The Company had an $850.0 million unsecured revolving credit facility, which was scheduled to expire in July 2008. This credit facility made available funds to both finance the purchase of properties and other investments and meet any short-term working capital requirements. As of September 30, 2007, there was $425.0 million outstanding under this credit facility.
During October 2007, the Company established a $1.5 billion unsecured U.S. revolving credit facility (the “U.S. Credit Facility”) with a group of banks, which is scheduled to expire in October 2011. This credit facility, which replaced the Company’s $850.0 million unsecured U.S. revolving facility, referred to above, has made available funds to finance general corporate purposes, including (i) property acquisitions, (ii) investments in the Company’s institutional management programs, (iii) development and redevelopment costs and (iv) any short-term working capital requirements. Interest on borrowings under the U.S. Credit Facility accrues at LIBOR plus 0.375% and fluctuates in accordance with changes in the Company’s senior debt ratings. As part of this U.S. Credit Facility, the Company has a competitive bid option whereby the Company may auction up to $750.0 million of its requested borrowings to the bank group. This competitive bid option provides the Company the opportunity to obtain pricing below the currently stated spread. A facility fee of 0.125% per annum is payable quarterly in arrears. As part of the U.S. Credit Facility, the Company has a $200.0 million sub-limit which provides it the opportunity to borrow in alternative currencies such as Pounds Sterling, Japanese Yen or Euros. Pursuant to the terms of the U.S. Credit Facility, the Company, among other things, is subject to covenants requiring the maintenance of (i) maximum leverage ratios on both secured and unsecured debt and (ii) minimum interest and fixed coverage ratios.
Additionally, the Company has a Canadian denominated (“CAD”) $250.0 million unsecured credit facility with a group of banks, which is scheduled to expire in March 2008. Proceeds from this facility are used for general corporate purposes including the funding of Canadian denominated investments. As of September 30, 2007, there was no outstanding balance under this credit facility.
The Company also has a Mexican Peso denominated (“MXP”) 500.0 million unsecured revolving credit facility, which is scheduled to expire in May 2008. Proceeds from this facility are used to fund peso denominated investments. As of September 30, 2007, there was no outstanding balance under this facility.
During August 2007, the Company obtained a $200.0 million unsecured term loan that bears interest at LIBOR plus 0.325%. The term loan was scheduled to mature on December 14, 2007. The Company utilized these proceeds to partially repay the outstanding balance on the Company’s U.S. revolving credit facility. As of September 30, 2007, there was $200.0 million outstanding under this term loan at an interest rate of 5.45% per annum. The term loan was fully repaid in October 2007.
The Company has a MTN program pursuant to which it may, from time-to-time, offer for sale its senior unsecured debt for any general corporate purposes, including (i) funding specific liquidity requirements in its business, including property acquisitions, development and redevelopment costs and (ii) managing the Company’s debt maturities.
During April 2007, the Company issued $300.0 million of ten-year Senior Unsecured Notes at an interest rate of 5.70% per annum payable semi-annually in arrears. These notes were sold at 99.984% of par value. Net proceeds from the issuance were approximately $297.8 million, after related transaction costs of approximately $2.2 million. The proceeds from this issuance were primarily used to repay a portion of the outstanding balance under the Company’s U.S. revolving credit facility and for general corporate purposes.
During the nine months ended September 30, 2007, the Company repaid its $30.0 million 7.46% fixed rate notes, which matured on May 20, 2007, its $55.0 million 5.75% fixed rate notes, which matured on June 29, 2007 and its $20.0 million 6.96% fixed rate notes which matured on July 16, 2007.
During May 2006, the Company filed a shelf registration statement on Form S-3ASR, which is effective for a term of three-years, for the future unlimited offerings, from time-to-time, of debt securities, preferred stock, depositary shares, common stock and common stock warrants.
During October 2007, the Company issued 18,400,000 Depositary Shares (the “Class G Depositary Shares”), after the exercise of an over-allotment option, each representing a one-hundredth fractional interest in a share of the Company’s 7.75% Class G Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Stock, par value $1.00 per share (the “Class G Preferred Stock”). Dividends on the Class G Depositary Shares are cumulative and payable quarterly in arrears at the rate of 7.75% per annum based on the $25.00 per share initial offering price, or $1.9375 per annum. The Class G Depositary Shares are redeemable, in whole or part, for cash on or after October 10, 2012 at the option of the Company, at a redemption price of $25.00 per depositary share, plus any accrued and unpaid dividends thereon. The Class G Depositary Shares are not convertible or exchangeable for any other property or securities of the Company. Net proceeds from the sale of the Class G Depositary Shares, totaling approximately $444.5 million (after related transaction costs of $15.5 million) will be used for general corporate purposes, which may include funding property acquisitions, investments in the Company’s institutional management programs and other investment activities. The Company also used a portion of the proceeds to partially repay amounts outstanding under its U.S. revolving credit facility.
