The Internal Revenue Service knew R. Allen Stanford was taking loans from his Antigua bank and found nothing wrong with the arrangement, the Texas tycoon’s tax lawyer testified at Stanford’s fraud trial Tuesday.
“The IRS always treated those as loans to Mr. Stanford,” said Larry Campagna, who represented Stanford in personal and business tax disputes with the IRS in 1998 and again in 2003.
The IRS did change its position, however, about the correct way to characterize payments from Stanford to his Houston-based Stanford Financial Group, the parent company of Stanford’s scores of business operations. He was sole owner of Stanford Financial and its subsidiaries.
Although the tax agency ruled that those should be listed as loans on 1998 tax returns, it said the payments should be recorded on 2001 and 2002 returns as dividend payments to Stanford, Campagna said.
Defense attorney Robert Scardino asked Campagna if anything about the returns prompted the IRS to ask criminal investigators to initiate a fraud probe.
“No,” Campagna said before he was dismissed from the witness stand.
Stanford, a native of Mexia, is accused of leading a fraud that prosecutors allege took $7 billion from clients who bought certificates of deposit in Stanford’s bank in Antigua. They were led to believe their money was invested conservatively, according to prosecution testimony, while much of it really went to personal loans to Stanford for his pet business projects and luxurious life.
Two other defense witnesses testified Monday. However, U.S. District Judge David Hittner decided Stanford’s coughing from an apparent cold needed medical attention and stopped the trial early.
Osvaldo Pi, an accountant who went to work in 2001 for Stanford Venture Capital, spent much of his time on the stand explaining venture capital, private equity and other financial terms to jurors.
Private equity firms often seek investments, on their own behalf or for well-heeled clients, in ventures that aren’t publicly traded and seek to raise capital by selling ownership shares. Private equity firms also may arrange buyout deals that take public companies private.
Pi said his job included identifying investment opportunities for Stanford Venture Capital, and that it raised millions of dollars for companies Pi and others vetted for risk and potential.
In the trial’s fifth week, the defense is attempting to show that Stanford was interested in legitimate investments, that he was consolidating his companies to make them more manageable and that the companies would have remained solvent if the U.S. government hadn’t filed a fraud suit and shut them down in February 2009.
Pi testified that the receiver who took over the assets of Stanford Financial Group and its subsidiaries didn’t seem interested in pursuing investments that remained viable, but in liquidating the companies’ assets. He said he stayed with the firm for seven months after it went into receivership.
Karen Pittman, a librarian for Andrew College, a private junior college in Georgia, testified that Stanford hired her to research whether he was related to Leland Stanford, founder of Stanford University in California. Stanford touted the relationship in his promotional brochures although university officials deny any kinship.
Pittman said she found a common relative, but after two years of research could not say for sure that Leland Stanford and Allen Stanford were related.
Defense witnesses have portrayed Stanford as the company visionary who left details to others – notably Chief Financial Officer James Davis. Davis pleaded guilty to three felony charges and testified that he and Stanford knowingly misled investors and misused their money.
Stanford and others were indicted in June 2009. He has been held without bail as a possible flight risk since his arrest that month.
Three other Stanford executives indicted separately and scheduled for trial later are free on bail, and an Antiguan regulator accused of taking bribes is fighting extradition from that Caribbean nation. Davis was charged separately in connection with his guilty plea and is cooperating with the government.
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2012年2月23日星期四
Neighborhood Credit Union Breaks Ground in Grand Prairie, Expects to Serve Community by October
Grand Prairie, Texas (PRWEB) February 22, 2012
Great things are happening in Grand Prairie, according to Neighborhood Credit Union, which broke ground this morning on its new location in Grand Prairie.
“We are excited to be in Grand Prairie today to mark the official launch of a new branch that will be ready to serve the people of this community in the next few months,” said Gerald Townsend, Chairman of the Board for Neighborhood Credit Union.
The new branch, at the intersection of West Bardin Road and Great Southwest Parkway, is due to open October 1, 2012. The Neighborhood Credit Union not only will provide a better way of banking to the Grand Prairie community, but also will focus on engaging students at nearby schools to establish a firm financial foundation for their future.
“Our mission is to build financial relationships in your neighborhood,” said Townsend. “We are not another big bank simply pushing products and services. We are a not-for-profit credit union that wants to help people from all walks of life improve their own financial life.”
Chet Kimmell, president and CEO of Neighborhood Credit Union, said the credit union hopes to be a draw to other businesses looking at or locating in Grand Prairie.
“This groundbreaking is symbolic of what we hope will be a trend: the decision by companies and organizations to invest in Grand Prairie and be part of this neighborhood,” said Kimmell. “We believe Grand Prairie is going places, given its forward-thinking leadership and the community’s focus on growth and economic development.”
Neighborhood Credit Union board members and staff were joined by State Rep. Rodney Anderson; Grand Prairie City Council members Bill Thorn and Richard Fregoe; City Manager Tom Hart; Gail Cannon, District Director for State Rep. Barbara Nash; Grand Prairie Chamber of Commerce officials Bill Moser and Greg Cashman, and other business leaders.
About Neighborhood Credit Union
Neighborhood Credit Union, the oldest credit union in Dallas (chartered April 18, 1930), is a not-for-profit financial organization serving Dallas and Ellis counties, as well as the city of Arlington. With branches in South Dallas, North Dallas, Richardson, Arlington, Mesquite, Duncanville, Waxahachie and Lancaster (and soon to be in Grand Prairie) and assets topping $300 million, Neighborhood Credit Union has a membership of 30,000 and continues to welcome new members daily. For more information on Neighborhood Credit Union, call (214) 748-9393 or visit http://www.myncu.com/.
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Great things are happening in Grand Prairie, according to Neighborhood Credit Union, which broke ground this morning on its new location in Grand Prairie.
“We are excited to be in Grand Prairie today to mark the official launch of a new branch that will be ready to serve the people of this community in the next few months,” said Gerald Townsend, Chairman of the Board for Neighborhood Credit Union.
The new branch, at the intersection of West Bardin Road and Great Southwest Parkway, is due to open October 1, 2012. The Neighborhood Credit Union not only will provide a better way of banking to the Grand Prairie community, but also will focus on engaging students at nearby schools to establish a firm financial foundation for their future.
“Our mission is to build financial relationships in your neighborhood,” said Townsend. “We are not another big bank simply pushing products and services. We are a not-for-profit credit union that wants to help people from all walks of life improve their own financial life.”
Chet Kimmell, president and CEO of Neighborhood Credit Union, said the credit union hopes to be a draw to other businesses looking at or locating in Grand Prairie.
“This groundbreaking is symbolic of what we hope will be a trend: the decision by companies and organizations to invest in Grand Prairie and be part of this neighborhood,” said Kimmell. “We believe Grand Prairie is going places, given its forward-thinking leadership and the community’s focus on growth and economic development.”
Neighborhood Credit Union board members and staff were joined by State Rep. Rodney Anderson; Grand Prairie City Council members Bill Thorn and Richard Fregoe; City Manager Tom Hart; Gail Cannon, District Director for State Rep. Barbara Nash; Grand Prairie Chamber of Commerce officials Bill Moser and Greg Cashman, and other business leaders.
About Neighborhood Credit Union
Neighborhood Credit Union, the oldest credit union in Dallas (chartered April 18, 1930), is a not-for-profit financial organization serving Dallas and Ellis counties, as well as the city of Arlington. With branches in South Dallas, North Dallas, Richardson, Arlington, Mesquite, Duncanville, Waxahachie and Lancaster (and soon to be in Grand Prairie) and assets topping $300 million, Neighborhood Credit Union has a membership of 30,000 and continues to welcome new members daily. For more information on Neighborhood Credit Union, call (214) 748-9393 or visit http://www.myncu.com/.
