Agree Realty Corporation (NYSE:ADC ) Q3 2024 Earnings Conference Call October 23, 2024 9:00 AM ET Company Participants Joey Agree - President & CEO Peter Coughenour - CFO Reuben Treatman - Senior Director of Corporate Finance Conference Call Participants Nick Joseph - Citi Brad Heffern - RBC Capital Markets Ronald Kamdem - Morgan Stanley Eric Borden - BMO Capital Markets John Kilichowski - Wells Fargo Linda Tsai - Jefferies RJ Milligan - Raymond James Joshua Dennerlein - Bank of America Michael Goldsmith - UBS Rob Stevenson - Janney Capital Markets Ravi Vaidya - Mizuho Securities Spenser Allaway - Green Street Upal Rana - KeyBanc Capital Markets Operator Good morning and welcome to the Agree Realty Third Quarter 2024 Conference Call. All participants will be in listen-only mode.
The headline numbers for Agree Realty (ADC) give insight into how the company performed in the quarter ended September 2024, but it may be worthwhile to compare some of its key metrics to Wall Street estimates and the year-ago actuals.
Agree Realty (ADC) came out with quarterly funds from operations (FFO) of $1.03 per share, in line with the Zacks Consensus Estimate. This compares to FFO of $1 per share a year ago.
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Looking beyond Wall Street's top -and-bottom-line estimate forecasts for Agree Realty (ADC), delve into some of its key metrics to gain a deeper insight into the company's potential performance for the quarter ended September 2024.
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Agree Realty (ADC) is seeing favorable earnings estimate revision activity and has a positive Zacks Earnings ESP heading into earnings season.
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Average REIT short interest fell 8 basis points in September to 3.7% of shares outstanding, per S&P Global Market Intelligence data. The hotel sector followed with a 60-basis point drop, while the office sector remained the most-shorted at 5.3% of shares outstanding. Wheeler Real Estate Investment Trust logged the largest increase in short interest, up 16 percentage points to 32.4% of shares outstanding.
Realty Income and Agree Realty are structurally similar REITs with a strong focus on the net lease retail segment and very defensive fundamentals. Yet, as a durable income investor, who seeks to maximize yield, while keeping the dividend cut risk limited, I have decided to include only one of them in my portfolio. In this article, I compare ADC and O side by side, elaborating on the key aspects, which, in my opinion, substantiate bullish views on both of them.
My career in real estate development taught me the importance of analyzing financial statements and identifying durable competitive advantages, much like stock investing. Transparency is crucial; my bad experience with a dishonest business partner led me to prefer REITs over private real estate for their corporate governance and audited reports. Avoid highly specialized properties; focus on "fungible" boxes like those owned by Agree Realty, which offer better tenant replacement potential and lower rental rates.
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