again for their confidence in our long-term strategy.

[Mark Peterson, EVP and CFO at EPR Properties]

Our liquidity position remains strong. We are well positioned for continued growth. At quarter end, we had $16.2 million in cash on hand and $640 million available on our $1 billion revolver. In addition to the amount available on our revolver, as well as positive cash flow and disposition proceeds expected over the back half of the year, we have the cash available to draw down on our new term loan facility and unsettled forward sales agreements that I just discussed. These liquidity sources significantly exceed our anticipated outflows, including those for our expected investment spending and debt maturities over the balance of the year. This provides us with significant financial flexibility as we move forward.

[Mark Peterson, EVP and CFO at EPR Properties]

Turning to guidance, we are increasing our 2026 FFO as adjusted per share guidance to a range of $5.41-$5.57 from a range of $5.37-$5.53, representing an increase versus the prior year of 7.2% at the midpoint. We expect a similar percentage increase in AFFO per share. We are also increasing our 2026 guidance for investment spending to a range of $600 million-$700 million, from a range of $500 million-$600 million. The increase in earnings guidance reflects this increase in investment spending, as well as other favorable impacts from our investment activity to date and strong portfolio performance. We are confirming disposition proceeds of $50 million-$100 million and our percentage rent and participating interest income guidance of $18.5 million-$22.5 million. We are also confirming our G&A expense guidance of $56 million-$59 million.

[Mark Peterson, EVP and CFO at EPR Properties]

Our guidance for consolidated operating properties has been updated by providing a range for both other income and other expense of $40 million-$50 million, with no change to the expected net difference. Guidance details can be found on page 23 of our supplemental. With that, I'll turn it back over to Greg for his closing remarks.

[Greg Silvers, Chairman and CEO at EPR Properties]

Thank you, Mark. We are very pleased with the pace and quality of our investments to date, our focus remains on supporting our strong growth trajectory. The performance and momentum across our businesses allows us to confidently increase our investment guidance demonstrates our ability to source attractive transactions in this competitive landscape. We remain focused on executing our strategy and advancing our growth objectives in the quarters ahead. Why don't we open it up for questions?

[Operator]

Thank you. At this time, if you would like to ask a question, please click on the raise hand button, which can be found on the black bar at the bottom of your screen. When it is your turn, you will receive a message on your screen from the host allowing you to talk, then you will hear your name called. Please accept, unmute, and ask your question. If you are on a mobile device using the app, simply tap on the three dots or More button to find the raise hand feature. Lastly, if you are calling in today, star nine will activate the raise hand, and use star six to mute and unmute. We will wait one moment to allow the queue to form. Our first question will come from Jana Galan at Bank of America.

[Operator]

You will receive a message on your screen allowing you to talk. Please accept, unmute your audio, and ask your question. Jana, you may ask your question.

[Jana Galan, Analyst at Bank of America]

Thank you. Good morning. Congrats on an excellent quarter. Maybe starting on the transaction environment, the initial yields were about 50 bips higher this quarter. I know, Ben, in your remarks you said that pricing is about the same. I guess maybe if you can help us understand, was it the mix? Was it portfolios? How were you able to kind of bump that up 50 basis points?

[Ben Fox, EVP and CIO at EPR Properties]

I think what we've said historically is in the low to mid eights. We're hovering in the same general vicinity. Really, the mix is holding pretty steady, as is the pricing.

[Jana Galan, Analyst at Bank of America]

Would that be similar kind of on the forward pipeline?

[Ben Fox, EVP and CIO at EPR Properties]

Yes.

[Jana Galan, Analyst at Bank of America]

Great. Maybe just quickly, Mark, if you can help us understand the magnitude of the guidance increase given the strong second quarter outperformance.

[Mark Peterson, EVP and CFO at EPR Properties]

Some of the second quarter performance is timing. Particularly percentage rents was a little higher in Q2 than we expected, which turns around if you look at our guidance for the year. Overall, if you look at our guidance for the year, we're up $0.04. I'd say $0.035 of that or so is due to the investment spending and better performance in the portfolio, i.e., less bad debt expense than we envisioned, and then about $0.005 from that defeasance fee that I called out in my comments from the prepayment of a mortgage loan. That's really what the $0.04 is about. We did have some, like I said, some timing in the first quarter related to percentage rents that were a little outsized from what we had anticipated.

[Mark Peterson, EVP and CFO at EPR Properties]

Managed Properties was a little higher, we think that turns around in the back half and really comes into line with what we had anticipated.

[Jana Galan, Analyst at Bank of America]

Thank you.

