FrontView REIT Announces First Quarter 2025 Results and Updates Full Year 2025 Guidance

DALLAS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–FrontView REIT, Inc. (NYSE: FVR) (the “Company”, “FrontView”, “we”, “our”, or “us”), today announced its operating results for the quarter ended March 31, 2025 and updated full year 2025 guidance for the Company.

MANAGEMENT COMMENTARY

Stephen Preston, Co-CEO and Chairman, commented, “We are pleased to report a very successful first quarter of 2025 from not only an acquisition standpoint, but also from an operational standpoint. We continue to demonstrate our ability to drive growth through accretive acquisitions; we acquired approximately $49.2 million of high-quality assets with frontage at a 7.9% average cash cap rate during the first quarter. Further, we continue to see significant opportunity in our marketplace to acquire assets at below market pricing as we continue to acquire outside the institutional landscape. Operationally, we generated AFFO of $0.30 due to certain operating efficiencies and strong rent collections for leased properties of 99.5%. As previously reported, based upon our asset management efforts to date on the recent vacant 12 properties, subject to customary due diligence and closing conditions, we expect the equivalent return of between approximately 3% and 4% of the approximately 4% year end ABR previously lost and expect this equivalent replacement income to come back online in Q4 2025 or in early 2026. Finally, subsequent to the quarter end, we announced the appointment of Randall Starr to serve as our Chief Financial Officer, in addition to continuing to serve as our Co-Chief Executive Officer and Co-President. We could not be more pleased with this outcome and look forward to continuing to work closely with Randy as we build this company.”

FIRST QUARTER 2025 HIGHLIGHTS

SUMMARIZED FINANCIAL RESULTS

FFO and AFFO are measures that are not calculated in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“GAAP”). See the Reconciliation of Non-GAAP Measures later in this press release.

REAL ESTATE PORTFOLIO

As of March 31, 2025, we owned a diversified portfolio of 323 individual net leased commercial properties, comprising approximately 2.6 million rentable square feet of operational space. As of March 31, 2025, all but seven of our properties were subject to a lease, and our properties were occupied by 329 different commercial tenants, with no single tenant accounting for more than 3.1% of our annualized base rent (“ABR”). Properties subject to a lease represent 96.3% of the number of properties in our portfolio. The ABR weighted average lease term, pursuant to leases on properties in the portfolio as of March 31, 2025, was 7.4 years.

DISTRIBUTIONS

On May 13, 2025, our board of directors declared a quarterly dividend of $0.215 per common share and OP unit to holders of record as of June 30, 2025, payable on or before July 15, 2025.

UPDATED 2025 GUIDANCE

FrontView reaffirms our prior 2025 AFFO guidance within $1.20 to $1.26 per diluted share as summarized by the key assumptions below:

Our per share results are sensitive to both the timing and amount of real estate investments, property dispositions, and capital markets activities that occur throughout the year.

We do not provide guidance for the most comparable GAAP financial measure, net income, or a reconciliation of the forward-looking non-GAAP financial measure of AFFO to net income computed in accordance with GAAP, because we are unable to reasonably predict, without unreasonable efforts, certain items that would be contained in the GAAP measure, including items that are not indicative of our ongoing operations, including, without limitation, potential impairments of real estate assets, net gain/loss on dispositions of real estate assets, changes in allowance for credit losses, and stock-based compensation expense. These items are uncertain, depend on various factors, and could have a material impact on our GAAP results for the guidance periods.

CONFERENCE CALL AND WEBCAST

The Company will host its first quarter earnings conference call and audio webcast on Thursday, May 15, 2025, at 10:00 a.m. Central Time.

To access the live webcast, which will be available in listen-only mode, please visit: https://events.q4inc.com/attendee/619220748. If you prefer to listen via phone, U.S. participants may dial: 1-800-549-8228 (toll free) or 646-564-2877 (local), conference ID 67350.

A replay of the conference call webcast will be available approximately one hour after the conclusion of the live broadcast. To listen to a replay of the call via the web, which will be available for one year, please visit: investor.frontviewreit.com.

About FrontView REIT, Inc.

