NYSE:UE Urban Edge Properties Q2 2026 Earnings Report $21.89 -0.10 (-0.45%) Closing price 08/14/2026 03:59 PM EasternExtended Trading$21.88 -0.02 (-0.08%) As of 08/14/2026 06:55 PM Eastern Extended trading is trading that happens on electronic markets outside of regular trading hours. This is a fair market value extended hours price provided by Massive. Learn more. ProfileEarnings HistoryForecast Urban Edge Properties EPS ResultsActual EPS$0.14Consensus EPS $0.11Beat/MissBeat by +$0.03One Year Ago EPSN/AUrban Edge Properties Revenue ResultsActual Revenue$122.78 millionExpected Revenue$117.86 millionBeat/MissBeat by +$4.92 millionYoY Revenue GrowthN/AUrban Edge Properties Announcement DetailsQuarterQ2 2026Date8/6/2026TimeAfter Market ClosesConference Call DateThursday, August 6, 2026Conference Call Time5:00PM ETUpcoming EarningsUrban Edge Properties' Q3 2026 earnings is estimated for Wednesday, November 4, 2026, based on past reporting schedules, with a conference call scheduled on Wednesday, October 28, 2026 at 8:30 AM ET. Check back for transcripts, audio, and key financial metrics as they become available.Conference Call ResourcesConference Call AudioConference Call TranscriptPress Release (8-K)Quarterly Report (10-Q)Earnings HistoryCompany ProfilePowered by Urban Edge Properties Q2 2026 Earnings Call TranscriptProvided by QuartrAugust 6, 2026ShareShareShare This ReportLink copied to clipboard.Key Takeaways Positive Sentiment: Urban Edge reported record second-quarter FFO as adjusted of $0.40 per share, up 10% year over year, while same-property NOI increased 3.2%. Management raised full-year FFO guidance to $1.50–$1.54 per share and lifted the low end of its same-property NOI growth forecast. Positive Sentiment: Leasing demand remained strong, with new-lease cash spreads near 30% year to date and expected to exceed 20% for the full year. The company is selectively replacing weaker tenants with higher-quality names, although this strategy has temporarily reduced shop occupancy. Positive Sentiment: The company’s $22 million signed-not-open pipeline and $155 million redevelopment pipeline provide visible future growth, including more than $8 million of annual rent expected from new tenants at Bruckner Commons beginning in 2027. Negative Sentiment: Retail acquisition pricing has become more competitive, compressing cap rates to roughly 5%–7% and limiting opportunities that meet return thresholds. Second-quarter earnings also benefited from approximately $0.03 per share of one-time items, including Wren Kitchens termination income and a tax refund. Neutral Sentiment: Same-property leased occupancy declined to 96.3% and shop occupancy to 91.7%, partly because of the Wren Kitchens bankruptcy and deliberate recapture of weaker tenants. Management expects shop occupancy to recover above 93% and blended occupancy to approach 97% by year-end. AI Generated. May Contain Errors.Conference Call Audio Live Call not available Earnings Conference CallUrban Edge Properties Q2 202600:00 / 00:00Speed:1x1.25x1.5x2xTranscript SectionsPresentationParticipantsPresentationSkip to Participants Company Representative at Urban Edge Properties00:00:00Good evening, and welcome to Urban Edge Properties' second quarter 2026 earnings conference call. Joining me today are Jeff Olson, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer; Jeff Mooallem, Chief Operating Officer; Mark Langer, Chief Financial Officer; Heather Ohlberg, General Counsel; Scott Auster, EVP & Head of Leasing; and Andrea Drazin, Chief Accounting Officer. Please note, today's discussion may contain forward-looking statements about the company's views of future events and financial performance, which are subject to numerous assumptions, risks, and uncertainties, and which the company does not undertake to update. Our actual results, financial condition, and business may differ. Please refer to our filings with the SEC, which are also available on our website for more information about the company. In our discussion today, we will refer to certain non-GAAP financial measures. Reconciliations of these measures to GAAP results are available in our earnings release and our supplemental disclosure package. Company Representative at Urban Edge Properties00:00:59At this time, it is my pleasure to introduce our chairman and chief executive officer, Jeff Olson. Jeff OlsonChairman and CEO at Urban Edge Properties00:01:05Thank you, Ariba, good evening, everyone. We had a great second quarter with results that exceeded our internal expectations. We reported record FFO as adjusted of $0.40 per share, a 10% increase over the second quarter of last year and 7% year-to-date. Same property NOI, including redevelopment, grew 3.2% for the quarter and 3% year-to-date. Demand for high-quality space across our markets remains strong, and there continues to be limited availability of quality vacancies in our trade areas. Traffic across our centers is up 3% in the second quarter versus the prior year, underscoring the strength of our value and necessity-oriented merchandise mix. Traffic increases were particularly noticeable at properties where we have upgraded our tenancy, including Bergen, Woodbridge, Hudson Mall, and Totowa. Jeff OlsonChairman and CEO at Urban Edge Properties00:02:15Our SNO pipeline represents $22 million of future annual gross rent, or approximately 7% of current NOI, and remains a meaningful and highly visible contributor to future earnings growth. We are most excited about the improvements we are making at Bruckner Commons in the Bronx with the addition of BJ's Wholesale Club, Ross, Chick-fil-A, and Chipotle. These tenants are all under construction with rent commencement dates beginning throughout 2027 and totaling over $8 million in annual rent. We continued to execute our capital recycling strategy focused on improving both asset quality and long-term growth. In July, we acquired the Shops at West Falls Church, an 85,000 sq ft Safeway-anchored center in Falls Church, Virginia for $40 million. Jeff OlsonChairman and CEO at Urban Edge Properties00:03:25The center sits in a densely populated and affluent submarket of Washington, D.C., with average annual household income of approximately $200,000 within a 3-mile radius and offers visible growth through lease-up, contractual annual rent increases, and mark-to-market opportunities. We also purchased a ground lease position at Shoppers World in Framingham, Massachusetts for $10.5 million. Cap rate on these two purchases average 6% and should generate an unleveraged IRR of 9%. We are also under contract to sell Briarcliff Commons, a Kohl's-anchored center in New Jersey, for $60.5 million, which we expect to close this month. The market for acquisitions remains highly competitive. We are seeing significant capital, both institutional and private, chasing retail, which has compressed cap rates across the sector. However, given the fragmented nature of the market, we are still finding a handful of deals that meet our return thresholds. Jeff OlsonChairman and CEO at Urban Edge Properties00:04:42We expect to fund some of that activity by selling lower growth, high credit stabilized assets from our