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Four Corners Property Trust, Inc. (FCPT -0.17%)
Q4Â 2019 Earnings Call
Feb 13, 2020, 11:00 a.m. ET
Contents:
- Prepared Remarks
- Questions and Answers
- Call Participants
Prepared Remarks:
Operator
Good day, and welcome to the FCPT Announces Earnings for Fourth Quarter 2019 Conference Call. [Operator Instructions] Please note that this event is being recorded.
I would now like to turn the conference over to Gerry Morgan. Please go ahead, sir.
Gerald Morgan -- Chief Financial Officer
Thank you Chuck. Joining me on the call today is Bill Lenehan. During the course of this call, we will make forward-looking statements, which are based on beliefs and assumptions made by us and information currently available to us. Our actual results will be affected by known and unknown factors that are beyond our control or ability to predict. Our assumptions are not a guarantee of future performance, and some will prove to be incorrect. For a more detailed description of our potential risk, please refer to our SEC filings, which can be found in the Investor Relations section of our website at fcpt.com.
All the information presented on the call, is current as of today, February 13, 2020. In addition, reconciliation to non-GAAP financial measures presented on this call, such as FFO and AFFO can be found in the Company's supplemental report available also on our website.
And with that, I'll turn the call over to Bill.
William Lenehan -- Chief Executive Officer
Thank you Gerry. Good morning everyone, and thank you for joining us to discuss our fourth quarter results and outlook as 2020 gets under way. Our portfolio performed as expected in the fourth quarter. We achieved an increase in AFFO to $0.36 per share, and EBITDAR coverage remained strong at 4.7 times. I'd like to draw your attention to the unusually high volume of properties acquired near the end of the fourth quarter. We will see the full effect of these properties, impacting our results in the first quarter of 2020.
In the fourth quarter, we acquired 50 properties in 21 separate closings, for a combined purchase price of $120.6 million with over $88 million of these closings in the last week of the quarter alone. For the year, we acquired 90 properties for a combined purchase price of $199 million. The fourth quarter acquisitions are a great example of the type of quality assets and granular tenant diversity we continue to add to the portfolio. To support that statement, I offer two statistics from the fourth quarter acquisitions. First, with respect to quality, over 80% of leases on these properties are with or guaranteed by the corporate restaurant brand. Second, with respect to diversification, the 50 acquired properties represent 34 different brands, 17 of which were new to our portfolio.
Over half of the properties acquired in the quarter, were the result of our outparcel strategy with closings from WPG, Brookfield, Seritage and PREIT. These transactions have taken time and perseverance, but have been worth it, given the quality of the assets. We've now announced over $278 million in outparcel transactions. These properties are characterized by strong national brands, lower rents as many are ground leases, and are substantially leased to the brand's corporate or franchise or entity. Our recent expansion to select adjacent retail, outside of restaurants has continued but we remain highly selective in our approach. The properties share similar qualities as our high quality restaurant locations with comparable buildings or lot sizes and net lease structures.
As of the year-end 2019, FCPT owned 10 non-restaurant properties representing 1% of total rental revenue. If we include the announced outparcel pipeline, FCPT's exposure to non-restaurant retail is 27 properties, representing 2.7% of total revenue as of the end of the year. Over the past four months, we've made meaningful progress on our pipeline and started 2020 with approximately $132 million of announced, but not yet closed outparcel transactions, which we expect will close in 2020, enrolling tranches as the properties become available to be conveyed. We look forward to leveraging our deal sourcing and closing infrastructure, to grow, both in the restaurant and non-restaurant net lease sectors.
Our tenants overall continue to perform well. This holds true for some of our largest brand exposures, with Olive Garden, LongHorn and Chili's, reporting same-store sales growth in the most recent quarter of 1.5% to 6.7% and 2% respectively. We were particularly impressed with the growth of digital and to go orders at Olive Garden, which now make up 17% of brand sales after another strong quarter of north of 15% growth. While we would acknowledge some weakness in other restaurant brands, FCPT's portfolio has by and large avoided them and the portfolio remains very, very healthy.
Finally, a couple of comments on the team. First, we continue to be very pleased with the growth of our team both the maturation of the existing members, and the contribution of new team members who are growing capabilities. We expect to continue to add to the team in 2020, but we've been fortunate enough to do it, step by step and with mind toward our team based culture. Second, a note of congratulations to Jim Brat, our General Counsel, who was promoted last week to also serve as Company's Chief Transaction Officer. Jim's deep, real estate and transaction experience has been critical to our acquisition strategy. Thank you, Jim.
Now, Gerry will take you through our financial results.
