Starwood Property (STWD) Earnings Call Transcript

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Wed, February 25, 2026 astatine 11:00 AM CST 55 min read

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Feb. 25, 2026 astatine 10 a.m. ET

• Chief Financial Officer — Rina Paniry

• President — Jeffrey F. DiModica

• Chairman and Chief Executive Officer — Barry Stuart Sternlicht

• Head of Infrastructure Lending — Sean Murdock

Rina Paniry: Thank you, Zach, and bully morning, everyone. Today, we reported distributable net of $160 million, oregon $0.42 per share, for the 4th quarter. While our reported results bespeak the timing of superior deployment and equilibrium expanse optimization initiatives, our underlying net powerfulness continues to build. Importantly, we exited 2025 with enhanced liquidity and embedded net from this year’s investments and unfunded commitments, each of which volition progressively lend successful 2026, with our dividend sum expected to amended steadily passim the year. Our quarterly results were impacted by impermanent timing issues, adjusted for which DE would person been $0.49.

The archetypal is our newest nett lease cylinder, which connected a run-rate ground would person contributed $0.06 of incremental DE to the 4th but alternatively contributed $0.03. We anticipated this dilution astatine acquisition knowing that we would person near-term transportation from superior raised and determination would beryllium a timing spread portion we ramped acquisitions and optimized the platform’s superior structure. As Jeff volition sermon further, we person made advancement towards these initiatives and expect to spot reduced dilution going forward. As a reminder, the weighted mean lease word of this portfolio is 17.3 years, with occupancy of 100% and 2.3% yearly rent escalations. The 2nd timing contented was higher-than-normal currency balances, which led to $0.04 of reduced earnings.

We completed 3 securitizations successful the quarter, 1 successful each of commercialized lending, infrastructure lending, and nett lease, that combined created incremental proceeds of $290 million. We besides continued to displacement secured indebtedness to unsecured debt, issuing $1.1 cardinal of precocious output successful the quarter, and executed a takeout refinancing connected portion of our affordable multifamily portfolio, which generated currency of $240 cardinal successful precocious September and October. All of this currency volition yet beryllium a root of incremental DE arsenic it gets deployed into caller investments crossed our diversified cylinders. Stepping backmost to the afloat year, we reported DE of $616 million, oregon $1.69 per share.

As we continued the taxable of proactive superior repositioning, we had impermanent reductions to net of $0.14 this twelvemonth resulting from our $4.4 cardinal of equity, unsecured debt, and word indebtedness issuances, on with our caller $2.2 cardinal nett lease acquisition. DE adjusted for these timing issues and the $0.12 realized nonaccomplishment we recorded upon merchantability of a foreclosed plus earlier this twelvemonth was $1.95 versus our full-year dividend of $1.92. Given our enhanced net powerfulness arsenic a effect of this year’s strategical transactions, and arsenic we proceed connected our way to resolving our nonaccrual and REO assets, we spot a wide enactment of show to net that screen our dividend, a dividend that we person ne'er cut.