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2012年2月7日星期二
Private-Equity Lobbying Helped Protect Romney’s Tax Benefits
February 07, 2012, 7:18 AM EST
By Steven Sloan
Feb. 7 (Bloomberg) — The largest U.S. private-equity funds and venture capital firms have relied on a five-year, multimillion-dollar lobbying campaign to protect the carried interest tax break that helped drive presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s 2010 effective tax rate below 14 percent.
With the issue gaining attention in this year’s U.S. presidential election campaign, the investment industry is again girding to defend its preferential tax treatment. Blackstone Group LP alone spent $5 million in 2011 lobbying Congress on issues including the tax treatment of carried interest.
“If anything preserves the status quo, it will be the very heavy lobbying campaign,” said Edward Kleinbard, a law professor at the University of Southern California. “There’s no other reason for the subsidy to survive.”
Opponents of the tax rate for carried interest see this as an opportunity to press for change. Romney released his 2010 tax returns on Jan. 24, revealing he paid an effective tax rate of 13.9 percent on income of $21.6 million.
Romney, a former Republican governor of Massachusetts and co-founder of Bain Capital LLC, has come to personify the debate over whether the carried interest paid to private-equity managers should be taxed at the capital gains rate of 15 percent while ordinary income is taxed at rates as high as 35 percent.
Tax Fairness Debate
Democrats view the carried interest issue as an element of the tax fairness theme that President Barack Obama is highlighting in his re-election campaign. Representative Sander Levin of Michigan, the top Democrat on the House Ways and Means Committee, plans to introduce a bill as soon as this week that would tax carried interest at the same rate as regular income, according to spokesman Josh Drobnyk. The bill probably won’t advance in the Republican-controlled chamber this year.
Carried interest is the profits-based compensation that private-equity managers, real estate investors and members of oil and gas partnerships often receive. They get a portion of their clients’ earnings as investment income if the underlying earnings are treated that way. Levin and Obama call carried interest compensation for work, which they say should be viewed like wages for tax purposes.
Private-equity firms invested more than $148 billion in 1,234 U.S.-based companies in 2010, according to the Private Equity Growth Capital Council. The industry says it employs more than 8 million people.
Washington Lobbyists
Companies opposed to changing the tax treatment of carried interest have hired veteran Washington lobbyists to make their case. Wayne Berman of Ogilvy Government Relations is Blackstone’s top lobbyist on the issue. He was an assistant commerce secretary during George H.W. Bush’s administration. Other Ogilvy lobbyists working for Blackstone include Drew Maloney, who was a staffer for former House Majority Whip Tom DeLay, a Texas Republican, and Moses Mercado, the former House Democratic Leader Richard Gephardt’s deputy chief of staff.
Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. hired former Representative Vic Fazio, a California Democrat, to work with Congress on “tax issues affecting private-equity firms and their portfolio companies,” according to lobbying records. The New York-based private-equity company spent $150,000 in the fourth quarter on lobbyists from Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld to work on issues that included tax policy.
Bain spent $80,000 during the fourth quarter to hire lobbyists from Public Strategies Washington Inc. to “monitor tax reform developments,” lobbying records show. Joseph O’Neill and Paul Snyder are lobbying for Romney’s former company.
O’Neill was chief of staff to former Senate Finance Committee Chairman Lloyd Bentsen and helped run the late Texas Democrat’s 1988 vice presidential bid. Snyder was a legislative assistant to former House Speaker Tip O’Neill, the late Massachusetts Democrat.
Budget Deficit
Raising taxes on carried interest compensation wouldn’t do much to narrow the U.S. budget deficit. In its fiscal 2012 budget request, the Obama administration said the proposal to tax carried interest as ordinary income would generate $14.8 billion over 10 years. In December, the deficit stood at almost $1.3 trillion.
The issue has divided Congress along mostly partisan lines. The last time the Senate considered a bill that would have increased taxes on carried interest — in June 2010 — every Republican voted against it, preventing the bill from advancing. Senator Ben Nelson of Nebraska was the only Democrat to oppose the legislation.
Few Defections
The same bill was passed in the House that year with 15 lawmakers in each party voting against their leaders.
As the debate over carried-interest taxation advanced in Congress, the Private Equity Growth Capital Council was formed in February 2007 so the industry could make its case more directly to lawmakers.
The group, whose members include the Carlyle Group LP, based in Washington, and New York-based Blackstone spent about $2.5 million that year lobbying Congress on issues that included measures to tax carried interest at the same rate as ordinary income. It spent $2.2 million on lobbying in 2011.
“We believe that tax policy should incentivize the kind of entrepreneurial risk-taking that private-equity firms take every day,” said Ken Spain, a spokesman for the Private Equity Growth Capital Council, a trade group based in Washington. “We remain vigilant in respect to this issue. Private equity as an asset class is going to be a topic of discussion throughout 2012.”
Spain is a former communications director for the National Republican Congressional Committee.
Comprehensive Overhaul
While the issue will be a central one in the presidential campaign and on Capitol Hill, the taxation of carried interest probably won’t change until Congress considers a comprehensive tax-code overhaul. That would be difficult to enact before 2013.
One potential challenge for private equity is something that otherwise would be seen as a favorable development for the industry: a Romney administration. Ending the preferential treatment of capital gains if Romney wins the presidency could dissolve notions that he is a captive to his former industry, said Martin Sullivan, a contributing editor at Tax Analysts, a nonprofit organization in Falls Church, Virginia.
“It will be much easier to repeal if Mitt Romney becomes president than if Mr. Obama remains president,” he said.
Still, Romney adviser Eric Fehrnstrom told reporters last month that the Republican presidential candidate thinks carried interest should be taxed at the same rate as a capital gain. The candidate has proposed eliminating the tax on capital gains for those with adjusted gross incomes of less than $200,000 a year.
‘Convoluted’ Code
Private-equity executives also rely on fairness arguments to make their case. In a Jan. 27 appearance on Bloomberg Television, Steve Pagliuca, the managing partner of Bain Capital, said the tax code is “convoluted” and “almost unintelligible.”
“We’ve got to have a fair tax code,” he said. “We don’t wake up every day saying ‘Well, what’s the tax code?’ We wake up trying to build great businesses and we pay all of the taxes that are necessary.”
Mark Heesen, president of the National Venture Capital Association, an industry trade group based in Arlington, Virginia, said his industry often reminds lawmakers of its differences from other investors such as private-equity firms. Venture capital firms typically invest in early-stage companies and don’t use as much leverage as private-equity investors do.
Creating Something
“We are able to demonstrate our belief that quintessential capital gains are all about creating something out of nothing,” he said. “That’s what venture capital does.”
Heesen said his message to Congress is that it’s important to maintain the link between carried interest and capital gains, even if the capital gains tax rate increases. Unless Congress acts, such gains will be taxed at 20 percent in 2013. High earners will face an additional 3.8 percent tax on capital gains and other unearned income as part of the 2010 health-care law.
On the other side of the issue is the AFL-CIO, which has lobbied in favor of changing how carried interest is taxed, and is prepared to do so again. Damon Silvers, the policy director for the labor organization in Washington, called the treatment of carried interest a “tax subsidy for leveraged buyouts.”
“We are going to be pressing the carried interest issue at whatever opportunity we get,” he said. “Mitt Romney’s tax returns are the world’s greatest educational tool about the impact of the carried-interest loophole.”
The AFL-CIO spent $1.1 million in 2007 to lobby Congress on issues that included a Senate bill to raise taxes on carried interest.
Lobbying on the carried-interest debate is only part of the reason the tax break has survived, said David Donnelly, the national campaigns director at the Public Campaign Action Fund, a Washington nonprofit group that tracks political contributions. Investors who are paid in carried interest are often the well-heeled donors that members of both parties turn to for campaign contributions, he said.