existing portfolio. Based on our strong first half results, we raised our full year FFO as adjusted guidance by $0.02 per share at the midpoint to a new range of $1.50-$1.54 per share, implying 6% growth over 2025. There are several factors that differentiate Urban Edge from our peers. Our portfolio is concentrated in the D.C. to Boston corridor, the most densely populated supply-constrained region of the country. We own 100% interest in nearly all of our properties, financed with 31 individual non-recourse mortgages with our remaining 44 assets unencumbered. On top of that, we have a differentiated redevelopment platform with an active pipeline of $155 million expected to yield 12%, and our signed but not open pipeline will grow our NOI by 7%. Jeff OlsonChairman and CEO at Urban Edge Properties00:05:59Finally, our capital recycling program is having a meaningful impact on our portfolio quality and growth rate. Over the past three years, we have acquired approximately $700 million of high-quality shopping centers at a 7% cap rate and have sold approximately $500 million of non-core property at a 5.2% cap rate. Collectively, these differentiating factors give us multiple levers for durable, visible growth. Lastly, our condolences to Jim Taylor's family, colleagues, and friends. He was my favorite advisor as a banker over 20 years ago and a formidable competitor as Chief Executive Officer of Brixmor. Rest in peace, Jim. I will now turn it over to our Chief Operating Officer, Jeff Mooallem. Jeff MooallemCOO at Urban Edge Properties00:07:02Thanks, Jeff, and good evening everyone. The demand for high-quality retail space in 2026 has allowed us to become much more strategic in our leasing. In both anchor and shop leasing, we ask our team to be selective, to identify the best long-term tenants for each asset, and to push hard on both the initial rent and capital and the ongoing economics, like rent increases and option terms. We are seeing the results of those efforts. In the second quarter, we executed 26 leases, 13 new and 13 renewal, for a total of 199,000 square feet. New leases generated a same-space cash spread of 13%, with renewals and option exercises generating a same-space cash spread of 10%. The new lease spread was lower than in the first quarter, as this metric fluctuates quarter to quarter based on our size. New lease spreads year-to-date are nearly 30%. Jeff MooallemCOO at Urban Edge Properties00:08:02Based on leases in our pipeline, we are confident cash spreads on new leases will exceed 20% for the year, which would be the fifth consecutive year we attained that level. Same-property leased occupancy ended the quarter at 96.3%, a decrease of 10 basis points versus the prior quarter and down 40 basis points from 2Q 2025. The decrease was mostly the result of the unexpected Wren Kitchens bankruptcy, which occupied two locations within our portfolio. We were able to collect a meaningful settlement on those leases and expect Wren's departure to allow for an improved merchandising mix at healthy spreads over what Wren was paying. More to come later this year on those efforts. Shop occupancy in the quarter declined 70 basis points sequentially to 91.7%, in large part due to the greater emphasis we are placing on tenant quality. Jeff MooallemCOO at Urban Edge Properties00:08:57About half of the decrease in shop occupancy was tied to a handful of recapture opportunities where we did not wish to renew or retain the existing tenant. Replacing weaker shop tenants almost always results in stronger assets in the long run. Over the balance of the year, we expect to backfill shop space at average rents in the $45 a square foot range, a mark to market of approximately 20%, and push shop occupancy back to over 93%. On the development front, we stabilized one project at Hudson Mall in Jersey City, New Jersey, with the opening of a new Burlington store in May. Coupled with the addition of HomeGoods, which is under construction and scheduled to open later this year, this marks the beginning of our reinvention of Hudson Mall, a development we are really excited about and will be talking about more in the subsequent quarters. Jeff MooallemCOO at Urban Edge Properties00:09:48We also activated a new anchor project at Ledgewood Commons and a new multi-tenant outparcel at Woodmore Town Center. In the last 12 months, we've invested $33 million in completed projects that are now generating an average yield of 25%. Our active development pipeline, comprised exclusively of projects emanating from signed leases, now stands at $155 million with approximately $67 million remaining to fund and remains on track to generate an approximate 12% yield. Even more exciting is our shadow pipeline, projects we have not activated yet but expect to be meaningful contributors to NOI in future years. These include additional multi-tenant pad developments and new stores for some of our most important anchor tenants. Jeff MooallemCOO at Urban Edge Properties00:10:37With the current environment of rising rents and virtually no new supply, redevelopments are penciling out stronger than they have in many years, and the capital demanded from landlords to move forward with new stores is on average lower than at any time I recall in the last 15 years. It is indeed a good time to be on this side of the table, and we're using that leverage to make the best deals we can. With that, I'll turn it over to our CFO, Mark Langer. Mark LangerEVP and CFO at Urban Edge Properties00:11:05Thank you, Jeff, and good evening everyone. We were pleased to deliver another strong quarter marked by solid earnings, progress on capital recycling, and continued confidence in our ability to grow occupancy at attractive rents. FFO as adjusted was $0.40 per share, an increase of approximately 10% over the second quarter of last year. Same-property NOI, including redevelopment, increased 3.2% compared to the second quarter of 2025. NOI growth in the quarter exceeded our expectations and was driven by higher percentage rents, higher net recovery revenue, collections on prior period reserves, and lower real estate taxes. FFO, as adjusted, also benefited from some one-time items, including lease termination income received from Wren Kitchens of approximately $0.02 per share and $0.01 a share from accelerated amortization of non-cash revenue and the receipt of a multi-year real estate tax refund that each contributed about $500,000. Mark LangerEVP and CFO at Urban Edge Properties00:12:15Turning to our balance sheet and liquidity position, we remain in excellent shape with total liquidity of approximately $960 million, including $82 million of cash on hand. We ended the quarter with $55 million drawn on our credit facility and no amount drawn on either of our five-year or seven-year delayed draw term loans. Our net debt to adjusted EBITDA was 5.5x in the second quarter, positioning us well to capitalize on future growth opportunities. Looking ahead to the remainder of 2026, we are increasing our FFO as adjusted guidance by $0.02 per share at the midpoint to a new range of $1.50-$1.54 per share and projecting same-property NOI growth, including redevelopment, to