In addition to the public equity and debt markets as capital sources, the Company may, from time-to-time, obtain mortgage financing on selected properties and construction loans to partially fund the capital needs of its ground-up development projects. As of September 30, 2007, the Company had over 395 unencumbered property interests in its portfolio.
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In connection with its intention to continue to qualify as a REIT for federal income tax purposes, the Company expects to continue paying regular dividends to its stockholders. These dividends will be paid from operating cash flows, which are expected to increase due to property acquisitions, growth in operating income in the existing portfolio and from other investments. Since cash used to pay dividends reduces amounts available for capital investment, the Company generally intends to maintain a conservative dividend payout ratio, reserving such amounts as it considers necessary for the expansion and renovation of shopping centers in its portfolio, debt reduction, the acquisition of interests in new properties and other investments as suitable opportunities arise and such other factors as the Board of Directors considers appropriate.
Although the Company receives substantially all of its rental payments on a monthly basis, it generally intends to continue paying dividends quarterly. Amounts accumulated in advance of each quarterly distribution will be invested by the Company in short-term money market or other suitable instruments. Cash dividends paid for the nine months ended September 30, 2007 and 2006 were $280.5 million and $242.8 million, respectively. The Company's Board of Directors declared a quarterly dividend of $0.40 per common share payable to shareholders of record on October 3, 2007, which was paid on October 15, 2007.
Other Commitments
In June 2006, the FASB issued Financial Interpretation No. 48, “Accounting for Uncertainty in Income Taxes” (“FIN 48”), which clarifies the accounting for uncertainty in income taxes recognized in a company’s financial statements in accordance with FASB Statement No. 109, “Accounting for Income Taxes”. The interpretation prescribes a recognition threshold and measurement attribute criteria for the financial statement recognition and measurement of a tax position taken or expected to be taken in a tax return. The interpretation also provides guidance on de-recognition, classification, interest and penalties, accounting in interim periods, disclosure and transition.
The Company adopted the provisions of FIN 48 on January 1, 2007. The Company does not have any material unrecognized tax benefits, therefore the adoption of FIN 48 did not have a material impact on the Company’s financial position or results of operations.
During June 2007, the Company entered into a non-controlling joint venture to acquire all of the common stock of InTown Suites Management, Inc. This investment was funded with approximately $186.0 million of new cross-collateralized non-recourse mortgage debt with an interest rate of 5.59%, encumbering 35 properties, a $153.0 million three-year unsecured credit facility, which bears interest at LIBOR plus 0.325% and is guaranteed by the Company and the assumption of $278.6 million cross-collateralized non-recourse mortgage debt with interest rates ranging from 5.19% to 5.89%, encumbering 86 properties. The
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joint venture partner has pledged its equity interest for any guaranty payment the Company is obligated to pay. The outstanding balance on the three-year unsecured credit facility was $149.0 million as of September 30, 2007.
Effects of Inflation
Many of the Company’s leases contain provisions designed to mitigate the adverse impact of inflation. Such provisions include clauses enabling the Company to receive payment of additional rent calculated as a percentage of tenants’ gross sales above pre-determined thresholds, which generally increase as prices rise, and/or escalation clauses, which generally increase rental rates during the terms of the leases. Such escalation clauses may include increases based upon changes in the consumer price index or similar inflation indices. In addition, many of the Company’s leases are for ten years or less, which permits the Company to seek to increase rents to market rates upon renewal. Most of the Company’s leases require the tenant to pay an allocable share of operating expenses, including common area maintenance costs, real estate taxes and insurance, thereby reducing the Company’s exposure to increases in costs and operating expenses resulting from inflation. The Company periodically evaluates its exposure to short-term interest rates and foreign currency exchange rates and will, from time to time, enter into interest rate protection agreements and/or foreign currency hedge agreements which mitigate, but do not eliminate, the effect of changes in interest rates on its floating-rate debt and fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates.
Item 3. | Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures about Market Risk |
The Company’s primary market risk exposure is interest rate risk and fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rate risk. The following table presents the Company’s aggregate fixed rate and variable rate domestic and foreign debt obligations outstanding as of September 30, 2007, with corresponding weighted-average interest rates sorted by maturity date. The information is presented in U.S. dollar equivalents, which is the Company’s reporting currency. The instruments actual cash flows are denominated in U.S. dollars and Canadian dollars, as indicated by geographic description ($ in USD equivalent in thousands).
