“The vast majority of our portfolio is positioned to support a significant inflation-based increase in cash rents for 2023,” said Edward K. Aldag, Jr., Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer. “On the other hand, our initial outlook for this year contemplates a conservative scenario due to the underperformance of Prospect’s Pennsylvania hospitals that we first communicated over a year ago, as well as the process by which we expect to recover our full investment in Prospect’s Pennsylvania and Connecticut hospitals.”
Included in the financial tables accompanying this press release is information about the Company’s assets and liabilities, net income, and reconciliations of net income to NFFO and AFFO, including per share amounts, all on a basis comparable to 2021 results, as well as a reconciliation of total assets to total adjusted gross assets.
PORTFOLIO UPDATE
In December, MPT acquired for £233 million six of the largest, highest acuity, most profitable and best-known Priory inpatient behavioral health facilities, comprising 374 beds in the vicinity of London, Manchester and Bristol in the United Kingdom. The third-party seller of the real estate provided MPT roughly £105 million in attractive seller financing, and MPT assumed the in-place lease at an attractive cash yield, with inflation-based rent escalators and more than 20 years of remaining lease term. The merged Priory and MEDIAN platforms are expected to continue to source select attractive real estate opportunities.
MPT plans to reallocate capital away from real estate leased to Prospect through the previously announced sale, predominantly for cash, of its Connecticut hospitals later this year, as well as by exercising lease provisions entitling it to the significant value embedded in Prospect’s managed care platform. In order for this to occur, 12 to 18 months is necessary to allow for Prospect to recapitalize and prepare its managed care business for sale or recapitalization.
The Company has total assets of approximately $19.7 billion, including $13.4 billion of general acute care hospitals, $2.7 billion of behavioral health facilities, $1.4 billion of inpatient rehabilitation facilities, $0.3 billion of long-term acute care hospitals, and $0.2 billion of freestanding emergency room and urgent care properties. MPT’s portfolio includes 444 properties and approximately 44,000 licensed beds across the United States as well as in the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Germany, Australia, Spain, Finland, Colombia, Italy and Portugal. The properties are leased to or mortgaged by 55 hospital operating companies.
OPERATING RESULTS AND OUTLOOK
Operating results for the fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 2022 were a net loss of ($140) million (($0.24) per diluted share) and net income of $903 million ($1.50 per diluted share), respectively, compared to net income of $207 million ($0.34 per diluted share) and $656 million ($1.11 per diluted share) in the year earlier periods.
NFFO for the fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 2022 was $258 million ($0.43 per diluted share) and $1,088 million ($1.82 per diluted share), respectively, compared to $279 million ($0.47 per diluted share) and $1,036 million ($1.75 per diluted share) in the year earlier periods
The Company is introducing initial 2023 calendar estimates of per share net income and NFFO of $0.83 to $0.98 and $1.50 to $1.65, respectively. At their high-end, the ranges reflect management’s base case expectation that certain amounts are recovered from Prospect and recognized as revenue in the second half of 2023, while their low-end accounts for the remote possibility that the entirety of this revenue is recognized subsequent to 2023. The estimates are based on an existing portfolio which includes the impact of binding disposition transactions and changes to lease terms but excludes expected future contributions from development and other capital projects, the possible future impact of deleveraging and other capital markets strategies.
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