be in the range of 3.25%-3.75%, reflecting a 25 basis point increase to the low end of the range. Mark LangerEVP and CFO at Urban Edge Properties00:13:14Bad debt came in better than expected in the quarter at approximately 40 basis points of gross rents, which benefited from collections on accounts reserved in the first quarter for tenants on a cash basis. It is worth noting that the multi-location franchise operator in Puerto Rico that contributed to elevated levels of uncollected rents in the first quarter paid all rents due in the second quarter and is also current on payment plan obligations on past due rents. Given current tenant trends and the lack of expected significant bankruptcies for the rest of the year, our updated assumption for credit losses in Q3 and Q4 is 60-75 basis points of gross rent. Our $22 million SNO pipeline continues to be a key growth driver. Mark LangerEVP and CFO at Urban Edge Properties00:14:05As shown in our supplement, we expect this pipeline to generate $1.7 million in new rents in the remainder of this year, with the majority of that coming online in the fourth quarter, which represents about $7.7 million of rents on an annualized basis. Our acquisition guidance of $95 million reflects activity completed to date, and disposition activity of $60.5 million remains unchanged, reflecting the expected closing of Briarcliff Commons later this month. In closing, we are encouraged by the continued strength of our leasing pipeline and the lack of new supply in our markets, which should enable us to achieve attractive rent growth as tenants fight for a decreasing level of available space in high-quality locations. With that, I'll turn the call to the operator for Q&A. Operator00:15:04Thank you. At this time, if you would like to ask a question, please press star one on your keypad. To leave the queue at any time, press star two. Once again, that is star one to ask a question. Our first question will come from Michael Goldsmith with UBS. Please go ahead. Michael GoldsmithAnalyst at UBS00:15:25Good afternoon. Thanks a lot for taking my question. Mark, on the guidance, it sounds like you benefited a little bit from termination income or termination fees of $0.02, then $0.01 from accelerated amortization, and then you also took the same property NOI guidance up. Presumably, the collective impact of all of that was more than the $0.02 increase in the guidance. Can you just walk through the moving pieces there and if I'm missing anything? Mark LangerEVP and CFO at Urban Edge Properties00:15:59Michael, the $0.03 one-timers that I highlight versus the $0.02 increase in guide, part of that, as you said, was termination income. On a full year basis, some of that income was already baked into our plan in the form of rent. It's not truly incremental. Likewise, some of the beat this quarter I highlight from the time income percentage rent elevated the second quarter, but would've normally come in later the year. That kind of reconciles the $0.03 one-timer versus the $0.02 bump. Michael GoldsmithAnalyst at UBS00:16:30Got it. Thanks for that, Mark. Just on the capital recycling, you're an acquirer of a center this quarter. Can you talk a little bit about what cap rates are looking like for the type of centers that you're looking at? Then also compared to the disposition, just trying to get a sense of the magnitude of accretion from the capital recycling as the market sits today. Thanks. Mark LangerEVP and CFO at Urban Edge Properties00:16:56Yeah. Jeff OlsonChairman and CEO at Urban Edge Properties00:16:56Yeah. Hi, Michael. It is all over the board. Generally, cap rates are in the 5%-7% range. The key is what is the NOI growth and how much capital. They're pricing to unleveraged IRRs in the 7%-9% range. As far as our own capital recycling, generally what we're doing is we're looking to sell our lower growth assets, but those assets that have high credit that can sell at pretty low cap rates and redeploy that capital into higher growth assets. In principle, we're looking to sell like 1%-2% growth assets and redeploying that into 3%-4% growth assets at cap rates that are generally on par with what we're selling. Michael GoldsmithAnalyst at UBS00:17:50Got it. Thank you very much. Good luck in the back half. Jeff OlsonChairman and CEO at Urban Edge Properties00:17:53Great. Thank you. Operator00:17:55Thank you. Once again, that is star one to ask a question. Our next question will come from Michael Griffin with Evercore ISI. Please go ahead. Michael GriffinAnalyst at Evercore ISI00:18:08Great, thanks. Maybe for Jeff Mooallem, I think you talked about new lease spreads maybe being at 20% on a full year basis. I know it was closer to 30% in the first half, down to about 13% in the second quarter. Does that kind of imply we sort of stay in this mid-teens-ish releasing spread area? Then if you could expand more, it seems like there's really a lot of demand on the small shop side of things too. Are you able to get tenants open quicker and paying rent quicker, and that's going to help lift that small shop occupancy into the back half? Jeff MooallemCOO at Urban Edge Properties00:18:49Yeah. Hey, Michael. Thanks for the question. Look, in terms of spread, we've messaged this before. It's hard to look at any one quarter given our size. We were an outlier on the high end in the first quarter, a little bit of an outlier on the low end on the second quarter, but as you said, blended for the first half of the year, we're around 30%. We're very confident we'll be over 20% for the year. We actually, if you look at our pipeline right now, should exceed that pretty comfortably. We feel very good about the spreads, and again, I'll say it's not just the number, but it's the quality. Jeff MooallemCOO at Urban Edge Properties00:19:22When I look at the tenants that we vacated in the second quarter and the pipeline list of the tenants who we hope are coming into those spaces, pretty much every one of the tenants that we vacated was a one or two-off single local tenant, and we're replacing them with names like CAVA and Starbucks and Mathnasium and Rally House and really good names. If we're going to be able to achieve that quality spread, and achieve much better tenancy, we'll take that downtime all day long. As far as getting people open faster, that is rallying cry number one around here. We're doing everything in our power. I will tell you it's gotten a lot better because tenants have become a lot more flexible with this increased demand and limited supply for space. Jeff MooallemCOO at Urban Edge Properties00:20:06Tenants are having to do things they did not want to do in the past, like take existing HVAC systems or go in under one permit without the landlord having to do work first. Those things can really compress the time to RCD, but it still is a struggle wherever we go, to get permits and get people open. Michael GriffinAnalyst at Evercore ISI00:20:25Thanks, Jeff. I certainly appreciate the context there. Maybe just one other one for Olson, just as you look at the external growth opportunity set, particularly as it relates to potential acquisitions. Clearly the bread and butter is