| 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012+ | Total | Fair Value |
U.S Dollar Denominated Secured Debt Fixed Rate | - | $89,850 | $71,221 | $18,232 | $45,510 | $306,407 | $531,220 | $550,263 |
Average Interest Rate | - | 7.18% | 6.78% | 8.47% | 7.43% | 6.40% | 6.74% | |
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Variable Rate | $24,393 | $120,346 | $85,962 | $35,959 | - | $402 | $267,062 | $267,062 |
Average Interest Rate | 7.31% | 7.21% | 7.13% | 7.18% | - | 7.75% | 7.19% | |
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Unsecured Debt Fixed Rate | $145,000 | $125,379 | $180,000 | $76,163 | $361,108 | $1,745,262 | $2,632,912 | $2,621,845 |
Average Interest Rate | 7.09% | 4.61% | 6.98% | 5.54% | 6.35% | 5.54% | 5.79% | |
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Variable Rate | $202,582 | $425,000 | - | $5,780 | - | - | $633,362 | $633,362 |
Average Interest Rate | 5.47% | 5.59% | - | 7.99% | - | - | 5.50% | |
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Canadian Dollar Denominated | | | | | | | | |
Unsecured Debt Fixed Rate | - | - | - | $150,822 | - | $201,096 | $351,918 | $346,760 |
Average Interest Rate | - | - | - | 4.45% | - | 5.18% | 4.87% | |
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Based on the Company’s variable-rate debt balances, interest expense would have increased by approximately $6.8 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2007 if short-term interest rates were 1% higher.
As of September 30, 2007, the Company had (i) Canadian investments totaling CAD $476.8 million (approximately USD $479.4 million) comprised of real estate joint venture investments and marketable securities, (ii) Mexican real estate investments of approximately MXP 6.6 billion (approximately USD $606.6 million) and (iii) Chilean real estate investments of approximately 1.6 billion Chilean Pesos (“CLP”) (approximately USD $3.0 million). The foreign currency exchange risk has been partially mitigated through the use of local currency denominated debt and a cross currency swap (the “CC Swap”) with major financial institutions. The Company is exposed to credit risk in the event of non-performance by the counter-party to the CC Swap. The Company believes it mitigated its credit risk by entering into the CC Swap with major financial institutions.
The Company has not, and does not plan to, enter into any derivative financial instruments for trading or speculative purposes. As of September 30, 2007, the Company had no other material exposure to market risk.
Item 4. | Controls and Procedures |
The Company’s management, with the participation of the Company’s chief executive officer and chief financial officer, has evaluated the effectiveness of the Company’s disclosure controls and procedures (as such term is defined in Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”)) as of the end of the period covered by this report. Based on such evaluation, the Company’s chief executive officer and chief financial officer have concluded that, as of the end of such period, the Company’s disclosure controls and procedures are effective in recording, processing, summarizing and reporting, on a timely basis, information required to be disclosed by the Company in the reports that
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it files or submits under the Exchange Act and were accumulated and communicated to management, including the Company’s chief executive officer and chief financial officer, to allow timely decisions regarding disclosures.
There have not been any changes in the Company’s internal control over financial reporting (as such term is defined in Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f) under the Exchange Act) during the fiscal quarter to which this report relates that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, the Company’s internal control over financial reporting.
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PART II
OTHER INFORMATION
The Company is not presently involved in any litigation, nor to its knowledge is any litigation threatened against the Company or its subsidiaries, that in management’s opinion, would result in any material adverse effect on the Company’s ownership, management or operation of its properties taken as a whole, or which is not covered by the Company’s liability insurance.
Item 2. | Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities and Use of Proceeds |
Item 3. | Defaults upon Senior Securities |
Item 4. | Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders |
None.
| 4.1 Agreement to File Instruments |
Kimco Realty Corporation (the “Registrant”) hereby agrees to file with the Securities and Exchange Commission, upon request of the Commission, all instruments defining the rights of holders of long-term debt of the Registrant and its consolidated subsidiaries, and for any of its unconsolidated subsidiaries for which financial statements are required to be filed, and for which the total amount of securities authorized there under does not exceed 10 percent of the total assets of the Registrant and its subsidiaries on a consolidated basis.
| 12.1 Computation of Ratio of Earnings to Fixed Charges |
| 12.2 Computation of Ratio of Earnings to Combined Fixed Charges and Preferred Stock Dividends |
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31.1 Certification of the Company’s Chief Executive Officer, Milton Cooper, pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
31.2 Certification of the Company’s Chief Financial Officer, Michael V. Pappagallo, pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
32.1 Certification of the Company’s Chief Executive Officer, Milton Cooper, and the Company’s Chief Financial Officer, Michael V. Pappagallo, pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
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SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned thereunto duly authorized.
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November 5, 2007
| | | /s/ Milton Cooper |
(Date) | | | Milton Cooper Chairman of the Board |
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November 5, 2007
| | | /s/ Michael V. Pappagallo |
(Date) | | | Michael V. Pappagallo Chief Financial Officer |
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