“I don’t think it’s simply the lobbying,” Donnelly said. “The people who are interested in this particular provision are high net-worth individuals. That’s a constituency that Congress always cares about when they have to raise money to fund their campaigns.”
–With assistance from Richard Rubin in Washington and Cristina Alesci in New York. Editors: Jodi Schneider, Robin Meszoly
To contact the reporter on this story: Steven Sloan in Washington at ssloan7@bloomberg.net
To contact the editor responsible for this story: Jodi Schneider at jschneider50@bloomberg.net
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By Steven Sloan
Feb. 7 (Bloomberg) — The largest U.S. private-equity funds and venture capital firms have relied on a five-year, multimillion-dollar lobbying campaign to protect the carried interest tax break that helped drive presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s 2010 effective tax rate below 14 percent.
With the issue gaining attention in this year’s U.S. presidential election campaign, the investment industry is again girding to defend its preferential tax treatment. Blackstone Group LP alone spent $5 million in 2011 lobbying Congress on issues including the tax treatment of carried interest.
“If anything preserves the status quo, it will be the very heavy lobbying campaign,” said Edward Kleinbard, a law professor at the University of Southern California. “There’s no other reason for the subsidy to survive.”
Opponents of the tax rate for carried interest see this as an opportunity to press for change. Romney released his 2010 tax returns on Jan. 24, revealing he paid an effective tax rate of 13.9 percent on income of $21.6 million.
Romney, a former Republican governor of Massachusetts and co-founder of Bain Capital LLC, has come to personify the debate over whether the carried interest paid to private-equity managers should be taxed at the capital gains rate of 15 percent while ordinary income is taxed at rates as high as 35 percent.
Tax Fairness Debate
Democrats view the carried interest issue as an element of the tax fairness theme that President Barack Obama is highlighting in his re-election campaign. Representative Sander Levin of Michigan, the top Democrat on the House Ways and Means Committee, plans to introduce a bill as soon as this week that would tax carried interest at the same rate as regular income, according to spokesman Josh Drobnyk. The bill probably won’t advance in the Republican-controlled chamber this year.
Carried interest is the profits-based compensation that private-equity managers, real estate investors and members of oil and gas partnerships often receive. They get a portion of their clients’ earnings as investment income if the underlying earnings are treated that way. Levin and Obama call carried interest compensation for work, which they say should be viewed like wages for tax purposes.
Private-equity firms invested more than $148 billion in 1,234 U.S.-based companies in 2010, according to the Private Equity Growth Capital Council. The industry says it employs more than 8 million people.
Washington Lobbyists
Companies opposed to changing the tax treatment of carried interest have hired veteran Washington lobbyists to make their case. Wayne Berman of Ogilvy Government Relations is Blackstone’s top lobbyist on the issue. He was an assistant commerce secretary during George H.W. Bush’s administration. Other Ogilvy lobbyists working for Blackstone include Drew Maloney, who was a staffer for former House Majority Whip Tom DeLay, a Texas Republican, and Moses Mercado, the former House Democratic Leader Richard Gephardt’s deputy chief of staff.
Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. hired former Representative Vic Fazio, a California Democrat, to work with Congress on “tax issues affecting private-equity firms and their portfolio companies,” according to lobbying records. The New York-based private-equity company spent $150,000 in the fourth quarter on lobbyists from Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld to work on issues that included tax policy.
Bain spent $80,000 during the fourth quarter to hire lobbyists from Public Strategies Washington Inc. to “monitor tax reform developments,” lobbying records show. Joseph O’Neill and Paul Snyder are lobbying for Romney’s former company.
O’Neill was chief of staff to former Senate Finance Committee Chairman Lloyd Bentsen and helped run the late Texas Democrat’s 1988 vice presidential bid. Snyder was a legislative assistant to former House Speaker Tip O’Neill, the late Massachusetts Democrat.
Budget Deficit
Raising taxes on carried interest compensation wouldn’t do much to narrow the U.S. budget deficit. In its fiscal 2012 budget request, the Obama administration said the proposal to tax carried interest as ordinary income would generate $14.8 billion over 10 years. In December, the deficit stood at almost $1.3 trillion.
The issue has divided Congress along mostly partisan lines. The last time the Senate considered a bill that would have increased taxes on carried interest — in June 2010 — every Republican voted against it, preventing the bill from advancing. Senator Ben Nelson of Nebraska was the only Democrat to oppose the legislation.
Few Defections
The same bill was passed in the House that year with 15 lawmakers in each party voting against their leaders.
As the debate over carried-interest taxation advanced in Congress, the Private Equity Growth Capital Council was formed in February 2007 so the industry could make its case more directly to lawmakers.
The group, whose members include the Carlyle Group LP, based in Washington, and New York-based Blackstone spent about $2.5 million that year lobbying Congress on issues that included measures to tax carried interest at the same rate as ordinary income. It spent $2.2 million on lobbying in 2011.
“We believe that tax policy should incentivize the kind of entrepreneurial risk-taking that private-equity firms take every day,” said Ken Spain, a spokesman for the Private Equity Growth Capital Council, a trade group based in Washington. “We remain vigilant in respect to this issue. Private equity as an asset class is going to be a topic of discussion throughout 2012.”
Spain is a former communications director for the National Republican Congressional Committee.
Comprehensive Overhaul
While the issue will be a central one in the presidential campaign and on Capitol Hill, the taxation of carried interest probably won’t change until Congress considers a comprehensive tax-code overhaul. That would be difficult to enact before 2013.
One potential challenge for private equity is something that otherwise would be seen as a favorable development for the industry: a Romney administration. Ending the preferential treatment of capital gains if Romney wins the presidency could dissolve notions that he is a captive to his former industry, said Martin Sullivan, a contributing editor at Tax Analysts, a nonprofit organization in Falls Church, Virginia.
“It will be much easier to repeal if Mitt Romney becomes president than if Mr. Obama remains president,” he said.
Still, Romney adviser Eric Fehrnstrom told reporters last month that the Republican presidential candidate thinks carried interest should be taxed at the same rate as a capital gain. The candidate has proposed eliminating the tax on capital gains for those with adjusted gross incomes of less than $200,000 a year.
‘Convoluted’ Code
Private-equity executives also rely on fairness arguments to make their case. In a Jan. 27 appearance on Bloomberg Television, Steve Pagliuca, the managing partner of Bain Capital, said the tax code is “convoluted” and “almost unintelligible.”
“We’ve got to have a fair tax code,” he said. “We don’t wake up every day saying ‘Well, what’s the tax code?’ We wake up trying to build great businesses and we pay all of the taxes that are necessary.”
Mark Heesen, president of the National Venture Capital Association, an industry trade group based in Arlington, Virginia, said his industry often reminds lawmakers of its differences from other investors such as private-equity firms. Venture capital firms typically invest in early-stage companies and don’t use as much leverage as private-equity investors do.
Creating Something
“We are able to demonstrate our belief that quintessential capital gains are all about creating something out of nothing,” he said. “That’s what venture capital does.”
Heesen said his message to Congress is that it’s important to maintain the link between carried interest and capital gains, even if the capital gains tax rate increases. Unless Congress acts, such gains will be taxed at 20 percent in 2013. High earners will face an additional 3.8 percent tax on capital gains and other unearned income as part of the 2010 health-care law.
On the other side of the issue is the AFL-CIO, which has lobbied in favor of changing how carried interest is taxed, and is prepared to do so again. Damon Silvers, the policy director for the labor organization in Washington, called the treatment of carried interest a “tax subsidy for leveraged buyouts.”
“We are going to be pressing the carried interest issue at whatever opportunity we get,” he said. “Mitt Romney’s tax returns are the world’s greatest educational tool about the impact of the carried-interest loophole.”
The AFL-CIO spent $1.1 million in 2007 to lobby Congress on issues that included a Senate bill to raise taxes on carried interest.
