Year-to-Date Leasing Activity Totals 211,000 Square Feet Across Two Properties
SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Innovative Industrial Properties, Inc. (NYSE: IIPR) (“IIP” or the “Company”), the first and only real estate company on the New York Stock Exchange focused on the regulated U.S. cannabis industry, announced today results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2025.
First Quarter 2025 and Year-to-Date Highlights
Financial Results and Dividend
- Total revenues of $71.7 million for the quarter.
- Net income attributable to common stockholders of $30.3 million for the quarter, or $1.03 per share (all per share amounts in this press release are reported on a diluted basis unless otherwise noted).
- AFFO of $55.3 million, or $1.94 per share.
- Paid a quarterly dividend of $1.90 per common share on April 15, 2025 to stockholders of record as of March 31, 2025.
Balance Sheet Highlights (at March 31, 2025)
- 11% debt to total gross assets, with $2.6 billion in total gross assets.
- Total liquidity was $220.8 million as of March 31, 2025, consisting of cash and cash equivalents and short-term investments (each as reported in IIP’s consolidated balance sheet as of March 31, 2025) and availability under IIP’s revolving credit facility.
- Debt service coverage ratio of 16.8x (calculated in accordance with IIP’s 5.50% Unsecured Senior Notes due 2026).
Financing Activity Year-to-Date
- Issued 406,125 shares of Series A Preferred Stock under IIP’s “at-the-market” equity offering program for $9.7 million in net proceeds.
- Repurchased 371,538 shares of common stock for $20.1 million at a weighted average price of $54.09 per share under the Company’s $100 million share repurchase program, which expires March 2026.
- Repurchased $8.8 million of the Company’s 5.50% Unsecured Notes at a discount for $8.7 million.
Portfolio Updates
- In February, acquired a 22,000 square foot Maryland property for $7.8 million and executed a long-term lease with a private Maryland operator for use as a regulated cannabis facility.
- In January, leased 6,000 square feet at IIP’s North Del Sol Road property in Palm Springs, California to a non-cannabis tenant.
- In March, the Company announced multiple lease defaults, including a $2.7 million March rent default by PharmaCann. The Company also declared defaults on leases with 4Front, Gold Flora, and TILT (totaling $13.1 million owed), and a $16.1 million loan default secured by certain California properties, as part of a broader tenant replacement initiative aimed at strengthening tenant credit quality and improving long-term portfolio performance amid ongoing challenges in the regulated cannabis industry.
- In April, leased 205,000 square feet to Berry Green at IIP’s property in Warren, Michigan.
- In April, sold a property in Michigan for $9.0 million (excluding transaction costs) and provided an interest only, secured loan for $8.5 million to the buyer of the property. The Company also received a $1.0 million loan origination fee in connection with the transaction.
- In April, executed a purchase and sale agreement to sell a property in Palm Springs, California for $2.0 million. In connection with the expected sale, the Company recognized an impairment loss on real estate of $3.5 million during the three months ended March 31, 2025.
Property Portfolio Statistics (as of March 31, 2025)
- Total property portfolio comprises 110 properties across 19 states, with 9.0 million RSF (including 666,000 RSF under development / redevelopment), consisting of:
- Operating portfolio: 107 properties, representing 8.6 million RSF.
- Under development / redevelopment portfolio consists of three properties expected to comprise 491,000 RSF at completion and is as follows:
- 236,000 square feet located at 63795 19th Avenue in Palm Springs, California (pre-leased)
- 192,000 square feet located at Inland Center Drive in San Bernardino, California
- 12-acre development site located at Leah Avenue in San Marcos, Texas
Select Financial Results
For the three months ended March 31, 2025, IIP generated total revenues of $71.7 million, compared to $75.5 million for the same period in 2024, a decrease of 5%. The decline was primarily driven by a decrease of $4.4 million on properties leased to PharmaCann due to the tenant’s default, a decrease of $1.6 million on properties leased to TILT due to the tenant’s default, and a decrease of $1.0 million related to certain properties vacated or sold since the first quarter of 2024. This decline was partially offset by an increase of $2.2 million related to new acquisitions and new leases executed on existing properties that commenced since March 31, 2024, and an increase of $1.6 million primarily driven by contractual rent escalations.
For the three months ended March 31, 2025, $5.8 million of security deposits were applied for payment of rent on properties leased to PharmaCann, Gold Flora, TILT and Sozo. No security deposits were applied for rent during the three months ended March 31, 2024.
The Company has re-leased three properties in which rent commencement is contingent on the tenants obtaining the requisite approvals to operate. As a result, the Company does not expect to recognize rental revenue from these properties until such events have occurred.
Dividend
On March 14, 2025, the Board of Directors declared a first quarter 2025 dividend of $1.90 per common share, representing an annualized dividend of $7.60 per common share. The dividend was paid on April 15, 2025 to stockholders of record as of March 31, 2025. Since its inception, IIP has paid over $940 million in common stock dividends to its shareholders.
Supplemental Information
Supplemental financial information is available in the Investor Relations section of IIP’s website at www.innovativeindustrialproperties.com.