along the Northeast corridor. If there is this increased competition, and maybe it is a conversation held in other markets nationally, could we see you guys maybe looking at opportunities in, I don't know, Florida, North Carolina, places like that, if the opportunity presented itself? Or are you guys kind of going to stick to your knitting in terms of just the existing geographic footprint of the company? Jeff OlsonChairman and CEO at Urban Edge Properties00:21:08I do think the most natural extension for us is to go south. Yes, I think the Southeast is a market that we've been actively looking in. It is super competitive, for sure. We are hoping at some point that we'll be able to go into that market. Michael GriffinAnalyst at Evercore ISI00:21:27Great. That's it for me. Thanks for the time. Jeff OlsonChairman and CEO at Urban Edge Properties00:21:30Thank you. Operator00:21:32Thank you. Our next question will come from Daniel Purpura with Green Street. Please go ahead. Daniel PurpuraAnalyst at Green Street00:21:41Hello, good afternoon. If I could ask another question on the transaction market. You mentioned in your prepared remarks that cap rates have compressed generally across the sector. I know you gave the range of, I think you said about 5%-7% in your markets. Could you share if you've observed any compression in the cap rate spread between large community centers or power centers and the typical grocery-anchored center as well? Jeff MooallemCOO at Urban Edge Properties00:22:11Hey, Daniel. It's Jeff Mooallem. The short answer is yes. Everything is compressed. Let's start with that. From when we were really able to buy a lot of stuff in late 2023 and into all of 2024 and some of 2025, cap rates are down overall. As more buyers enter the field and search for yield, they're looking at assets that maybe they wouldn't have looked at a year or two ago. A power center asset where there might have been 5-10 names on the bid sheet now might have north of 10, and institutional names that previously might have turned their nose up at power. We're seeing more competition on pretty much everything, which is making us double down on our efforts to look for things off market. Jeff MooallemCOO at Urban Edge Properties00:22:54When we do find assets that we really like, we dig in hard, and we make sure the sellers know what our reputation is as a buyer, so we can get to the top of the list. If you're trying to buy assets today just by hoping that you can make offers on a bunch of things and nobody else will show up at the table, it's not working that way right now. There is a lot of activity on pretty much everything that gets marketed. Daniel PurpuraAnalyst at Green Street00:23:19Got it. Thank you. Then on the anchor side, could you elaborate on what types of anchors generally pay the highest net effective rents? Is it from a category perspective or is it more name driven more than category driven? Jeff MooallemCOO at Urban Edge Properties00:23:39It's all across the board. We are seeing real rent growth coming from everything from the big boxes, which I would say sort of the home improvement, the large format stores like the Target and the Walmart, the warehouse clubs, and the large format grocers like Wegmans. All of those folks have stepped up and are paying bigger rents. That's sort of one category of anchors. Then you go to the discount group, the TJ Maxx concepts, the Ross concepts, Burlington. Competition is really rampant in that sector right now, and as you know, competition drives prices. Our ability to command better rents is just a function of three tenants for two spaces. We hope that continues. Jeff MooallemCOO at Urban Edge Properties00:24:20I'd even tell you that even going to the other stuff, let's call it more of the health and beauty or the smaller format anchors, J.Crew, Old Navy, Ulta, Skechers, are all trying to get into centers and are having trouble finding great locations, and they're having to pay more rent to do it. I wouldn't organize it by either category or by size. I'd say that anchor tenants have woken up to what today's market rent realities are, and they're stepping up. Daniel PurpuraAnalyst at Green Street00:24:50Got it. Thank you. Operator00:24:53Thank you. Once again, to ask a question, please press star one on your telephone keypad. Our next question will come from Ronald Kamdem with Morgan Stanley. Please go ahead. Caroline LongAnalyst at Morgan Stanley00:25:07Hi, this is Caroline on for Ron. Thank you for taking my question. I know you just talked a little bit about the more anchor tenants. I was wondering if you could just speak a bit more holistically on what you're seeing in terms of tenant health just so far and how it's trending. I know you mentioned it's been a little bit better than expected. Just are there any names that we need to look out for or categories that are doing better or worse than last year? Jeff MooallemCOO at Urban Edge Properties00:25:32Hey, Caroline, it's Jeff Mooallem. Thanks for the question. The shop tenant categories that we are sort of leaning into heavily right now are, a lot of it is around fitness, around medical, and around new kinds of concepts that have recently discovered the success they can have in these neighborhood and community-based locations. We are constantly talking to some of these great fitness concepts and some of the newer sort of pseudo-medical stuff that's out there. Veterinary practices have come out in a big way. Urgent care is still doing deals. Certainly, all the different boutique fitness concepts that we all know are active. Food, QSRs continues to be looking. In a lot of places, they're our desired small shop tenant, but we are also being a little bit more cautious there and making sure we don't sort of over-food any of our properties. Jeff MooallemCOO at Urban Edge Properties00:26:24Those continue to be the big drivers. Even in things like apparel and service and other types of small shop uses, there's been a little bit of a pickup, and we hope it'll continue. Caroline LongAnalyst at Morgan Stanley00:26:36Very helpful. In terms of occupancy, I know you saw some changes that you spoke on in terms of shop. Going forward, how do you think about total portfolio occupancy and also shop occupancy kind of as a natural level going forward? Jeff MooallemCOO at Urban Edge Properties00:26:56We've messaged, Caroline, 93%-94% shop occupancy. Despite a little bit of a dip in Q2, we're still on point with that message. When we look at our active pipeline, there's a lot of shop space that should be coming online in the third and fourth quarter. We have a fair amount of the shop space that we have is temporarily leased because it is mall space in Puerto Rico and Bergen. If you look at our occupancy purely as a math equation of numerator and denominator, it doesn't necessarily tell the whole story. A lot of our shop vacancy is not the shop vacancy that is ever going to get to 99%, 100%. I think we'd be very happy to hit 93.5%, 94% this year, and we have a roadmap to get there on the shop side. Jeff MooallemCOO at Urban Edge Properties00:27:40On the anchor side, we mentioned the Wren Kitchens bankruptcy gave us a couple of boxes back. We expect to get those leased up this year, we should be back to around 97%, 98%, and a blended 97% occupancy by the end of the year is our goal. Operator00:27:59Right. Great. Thank you. At this time, there are no further questions. I'd like to turn the call back over to Jeff Olson for any additional or closing remarks. Jeff OlsonChairman and CEO at Urban Edge Properties00:28:09Great. We appreciate everyone's interest in UE and look forward to seeing you soon. Operator00:28:16Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. This brings us to the end of today's meeting. We appreciate your time and participation. 