Gerald Morgan -- Chief Financial Officer
Thanks Bill. We generated $33.8 million of cash rental income in the fourth quarter after excluding non-cash straight-line rental adjustments. And on a run rate basis, the current annual cash base rent for leases in place, as of December 31, 2019 is $139.4 million. This is a 6.5% increase in our run rate cash rental level versus the third rate excuse me -- versus the third quarter and highlights the growth from the fourth quarter acquisitions, many of which closed in December as Bill highlighted. Our weighted average 10-year annual cash rent escalator remains at approximately 1.5%.
We reported a $0.02 or 5.9% increase in AFFO per share, quarter-over-quarter results. In the quarter and for the full year, we reported $2.4 million and $10.3 million respectively of cash, general and administrative expenses after excluding stock-based compensation. For 2020, we are setting guidance of approximately $12 million for cash, general and administrative expenses. This increase is a reflection of incremental additions we are making to the investment, asset management and property management teams and supporting systems.
Turning to the balance sheet and the fourth quarter. We fully settled the forward equity sales agreement we had entered into last April at an average offering price of $28.97 for gross proceeds of $46.5 million. We ended the quarter well-capitalized to support our investment activity with our net debt-to-adjusted EBITDAR standing at 5.2 times, including a quarter ending balance of $52 million on our revolver and $98 million remaining on the $250 million facility. We remain committed to maintaining a conservative balance sheet and staying under debt leverage of 5.5 times to 6 times net debt to EBITDAre.
I'll now turn it back over to Bill for closing remarks.
William Lenehan -- Chief Executive Officer
Operator, can we open it up to Q&A.
Questions and Answers:
Operator
Yes, sir. We will now begin the question-and-answer session. [Operator Instructions] And our first question will come from Nate Crossett with Berenberg. Please go ahead.Mr. Crossett, are you there?
Nate Crossett -- Berenberg -- Analyst
Yes, can you hear me?
Operator
Yes, you're live, and you can ask your question.
Nate Crossett -- Berenberg -- Analyst
Yes. Just wanted to get a sense of how much is left to acquire from Washington Prime, Brookfield, Seritage and PREIT. You have $132 million closing in 2020. What's left among those four?
William Lenehan -- Chief Executive Officer
The $132 million is the year-end balance from those different outparcel transactions. We've closed a small number to date, but we expect all of those to close in 2020. So, it's just shy of that $132 million.
Nate Crossett -- Berenberg -- Analyst
Okay. And then, should we expect similar types of agreements to be announced this year or how should we be thinking about these larger kind of transactions?
William Lenehan -- Chief Executive Officer
We're working on different transactions like that all the time.
Nate Crossett -- Berenberg -- Analyst
Okay. What about -- just one on dispositions. I didn't see any dispositions in 2019. Can you just remind us kind of how you think about dispositions?
William Lenehan -- Chief Executive Officer
We do it opportunistically. We get inbound inquiries all the time, every week. But, we do it opportunistically typically into the 1031 exchange market.
Nate Crossett -- Berenberg -- Analyst
Okay. Thanks.
William Lenehan -- Chief Executive Officer
Thanks, Nate.
Operator
And our next question will come from Sheila McGrath of Evercore ISI. Please go ahead.
Sheila McGrath -- Evercore ISI -- Analyst
Yes, good morning.
William Lenehan -- Chief Executive Officer
Good morning.
Sheila McGrath -- Evercore ISI -- Analyst
On the acquisitions in the quarter, the in-place rent was $27 a square foot, well below your portfolio average of $30. Just wondering, is this driven by market location, are these mostly ground leases, or would you characterize the in-place rents well below market?
William Lenehan -- Chief Executive Officer
Thanks Sheila. I would say, it's just a mix in the quarter of more ground leases.
Sheila McGrath -- Evercore ISI -- Analyst
Of the portfolio right now, do you disclose what percent of the portfolio is ground leases versus...
William Lenehan -- Chief Executive Officer
We don't. I guess, the color I would provide is 70% of our portfolio is Darden that's well over five times covered, so very modest rents, given the performance, I would argue very akin to the kind of ratios, you'd see on a ground lease. And then the outparcel transactions that we've been buying, we don't disclose an exact number, but I would say roughly 70% of them have been ground leases, and it's just a very healthy credit story. It's just hard to deploy capital because the rents that you're applying to cap rate too are so low that the per property purchase price is low. And I think you're going to continue to see that as we announce more of these transactions.
Sheila McGrath -- Evercore ISI -- Analyst
Okay, great. One last one, if you could just give us an update on the Krystal store locations, do you expect these leases will be affirmed?
William Lenehan -- Chief Executive Officer
They've communicated to us multiple times that they will. We don't anticipate any change in the rent there. Those stores are very healthy with moderate rent to sales -- low rent to sales.
Sheila McGrath -- Evercore ISI -- Analyst
Okay, great. Thank you.
William Lenehan -- Chief Executive Officer
Thanks, Sheila.
