2/11/2026

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Operator
Conference Operator

Greetings and welcome to the NetStreetCorp fourth quarter 2025 earnings call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. A brief question and answer session will follow the formal presentation. Should anyone require operator assistance during the conference, please press star zero on your telephone keypad. As a reminder, this conference is being recorded. It is now my pleasure to introduce your host, Matt Miller, Head of Capital Markets and Investor Relations. Thank you. You may begin.

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Matt Miller
Head of Capital Markets and Investor Relations

Good morning, and thank you for joining us for NetStreet's fourth quarter 2025 earnings conference call. On today's call, management's remarks and responses to your questions may contain statements considered forward-looking under federal securities law. These statements address matters subject to risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ from those discussed today. For more information on these factors, we encourage you to review our Form 10-K for the year ended December 31st, 2025, and other SEC filings. All forward-looking statements are made as of today, February 11, 2025, and NetStreet assumes no obligation to update them in the future. In addition, certain financial information presented on this call includes non-GAAP financial measures. Please refer to our earnings release and supplemental package for definitions, reconciliations to the most comparable GAAP measures, and an explanation of their usefulness to investors, which can be found in the investor relations section of the company's website at NetStreet.com. Today's call is hosted by NetStreet CEO Mark Manheimer and CFO Dan Donovan. It will make some preparative marks followed by a Q&A session. With that, I'll turn the call over to Mark.

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Mark Manheimer
CEO

Thank you, Matt, and thank you all for joining us this morning on our fourth quarter 2025 earnings call. I first want to congratulate the team on an outstanding 2025. We are efficiently running on all cylinders as we have the right people in place in each role across the entire organization to expand upon our success. We are well equipped from a balance sheet and cultural perspective at NetStreet to source the best opportunities, thoroughly underwrite them, and close them efficiently, while also maintaining rigorous monitoring and asset management to get ahead of future risks. We had a strong quarter of accelerated transaction activity as we completed $245.4 million of gross investments, our highest quarter on record, at a blended cash yield of 7.5%, with 15 years of weighted average lease term. For the full year, we completed a record $657.1 million of gross investments at a 7.5% blended cash yield with 13.9 years of weighted average lease term. When considering how modest our investment goals were to start the year, this record-level investment activity is even more impressive as it demonstrates our team's ability to rapidly adapt to fluctuations in both our cost of capital and the overall net lease marketplace. In addition, we accomplished this record activity while maintaining our focus on diversification as evidenced by our record level of dispositions, which were completed 60 basis points inside our blended cash yield on investments. Additionally, our diversification efforts led to 15 new tenants joining our roster in the fourth quarter alone, and with 31 new tenants being added for the full year. From an earnings perspective, our attractive investment activity helped us reach the high end of our upwardly revised AFFO per share guidance range. And looking ahead to this year, the team continues to find well-priced, high-quality investment opportunities with heightened levels of activity within the grocery, fitness, convenience store, and quick service restaurant industries. As previously announced, we achieved an investment grade rating of BBB- from Fitch Ratings. which has greatly improved our access to debt and allows for tighter spreads. Coupled with our growing pipeline of opportunities, improving cost of capital, and our low dividend payout ratio, all of which have accelerated our growth prospects, we are increasing our quarterly dividend by 2.3% to 22 cents per share. Our balance sheet remains in excellent condition with pro forma leverage of 3.8 times, $100 million of undrawn term loan capital as of today. $373.1 million of unsettled forward equity at year end, and no major debt maturities until 2028. Turning to the portfolio, we ended the quarter with investments in 758 properties that were leased to 129 tenants operating in 28 industries across 45 states. From a credit perspective, 58.3% of our total ABR is leased to investment grade or investment grade profile tenants. Our weighted average lease term remaining for the portfolio was 10.1 years, with just 2.4% of ABR expiring through 2027. The portfolio-weighted average unit level coverage is a very healthy 3.8 times. Moving on to dispositions, we sold 76 properties in 2025, totaling $178.6 million at a 6.9% cash yield, which allowed us to accomplish all of our diversification goals for the year, including bringing all tenants below 5% of ABR. With our diversification efforts now met, we do anticipate selling fewer assets in 2026, with our focus turning more towards opportunistic sales and risk mitigation in order to get ahead of potential risks well before they can impact our AFFO per share. That said, we do expect to improve portfolio diversity through the year, with Walgreens representing less than 2% of ABR by 2020-26 year-end. We are confident in the strength of the portfolio we have constructed and the durability of our in-place rent stream. More specifically, when analyzing the ABR that expires over the next four years, we continue to see a high probability of renewal given the cohort's blended rent coverage ratio of 5.1 times and our ongoing dialogue with these tenants. Coupled with our high corporate credit portfolio, properties with in-place rents near market with strong real estate fundamentals, an active asset management process, we remain confident that our portfolio can continue to produce the most consistent cash flow generation in the net lease space. In summary, 2025 was a year of record achievements for NetStreet, driven by our focus on high-quality, necessity-based retail properties and commitment to a well-capitalized balance sheet. We are excited about the momentum we have established in 2026 and our ability to deliver value to shareholders as one of the fastest AFFO per share growers in the space. With that, I'll hand the call to Dan to go over fourth quarter financials and then open up the call for your questions.

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