Lobbying on the carried-interest debate is only part of the reason the tax break has survived, said David Donnelly, the national campaigns director at the Public Campaign Action Fund, a Washington nonprofit group that tracks political contributions. Investors who are paid in carried interest are often the well-heeled donors that members of both parties turn to for campaign contributions, he said.
“I don’t think it’s simply the lobbying,” Donnelly said. “The people who are interested in this particular provision are high net-worth individuals. That’s a constituency that Congress always cares about when they have to raise money to fund their campaigns.”
–With assistance from Richard Rubin in Washington and Cristina Alesci in New York. Editors: Jodi Schneider, Robin Meszoly
To contact the reporter on this story: Steven Sloan in Washington at ssloan7@bloomberg.net
To contact the editor responsible for this story: Jodi Schneider at jschneider50@bloomberg.net
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2012年2月3日星期五
Simon Property Group Reports Fourth Quarter Results, Announces Increase In Quarterly Dividend and Provides 2012 Guidance
INDIANAPOLIS, Feb. 3, 2012 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Simon Property Group, Inc. (the “Company” or “Simon”) (NYSE: SPG – News) today reported results for the quarter and year ended December 31, 2011.
Results for the Quarter
U.S. Operational Statistics(1)
Dividends
Today the Company announced that the Board of Directors declared a quarterly common stock dividend of $0.95 per share, an increase of 5.6% from the previous quarter. This dividend is payable on February 29, 2012 to stockholders of record on February 15, 2012.
The Company also declared the quarterly dividend on its 8 3/8% Series J Cumulative Redeemable Preferred (NYSE: SPGPrJ) Stock of $1.046875 per share, payable on March 30, 2012 to stockholders of record on March 16, 2012.
Acquisitions and Dispositions
During the fourth quarter and subsequent to year-end, the Company completed several property transactions:
Capital Markets
On October 5th, the Company announced that it entered into a new unsecured revolving credit facility that increased the Company’s borrowing capacity to $4.0 billion. This facility, which can be increased to $5.0 billion during its term, will initially mature on October 30, 2015, and can be extended for an additional year to October 30, 2016 at the Company’s sole option. The base interest rate on the Company’s new facility is LIBOR plus 100 basis points.
On November 10th, the Company announced the sale of $1.2 billion of senior unsecured notes in an underwritten public offering by its majority-owned partnership subsidiary, Simon Property Group, L.P. The offering consisted of $500.0 million of 2.800% notes due 2017 and $700.0 million of 4.125% notes due 2021. Net proceeds from the offering were used to partially repay the outstanding U.S. dollar balance of the senior unsecured credit facility and for general business purposes.
Development Activity
In the U.S.
The Company has two new development projects under construction:
In 2011, the Company opened 38 new anchors and big box tenants, aggregating 1.7 million square feet of activity. Approximately 30 anchors and big boxes are currently scheduled to open in 2012 and 2013.
International
On December 8th, the Company completed the 90,000 square foot expansion of Ami Premium Outlets in Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan. The expansion was 100% leased at opening. The Company owns a 40% interest in this project.
The grand opening of Johor Premium Outlets, the Company’s first Premium Outlet Center® in Southeast Asia, was held on December 11th. The center encompasses 190,000 square feet of gross leasable area featuring 80 stores and is strategically located in Johor, Malaysia. Johor Premium Outlets is close to Senai Airport and less than an hour’s drive from the city center of Singapore and about three hours from Kuala Lumpur. The center was 100% leased at opening. The Company owns the property in a 50/50 partnership with Genting Berhad.
Today marks the groundbreaking for Busan Premium Outlets, a 240,000 square foot upscale outlet center that will serve southeastern Korea, including the cities of Busan, Ulsan and Daegu, as well as local and overseas visitors. The Company owns a 50% interest in this project, which will be its third Premium Outlet Center in Korea.
2012 Guidance
The Company estimates that FFO will be within a range of $7.20 to $7.30 per diluted share for the year ending December 31, 2012, and diluted net income will be within a range of $3.28 to $3.38 per share.
The following table provides the reconciliation of the range of estimated diluted net income available to common stockholders per share to estimated diluted FFO per share.
The 2012 guidance reflects management’s view of current and future market conditions, including assumptions with respect to rental rates, occupancy levels, capital spend on new and redevelopment activities, and the earnings impact of the events referenced in this release and previously disclosed. The guidance also reflects management’s view of future capital market conditions, which is generally consistent with the current forward rates for LIBOR and U.S. Treasury bonds. The estimates do not include possible future gains or losses or the impact on operating results from other possible future property acquisitions or dispositions, possible capital markets activity or possible future impairment charges. The guidance takes into account the impact of all transactions that have already occurred, including the initial FFO dilution from the sale of the Company’s 49% interest in GCI. EPS estimates may be subject to fluctuations as a result of several factors, including changes in the recognition of depreciation and amortization expense and any gains or losses associated with disposition activity. By definition, FFO does not include real estate-related depreciation and amortization or gains or losses resulting from the sale of, or impairment charges relating to, previously depreciated operating properties. This guidance is a forward-looking statement and is subject to the risks and other factors described elsewhere in this release.
Conference Call
The Company will provide an online simulcast of its quarterly conference call at www.simon.com (Investors tab), www.earnings.com, and www.streetevents.com. To listen to the live call, please go to any of these websites at least fifteen minutes prior to the call to register, download and install any necessary audio software. The call will begin at 11:00 a.m. Eastern Time (New York time) today, February 3, 2012. An online replay will be available for approximately 90 days at www.simon.com, www.earnings.com, and www.streetevents.com. A fully searchable podcast of the conference call will also be available at www.REITcafe.com.
Supplemental Materials and Website
The Company has prepared a supplemental information package which is available at www.simon.com in the Investors section, Financial Information tab. It has also been furnished to the SEC as part of a current report on Form 8-K. If you wish to receive a copy via mail or email, please call 800-461-3439.
We routinely post important information for investors on our website, www.simon.com, in the “Investors” section. We intend to use this website as a means of disclosing material, non-public information and for complying with our disclosure obligations under Regulation FD. Accordingly, investors should monitor the Investor Relations section of our website, in addition to following our press releases, SEC filings, public conference calls, presentations and webcasts. The information contained on, or that may be accessed through, our website is not incorporated by reference into, and is not a part of, this document.
Non-GAAP Financial Measures
This press release includes FFO, FFO as adjusted and comparable property net operating income growth, which are adjusted from financial performance measures defined by accounting principles generally accepted in the United States (“GAAP”). Reconciliations of these measures to the most directly comparable GAAP measures are included within this press release or the Company’s supplemental information package. FFO and comparable property net operating income growth are financial performance measures widely used in the REIT industry.
Forward-Looking Statements
Certain statements made in this press release may be deemed “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Although the Company believes the expectations reflected in any forward-looking statements are based on reasonable assumptions, the Company can give no assurance that our expectations will be attained, and it is possible that actual results may differ materially from those indicated by these forward-looking statements due to a variety of risks, uncertainties and other factors. Such factors include, but are not limited to: the Company’s ability to meet debt service requirements, the availability and terms of financing, changes in the Company’s credit rating, changes in market rates of interest and foreign exchange rates for foreign currencies, changes in value of investments in foreign entities, the ability to hedge interest rate risk, risks associated with the acquisition, development, expansion, leasing and management of properties, general risks related to retail real estate, the liquidity of real estate investments, environmental liabilities, international, national, regional and local economic climates, changes in market rental rates, trends in the retail industry, relationships with anchor tenants, the inability to collect rent due to the bankruptcy or insolvency of tenants or otherwise, risks relating to joint venture properties, costs of common area maintenance, intensely competitive market environment in the retail industry, risks related to international activities, insurance costs and coverage, terrorist activities, changes in economic and market conditions and maintenance of our status as a real estate investment trust. The Company discusses these and other risks and uncertainties under the heading “Risk Factors” in its annual and quarterly periodic reports filed with the SEC. The Company may update that discussion in its periodic reports, but otherwise the Company undertakes no duty or obligation to update or revise these forwardlooking statements, whether as a result of new information, future developments, or otherwise.
