Community Healthcare Trust Q4 Earnings Call Highlights

Community Healthcare Trust (NYSE:CHCT) executives utilized the company’s fourth-quarter league telephone to sermon portfolio leasing trends, superior recycling activity, and the presumption of a cardinal tenant concern involving a geriatric behavioral infirmary operator. Management besides reviewed quarterly fiscal results, including gross maturation and funds from operations metrics.

CEO Dave Dupuy said a geriatric behavioral infirmary relation that leases six properties from the institution paid rent of $200,000 during the 4th quarter, accordant with the anterior quarter. The tenant signed a missive of intent connected July 17, 2025 to merchantability the operations of each six hospitals to an “experienced behavioral healthcare operator” and remains nether exclusivity with that buyer.

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Dupuy said Community Healthcare Trust has maintained predominant connection with the purchaser arsenic it works to beforehand the transaction. The purchaser is finalizing ineligible and concern owed diligence, and the institution did not supply circumstantial timing oregon certainty that the merchantability volition close.

In effect to a question from Piper Sandler’s Connor Mitchell, Dupuy said advancement successful the 4th fourth was “not arsenic much” arsenic hoped, citing the buyer’s request to corroborate liabilities and enactment done government-related issues. He added that enactment accrued successful the archetypal quarter, including tract visits and documentation work. Dupuy said the anticipation remains that the transaction would adjacent for each six hospitals astatine once, with nary plans for a staged closing.

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Dupuy said occupancy accrued to 90.6% successful the 4th fourth from 90.1% successful the anterior quarter. He added that the leasing squad has been progressive with renewals and caller leasing, and that the weighted mean lease word accrued to seven years from 6.7 years.

Management besides discussed redevelopment and renovation projects. Dupuy said the institution has three properties undergoing redevelopment oregon important renovations, with semipermanent tenants lined up erstwhile enactment is complete. The largest task is expected to beryllium completed successful the second 4th of 2026, with rent expected to commencement successful the third quarter aft the tenant receives the due supplier license.

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On the outlook for leased occupancy, Dupuy told Truist’s Michael Lewis that the institution has seen beardown leasing activity, but that terminations toward the extremity of past twelvemonth volition instrumentality clip to re-lease and go “economic.” He said helium expects occupancy to stay successful the “low nineties” for the adjacent mates of quarters, with momentum perchance gathering successful the 2nd fractional of the year.