[Operator]

Thank you. Our next question will come from John Kilichowski with Wells Fargo. You'll receive a message on your screen allowing you to talk. Please accept, unmute your audio, and ask your question. John, you may ask your question.

[John Kilichowski, Analyst at Wells Fargo]

Good morning. Can you hear me?

[Greg Silvers, Chairman and CEO at EPR Properties]

Yes.

[John Kilichowski, Analyst at Wells Fargo]

Awesome. Thank you. Just want to make sure I got that right. You're trading well north of where you issued on the ATM in this quarter, and I'm curious today, how does that impact how you're thinking about funding the rest of your pipeline, with access to more capital? Is there room to take up that acquisition pipeline now that the second half may look better than the first half just from an accessibility to capital point of view?

[Greg Silvers, Chairman and CEO at EPR Properties]

John, again, that's something we'll evaluate. Again, it's in conjunction with finding deals not only that we like, but that can get done within the timeframe. I think Ben and his team are actively in the market looking and searching out quality deals. I think Mark and his team are doing a great job of providing an attractive capital source and capital cost. Those two work in conjunction, and as we've seen when we have the availability and both of those things come together, we've accelerated. We'll continue to look at those opportunities.

[Mark Peterson, EVP and CFO at EPR Properties]

Yeah, I'll just add to that. If you look at our cash flow over the last six months, it's pretty balanced in terms of uses and sources. On the use side, we've got investment spending, some bond maturities, and on the source side, we've got the term loan and disposition proceeds and excess cash flow, and the potential to settle some ATM shares. Those are about equal, and we ended the quarter at $360 million. We have that $640 million availability in liquidity kind of through the end of the year, and really our plan is fully funded. As far as leverage, that's the other thing you consider when looking at equity. We are at 5.1 times at the end of 630, including our forward equity. That number only grows to about 5.2, raising no more equity.

[Mark Peterson, EVP and CFO at EPR Properties]

I think what that tells you, we have a lot of flexibility here to decide when and how we access the market for equity and/or debt, given our leverage profile and given our liquidity profile over the remainder of the year.

[John Kilichowski, Analyst at Wells Fargo]

Okay. That was very helpful. My second one, Mark, you kind of highlighted earlier on the percentage rent side that 2Q ran a little bit above expectations, but the guide remains flat. I'm curious what that is implying now for the second half, especially given the strength that we're seeing in the box office. How is that impacting your outlook on percentage rent for the rest of the year?

[Mark Peterson, EVP and CFO at EPR Properties]

Yeah. June came a little bit higher, particularly for Regal, really strong June. We'll see how July plays out. July is anticipated to be lower than previous year, although strong, and there's innings to play on that. I mean, Spider-Man's out, and Friday could be a $100 million day, which moves the needle on percentage rent. We kept it the same, but there's potential for some upside, should Spider-Man perform, really tomorrow is the last day of the lease year.

[Greg Silvers, Chairman and CEO at EPR Properties]

Well, today's preview's tomorrow. As Mark said, John, that could be in excess of $100 million. As we've said, $100 million, since we're across the barrier, we'll fall right to the bottom line of where we're at. I think, given the short time period, we decided just to not move things. We'll see how it plays out.

[Mark Peterson, EVP and CFO at EPR Properties]

The upside would be fairly modest, could be, if things play out, like you said, see how things go tomorrow.

[John Kilichowski, Analyst at Wells Fargo]

Got it. Thank you. Congrats on the quarter.

[Greg Silvers, Chairman and CEO at EPR Properties]

Thank you, John.

[Mark Peterson, EVP and CFO at EPR Properties]

The one thing I'd add to that is we projected a lot of increase in the box office. We anticipated a lot of that. It wasn't a surprise to us that the box office is doing well.

[Operator]

Thank you. Our next question comes from Rob Stevenson with Huntington. You will receive a message on your screen allowing you to talk. Please accept, unmute your audio, and ask your question. Rob, you may ask your question.

[Rob Stevenson, Analyst at Huntington]

Good morning, guys. Mark, what are the bigger variables that pushes you towards the $5.41 of FFOAA at the low end versus the upper end at $5.57?

[Mark Peterson, EVP and CFO at EPR Properties]

Yeah. There is quite a few things. You think about percentage rents. There is still innings to play. It is not just about Regal. Nearly 2/3 of our percentage rent is from other tenants. Obviously, we have operating properties, and the third quarter is its primary operating season, so we will see how that goes, up or down. Obviously, the timing of acquisitions, forward acquisitions, and cap rate. Those are some of the variables. G&A can vary in terms of incentive comp. There are several variables that could impact that, but we do feel confident in that midpoint, in terms of our guidance.