Simon Property Group
Simon Property Group, Inc. is an S&P 500 company and the largest real estate company in the U.S. The Company currently owns or has an interest in 337 retail real estate properties comprising 245 million square feet in North America and Asia. Simon Property Group is headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana and employs more than 5,000 people worldwide. The Company’s common stock is publicly traded on the NYSE under the symbol SPG. For further information, visit the Simon Property Group website at www.simon.com.
Results for the Quarter
- Net income attributable to common stockholders was $362.9 million, or $1.24 per diluted share, as compared to $217.9 million, or $0.74 per diluted share, in the prior year period. The increase on a per share basis was 67.6%.
- Funds from Operations (“FFO”) was $678.9 million, or $1.91 per diluted share, as compared to $638.7 million, or $1.80 per diluted share, in the prior year period. The increase on a per share basis was 6.1%.
- Net income attributable to common stockholders was $1.021 billion, or $3.48 per diluted share, as compared to $610.4 million, or $2.10 per diluted share, in the prior year. The increase on a per share basis was 65.7%.
- FFO was $2.439 billion, or $6.89 per diluted share, as compared to $1.770 billion, or $5.03 per diluted share, in the prior year. The increase on a per share basis was 37.0%. 2010 FFO as adjusted for debt extinguishment charges was $2.121 billion or $6.03 per diluted share. The increase on an as adjusted per share basis was 14.3%.
U.S. Operational Statistics(1)
| As of | As of | % | ||
| December 31, 2011 | December 31, 2010 | Increase | ||
| Occupancy(2) | 94.8% | 94.5% | + 30 basis points | |
| Total Sales per Sq. Ft. (3) | $536 | $484 | 10.7% | |
| Average Rent per Sq. Ft. (2) | $39.42 | $37.77 | 4.4% | |
| (1) Combined information for U.S. regional malls and U.S. Premium Outlets, including the Prime portfolio. Prior period amounts have been restated to include Prime. Does not include information for properties owned by SPG-FCM (the Mills portfolio). (2) Represents mall stores in regional malls and all owned gross leasable area in Premium Outlets. (3) Rolling 12 month sales per square foot for mall stores less than 10,000 square feet in regional malls and all owned gross leasable area in Premium Outlets. | ||||
Today the Company announced that the Board of Directors declared a quarterly common stock dividend of $0.95 per share, an increase of 5.6% from the previous quarter. This dividend is payable on February 29, 2012 to stockholders of record on February 15, 2012.
The Company also declared the quarterly dividend on its 8 3/8% Series J Cumulative Redeemable Preferred (NYSE: SPGPrJ) Stock of $1.046875 per share, payable on March 30, 2012 to stockholders of record on March 16, 2012.
Acquisitions and Dispositions
During the fourth quarter and subsequent to year-end, the Company completed several property transactions:
- Exchanged its 50% ownership interests in six malls and one community center with the Macerich Company for their 50% ownership interests in five malls and one community center. No cash was exchanged other than customary net working capital adjustments. As a result of the transaction, Simon owns 100% of Empire Mall, Lindale Mall, Mesa Mall, Rushmore Mall, Southern Hills Mall and Empire East, and the Macerich Company owns 100% of Eastland Mall, Lake Square Mall, Northpark Mall, South Ridge Mall, Southpark Mall, Valley Mall and Eastland Convenience Center.
- Disposed of its interests in three properties: Gwinnett Place, Factory Merchants Branson and Crystal River Mall.
- Acquired an additional 25% ownership interest in Del Amo Fashion Center, increasing its ownership interest to 50%.
- Sold its 49% interest in Gallerie Commerciali Italia (“GCI”) in the first quarter of 2012. As a result of this transaction, the Company no longer owns an interest in any assets in Italy.
Capital Markets
On October 5th, the Company announced that it entered into a new unsecured revolving credit facility that increased the Company’s borrowing capacity to $4.0 billion. This facility, which can be increased to $5.0 billion during its term, will initially mature on October 30, 2015, and can be extended for an additional year to October 30, 2016 at the Company’s sole option. The base interest rate on the Company’s new facility is LIBOR plus 100 basis points.
On November 10th, the Company announced the sale of $1.2 billion of senior unsecured notes in an underwritten public offering by its majority-owned partnership subsidiary, Simon Property Group, L.P. The offering consisted of $500.0 million of 2.800% notes due 2017 and $700.0 million of 4.125% notes due 2021. Net proceeds from the offering were used to partially repay the outstanding U.S. dollar balance of the senior unsecured credit facility and for general business purposes.
Development Activity
In the U.S.
The Company has two new development projects under construction:
- Merrimack Premium Outlets in Merrimack, New Hampshire – a 409,000 square foot upscale outlet center located one hour north of metropolitan Boston and scheduled to open on June 14, 2012. Over 100 designer and brand outlet stores will be represented at the center. The Company owns 100% of this project.
- Tanger Outlets – Texas City – a 350,000 square foot upscale outlet center located in Texas City, Texas. The center is located approximately 30 miles south of Houston and 20 miles north of Galveston and is scheduled to open in October of 2012. The Company owns a 50% interest in this project.
In 2011, the Company opened 38 new anchors and big box tenants, aggregating 1.7 million square feet of activity. Approximately 30 anchors and big boxes are currently scheduled to open in 2012 and 2013.
International
On December 8th, the Company completed the 90,000 square foot expansion of Ami Premium Outlets in Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan. The expansion was 100% leased at opening. The Company owns a 40% interest in this project.
The grand opening of Johor Premium Outlets, the Company’s first Premium Outlet Center® in Southeast Asia, was held on December 11th. The center encompasses 190,000 square feet of gross leasable area featuring 80 stores and is strategically located in Johor, Malaysia. Johor Premium Outlets is close to Senai Airport and less than an hour’s drive from the city center of Singapore and about three hours from Kuala Lumpur. The center was 100% leased at opening. The Company owns the property in a 50/50 partnership with Genting Berhad.
Today marks the groundbreaking for Busan Premium Outlets, a 240,000 square foot upscale outlet center that will serve southeastern Korea, including the cities of Busan, Ulsan and Daegu, as well as local and overseas visitors. The Company owns a 50% interest in this project, which will be its third Premium Outlet Center in Korea.
2012 Guidance
The Company estimates that FFO will be within a range of $7.20 to $7.30 per diluted share for the year ending December 31, 2012, and diluted net income will be within a range of $3.28 to $3.38 per share.
The following table provides the reconciliation of the range of estimated diluted net income available to common stockholders per share to estimated diluted FFO per share.
| For the year ending December 31, 2012 | |||
| Low | High | ||
| End | End | ||
| Estimated diluted net income available to common stockholders per share | $3.28 | $3.38 | |
| Gain on sale of interest in GCI | (0.08) | (0.08) | |
| Depreciation and amortization including the Company’s share of joint ventures | 4.00 | 4.00 | |
| Estimated diluted FFO per share | $7.20 | $7.30 | |
Conference Call
The Company will provide an online simulcast of its quarterly conference call at www.simon.com (Investors tab), www.earnings.com, and www.streetevents.com. To listen to the live call, please go to any of these websites at least fifteen minutes prior to the call to register, download and install any necessary audio software. The call will begin at 11:00 a.m. Eastern Time (New York time) today, February 3, 2012. An online replay will be available for approximately 90 days at www.simon.com, www.earnings.com, and www.streetevents.com. A fully searchable podcast of the conference call will also be available at www.REITcafe.com.
Supplemental Materials and Website
The Company has prepared a supplemental information package which is available at www.simon.com in the Investors section, Financial Information tab. It has also been furnished to the SEC as part of a current report on Form 8-K. If you wish to receive a copy via mail or email, please call 800-461-3439.