Operator
And our next question will come from Collin Mings with Raymond James. Please go ahead.
Collin Mings -- Raymond James -- Analyst
Thanks. Good morning, Bill. Good morning, Gerry.
William Lenehan -- Chief Executive Officer
Good morning, Collin.
Gerald Morgan -- Chief Financial Officer
Good morning.
Collin Mings -- Raymond James -- Analyst
Bill, to start, I just wanted to discuss the dual and multi-tenant properties you've acquired recently. I'm just curious, your thoughts, is the market for some of these multi-tenant asset type [Phonetic] be less efficient than the market for say, single-tenant properties?
William Lenehan -- Chief Executive Officer
I think the pricing tends to be a tad better, sometimes you don't get net lease on the roof coverage, but that can be warranted or estimated. I would also say, we're typically buying newer properties there. So, for example, the Potbelly Verizon we just bought was built in 2018, and I would also say there's some brand formats that prefer multi-tenant. And so, to get exposure to those brands that's the direction you're going to go. But in almost every case, this is two different brands attached to each other and it's not -- it's a far cry from a strip center or anything along those lines. I think, the last thing I would say is, they tend to be more generic boxes. So, the ability to refill these are a lot easier than a bespoke stand-alone building.
Collin Mings -- Raymond James -- Analyst
That's helpful. And maybe just along those lines, how do you think about coverages? I mean, just as you think about underwriting the tenants and the properties, just maybe talk about rent coverages and I mean, is there a maybe a little bit higher threshold on a coverage -- from a coverage standpoint?
William Lenehan -- Chief Executive Officer
I think the coverages are probably very similar. The one point I'd make, Collin is there tends to be the use cases like banks and sell stores where the four-wall economics is not as clear as a restaurant, so for example, in Olive Garden that covers five times, you sort of understand what the economic proposition is. A bank branch, for example, it may have significant deposits, but how do you allocate the corporate overhead of JPMorgan to an individual brand store, or the subscription service revenue of Verizon to an individual Verizon store. But, we're tended to be very cautious and stuck with the high quality national brands.
Collin Mings -- Raymond James -- Analyst
Okay. And then maybe along these lines, Bill, correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't believe anything with either a dual or multi-tenant thus far has been closed without a restaurant component, would you be open to looking at some of these type of properties, without a restaurant component?
William Lenehan -- Chief Executive Officer
Just looking here, I think, actually we have one that was a U.S. Cellular at Great Clips. But I think at the end of the day, we would look at dual tenants without a restaurant, they very often have a restaurant anchoring them because restaurants drive so much traffic. But, we would look at it, in any case.
Collin Mings -- Raymond James -- Analyst
Okay. And then, two other ones from me here, just in terms of, first is, curious I mean you've had some success -- I think there has been maybe one deal that's been announced on OP unit front. I'm just curious, kind of, as you think about your acquisition pipeline, as you think about discussions with potential sellers, how much is that even coming up as a potential source of deal flow?
William Lenehan -- Chief Executive Officer
We talk about it regularly, but the stars sort of have to align for those OP unit deals to work. We have -- and frankly we have such good access to normal way capital that it's sometimes easier just to raise normal way equity to pay for properties, but we're always looking and in dialog with people. But, as you mentioned, it's a rare that they are successful.
Collin Mings -- Raymond James -- Analyst
Okay. And one last one from me, and I'll turn it over. Just recognizing, it didn't move much, but did notice that the coverage in that other brands non-Darden bucket actually increased slightly. And again, there are -- a lot of properties are actually added to that bucket in the quarter. Would this uptick reflect any change in terms of tenant health or is it just a kind of a function of the properties that got added to the pool?
William Lenehan -- Chief Executive Officer
I'd say, it's just the latter. I wouldn't have any grand takeaways from that.
Collin Mings -- Raymond James -- Analyst
Fair enough. I'll turn it over.
William Lenehan -- Chief Executive Officer
Thanks, Collin.
Operator
And our next question will come from Anthony Paolone with JPMorgan. Please go ahead.
Anthony Paolone -- JPMorgan -- Analyst
Thanks. Bill, you are looking at areas outside of restaurants can you note any areas, that either you're redlining at this point or particularly attracted to right now?
William Lenehan -- Chief Executive Officer
I would say, we're open minded. We've tended to not spend much time on big box net lease, and I would say we're attracted to a number of different sectors to -- I'll just throw out there, would be auto service and medical retail, things like dialysis centers, clinics. We've tended to stay away from day care, we've tended to stay away from some of the, call it, untested new net lease use cases like Topgolf and trampoline parks, things along those lines. Sticking to certain more tested paradigms.
Anthony Paolone -- JPMorgan -- Analyst
Okay. Can you talk about just the, as we start the year though at the level of deal flow that you're seeing in comparison to say like the last few quarters, just generally speaking?