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Email Address About Urban Edge PropertiesUrban Edge Properties (NYSE:UE) is a publicly traded real estate investment trust (REIT) that specializes in owning, operating and developing grocery-anchored shopping centers. The company was formed in January 2017 as a spin-off from Regency Centers Corporation, establishing an independent platform focused on urban and densely populated markets. As a fully integrated REIT, Urban Edge oversees the acquisition, financing, leasing, redevelopment and management of its retail properties. The company’s portfolio comprises predominantly open-air shopping centers anchored by national and regional supermarket operators. Urban Edge works closely with tenants across grocery, dining, fitness, personal care and services to enhance property performance and create community-oriented retail destinations. Its asset management team pursues selective redevelopment and expansion projects to modernize existing centers, improve tenant mix and capitalize on evolving consumer trends. Urban Edge Properties concentrates its operations in the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, Florida and Chicago metropolitan areas, where it maintains strong relationships with major regional and national retailers. By focusing on densely populated, high-density trade areas, the company seeks to generate stable rental income and long-term value creation. 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PresentationSkip to Participants Company Representative at Urban Edge Properties00:00:00Good evening, and welcome to Urban Edge Properties' second quarter 2026 earnings conference call. Joining me today are Jeff Olson, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer; Jeff Mooallem, Chief Operating Officer; Mark Langer, Chief Financial Officer; Heather Ohlberg, General Counsel; Scott Auster, EVP & Head of Leasing; and Andrea Drazin, Chief Accounting Officer. Please note, today's discussion may contain forward-looking statements about the company's views of future events and financial performance, which are subject to numerous assumptions, risks, and uncertainties, and which the company does not undertake to update. Our actual results, financial condition, and business may differ. Please refer to our filings with the SEC, which are also available on our website for more information about the company. In our discussion today, we will refer to certain non-GAAP financial measures. Reconciliations of these measures to GAAP results are available in our earnings release and our supplemental disclosure package. Company Representative at Urban Edge Properties00:00:59At this time, it is my pleasure to introduce our chairman and chief executive officer, Jeff Olson. Jeff OlsonChairman and CEO at Urban Edge Properties00:01:05Thank you, Ariba, good evening, everyone. We had a great second quarter with results that exceeded our internal expectations. We reported record FFO as adjusted of $0.40 per share, a 10% increase over the second quarter of last year and 7% year-to-date. Same property NOI, including redevelopment, grew 3.2% for the quarter and 3% year-to-date. Demand for high-quality space across our markets remains strong, and there continues to be limited availability of quality vacancies in our trade areas. Traffic across our centers is up 3% in the second quarter versus the prior year, underscoring the strength of our value and necessity-oriented merchandise mix. Traffic increases were particularly noticeable at properties where we have upgraded our tenancy, including Bergen, Woodbridge, Hudson Mall, and Totowa. Jeff OlsonChairman and CEO at Urban Edge Properties00:02:15Our SNO pipeline represents $22 million of future annual gross rent, or approximately 7% of current NOI, and remains a meaningful and highly visible contributor to future earnings growth. We are most excited about the improvements we are making at Bruckner Commons in the Bronx with the addition of BJ's Wholesale Club, Ross, Chick-fil-A, and Chipotle. These tenants are all under construction with rent commencement dates beginning throughout 2027 and totaling over $8 million in annual rent. We continued to execute our capital recycling strategy focused on improving both asset quality and long-term growth. In July, we acquired the Shops at West Falls Church, an 85,000 sq ft Safeway-anchored center in Falls Church, Virginia for $40 million. Jeff OlsonChairman and CEO at Urban Edge Properties00:03:25The center sits in a densely populated and affluent submarket of Washington, D.C., with average annual household income of approximately $200,000 within a 3-mile radius and offers visible growth through lease-up, contractual annual rent increases, and mark-to-market opportunities. We also purchased a ground lease position at Shoppers World in Framingham, Massachusetts for $10.5 million. Cap rate on these two purchases average 6% and should generate an unleveraged IRR of 9%. We are also under contract to sell Briarcliff Commons, a Kohl's-anchored center in New Jersey, for $60.5 million, which we expect to close this month. The market for acquisitions remains highly competitive. We are seeing significant capital, both institutional and private, chasing retail, which has compressed cap rates across the sector. However, given the fragmented nature of the market, we are still finding a handful of deals that meet our return thresholds. Jeff OlsonChairman and CEO at Urban Edge Properties00:04:42We expect to fund some of that activity by selling lower growth, high credit stabilized assets from our existing portfolio. Based on our strong first half results, we raised our full year FFO as adjusted guidance by $0.02 per share at the midpoint to a new range of $1.50-$1.54 per share, implying 6% growth over 2025. There are several factors that differentiate Urban Edge from our peers. Our portfolio is concentrated in the D.C. to Boston corridor, the most densely populated supply-constrained region of the country. We own 100% interest in nearly all of our properties, financed with 31 individual non-recourse mortgages with our remaining 44 assets unencumbered. On top of that, we have a differentiated redevelopment platform with an active pipeline of $155 million expected to yield 12%, and our signed but not open pipeline will grow our NOI by 7%. Jeff OlsonChairman and CEO at Urban Edge Properties00:05:59Finally, our capital recycling program is having a meaningful impact on our portfolio quality and growth rate. Over the past three