We routinely post important information for investors on our website, www.simon.com, in the “Investors” section. We intend to use this website as a means of disclosing material, non-public information and for complying with our disclosure obligations under Regulation FD. Accordingly, investors should monitor the Investor Relations section of our website, in addition to following our press releases, SEC filings, public conference calls, presentations and webcasts. The information contained on, or that may be accessed through, our website is not incorporated by reference into, and is not a part of, this document.
Non-GAAP Financial Measures
This press release includes FFO, FFO as adjusted and comparable property net operating income growth, which are adjusted from financial performance measures defined by accounting principles generally accepted in the United States (“GAAP”). Reconciliations of these measures to the most directly comparable GAAP measures are included within this press release or the Company’s supplemental information package. FFO and comparable property net operating income growth are financial performance measures widely used in the REIT industry.
Forward-Looking Statements
Certain statements made in this press release may be deemed “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Although the Company believes the expectations reflected in any forward-looking statements are based on reasonable assumptions, the Company can give no assurance that our expectations will be attained, and it is possible that actual results may differ materially from those indicated by these forward-looking statements due to a variety of risks, uncertainties and other factors. Such factors include, but are not limited to: the Company’s ability to meet debt service requirements, the availability and terms of financing, changes in the Company’s credit rating, changes in market rates of interest and foreign exchange rates for foreign currencies, changes in value of investments in foreign entities, the ability to hedge interest rate risk, risks associated with the acquisition, development, expansion, leasing and management of properties, general risks related to retail real estate, the liquidity of real estate investments, environmental liabilities, international, national, regional and local economic climates, changes in market rental rates, trends in the retail industry, relationships with anchor tenants, the inability to collect rent due to the bankruptcy or insolvency of tenants or otherwise, risks relating to joint venture properties, costs of common area maintenance, intensely competitive market environment in the retail industry, risks related to international activities, insurance costs and coverage, terrorist activities, changes in economic and market conditions and maintenance of our status as a real estate investment trust. The Company discusses these and other risks and uncertainties under the heading “Risk Factors” in its annual and quarterly periodic reports filed with the SEC. The Company may update that discussion in its periodic reports, but otherwise the Company undertakes no duty or obligation to update or revise these forwardlooking statements, whether as a result of new information, future developments, or otherwise.
Simon Property Group
Simon Property Group, Inc. is an S&P 500 company and the largest real estate company in the U.S. The Company currently owns or has an interest in 337 retail real estate properties comprising 245 million square feet in North America and Asia. Simon Property Group is headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana and employs more than 5,000 people worldwide. The Company’s common stock is publicly traded on the NYSE under the symbol SPG. For further information, visit the Simon Property Group website at www.simon.com.
| Simon Property Group, Inc. and Subsidiaries | ||||||||
| Unaudited Consolidated Statements of Operations | ||||||||
| (Dollars in thousands, except per share amounts) | ||||||||
| For the Three Months | For the Twelve Months | |||||||
| Ended December 31, | Ended December 31, | |||||||
| 2011 | 2010 | 2011 | 2010 | |||||
| REVENUE: | ||||||||
| Minimum rent | $ 706,099 | $ 672,606 | $ 2,664,724 | $ 2,429,519 | ||||
| Overage rent | 65,068 | 56,668 | 140,842 | 110,621 | ||||
| Tenant reimbursements | 315,916 | 298,146 | 1,177,269 | 1,083,780 | ||||
| Management fees and other revenues | 35,009 | 34,310 | 128,010 | 121,207 | ||||
| Other income | 49,245 | 57,988 | 195,587 | 212,503 | ||||
| Total revenue | 1,171,337 | 1,119,718 | 4,306,432 | 3,957,630 | ||||
| EXPENSES: | ||||||||
| Property operating | 105,559 | 98,615 | 436,571 | 414,264 | ||||
| Depreciation and amortization | 277,536 | 276,418 | 1,065,946 | 982,820 | ||||
| Real estate taxes | 95,803 | 90,893 | 369,755 | 345,960 | ||||
| Repairs and maintenance | 33,539 | 37,875 | 113,496 | 102,425 | ||||
| Advertising and promotion | 34,383 | 34,641 | 107,002 | 97,194 | ||||
| Provision for credit losses | 3,325 | 5,190 | 6,505 | 3,130 | ||||
| Home and regional office costs | 37,583 | 36,615 | 128,618 | 109,314 | ||||
| General and administrative | 14,705 | 5,358 | 46,319 | 21,267 | ||||
| Transaction expenses | - | 6,418 | - | 68,972 | ||||
| Other | 35,823 | 23,633 | 97,078 | 68,045 | ||||
| Total operating expenses | 638,256 | 615,656 | 2,371,290 | 2,213,391 | ||||
| OPERATING INCOME | 533,081 | 504,062 | 1,935,142 | 1,744,239 | ||||
| Interest expense | (246,507) | (252,405) | (983,526) | (1,027,091) | ||||
| Loss on extinguishment of debt | - | - | - | (350,688) | ||||
| Income tax expense of taxable REIT subsidiaries | (877) | (2,291) | (3,583) | (1,734) | ||||
| Income from unconsolidated entities | 31,677 | 25,192 | 81,238 | 75,921 | ||||
| Impairment charge from investments in unconsolidated entities | - | (8,169) | - | (8,169) | ||||
| Gain upon acquisition of controlling interests, and on sale or disposal | ||||||||
| of assets and interests in unconsolidated entities, net | 124,557 | 687 | 216,629 | 321,036 | ||||
| CONSOLIDATED NET INCOME | 441,931 | 267,076 | 1,245,900 | 753,514 | ||||
| Net income attributable to noncontrolling interests | 78,167 | 48,318 | 221,101 | 136,476 | ||||
| Preferred dividends | 834 | 835 | 3,337 | 6,614 | ||||
| NET INCOME ATTRIBUTABLE TO COMMON STOCKHOLDERS | $ 362,930 | $ 217,923 | $ 1,021,462 | $ 610,424 | ||||
| BASIC EARNINGS PER COMMON SHARE: | ||||||||
| Net income attributable to common stockholders | $ 1.24 | $ 0.74 | $ 3.48 | $ 2.10 | ||||
| DILUTED EARNINGS PER COMMON SHARE: | ||||||||
| Net income attributable to common stockholders | $ 1.24 | $ 0.74 | $ 3.48 | $ 2.10 | ||||
| Simon Property Group, Inc. and Subsidiaries | ||||
| Unaudited Consolidated Balance Sheets | ||||
| (Dollars in thousands, except share amounts) | ||||
| December 31, | December 31, | |||
| 2011 | 2010 | |||
| ASSETS: | ||||
| Investment properties at cost | $ 29,657,046 | $ 27,508,735 | ||
| Less – accumulated depreciation | 8,388,130 | 7,711,304 | ||
| 21,268,916 | 19,797,431 | |||
| Cash and cash equivalents | 798,650 | 796,718 | ||
| Tenant receivables and accrued revenue, net | 486,731 | 426,736 | ||
| Investment in unconsolidated entities, at equity | 1,378,084 | 1,390,105 | ||
| Deferred costs and other assets | 1,633,544 | 1,795,439 | ||
| Notes receivable from related party | 651,000 | 651,000 | ||