William Lenehan -- Chief Executive Officer
It's still very strong. I guess, what I would say is that we had a flurry of activity last fall of signing contracts on large acquisitions. A significant portion of those closed at the end of the year. Our transaction team that Jim leads is very focused on closing the remainder of those, and the acquisition team is very busy working on new acquisitions to make sure the pipeline stays robust, but we're quite busy.
Anthony Paolone -- JPMorgan -- Analyst
Got it. And then, just the last question, and your yields have been pretty consistent in the kind of mid-sixes, but when you think about the pipeline of things you're looking at and the variety of industries. What kind of starts to really move that needle up or down, the most that you're seeing out there, like, is it lease duration, like if you went shorter on term, yields would really move up or vice versa or is it just credit still, what are the hot buttons you're seeing?
William Lenehan -- Chief Executive Officer
Honestly, I think it's discipline and we see a lot of transactions that get priced away from us, and we're content to remain disciplined on our pricing and credit. But obviously, other factors like what kind of property sector it's in, what the lease duration, how good the credit is, where interest rate stand at the moment, how competitive -- the competitive dynamic of the transaction, whether it's truly triple net etc, etc. But, the thing that we've been very pleased within these outparcels is, we feel like we're getting a differentiated outcome with reasonable cap rates, very low rents and good credit. And actually the demographics of the outparcel transactions are far better than typical net lease.
Anthony Paolone -- JPMorgan -- Analyst
Okay, thanks a lot.
William Lenehan -- Chief Executive Officer
Thanks.
Operator
And our next question will come from John Massocca with Ladenburg Thalmann. Please go ahead.
John Massocca -- Ladenburg Thalmann -- Aanalyst
Good morning.
William Lenehan -- Chief Executive Officer
Good morning.
Gerald Morgan -- Chief Financial Officer
Good morning.
John Massocca -- Ladenburg Thalmann -- Aanalyst
So, the occupancy ticked down slightly, it doesn't sound like that was Krystal, given they -- look at they are inclined to affirm the leases, what drove that? It's kind of small, but any color there would be helpful?
William Lenehan -- Chief Executive Officer
I think, John, it's mostly timing. I think, we expect those buildings to be leased back up here in the medium term.
John Massocca -- Ladenburg Thalmann -- Aanalyst
So, was Krystal just temporarily being kind off seasonal?
William Lenehan -- Chief Executive Officer
No. It was not Krystal's building.
John Massocca -- Ladenburg Thalmann -- Aanalyst
Okay.
William Lenehan -- Chief Executive Officer
Again, we think those buildings are going to have tenants in them paying rent very shortly.
John Massocca -- Ladenburg Thalmann -- Aanalyst
Understood. And then, when I think about one of the more recent acquisitions, the RIE [Phonetic] building, obviously that was part of -- one of these out lot deals, and would that be a type of asset you'd feel comfortable buying if it didn't kind of come from an out lot parcel -- out lot portfolio transaction and some of the dynamics that kind of come with that?
William Lenehan -- Chief Executive Officer
Yes, the REI that you mentioned is a brand new build. It's a spectacular looking building, and we're buying it at like 60% of the new build construction cost. So -- and it's a great credit, so that was a terrific one. We happen to be part of an outparcel transaction, but that'll be a terrific asset to buy. Frankly, I wouldn't get anyone's hopes up that we'd be able to replicate that scale. But, that one in particular, we're very proud of.
John Massocca -- Ladenburg Thalmann -- Aanalyst
That makes sense, but to do kind of these bigger box retail, you would need some of those similar dynamics, correct?
William Lenehan -- Chief Executive Officer
Probably to be competitive on the pricing.
John Massocca -- Ladenburg Thalmann -- Aanalyst
Okay, that's it from me. Thank you very much.
Operator
This concludes our question-and-answer session. I would like to turn the conference back over to Bill Lenehan for any closing remarks. Please go ahead sir.
William Lenehan -- Chief Executive Officer
Thanks everyone for joining us on the call today. This is also the first time we've had international callers joining us. So, thanks for everyone for the interest. We were able to see many of you recently on our recent non-deal road show. Again, thanks for the time and dialog during those meetings. And with that, we'll conclude the call. Thank you, everyone.
Operator
[Operator Closing Remarks]
Duration: 22 minutes
Call participants:
Gerald Morgan -- Chief Financial Officer
William Lenehan -- Chief Executive Officer
Nate Crossett -- Berenberg -- Analyst
Sheila McGrath -- Evercore ISI -- Analyst
Collin Mings -- Raymond James -- Analyst
Anthony Paolone -- JPMorgan -- Analyst
John Massocca -- Ladenburg Thalmann -- Aanalyst
