Nareit’s Total REIT Industry Tracker Series – the Nareit T-Tracker– is the first quarterly performance measure of the heartbeat of the U.S. listed REIT industry. The series includes three key REIT industry measures: the Nareit FFO Tracker, which monitors equity REIT Funds From Operations; the Nareit NOI Tracker, which reports the equity REIT industry’s Net Operating Income; and the Nareit Dividend Tracker, which monitors the dividends U.S. listed equity and mortgage REITs pay to their shareholders.
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Key Takeaways For Q2 2020
- Funds from operations (FFO) fell 21.7% from the first quarter, to $11.6 billion. This is $29.3% lower than the second quarter of 2019.
- Net operating income (NOI) totaled $21.0 billion, 12.3% lower than the prior quarter and 15,6% below one year earlier.
- Dividends paid by equity REITs totaled $11.5 billion, and dividends paid by mREITs totaled $1.7 billion. The $13.1 billion overall dividends paid was 9.6% lower than in the second quarter of 2019.
- Occupancy rates were 89.9%, down 290 basis points from the prior quarter.
- The ratio of debt to total book assets was 50.8%, little changed from the prior quarter. Leverage ratios are far below the 58.3% during the financial crisis of 2008, as REITs raised billions of dollars of equity capital over the past decade.
- The weighted average interest coverage ratio declined from 4.1x in Q1 to 3.4x in Q2. Coverage ratios remain well above the 2.6x during the financial crisis in 2008.
“The sharp decline in REIT earnings reflects the record contraction in GDP in the second quarter. Economic activity hit bottom in April, however, and began rebounding over the past four months,” said Calvin Schnure, Nareit senior economist. “In fact, retail sales in July had already risen above pre-pandemic levels, which should bolster the revenues of Retail REITs during the third quarter.”
Disclaimer
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