Seritage Growth Properties (SRG) Reports Q4 Loss of $1.57
Seritage Growth Properties (NYSE: SRG) reported Q4 EPS of ($1.57), versus ($1.27) reported last year. Revenue for the quarter came in at $55.11 million, versus $53.68 million reported last year.
- Net loss attributable to common shareholders of $56.0 million, or $1.57 per share
- Total Net Operating Income (“Total NOI”) of $34.1 million
- Funds from Operations (“FFO”) of $7.0 million, or $0.13 per share
- Company FFO of ($4.4) million, or ($0.08) per share
“We are very pleased with our fourth quarter performance, which included 878,000 square feet of new leasing at an average re-leasing multiple of 4.0x for space previously occupied by Sears. Since inception, we have leased nearly 8.0 million square feet at an average re-leasing multiple of 4.1x, and completed or commenced 97 redevelopment projects totaling approximately $1.5 billion of total capital investment with targeted incremental yields of approximately 11% on an unlevered basis,” said Benjamin Schall, President and Chief Executive Officer. “To fund this transformative redevelopment program, we have maintained access to multiple sources of liquidity and currently have $533 million of cash on hand and a committed $400 million incremental funding facility. Further, having generated over $230 million in 2018 through the formation of joint ventures and divestiture of smaller market assets, we continue to recycle capital into the highest value creation opportunities in our portfolio.”
Mr. Schall continued, “We have rapidly diversified our tenant base, with over 70% of our annual base rent under lease now derived from diversified, non-Sears tenants (up from 20% at inception). In February, we signed a new master lease with the successor to Sears Holdings that maintains 51 locations leased to Sears or Kmart, which will become effective following the rejection of the existing Master Lease with Sears Holdings. The new lease provides Seritage with expanded rights to execute on our redevelopment initiatives. As we look forward, we expect to continue to utilize our platform and expand our relationships with growing retailers, mixed-use developers and institutional capital allocators to further unlock embedded value through our retail redevelopments and larger mixed-use pipeline.”
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