| Total assets | $ 26,216,925 | $ 24,857,429 | ||
| LIABILITIES: | ||||
| Mortgages and other indebtedness | $ 18,446,440 | $ 17,473,760 | ||
| Accounts payable, accrued expenses, intangibles, and deferred revenues | 1,091,712 | 993,738 | ||
| Cash distributions and losses in partnerships and joint ventures, at equity | 695,569 | 485,855 | ||
| Other liabilities and accrued dividends | 170,971 | 184,855 | ||
| Total liabilities | 20,404,692 | 19,138,208 | ||
| Commitments and contingencies | ||||
| Limited partners’ preferred interest in the Operating Partnership and noncontrolling | ||||
| redeemable interests in properties | 267,945 | 85,469 | ||
| EQUITY: | ||||
| Stockholders’ equity | ||||
| Capital stock (850,000,000 total shares authorized, $ 0.0001 par value, 238,000,000 | ||||
| shares of excess common stock, 100,000,000 authorized shares of preferred stock): | ||||
| Series J 8 3/8% cumulative redeemable preferred stock, 1,000,000 shares authorized, | ||||
| 796,948 issued and outstanding with a liquidation value of $ 39,847 | 45,047 | 45,375 | ||
| Common stock, $ 0.0001 par value, 511,990,000 shares authorized, 297,725,698 and | ||||
| 296,957,360 issued and outstanding, respectively | 30 | 30 | ||
| Class B common stock, $ 0.0001 par value, 10,000 shares authorized, 8,000 | ||||
| issued and outstanding | - | - | ||
| Capital in excess of par value | 8,103,133 | 8,059,852 | ||
| Accumulated deficit | (3,251,740) | (3,114,571) | ||
| Accumulated other comprehensive (loss) income | (94,263) | 6,530 | ||
| Common stock held in treasury at cost, 3,877,448 and 4,003,451 shares, respectively | (152,541) | (166,436) | ||
| Total stockholder’s equity | 4,649,666 | 4,830,780 | ||
| Noncontrolling interests | 894,622 | 802,972 | ||
| Total equity | 5,544,288 | 5,633,752 | ||
| Total liabilities and equity | $ 26,216,925 | $ 24,857,429 | ||
| Simon Property Group, Inc. and Subsidiaries | ||||||||
| Unaudited Joint Venture Statements of Operations | ||||||||
| (Dollars in thousands) | ||||||||
| For the Three Months | For the Twelve Months | |||||||
| Ended December 31, | Ended December 31, | |||||||
| 2011 | 2010 | 2011 | 2010 | |||||
| Revenue: | ||||||||
| Minimum rent | $ 482,040 | $ 462,853 | $ 1,844,774 | $ 1,810,581 | ||||
| Overage rent | 59,083 | 50,052 | 161,993 | 143,018 | ||||
| Tenant reimbursements | 221,315 | 229,498 | 862,211 | 870,555 | ||||
| Other income | 48,813 | 44,283 | 175,430 | 214,728 | ||||
| Total revenue | 811,251 | 786,686 | 3,044,408 | 3,038,882 | ||||
| Operating Expenses: | ||||||||
| Property operating | 157,020 | 148,462 | 602,989 | 595,733 | ||||
| Depreciation and amortization | 186,851 | 190,918 | 737,865 | 752,014 | ||||
| Real estate taxes | 52,616 | 56,356 | 220,955 | 230,326 | ||||
| Repairs and maintenance | 21,907 | 25,508 | 76,258 | 92,490 | ||||
| Advertising and promotion | 15,605 | 16,120 | 57,703 | 55,952 | ||||
| Provision for credit losses | 2,227 | 2,993 | 8,648 | 3,934 | ||||
| Other | 62,417 | 54,877 | 227,703 | 209,635 | ||||
| Total operating expenses | 498,643 | 495,234 | 1,932,121 | 1,940,084 | ||||
| Operating Income | 312,608 | 291,452 | 1,112,287 | 1,098,798 | ||||
| Interest expense | (206,961) | (201,605) | (813,433) | (812,886) | ||||
| (Loss) Income from unconsolidated entities | (857) | 528 | (4,644) | (840) | ||||
| Impairment charge from investments in unconsolidated entities | - | (16,671) | - | (16,671) | ||||
| Income from Continuing Operations | $ 104,790 | $ 73,704 | $ 294,210 | $ 268,401 | ||||
| Income from discontinued joint venture interests | 6,210 | 20,583 | 48,154 | 63,108 | ||||
| Gain (loss) on sale or disposal of assets and interests in | ||||||||
| unconsolidated entities, net | 332,078 | (85) | 347,640 | 39,676 | ||||
| Net Income | $ 443,078 | $ 94,202 | $ 690,004 | $ 371,185 | ||||
| Third-Party Investors’ Share of Net Income | $ 232,643 | $ 64,568 | $ 384,384 | $ 234,799 | ||||
| Our Share of Net Income | $ 210,435 | $ 29,634 | $ 305,620 | $ 136,386 | ||||
| Amortization of Excess Investment (A) | (12,730) | (12,653) | (50,562) | (48,329) | ||||
| Our Share of (Gain) Loss on Sale or Disposal of Assets and Interests | ||||||||
| in Unconsolidated Entities, net | (166,028) | 42 | (173,820) | (20,305) | ||||
| Our Share of Impairment Charge from Investments in | ||||||||
| Unconsolidated Entities | - | 8,169 | - | 8,169 | ||||
| Income from Unconsolidated Entities | $ 31,677 | $ 25,192 | $ 81,238 | $ 75,921 | ||||
| Simon Property Group, Inc. and Subsidiaries | ||||
| Unaudited Joint Venture Balance Sheets | ||||
| (Dollars in thousands) | ||||
| December 31, | December 31, | |||
| 2011 | 2010 | |||
| Assets: | ||||
| Investment properties, at cost | $ 20,481,657 | $ 21,236,594 | ||
| Less – accumulated depreciation | 5,264,565 | 5,126,116 | ||
| 15,217,092 | 16,110,478 | |||
| Cash and cash equivalents | 806,895 | 802,025 | ||
| Tenant receivables and accrued revenue, net | 359,208 | 353,719 | ||
| Investment in unconsolidated entities, at equity | 133,576 | 158,116 | ||
| Deferred costs and other assets | 526,101 | 525,024 | ||
| Total assets | $ 17,042,872 | $ 17,949,362 | ||
| Liabilities and Partners’ (Deficit) Equity: | ||||
| Mortgages and other indebtedness | $ 15,582,321 | $ 15,937,404 | ||
| Accounts payable, accrued expenses, intangibles, and deferred revenue | 775,733 | 748,245 | ||
| Other liabilities | 981,711 | 961,284 | ||
| Total liabilities | 17,339,765 | 17,646,933 | ||
| Preferred units | 67,450 | 67,450 | ||
| Partners’ (deficit) equity | (364,343) | 234,979 | ||
| Total liabilities and partners’ equity | $ 17,042,872 | $ 17,949,362 | ||
| Our Share of: | ||||
| Partners’ (deficit) equity | $ (32,000) | $ 146,578 | ||
| Add: Excess Investment (A) | 714,515 | 757,672 | ||
| Our net Investment in Joint Ventures | $ 682,515 | $ 904,250 | ||
| Simon Property Group, Inc. and Subsidiaries | ||
| Footnotes to Unaudited Financial Statements | ||
| Notes: | ||
| (A) | Excess investment represents the unamortized difference between the Company’s investment and equity in the underlying net assets of the partnerships and joint ventures. The Company generally amortizes excess investment over the life of the related properties, typically no greater than 40 years, and the amortization is included in income from unconsolidated entities. | |
| Simon Property Group, Inc. and Subsidiaries | |||||||||
| Unaudited Reconciliation of Non-GAAP Financial Measures (1) | |||||||||
| (Amounts in thousands, except per share amounts) | |||||||||
| Reconciliation of Consolidated Net Income to FFO and FFO as Adjusted | |||||||||
| For the Three Months Ended | For the Twelve Months Ended | ||||||||
| December 31, | December 31, | ||||||||
| 2011 | 2010 | 2011 | 2010 | ||||||
| Consolidated Net Income (2)(3)(4)(5) | $ 441,931 | $ 267,076 | $ 1,245,900 | $ 753,514 | |||||
| Adjustments to Consolidated Net Income to Arrive at FFO: | |||||||||
| Depreciation and amortization from consolidated | |||||||||
| properties | 270,081 | 272,713 | 1,047,571 | 968,695 | |||||
| Simon’s share of depreciation and amortization from | |||||||||
| unconsolidated entities | 98,009 | 98,048 | 384,367 | 388,565 | |||||
| Impairment charges of depreciable real estate | - | 8,169 | - | 8,169 | |||||
| Gain upon acquisition of controlling interests, and on sale or disposal | |||||||||
