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The RMR Group Inc.
8/6/2026
Good day and welcome to the RMR Group Fiscal Third Quarter 2026 Earnings Call. All participants will be in listen-only mode. Should you need assistance, please signal a conference specialist by pressing the star key followed by zero. After today's presentation, there will be an opportunity to ask questions. To ask a question, you may press star, then one on a touch-tone phone. To withdraw your question, please press star then two. And please note this event is being recorded. I would now like to turn the conference over to Bryan Maher, Senior Vice President. Please go ahead.
Thank you. Good morning. Thank you for joining RMR's fiscal third quarter 2026 conference call. With me on today's call are President and CEO Adam Portnoy, Chief Operating Officer Matt Jordan, and Chief Financial Officer Matt Brown. In just a moment, they will provide details about our business and quarterly results, followed by a question and answer session. I would also like to note that the recording and retransmission of today's conference call is prohibited without the prior written consent of the company. Today's conference call contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and other securities laws. These forward-looking statements are based on RMR's beliefs and expectations as of today, August 6, 2026, and actual results may differ materially from those that we project. The company undertakes no obligation to revise or publicly release the results of any revision to forward-looking statements made in today's conference call. Additional information concerning factors that could cause those differences is contained in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, which can be found on our website at rmrgroup.com. Investors are cautioned not to place undue reliance upon any forward-looking statements. In addition, we may discuss non-GAAP numbers during this call, including distributable earnings and adjusted EBITDA. A reconciliation of net income determined in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles to these non-GAAP figures can be found in our financial results. I'll now turn the call over to Adam.
Thanks, Brian, and thank you all for joining us this morning. Yesterday, we reported third quarter financial results that were in line with our expectations, despite broad economic and geopolitical uncertainty. Our quarterly results were highlighted by distributable earnings of 48 cents per share and adjusted EBITDA of $19.7 million. Our results continue to reflect the organization's focus on our two primary strategic objectives, first, We are focused on driving continued improvements in the share prices of our managed REITs through strong business execution. And second, we are focused on growing our private capital business. While Matt will talk more about private capital, as it relates to our managed REITs, over the past two years, we have actively assisted the REITs in deleveraging efforts through strategic asset sales, refinancing debt on more attractive terms, and driving property NOI growth through increased occupancy, rent roll-ups, and disciplined expense management. These efforts continue to resonate with the investment community as both DHC and ILPT remain among the best performing REITs in the U.S. over the past three years. As a result of this continued outperformance, We have seen sequential quarter growth in management fees and we are on pace to generate over $40 million in incentive fees this calendar year. Now turning to our managed REITs. At DHC, the REIT continues to experience significant operating improvement within its senior housing segment following the transition of 116 communities to new operators over the past year. DHC has also materially improved its balance sheet metrics following over $600 million in non-core asset sales since the beginning of last year, resulting in net debt to adjusted EBITDA declining to 7.1 times as of June 30th. In the second quarter, DHC generated normalized FFO of $0.16 per share and adjusted EBITDA of $82 million, both exceeding consensus estimates. Same property shop NOI grew 37% over last year and same property shop margins improved 390 basis points to 17.3%. Importantly, we continue to believe that DHC is in the early innings of a multi-year acceleration in cash flow growth because of the demographic-driven demand for shop communities and limited supply growth, which are amplified by the operational improvements we are implementing across the portfolio. ILPT had a very successful quarter with its results highlighted by a record 5.4 million square feet of leasing and a weighted average rent roll-up of more than 35%. marking its seventh consecutive quarter of double-digit rent growth. Additionally, RMR recently assisted ILPT with the refinancing of $1.6 billion of new debt for its consolidated Mountain Joint Venture, which replaced floating rate debt with interest-only fixed rate debt and an attractive 5.7% interest rate. Given a materially improved debt profile and strong organic cash flow growth, ILPT recently doubled its quarterly dividend to 10 cents per share while maintaining significant dividend coverage. SVC continues to make progress strengthening its balance sheet while improving its portfolio composition through a combination of capital recycling and over $900 million in non-core asset sales since the beginning of last year. Management's primary focus remains on working with Senesta's new leadership team to drive hotel EBITDA margins higher, while also looking to realize the anticipated benefits from nearly $650 million in capital improvements made to its retained hotel portfolio over the past three years. For the quarter, SVC's retained hotels saw REVPAR increase 6.6%, and Hotel EBITDA grow 4.2%, reflecting the early benefits of the recently completed renovations. Normalized FFO per share came in at 43 cents and adjusted EBITDA was $146 million. RMR was instrumental in helping SVC improve its balance sheet during the quarter using the net proceeds from its recent $575 million equity offering to redeem $550 million of unsecured notes due in 2027. As a result, SVC has meaningfully reduced near-term refinancing risk while creating runway to optimize its hotel performance and advance its broader transformation into a net lease-focused REIT. Lastly, OPI recently emerged from bankruptcy and its newly issued shares trade on the NASDAQ. As we previously highlighted, RMR will continue managing OPI for an initial five-year term, with RMR receiving a flat business management fee during the first two years of $14 million per year. To conclude, we are pleased with the significant progress RMR has made improving the financial positions of our managed REITs. We are particularly encouraged by the total shareholder returns that have been delivered by DHC and ILPT over the past three years, and we are working hard to deliver similar results across all of our clients. With that, I'll now turn the call over to Matt Jordan.
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