years, we have acquired approximately $700 million of high-quality shopping centers at a 7% cap rate and have sold approximately $500 million of non-core property at a 5.2% cap rate. Collectively, these differentiating factors give us multiple levers for durable, visible growth. Lastly, our condolences to Jim Taylor's family, colleagues, and friends. He was my favorite advisor as a banker over 20 years ago and a formidable competitor as Chief Executive Officer of Brixmor. Rest in peace, Jim. I will now turn it over to our Chief Operating Officer, Jeff Mooallem. Jeff MooallemCOO at Urban Edge Properties00:07:02Thanks, Jeff, and good evening everyone. The demand for high-quality retail space in 2026 has allowed us to become much more strategic in our leasing. In both anchor and shop leasing, we ask our team to be selective, to identify the best long-term tenants for each asset, and to push hard on both the initial rent and capital and the ongoing economics, like rent increases and option terms. We are seeing the results of those efforts. In the second quarter, we executed 26 leases, 13 new and 13 renewal, for a total of 199,000 square feet. New leases generated a same-space cash spread of 13%, with renewals and option exercises generating a same-space cash spread of 10%. The new lease spread was lower than in the first quarter, as this metric fluctuates quarter to quarter based on our size. New lease spreads year-to-date are nearly 30%. Jeff MooallemCOO at Urban Edge Properties00:08:02Based on leases in our pipeline, we are confident cash spreads on new leases will exceed 20% for the year, which would be the fifth consecutive year we attained that level. Same-property leased occupancy ended the quarter at 96.3%, a decrease of 10 basis points versus the prior quarter and down 40 basis points from 2Q 2025. The decrease was mostly the result of the unexpected Wren Kitchens bankruptcy, which occupied two locations within our portfolio. We were able to collect a meaningful settlement on those leases and expect Wren's departure to allow for an improved merchandising mix at healthy spreads over what Wren was paying. More to come later this year on those efforts. Shop occupancy in the quarter declined 70 basis points sequentially to 91.7%, in large part due to the greater emphasis we are placing on tenant quality. Jeff MooallemCOO at Urban Edge Properties00:08:57About half of the decrease in shop occupancy was tied to a handful of recapture opportunities where we did not wish to renew or retain the existing tenant. Replacing weaker shop tenants almost always results in stronger assets in the long run. Over the balance of the year, we expect to backfill shop space at average rents in the $45 a square foot range, a mark to market of approximately 20%, and push shop occupancy back to over 93%. On the development front, we stabilized one project at Hudson Mall in Jersey City, New Jersey, with the opening of a new Burlington store in May. Coupled with the addition of HomeGoods, which is under construction and scheduled to open later this year, this marks the beginning of our reinvention of Hudson Mall, a development we are really excited about and will be talking about more in the subsequent quarters. Jeff MooallemCOO at Urban Edge Properties00:09:48We also activated a new anchor project at Ledgewood Commons and a new multi-tenant outparcel at Woodmore Town Center. In the last 12 months, we've invested $33 million in completed projects that are now generating an average yield of 25%. Our active development pipeline, comprised exclusively of projects emanating from signed leases, now stands at $155 million with approximately $67 million remaining to fund and remains on track to generate an approximate 12% yield. Even more exciting is our shadow pipeline, projects we have not activated yet but expect to be meaningful contributors to NOI in future years. These include additional multi-tenant pad developments and new stores for some of our most important anchor tenants. Jeff MooallemCOO at Urban Edge Properties00:10:37With the current environment of rising rents and virtually no new supply, redevelopments are penciling out stronger than they have in many years, and the capital demanded from landlords to move forward with new stores is on average lower than at any time I recall in the last 15 years. It is indeed a good time to be on this side of the table, and we're using that leverage to make the best deals we can. With that, I'll turn it over to our CFO, Mark Langer. Mark LangerEVP and CFO at Urban Edge Properties00:11:05Thank you, Jeff, and good evening everyone. We were pleased to deliver another strong quarter marked by solid earnings, progress on capital recycling, and continued confidence in our ability to grow occupancy at attractive rents. FFO as adjusted was $0.40 per share, an increase of approximately 10% over the second quarter of last year. Same-property NOI, including redevelopment, increased 3.2% compared to the second quarter of 2025. NOI growth in the quarter exceeded our expectations and was driven by higher percentage rents, higher net recovery revenue, collections on prior period reserves, and lower real estate taxes. FFO, as adjusted, also benefited from some one-time items, including lease termination income received from Wren Kitchens of approximately $0.02 per share and $0.01 a share from accelerated amortization of non-cash revenue and the receipt of a multi-year real estate tax refund that each contributed about $500,000. Mark LangerEVP and CFO at Urban Edge Properties00:12:15Turning to our balance sheet and liquidity position, we remain in excellent shape with total liquidity of approximately $960 million, including $82 million of cash on hand. We ended the quarter with $55 million drawn on our credit facility and no amount drawn on either of our five-year or seven-year delayed draw term loans. Our net debt to adjusted EBITDA was 5.5x in the second quarter, positioning us well to capitalize on future growth opportunities. Looking ahead to the remainder of 2026, we are increasing our FFO as adjusted guidance by $0.02 per share at the midpoint to a new range of $1.50-$1.54 per share and projecting same-property NOI growth, including redevelopment, to be in the range of 3.25%-3.75%, reflecting a 25 basis point increase to the low end of the range. Mark LangerEVP and CFO at Urban Edge Properties00:13:14Bad debt came in better than expected in the quarter at approximately 40 basis points of gross rents, which benefited from collections on accounts reserved in the first quarter for tenants on a cash basis. It is worth noting that the multi-location franchise operator in Puerto Rico that contributed to elevated levels of uncollected rents in the first quarter paid all rents due in the second quarter and is also current on payment plan obligations on past due rents. Given current tenant trends and the lack of expected significant bankruptcies for the rest of the year, our updated assumption for credit losses in Q3 and Q4 is 60-75 basis points of gross rent. Our $22 million SNO pipeline continues to be a key growth driver. Mark LangerEVP and CFO at Urban Edge Properties00:14:05As