Elevated Provision Expense and Credit Quality in Franchise and Small Business Portfolios
Third consecutive quarter of increased provision expense and nonperforming loans, particularly in franchise finance and small business lending portfolios.
Overall industry nonperforming loan ratio remains at 1%, with delinquencies improving to 62 basis points, a 15 basis point decline.
Franchise finance loans moved to nonperforming status totaling $12.6 million in Q2, with specific reserves of $4.5 million.
Portfolio of 633 loans, with 5% on nonaccrual, and recent success in workout strategies leading to improved recovery rates.
Significant progress in derisking the franchise portfolio, with a small pool of delinquent borrowers and slowing delinquencies, indicating potential for future improvement.
Cash NOI was lower primarily due to a one-time PENN 1 ground rent true-up payment and free rent associated with backfilling known move-outs.
Generated $1.5 billion of net proceeds from sales, financings, and the NYU deal, paid down $965 million of debt, and increased cash by $540 million, resulting in cash balances of $1.36 billion and total liquidity of $2.9 billion.
Lower net interest income from retail preferred repayments and lower NOI from asset sales were offset by lower real estate taxes at THE MART net of tenant reimbursements.
Net debt-to-EBITDA improved by 1.4 turns to 7.2x from 8.6x, and fixed charge coverage ratio is steadily rising.
New York office occupancy increased to 86.7% from 84.4% last quarter, mainly due to the full building master lease at 770 Broadway.
Second quarter comparable FFO was $0.56 per share, beating analyst consensus of $0.53 and essentially flat compared to last year's second quarter.