Company: GTY
Filing Date: 2025-02-13
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0000950170-25-019976
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Company: GETTY REALTY CORP /MD/
Filing Date: 2025-02-13
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1
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Company Profile

Getty Realty Corp. (“Getty Realty,” “we,” “us,” “our” and the “Company”) (NYSE: GTY), a Maryland corporation, is a publicly traded, net lease real estate investment trust (“REIT”) specializing in the acquisition, financing and development of convenience, automotive and other single tenant retail real estate. Our predecessor was originally founded in 1955 and our common stock was listed on the New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”) in 1997. Unless otherwise expressly stated or the context otherwise requires, the “Company,” “we,” “us,” and “our” as used herein refer to Getty Realty and its owned and controlled subsidiaries.

Our portfolio includes convenience stores, express tunnel car washes, automotive service centers (gasoline and repair, oil and maintenance, tire and battery, and collision), and certain other freestanding retail properties, including drive-thru quick service restaurants and automotive parts retailers. Our 1,118 properties as of December 31, 2024 are located in 42 states and Washington, D.C., and our tenants operate under a variety of national and regional brands. We are internally managed by our management team, which has extensive experience acquiring, financing, developing and managing convenience, automotive and other single tenant retail real estate. 

We elected to be treated as a REIT under the federal income tax laws beginning January 1, 2001. The Internal Revenue Code permits a qualifying REIT to deduct dividends paid, thereby effectively eliminating corporate level federal income tax and making the REIT a pass-through vehicle for federal income tax purposes if certain REIT qualifications are met. To meet the applicable requirements of the Internal Revenue Code, a REIT must, among other things, invest substantially all of its assets in interests in real estate (including mortgages and other REITs) or cash and government securities, derive most of its income from rents from real property or interest on loans secured by mortgages on real property, and distribute to stockholders annually a substantial portion of its taxable income. As a REIT, we are required to distribute at least 90% of our taxable income to our stockholders each year and would be subject to corporate level federal income taxes on any taxable income that is not distributed.

Our Company is headquartered in New York, New York and as of February 13, 2025, we had 29 employees.

Recent Developments

Our investment strategy is predicated on the belief that automobility will remain the dominant form of consumer transportation in the United States and