Company: NNN
Filing Date: 2025-02-11
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0000950170-25-017472
Chunk: 38

Company: NNN REIT, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-02-11
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1A
Chunk 38
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 also be disqualified from treatment as a REIT for the four taxable years following the year during which the qualification was lost.

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Compliance with REIT requirements, including distribution requirements, may limit NNN's flexibility and may negatively affect NNN's operating decisions.

To maintain its status as a REIT for United States federal income tax purposes, NNN must meet certain requirements on an ongoing basis, including requirements regarding its sources of income, the nature and diversification of its assets, the amounts NNN distributes to its stockholders and the ownership of its shares. NNN may also be required to make distributions to its stockholders when it does not have funds readily available for distribution or at times when NNN's funds are otherwise needed to fund expenditures or debt service requirements. NNN generally will not be subject to federal income taxes on taxable income it distributes to stockholders, providing it meets certain other requirements for qualifying as a REIT. For each of the years in the three-year period ended December 31, 2024, NNN believes it has qualified as a REIT. Notwithstanding NNN's qualification for taxation as a REIT, NNN is subject to certain state and local income, franchise and excise taxes.

The share ownership restrictions of the Code for REITs and the 9.8% share ownership limit in NNN's charter may inhibit market activity in NNN's shares of stock and restrict NNN's business combination opportunities.

In order to qualify as a REIT, five or fewer individuals, as defined in the Code, may not own, actually or constructively, more than 50 percent in value of NNN's issued and outstanding shares of stock at any time during the last half of each taxable year, other than the first year for which a REIT election is made. Attribution rules in the Code determine if any individual or entity actually or constructively owns NNN's shares of stock under this requirement. Additionally, at least 100 persons must beneficially own NNN's shares of stock during at least 335 days of a taxable year for each taxable year, other than the first year for which a REIT election is made. To help ensure that NNN meets these tests, among other purposes, NNN's charter restricts the acquisition and ownership of NNN's shares of stock.

NNN's charter, with certain exceptions, authorizes NNN's Board of Directors to take such actions as are necessary and desirable to preserve NNN's qualification as a REIT while NNN so qualifies.