Essential Properties Announces Fourth Quarter 2025 Results

Fourth Quarter 2025 Financial and Operating Highlights:

Full Year 2025 Financial and Operating Highlights:

Activity Subsequent to Fourth Quarter 2025:

CEO Comments

Commenting on the fourth quarter and full year 2025 results, the Company's Chief Executive Officer, Pete Mavoides, said, “Our fourth quarter wrapped up another very strong year for the Company, as growth in our team has enabled us to efficiently scale our asset base, supporting an impressive 9% growth in AFFO per share. This momentum continued into the beginning of 2026, setting the stage for another year of compelling growth.”

Portfolio Highlights

The Company’s investment portfolio as of December 31, 2025 is summarized as follows:

Portfolio Update

Investments

During the three months ended December 31, 2025, the Company's $295.8 million of investment activity had a weighted average closing date of December 7, 2025. Additional details about the Company’s investment activity during the three months and year ended December 31, 2025 are summarized as follows:

Dispositions

The Company’s disposition activity during the three months and year ended December 31, 2025 is summarized as follows:

Loan Repayments

Loan repayments received by the Company during the three months and year ended December 31, 2025 are summarized as follows:

Leverage and Liquidity

The Company's leverage and liquidity as of December 31, 2025 are summarized in the following table.

Equity Activity

The Company's equity activity during the three months ended December 31, 2025 is summarized in the following table.

Guidance

2026 Guidance

The Company is increasing its previously issued 2026 AFFO per share estimate and now expects that fully diluted 2026 AFFO per share will be within a range of $1.99 to $2.04. The guidance range includes an estimate for investment volume of $1.0 billion to $1.4 billion, and Cash G&A of $31 million to $35 million.

Note: The Company does not provide guidance for the most comparable GAAP financial measures, net income and general and administrative expense, or a reconciliation of the forward-looking non-GAAP financial measures of AFFO to net income computed in accordance with GAAP and Cash G&A expense to general and administrative expense computed in accordance with GAAP, because it is unable to reasonably predict, without unreasonable efforts, certain items that would be contained in the GAAP measures, including items that are not indicative of the Company's ongoing operations, such as, without limitation, potential impairments of real estate assets, net gain/loss on dispositions of real estate assets, changes in allowance for credit losses and non-cash compensation expense. These items are uncertain, depend on various factors, and could have a material impact on the Company's GAAP results for the guidance period.

Dividend Information

As previously announced, on December 5, 2025, Essential Properties' board of directors declared a cash dividend of $0.31 per share of common stock for the quarter ended December 31, 2025. The fourth quarter 2025 dividend represents an annualized dividend of $1.24 per share of common stock. The dividend was paid on January 14, 2026 to stockholders of record as of the close of business on December 31, 2025.

Conference Call Information

In conjunction with the release of Essential Properties’ operating results, the Company will host a conference call on Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 10:00 a.m. ET to discuss the results. To access the conference, dial 800-245-3047 (International: 203-518-9765) and use the conference ID: EPRT. A live webcast will also be available in listen-only mode by clicking on the webcast link in the Investor Relations section at www.essentialproperties.com.

A telephone replay of the conference call can also be accessed by calling 844-512-2921 (International: 412-317-6671) and entering the access code: 11160701. The telephone replay will be available through February 26, 2026.

A replay of the conference call webcast will be available on our website approximately three hours after the conclusion of the live broadcast. The webcast replay will be available for 90 days. No access code is required for this replay.

Supplemental Materials

The Company’s Investor Presentation and Supplemental Information—Fourth Quarter 2025 is available on Essential Properties’ website at investors.essentialproperties.com.

About Essential Properties Realty Trust, Inc.

Essential Properties Realty Trust, Inc. is an internally managed REIT that acquires, owns and manages primarily single- tenant properties that are net leased on a long-term basis to companies operating service-oriented or experience-based businesses. As of December 31, 2025, the Company’s portfolio consisted of 2,300 freestanding net lease properties with a weighted average lease term of 14.4 years and a weighted average rent coverage ratio of 3.6x. In addition, as of December 31, 2025, the Company’s portfolio was 99.7% leased to tenants operating 659 different concepts across 48 states.

Forward-Looking Statements

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Additional information concerning factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from these forward-looking statements is contained in the company’s Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) filings, including, but not limited to, the Company’s most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K. Copies of each filing may be obtained from the Company or the Commission. Such forward-looking statements should be regarded solely as reflections of the Company’s current operating plans and estimates. Actual operating results may differ materially from what is expressed or forecast in this press release.

The results reported in this press release are preliminary and not final. There can be no assurance that these results will not vary from the final results reported in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2025 that it will file with the Commission.