[Rob Stevenson, Analyst at Huntington]

Okay. Greg or Ben, can you give us any indication as to how the, I know it is early, but how the former Six Flags park assets are doing versus what they were doing over the last couple of years, directionally?

[Greg Silvers, Chairman and CEO at EPR Properties]

I think, listen, being open a month, what we're really looking at is almost guest reviews, certainly. There seems to be some really positive momentum in terms of cleanliness, friendliness, availability of rides. The initial indications seem positive. Talking with our operator, they seem still very positive. As we talked about, any major changes, since they only got control of the parks in April, will come after the season. This really was kind of the getting the operations up and moving, and controlling certain things that they can control. Things have been positive so far. Ben, I don't know if you have anything to add on that.

[Ben Fox, EVP and CIO at EPR Properties]

That's right. Across those, and then with our other attractions, we are seeing continued strength and a little bit of outperformance relative to the prior year.

[Rob Stevenson, Analyst at Huntington]

Okay. Last one from me. How many of these Netflix Houses are there today? Is this a concept that they're looking to expand? Is there an opportunity for you to expand with them, if that's the case?

[Greg Silvers, Chairman and CEO at EPR Properties]

I think there's three total. Again, Ben and his team are in constant contact with all of our tenants, and we'll have to just see how it plays out. I think it's evidence of our ability to kind of, even when new concepts come in, we're on top of it quickly and see if it's something that we think grows with us, and so we'll continue to stay in contact with them.

[Rob Stevenson, Analyst at Huntington]

Okay. Thanks, guys. Appreciate the time.

[Greg Silvers, Chairman and CEO at EPR Properties]

Thank you, Rob.

[Mark Peterson, EVP and CFO at EPR Properties]

Thanks.

[Operator]

Thank you. Our next question will come from Nicholas Joseph with Citi. You will receive a message on your screen allowing you to talk. Please accept, unmute your audio, and ask your question. Nicholas, you may ask your question.

[Nicholas Joseph, Analyst at Citi]

Great. Thank you. The two times coverage has been pretty consistent for several quarters now. Have there been any changes in the underlying composition of that metric?

[Greg Silvers, Chairman and CEO at EPR Properties]

Yeah, Nick. There definitely is. As we talked about, the ski was a little softer this year because of the weather, but the theaters are stronger. You have that kind of nice balance. There's also, again, it's a pretty tight range, but you're having some things come a little bit. There's no doubt that theaters are coming up a little bit, and where there has been some softness where that ski, or we talked about earlier in the first quarter, some softness in eat and play. It's manifesting that. Given their size, it's not huge. It's a pretty tight band.

[Nicholas Joseph, Analyst at Citi]

Thanks. That's very helpful. Then maybe just more broadly, as you have obviously a lot of exposure across different consumers and different part of the economic spectrum, what are you seeing from the consumer right now, just on the relative strength across different economic classes.

[Greg Silvers, Chairman and CEO at EPR Properties]

It's really interesting. It's surprisingly resilient. If you think about ski being kind of a higher end, again, that's really been a reflection of lack of snow, but it's the hanging in there. You saw Vail reported that season passes were down 10%, but that's still relatively strong. If you look at the theater business, the thing that we're always, and continue to be mindful of is not only are ticket sales up, but the food and beverage spend continues to be strong. I think it's been kind of a very positive kind of feeling. The other side of that is, like I said, we've seen continued strength. With that consumer, and you see that reflected in AMC's recent reporting yesterday about the best quarter ever that they had. I think it seems I'd characterize it as resilient.

[Greg Silvers, Chairman and CEO at EPR Properties]

Ben, I don't know if you have any other additional thing to add to that.

[Ben Fox, EVP and CIO at EPR Properties]

That's right. I think that resilience is really across the board. Even middle income consumers are demonstrating the propensity to spend on experiential activities, and our portfolio is benefiting from that consumer spending.

[Nicholas Joseph, Analyst at Citi]

Thanks.

[Operator]

Thank you. Our next question will come from Mike Carroll with RBC Capital Markets. You'll receive a message on your screen allowing you to talk. Please accept, unmute your audio, and ask your question. Mike, you may ask your question.

[Mike Carroll, Analyst at RBC Capital Markets]

Yep, thanks. I want to circle back to guidance and Mark's comments on the recent increase. I know, I think you said that the increase was largely due to the recent investment activity and the outperformance due to better operating performance. Where is the better operating performance coming from? If I just look at the individual guidance lines, it looks like the percentage rents and the other income and expenses were unchanged. Are you expecting those to come in at the higher end and you're just trying to be conservative on that front? Was the increase largely driven by the acquisition activity?