Teleconference and Webcast
Innovative Industrial Properties, Inc. will conduct a conference call and webcast at 9:00 a.m. Pacific Time (12:00 p.m. Eastern Time) on Thursday, May 8, 2025 to discuss IIP’s financial results and operations for the year ended March 31, 2025. The call will be open to all interested investors through a live audio webcast at the Investor Relations section of IIP’s website at www.innovativeindustrialproperties.com, or live by calling 1 (877) 328-5514 (domestic) or 1 (412) 902-6764 (international) and asking to be joined to the Innovative Industrial Properties, Inc. conference call. The complete webcast will be archived for 90 days on IIP’s website. A telephone playback of the conference call will also be available from 12:00 p.m. Pacific Time on Thursday, May 8, 2025 until 12:00 p.m. Pacific Time on Thursday, May 15, 2025, by calling 1 (877) 344-7529 (domestic), 855-669-9658 (Canada) or 1 (412) 317-0088 (international) and using access code 2796375.
About Innovative Industrial Properties
Innovative Industrial Properties, Inc. is a real estate investment trust (REIT) focused on the acquisition, ownership and management of specialized industrial properties leased to experienced, state-licensed operators for their regulated cannabis facilities. Additional information is available at www.innovativeindustrialproperties.com.
This press release contains statements that IIP believes to be “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. All statements other than historical facts are forward-looking statements. When used in this press release, words such as IIP “expects,” “intends,” “plans,” “estimates,” “anticipates,” “believes” or “should” or the negative thereof or similar terminology are generally intended to identify forward-looking statements. Such forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed in, or implied by, such statements. Investors should not place undue reliance upon forward-looking statements. IIP disclaims any obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
FFO and FFO per share are operating performance measures adopted by the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts, Inc. (NAREIT). NAREIT defines FFO as the most commonly accepted and reported measure of a REIT’s operating performance equal to net income, computed in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States (GAAP), excluding gains (or losses) from sales of property, depreciation, amortization and impairment related to real estate properties, and after adjustments for unconsolidated partnerships and joint ventures.
Management believes that net income, as defined by GAAP, is the most appropriate earnings measurement. However, management believes FFO and FFO per share to be supplemental measures of a REIT’s performance because they provide an understanding of the operating performance of IIP’s properties without giving effect to certain significant non-cash items, primarily depreciation expense. Historical cost accounting for real estate assets in accordance with GAAP assumes that the value of real estate assets diminishes predictably over time. However, real estate values instead have historically risen or fallen with market conditions. IIP believes that by excluding the effect of depreciation, FFO and FFO per share can facilitate comparisons of operating performance between periods. IIP reports FFO and FFO per share because these measures are observed by management to also be the predominant measures used by the REIT industry and industry analysts to evaluate REITs and because FFO per share is consistently reported, discussed, and compared by research analysts in their notes and publications about REITs. For these reasons, management has deemed it appropriate to disclose and discuss FFO and FFO per share.
IIP computes Normalized FFO by adjusting FFO to exclude certain GAAP income and expense amounts that management believes are infrequent and unusual in nature and/or not related to IIP’s core real estate operations. Exclusion of these items from similar FFO-type metrics is common within the equity REIT industry, and management believes that presentation of Normalized FFO and Normalized FFO per share provides investors with a metric to assist in their evaluation of IIP’s operating performance across multiple periods and in comparison to the operating performance of other companies, because it removes the effect of unusual items that are not expected to impact IIP’s operating performance on an ongoing basis. Normalized FFO is used by management in evaluating the performance of its core business operations. Items included in calculating FFO that may be excluded in calculating Normalized FFO include certain transaction-related gains, losses, income or expense or other non-core amounts as they occur.
Management believes that AFFO and AFFO per share are also appropriate supplemental measures of a REIT’s operating performance. IIP calculates AFFO by adjusting Normalized FFO for certain cash and non-cash items.
For the three months ended March 31, 2024, FFO (diluted), Normalized FFO and AFFO, and FFO, Normalized FFO and AFFO per diluted share include the dilutive impact of the assumed full exchange of the Exchangeable Senior Notes for shares of common stock as if the Exchangeable Senior Notes were exchanged at the beginning of the respective reporting period. The Exchangeable Senior Notes matured in February 2024.
For the three months ended March 31, 2024, the performance share units (“PSUs”) granted to certain employees were not included in dilutive securities as the performance thresholds for vesting of the PSUs were not met as measured as of March 31, 2024. The PSUs expired on December 31, 2024.
IIP’s computation of FFO, Normalized FFO and AFFO may differ from the methodology for calculating FFO, Normalized FFO and AFFO utilized by other equity REITs and, accordingly, may not be comparable to such REITs. Further, FFO, Normalized FFO and AFFO do not represent cash flow available for management’s discretionary use. FFO, Normalized FFO and AFFO should not be considered as an alternative to net income (computed in accordance with GAAP) as an indicator of IIP’s financial performance or to cash flow from operating activities (computed in accordance with GAAP) as an indicator of IIP’s liquidity, nor is it indicative of funds available to fund IIP’s cash needs, including IIP’s ability to pay dividends or make distributions. FFO, Normalized FFO and AFFO should be considered only as supplements to net income computed in accordance with GAAP as measures of IIP’s operations.
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Company Contact:
David Smith
Chief Financial Officer
Innovative Industrial Properties, Inc.
(858) 997-3332
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