shown in our supplement, we expect this pipeline to generate $1.7 million in new rents in the remainder of this year, with the majority of that coming online in the fourth quarter, which represents about $7.7 million of rents on an annualized basis. Our acquisition guidance of $95 million reflects activity completed to date, and disposition activity of $60.5 million remains unchanged, reflecting the expected closing of Briarcliff Commons later this month. In closing, we are encouraged by the continued strength of our leasing pipeline and the lack of new supply in our markets, which should enable us to achieve attractive rent growth as tenants fight for a decreasing level of available space in high-quality locations. With that, I'll turn the call to the operator for Q&A. Operator00:15:04Thank you. At this time, if you would like to ask a question, please press star one on your keypad. To leave the queue at any time, press star two. Once again, that is star one to ask a question. Our first question will come from Michael Goldsmith with UBS. Please go ahead. Michael GoldsmithAnalyst at UBS00:15:25Good afternoon. Thanks a lot for taking my question. Mark, on the guidance, it sounds like you benefited a little bit from termination income or termination fees of $0.02, then $0.01 from accelerated amortization, and then you also took the same property NOI guidance up. Presumably, the collective impact of all of that was more than the $0.02 increase in the guidance. Can you just walk through the moving pieces there and if I'm missing anything? Mark LangerEVP and CFO at Urban Edge Properties00:15:59Michael, the $0.03 one-timers that I highlight versus the $0.02 increase in guide, part of that, as you said, was termination income. On a full year basis, some of that income was already baked into our plan in the form of rent. It's not truly incremental. Likewise, some of the beat this quarter I highlight from the time income percentage rent elevated the second quarter, but would've normally come in later the year. That kind of reconciles the $0.03 one-timer versus the $0.02 bump. Michael GoldsmithAnalyst at UBS00:16:30Got it. Thanks for that, Mark. Just on the capital recycling, you're an acquirer of a center this quarter. Can you talk a little bit about what cap rates are looking like for the type of centers that you're looking at? Then also compared to the disposition, just trying to get a sense of the magnitude of accretion from the capital recycling as the market sits today. Thanks. Mark LangerEVP and CFO at Urban Edge Properties00:16:56Yeah. Jeff OlsonChairman and CEO at Urban Edge Properties00:16:56Yeah. Hi, Michael. It is all over the board. Generally, cap rates are in the 5%-7% range. The key is what is the NOI growth and how much capital. They're pricing to unleveraged IRRs in the 7%-9% range. As far as our own capital recycling, generally what we're doing is we're looking to sell our lower growth assets, but those assets that have high credit that can sell at pretty low cap rates and redeploy that capital into higher growth assets. In principle, we're looking to sell like 1%-2% growth assets and redeploying that into 3%-4% growth assets at cap rates that are generally on par with what we're selling. Michael GoldsmithAnalyst at UBS00:17:50Got it. Thank you very much. Good luck in the back half. Jeff OlsonChairman and CEO at Urban Edge Properties00:17:53Great. Thank you. Operator00:17:55Thank you. Once again, that is star one to ask a question. Our next question will come from Michael Griffin with Evercore ISI. Please go ahead. Michael GriffinAnalyst at Evercore ISI00:18:08Great, thanks. Maybe for Jeff Mooallem, I think you talked about new lease spreads maybe being at 20% on a full year basis. I know it was closer to 30% in the first half, down to about 13% in the second quarter. Does that kind of imply we sort of stay in this mid-teens-ish releasing spread area? Then if you could expand more, it seems like there's really a lot of demand on the small shop side of things too. Are you able to get tenants open quicker and paying rent quicker, and that's going to help lift that small shop occupancy into the back half? Jeff MooallemCOO at Urban Edge Properties00:18:49Yeah. Hey, Michael. Thanks for the question. Look, in terms of spread, we've messaged this before. It's hard to look at any one quarter given our size. We were an outlier on the high end in the first quarter, a little bit of an outlier on the low end on the second quarter, but as you said, blended for the first half of the year, we're around 30%. We're very confident we'll be over 20% for the year. We actually, if you look at our pipeline right now, should exceed that pretty comfortably. We feel very good about the spreads, and again, I'll say it's not just the number, but it's the quality. Jeff MooallemCOO at Urban Edge Properties00:19:22When I look at the tenants that we vacated in the second quarter and the pipeline list of the tenants who we hope are coming into those spaces, pretty much every one of the tenants that we vacated was a one or two-off single local tenant, and we're replacing them with names like CAVA and Starbucks and Mathnasium and Rally House and really good names. If we're going to be able to achieve that quality spread, and achieve much better tenancy, we'll take that downtime all day long. As far as getting people open faster, that is rallying cry number one around here. We're doing everything in our power. I will tell you it's gotten a lot better because tenants have become a lot more flexible with this increased demand and limited supply for space. Jeff MooallemCOO at Urban Edge Properties00:20:06Tenants are having to do things they did not want to do in the past, like take existing HVAC systems or go in under one permit without the landlord having to do work first. Those things can really compress the time to RCD, but it still is a struggle wherever we go, to get permits and get people open. Michael GriffinAnalyst at Evercore ISI00:20:25Thanks, Jeff. I certainly appreciate the context there. Maybe just one other one for Olson, just as you look at the external growth opportunity set, particularly as it relates to potential acquisitions. Clearly the bread and butter is along the Northeast corridor. If there is this increased competition, and maybe it is a conversation held in other markets nationally, could we see you guys maybe looking at opportunities in, I don't know, Florida, North Carolina, places like that, if the opportunity presented itself? Or are you guys kind of going to stick to your knitting in terms of just the existing geographic footprint of the company? Jeff OlsonChairman and CEO at Urban Edge Properties00:21:08I do think the most natural extension for us is to go south. Yes, I think the Southeast is a market that we've been actively looking in. It is super competitive, for sure. We are hoping at some point that we'll be able to go into that market. Michael GriffinAnalyst at Evercore ISI00:21:27Great. That's it for me. Thanks for the time. Jeff OlsonChairman and CEO at Urban Edge Properties00:21:30Thank you. Operator00:21:32Thank you. Our next question will come from Daniel Purpura with