[Mark Peterson, EVP and CFO at EPR Properties]

When I talk about performance portfolio, we build in a bad debt reserve or a general reserve, if you will, for things like bad debt, and that's really coming in better than expected. I'd say, part of that increase is investment activity. When I talk about portfolio performance, really less issues in the portfolio than we conservatively estimated.

[Mike Carroll, Analyst at RBC Capital Markets]

Mark, can you give us a little detail on that? What is the typical bad debt that you expect? I'm assuming that's what you just assumed was the historical averages, and where is that coming in right now?

[Mark Peterson, EVP and CFO at EPR Properties]

Yeah. We called out in the original plan about 50 to 75 basis points. It's probably more like in terms of 40 basis points. In terms of when I call bad debt, or anything that impacts earnings, it's lower than anticipated.

[Mike Carroll, Analyst at RBC Capital Markets]

Okay, great. I know also you said that percentage rents were higher in 2Q 2026 than you'd expected, and it was largely due to timing. I guess what drove that? Did you just have some tenants that paid earlier, and that's not going to reoccur in the back half of the year, so 2Q is just abnormally high? I know you talked a little bit about the Regal lease, but that happens every year, and I don't know if I would say that's temporary. It seems like if it's from that would be like a true increase.

[Mark Peterson, EVP and CFO at EPR Properties]

Well, Regal is a little different in that it depends on the dollar value of box office during the quarter. In June this year was bigger than June last year, we hit the threshold earlier and accrued more into June. July could be strong, but it's still expected to be less than a year ago. Overall, we'll see how July shakes out, but we're kind of budgeting, planning on sort of as we planned. There's a little bit of timing between June and July versus the prior year, and it's all about box office. That's the primary thing driving the year-over-year timing with respect to Regal, which is the primary tenant that's causing that change.

[Greg Silvers, Chairman and CEO at EPR Properties]

Yeah. If you look, Michael, June was quite a bit bigger than June last year, July this year is a little bit smaller than July of last year.

[Mark Peterson, EVP and CFO at EPR Properties]

Exactly.

[Greg Silvers, Chairman and CEO at EPR Properties]

That flips the timing of when you get that. That timing just kind of rolled in that way. The net to the year is virtually kind of where we projected.

[Mark Peterson, EVP and CFO at EPR Properties]

Exactly. Which is up over prior year because we anticipated a box office increase.

[Mike Carroll, Analyst at RBC Capital Markets]

Okay. Where is the box office coming in at versus your expectations? Is it exceeding your expectations right now?

[Greg Silvers, Chairman and CEO at EPR Properties]

As I said, right now, we would say that we're pretty close to where our expectations were for the Regal lease. The overall year, again, is up. That's positive. Remember, half the year is last year for Regal. Again, some of that was overcoming what was some softness in the second half of last year with outperformance this year. Our team does a really good job of kind of where that's at. I think, as I said earlier, our variable really will be kind of how well, I think, Spider-Man does ±. It's not going to be a huge variable. We're talking, Mark, half a million top.

[Mark Peterson, EVP and CFO at EPR Properties]

Yeah.

[Greg Silvers, Chairman and CEO at EPR Properties]

It's not a huge number, our guys are really good at projecting this. I think, depending upon how that first kind of opening days, what they're talking now, Spider-Man could easily be the best opening of the year so far, and also the best opening since 2019. No, we didn't forecast that good.

[Mark Peterson, EVP and CFO at EPR Properties]

Right.

[Greg Silvers, Chairman and CEO at EPR Properties]

If it comes in, we could have some upside to that.

[Mike Carroll, Analyst at RBC Capital Markets]

Okay, great. Thank you.

[Greg Silvers, Chairman and CEO at EPR Properties]

Thank you, Michael.

[Operator]

Our next question will come from Spenser Glimcher with Green Street. You will receive a message on your screen allowing you to talk. Please accept, unmute your audio and ask your question. Spenser, you may ask your question.

[Spenser Glimcher, Analyst at Green Street]

Of your investment opportunity set. Can you just give us a sense of what you're seeing in terms of competition for assets, what segments or industries are you seeing more of in terms of buying opportunities, irrespective of them getting across the finish line and being added to the portfolio?

[Ben Fox, EVP and CIO at EPR Properties]

Yeah. Similar to last quarter, we're really seeing opportunities across all of our verticals. Probably if you were to kind of drill a layer down, maybe a slight pickup in fitness and wellness, broadly speaking. The competitive landscape remains very consistent as well, where we're not seeing a lot of the traditional net lease REITs or other net lease investors. It's primarily family offices or alternative forms of capital.