| of assets and interests in unconsolidated entities, net | (124,557) | (687) | (216,629) | (321,036) | |||||
| Net income attributable to noncontrolling interest holders in | |||||||||
| properties | (2,679) | (3,298) | (8,559) | (10,640) | |||||
| Noncontrolling interests portion of depreciation and amortization | (2,553) | (1,959) | (8,633) | (7,847) | |||||
| Preferred distributions and dividends | (1,313) | (1,313) | (5,252) | (8,929) | |||||
| FFO of the Operating Partnership | $ 678,919 | $ 638,749 | $ 2,438,765 | $ 1,770,491 | |||||
| Loss on extinguishment of debt | - | - | - | 350,688 | |||||
| FFO as adjusted of the Operating Partnership | $ 678,919 | $ 638,749 | $ 2,438,765 | $ 2,121,179 | |||||
| Diluted net income per share to diluted FFO per share and diluted | |||||||||
| FFO as adjusted per share reconciliation: | |||||||||
| Diluted net income per share | $ 1.24 | $ 0.74 | $ 3.48 | $ 2.10 | |||||
| Depreciation and amortization from consolidated properties | |||||||||
| and Simon’s share of depreciation and amortization from | |||||||||
| unconsolidated entities, net of noncontrolling interests portion of | |||||||||
| depreciation and amortization | 1.02 | 1.04 | 4.02 | 3.86 | |||||
| Impairment charges of depreciable real estate | - | 0.02 | - | 0.02 | |||||
| Gain upon acquisition of controlling interests, and on sale or disposal | |||||||||
| of assets and interests in unconsolidated entities, net | (0.35) | - | (0.61) | (0.92) | |||||
| Impact of additional dilutive securities for FFO per share | - | - | - | (0.03) | |||||
| Diluted FFO per share | $ 1.91 | $ 1.80 | $ 6.89 | $ 5.03 | |||||
| Loss on debt extinguishment | - | - | - | 1.00 | |||||
| Diluted FFO as adjusted per share | $ 1.91 | $ 1.80 | $ 6.89 | $ 6.03 | |||||
| Details for per share calculations: | |||||||||
| FFO of the Operating Partnership | $ 678,919 | $ 638,749 | $ 2,438,765 | $ 1,770,491 | |||||
| Adjustments for dilution calculation: | |||||||||
| Impact of preferred stock and preferred unit conversions and | |||||||||
| option exercises (6) | - | - | - | 3,676 | |||||
| Diluted FFO of the Operating Partnership | 678,919 | 638,749 | 2,438,765 | 1,774,167 | |||||
| Diluted FFO allocable to unitholders | (116,424) | (108,892) | (416,833) | (296,670) | |||||
| Diluted FFO allocable to common stockholders | $ 562,495 | $ 529,857 | $ 2,021,932 | $ 1,477,497 | |||||
| Basic weighted average shares outstanding | 293,822 | 292,931 | 293,504 | 291,076 | |||||
| Adjustments for dilution calculation: | |||||||||
| Effect of stock options | 11 | 230 | 69 | 274 | |||||
| Impact of Series I preferred unit conversion | - | - | - | 238 | |||||
| Impact of Series I preferred stock conversion | - | - | - | 1,749 | |||||
| Diluted weighted average shares outstanding | 293,833 | 293,161 | 293,573 | 293,337 | |||||
| Weighted average limited partnership units outstanding | 60,816 | 60,248 | 60,522 | 58,900 | |||||
| Diluted weighted average shares and units outstanding | 354,649 | 353,409 | 354,095 | 352,237 | |||||
| Basic FFO per Share | $ 1.91 | $ 1.81 | $ 6.89 | $ 5.06 | |||||
| Percent Change | 5.5% | 36.2% | |||||||
| Diluted FFO per Share | $ 1.91 | $ 1.80 | $ 6.89 | $ 5.03 | |||||
| Percent Change | 6.1% | 37.0% | |||||||
| Diluted FFO as adjusted per share | $ 1.91 | $ 1.80 | $ 6.89 | $ 6.03 | |||||
| Percent Change | 6.1% | 14.3% | |||||||
| Simon Property Group, Inc. and Subsidiaries | ||
| Footnotes to Unaudited Reconciliation of Non-GAAP Financial Measures | ||
| Notes: | ||
| (1) | This report contains measures of financial or operating performance that are not specifically defined by accounting principles generally accepted in the United States (“GAAP”), including funds from operations (“FFO”), FFO as adjusted, FFO per share and FFO as adjusted per share. FFO is a performance measure that is standard in the REIT business. We believe FFO provides investors with additional information concerning our operating performance and a basis to compare our performance with those of other REITs. We also use these measures internally to monitor the operating performance of our portfolio. As adjusted measures exclude the effect of certain debt-related charges. We believe these measures provide investors with a basis to compare our current operating performance with previous periods in which we did not have those charges. Our computation of these non-GAAP measures may not be the same as similar measures reported by other REITs. | |
| The Company determines FFO based upon the definition set forth by the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts (“NAREIT”). The Company determines FFO to be our share of consolidated net income computed in accordance with GAAP, excluding real estate related depreciation and amortization, excluding gains and losses from extraordinary items, excluding gains and losses from the sales of, or any impairment charges related to, previously depreciated operating properties, plus the allocable portion of FFO of unconsolidated joint ventures based upon economic ownership interest, and all determined on a consistent basis in accordance with GAAP. | ||
| The Company has adopted NAREIT’s clarification of the definition of FFO that requires it to include the effects of nonrecurring items not classified as extraordinary, cumulative effect of accounting changes, or a gain or loss resulting from the sale of, or any impairment charges relating to, previously depreciated operating properties. We include in FFO gains and losses realized from the sale of land, outlot buildings, marketable and non-marketable securities, and investment holdings of non-retail real estate. However, you should understand that FFO does not represent cash flow from operations as defined by GAAP, should not be considered as an alternative to net income determined in accordance with GAAP as a measure of operating performance, and is not an alternative to cash flows as a measure of liquidity. | ||
| (2) | Includes the Company’s share of gains on land sales of $1.7 million and $2.4 million for the three months ended December 31, 2011 and 2010, respectively, and $6.2 million and $11.8 million for the twelve months ended December 31, 2011 and 2010, respectively. | |
| (3) | Includes the Company’s share of straight-line adjustments to minimum rent of $11.0 million and $8.3 million for the three months ended December 31, 2011 and 2010, respectively, and $37.2 million and $32.1 million for the twelve months ended December 31, 2011 and 2010, respectively. | |
| (4) | Includes the Company’s share of the amortization of fair market value of leases from acquisitions of $5.2 million and $5.1 million for the three months ended December 31, 2011 and 2010, respectively, and $22.9 million and $19.9 million for the twelve months ended December 31, 2011 and 2010, respectively. | |
| (5) | Includes the Company’s share of debt premium amortization of $3.0 million and $3.3 million for the three months ended December 31, 2011 and 2010, respectively, and $10.0 million and $12.7 million for the twelve months ended December 31, 2011 and 2010, respectively. | |
| (6) | Includes dividends and distributions on Series I preferred stock and Series I preferred units. All outstanding shares of Series I preferred stock and Series I preferred units were redeemed on April 16, 2010. http://tourism9.com http://vkins.com/ | |
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