Green Street. Please go ahead. Daniel PurpuraAnalyst at Green Street00:21:41Hello, good afternoon. If I could ask another question on the transaction market. You mentioned in your prepared remarks that cap rates have compressed generally across the sector. I know you gave the range of, I think you said about 5%-7% in your markets. Could you share if you've observed any compression in the cap rate spread between large community centers or power centers and the typical grocery-anchored center as well? Jeff MooallemCOO at Urban Edge Properties00:22:11Hey, Daniel. It's Jeff Mooallem. The short answer is yes. Everything is compressed. Let's start with that. From when we were really able to buy a lot of stuff in late 2023 and into all of 2024 and some of 2025, cap rates are down overall. As more buyers enter the field and search for yield, they're looking at assets that maybe they wouldn't have looked at a year or two ago. A power center asset where there might have been 5-10 names on the bid sheet now might have north of 10, and institutional names that previously might have turned their nose up at power. We're seeing more competition on pretty much everything, which is making us double down on our efforts to look for things off market. Jeff MooallemCOO at Urban Edge Properties00:22:54When we do find assets that we really like, we dig in hard, and we make sure the sellers know what our reputation is as a buyer, so we can get to the top of the list. If you're trying to buy assets today just by hoping that you can make offers on a bunch of things and nobody else will show up at the table, it's not working that way right now. There is a lot of activity on pretty much everything that gets marketed. Daniel PurpuraAnalyst at Green Street00:23:19Got it. Thank you. Then on the anchor side, could you elaborate on what types of anchors generally pay the highest net effective rents? Is it from a category perspective or is it more name driven more than category driven? Jeff MooallemCOO at Urban Edge Properties00:23:39It's all across the board. We are seeing real rent growth coming from everything from the big boxes, which I would say sort of the home improvement, the large format stores like the Target and the Walmart, the warehouse clubs, and the large format grocers like Wegmans. All of those folks have stepped up and are paying bigger rents. That's sort of one category of anchors. Then you go to the discount group, the TJ Maxx concepts, the Ross concepts, Burlington. Competition is really rampant in that sector right now, and as you know, competition drives prices. Our ability to command better rents is just a function of three tenants for two spaces. We hope that continues. Jeff MooallemCOO at Urban Edge Properties00:24:20I'd even tell you that even going to the other stuff, let's call it more of the health and beauty or the smaller format anchors, J.Crew, Old Navy, Ulta, Skechers, are all trying to get into centers and are having trouble finding great locations, and they're having to pay more rent to do it. I wouldn't organize it by either category or by size. I'd say that anchor tenants have woken up to what today's market rent realities are, and they're stepping up. Daniel PurpuraAnalyst at Green Street00:24:50Got it. Thank you. Operator00:24:53Thank you. Once again, to ask a question, please press star one on your telephone keypad. Our next question will come from Ronald Kamdem with Morgan Stanley. Please go ahead. Caroline LongAnalyst at Morgan Stanley00:25:07Hi, this is Caroline on for Ron. Thank you for taking my question. I know you just talked a little bit about the more anchor tenants. I was wondering if you could just speak a bit more holistically on what you're seeing in terms of tenant health just so far and how it's trending. I know you mentioned it's been a little bit better than expected. Just are there any names that we need to look out for or categories that are doing better or worse than last year? Jeff MooallemCOO at Urban Edge Properties00:25:32Hey, Caroline, it's Jeff Mooallem. Thanks for the question. The shop tenant categories that we are sort of leaning into heavily right now are, a lot of it is around fitness, around medical, and around new kinds of concepts that have recently discovered the success they can have in these neighborhood and community-based locations. We are constantly talking to some of these great fitness concepts and some of the newer sort of pseudo-medical stuff that's out there. Veterinary practices have come out in a big way. Urgent care is still doing deals. Certainly, all the different boutique fitness concepts that we all know are active. Food, QSRs continues to be looking. In a lot of places, they're our desired small shop tenant, but we are also being a little bit more cautious there and making sure we don't sort of over-food any of our properties. Jeff MooallemCOO at Urban Edge Properties00:26:24Those continue to be the big drivers. Even in things like apparel and service and other types of small shop uses, there's been a little bit of a pickup, and we hope it'll continue. Caroline LongAnalyst at Morgan Stanley00:26:36Very helpful. In terms of occupancy, I know you saw some changes that you spoke on in terms of shop. Going forward, how do you think about total portfolio occupancy and also shop occupancy kind of as a natural level going forward? Jeff MooallemCOO at Urban Edge Properties00:26:56We've messaged, Caroline, 93%-94% shop occupancy. Despite a little bit of a dip in Q2, we're still on point with that message. When we look at our active pipeline, there's a lot of shop space that should be coming online in the third and fourth quarter. We have a fair amount of the shop space that we have is temporarily leased because it is mall space in Puerto Rico and Bergen. If you look at our occupancy purely as a math equation of numerator and denominator, it doesn't necessarily tell the whole story. A lot of our shop vacancy is not the shop vacancy that is ever going to get to 99%, 100%. I think we'd be very happy to hit 93.5%, 94% this year, and we have a roadmap to get there on the shop side. Jeff MooallemCOO at Urban Edge Properties00:27:40On the anchor side, we mentioned the Wren Kitchens bankruptcy gave us a couple of boxes back. We expect to get those leased up this year, we should be back to around 97%, 98%, and a blended 97% occupancy by the end of the year is our goal. Operator00:27:59Right. Great. Thank you. At this time, there are no further questions. I'd like to turn the call back over to Jeff Olson for any additional or closing remarks. Jeff OlsonChairman and CEO at Urban Edge Properties00:28:09Great. We appreciate everyone's interest in UE and look forward to seeing you soon. Operator00:28:16Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. This brings us to the end of today's meeting. We appreciate your time and participation. You may now disconnect.Read moreParticipantsExecutivesCompany RepresentativeJeff OlsonChairman and CEOJeff MooallemCOOMark LangerEVP and CFOAnalystsMichael GoldsmithAnalyst at UBSMichael GriffinAnalyst at Evercore ISIDaniel PurpuraAnalyst at Green StreetCaroline LongAnalyst at Morgan StanleyPowered by