[Spenser Glimcher, Analyst at Green Street]

Okay, great. You also talked about opportunistic divestment. Can you just provide some color on whether there's still a continuation of developer interest in theater assets? Because I know you've had success in the past divesting these theaters for redevelopment or just densification purposes.

[Ben Fox, EVP and CIO at EPR Properties]

Yeah, that dynamic persists. We do have very high-quality real estate throughout the portfolio, and also within some of our segments, notably in education, which we're looking to reduce. There are opportunities there where there's strong investor interest.

[Greg Silvers, Chairman and CEO at EPR Properties]

I think, Spenser, one of the challenges, just to be candid with you, is they've done a great job of selling things that are vacant. Although we only have one vacant theater. These are leased theaters, so we would have to either, A, pull them out of a master lease or get the tenant to give up their lease rights. We get calls every day about the quality of some of these real estate, where people would like to redevelop them. It's just unhitched, and detaching that from its existing lease sometimes creates more challenges.

[Operator]

Thank you. Our final question will come from John Kilichowski with Wells Fargo. You will receive a message on your screen allowing you to talk. Please accept, unmute your audio, and ask your question. John, you may ask your question.

[Greg Silvers, Chairman and CEO at EPR Properties]

Sophie, I don't know that John is there.

[Operator]

No problem. We have one final question from Upal Rana with KeyBanc Capital Markets. You will receive a message on your screen. Please unmute and ask your question.

[Upal Rana, Analyst at KeyBanc Capital Markets]

Great. Thank you. Just want to go back to the funding your future investments. Mark, you talked about this a little bit already. How are you thinking about the preference or the ideal mix on your funding strategy going forward? Also wanted to get an update on your appetite to issue more equity, given the higher share price as your issuance so far has been a little bit more on the modest side.

[Mark Peterson, EVP and CFO at EPR Properties]

Yeah, we generally tend to think about it for incremental investments, debt, and equity, kind of 60% equity, 40% debt, roughly. That's how we look at it. The good news is, with our leverage and our liquidity, we're not compelled to raise equity. That said, we continue to look at the pipeline, continues to be strong, and it does make sense at this price. It is accretive to incrementally raise equity at today's price to fund additional pipeline. I think the bottom line is that incremental capital will be used for incremental investing, because we're not really compelled to fund the current plan using equity.

[Upal Rana, Analyst at KeyBanc Capital Markets]

Okay, good. That was helpful. Maybe just on Topgolf. You mentioned there were some encouraging improvements from positive trends there from the operational enhancements. Maybe you could talk a little bit more on what you're seeing there.

[Ben Fox, EVP and CIO at EPR Properties]

Yeah, Upal. The new CEO, David, he's taken several steps to address different opportunities he saw within that business. They range from a headcount reduction to create operational efficiencies as well as better utilization of the existing footprint. A lot of those initiatives are starting to bear fruit, and we expect that trend to continue in a positive direction as more and more of those initiatives take hold.

[Greg Silvers, Chairman and CEO at EPR Properties]

Yeah. I think, Upal, one of the things that specifically we've followed up on is there's more thinking about dynamic pricing and how that affects during the day and early in the evening. They've seen that show up with greater foot traffic, with foot traffic counts. Those are always kind of real positives as data points that we see. With that said, I want to reiterate that the strength of our portfolio continues to be very resilient. We feel very good about where we're at. It's just there's a lot of talking, so when we see positives, we wanted to share that.

[Upal Rana, Analyst at KeyBanc Capital Markets]

Okay, great. Thank you.

[Greg Silvers, Chairman and CEO at EPR Properties]

Thank you.

[Operator]

There are no more questions. I will now turn the call back over to Greg Silvers, Chairman and CEO, for any closing remarks.

[Greg Silvers, Chairman and CEO at EPR Properties]

Thank you, Sophie. Thank you everyone for your time and attention. We look forward to talking to you next quarter. Thanks everyone. Bye-bye.

Participants

Executives

• Brian Moriarty, SVP of Corporate Communications
• Greg Silvers, Chairman and CEO
• Ben Fox, EVP and CIO
• Mark Peterson, EVP and CFO

Analysts

• Jana Galan, Analyst at Bank of America
• John Kilichowski, Analyst at Wells Fargo
• Rob Stevenson, Analyst at Huntington
• Nicholas Joseph, Analyst at Citi
• Mike Carroll, Analyst at RBC Capital Markets
• Spenser Glimcher, Analyst at Green Street
• Upal Rana, Analyst at KeyBanc Capital Markets