Company: CMCT
Filing Date: 2025-03-07
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0000908311-25-000017
Chunk: 154

Company: Creative Media & Community Trust Corp
Filing Date: 2025-03-07
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 7
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 based on what the business does to generate its income, its credit history, the liquidity of the borrower, size standards and where the business operates. We work with potential borrowers to identify the type of loan that would be appropriate for each such borrower’s needs. Our SBA 7(a) term loans have monthly repayment terms of principal and interest and are originated with variable interest rates based on the prime rate. Most of our SBA 7(a) loans have maturities of approximately 25 years. 

While we have focused on originating real estate loans almost exclusively to the limited service and mid-scale hospitality industry, we intend to increase our efforts to originate other real estate collateralized loans. These loans are anticipated to be primarily concentrated in industries in which we previously had positive experience, including convenience store, RV park and single purpose building owner-occupied restaurant operations and may include owner-occupied industrial operations/warehouse buildings.

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2024 Results of Operations

Net Loss and FFO

Year EndedDecember 31,Change20242023$%(dollars in thousands)Total revenues$124,512 $119,258 $5,254 4.4 %Total expenses$148,658 $170,163 $(21,505)(12.6)%Net loss$(25,750)$(51,456)$25,706 (50.0)%

The Company had a net loss of $25.8 million for the year ended December 31, 2024, representing a decrease of $25.7 million compared to a net loss of $51.5 million for the year ended December 31, 2023. The decrease was primarily due to a decrease of $25.1 million in depreciation and amortization expense (discussed in more detail below in “Summary Segment Results”) and a decrease in transaction costs of $3.0 million, partially offset by an increase in interest expense not allocated to our operating segments of $2.2 million and a loss on extinguishment of debt of $1.4 million. 

Funds from Operations

We believe that funds from operations (“FFO”), a non-GAAP measure, is a widely recognized and appropriate measure of the performance of a REIT and that it is frequently used by securities analysts, investors and other interested parties in the evaluation of REITs, many of which present FFO when reporting their results. FFO represents net income (loss) attributable to common stockholders, computed in accordance with GAAP, which reflects the deduction of