Company: EPR-PE
Filing Date: 2025-02-27
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001045450-25-000051
Chunk: 10

Company: EPR PROPERTIES
Filing Date: 2025-02-27
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1
Chunk 10
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, or we may redevelop properties that have more earnings potential due to the redevelopment. Additionally, certain of our properties have excess land where we will proactively seek opportunities to further develop.

Tenant and Customer Relationships

We intend to continue developing and maintaining long-term working relationships with experiential operators and developers by providing capital for multiple properties on a regional, national and international basis, thereby creating efficiency and value for both the operators and the Company.

Portfolio Diversification

We will endeavor to further diversify our asset base by property type, geographic location and customer. In pursuing this diversification strategy, we will target experiential business operators that we view as leaders in their property types and have the ability to compete effectively and perform under their agreements with the Company.

Dispositions

We will consider discretionary property dispositions for reasons such as underperformance, vacancies, opportunistically taking advantage of an above-market offer, reducing exposure related to a certain tenant, property type or geographic area, or creating price awareness of a certain property type. 

Capitalization Strategies

Debt and Equity Financing

We believe that our shareholders are best served by a conservative capital structure. Therefore, we seek to maintain a conservative debt level on our balance sheet as measured primarily by our net debt to adjusted EBITDAre, a non-GAAP measure (see Item 7 – “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition - Non-GAAP Financial Measures" for definitions and reconciliations). We also seek to maintain conservative interest, fixed charge, debt service coverage and net debt to gross asset ratios. 

We rely primarily on an unsecured debt structure. In the future, while we may obtain secured debt from time to time or assume secured debt financing obligations in acquisitions, we intend to issue primarily unsecured debt securities to satisfy our debt financing needs. We believe this strategy increases our access to capital and permits us to more efficiently match available debt and equity financing to our ongoing capital requirements.

Our sources of equity financing consist of the issuance of common shares as well as the issuance of preferred shares (including convertible preferred shares). In addition to larger underwritten registered public offerings of both common and preferred shares, we have also offered shares pursuant to registered public offerings through the direct share purchase component of our Dividend Reinvestment and Direct Share Purchase Plan (“DSP Plan”). While such offerings are generally smaller than a typical underwritten public offering, issuing common shares under the direct share purchase component of our DSP Plan allows us to access capital on a more frequent basis in a cost-effective manner. 

We expect to