FrontView is an internally-managed net-lease REIT that acquires, owns and manages primarily properties with frontage that are net leased to a diversified group of tenants. FrontView is differentiated by an investment approach focused on properties that are in prominent locations with direct frontage on high-traffic roads that are highly visible to consumers. As of March 31, 2025, FrontView owned a well-diversified portfolio of 323 properties with direct frontage across 37 U.S. states. FrontView focuses on service-oriented tenants, including restaurants, cellular stores, financial institutions, automotive stores and dealers, medical and dental providers, convenience and gas stores, pharmacies, car washes, home improvement stores, grocery stores, fitness operators, professional services as well as general retail tenants.

Forward-Looking Statements

This press release contains “forward-looking” statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, regarding, among other things, our plans, strategies, and prospects, both business and financial. Such forward-looking statements can generally be identified by our use of forward-looking terminology such as “outlook,” “potential,” “may,” “will,” “should,” “could,” “seeks,” “approximately,” “projects,” “predicts,” “expect,” “intends,” “anticipates,” “estimates,” “plans,” “would be,” “believes,” “continues,” or the negative version of these words or other comparable words. Forward-looking statements, including our 2025 guidance and assumptions, involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties, which may cause FVR’s actual future results to differ materially from expected results, including, without limitation, risks and uncertainties related to general economic conditions, including but not limited to increases in the rate of inflation and/or interest rates, local real estate conditions, tenant financial health, property investments and acquisitions, and the timing and uncertainty of completing these property investments and acquisitions, and uncertainties regarding future distributions to our stockholders. These and other risks, assumptions, and uncertainties are described in Item 1A. “Risk Factors” of the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024, which the Company filed with the SEC on March 20, 2025, which you are encouraged to read, and is available on the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov. Should one or more of these risks or uncertainties materialize, or should underlying assumptions prove incorrect, actual results may vary materially from those indicated or anticipated by such forward-looking statements. Accordingly, you are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date they are made. The Company assumes no obligation to, and does not currently intend to, update any forward-looking statements after the date of this press release, whether as a result of new information, future events, changes in assumptions, or otherwise.

Notice Regarding Non-GAAP Financial Measures

In addition to our reported results and net earnings per diluted share, which are financial measures presented in accordance with GAAP, this press release contains and may refer to certain non-GAAP financial measures, including Funds from Operations (“FFO”), AFFO, Net Debt and Net Debt to Annualized Adjusted EBITDAre. We believe the use of FFO and AFFO are useful to investors because they are widely accepted industry measures used by analysts and investors to compare the operating performance of REITs. FFO and AFFO should not be considered alternatives to net income as a performance measure or to cash flows from operations, as reported on our statement of cash flows, or as a liquidity measure, and should be considered in addition to, and not in lieu of, GAAP financial measures. We believe presenting Net Debt to Annualized Adjusted EBITDAre is useful to investors because it provides information about gross debt less cash and cash equivalents, which could be used to repay debt, compared to our performance as measured using Annualized Adjusted EBITDAre. You should not consider our Annualized Adjusted EBITDAre as an alternative to net income or cash flows from operating activities determined in accordance with GAAP. A reconciliation of non-GAAP measures to the most directly comparable GAAP financial measure and statements of why management believes these measures are useful to investors are included below.

Reconciliation of Non-GAAP Measures

The following is a reconciliation of net income to FFO and AFFO for the following periods:

Our reported results and net earnings per diluted share are presented in accordance with GAAP. We also disclose FFO and AFFO, each of which are non-GAAP measures. We believe these non-GAAP financial measures are industry measures used by analysts and investors to compare the operating performance of REITs. FFO and AFFO should not be considered alternatives to net income as a performance measure or to cash flows from operations, as reported on our statement of cash flows, or as a liquidity measure, and should be considered in addition to, and not in lieu of, GAAP financial measures.

We compute FFO in accordance with the standards established by the Board of Governors of the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts (“Nareit”). Nareit defines FFO as GAAP net income or loss adjusted to exclude net gains (losses) from sales of certain depreciated real estate assets, depreciation and amortization expense from real estate assets, gains and losses from change in control, and impairment charges related to certain previously depreciated real estate assets. FFO is used by management, investors, and analysts to facilitate meaningful comparisons of operating performance between periods and among our peers, primarily because it excludes the effect of real estate depreciation and amortization and net gains on sales, which are based on historical costs and implicitly assume that the value of real estate diminishes predictably over time, rather than fluctuating based on existing market conditions. To derive AFFO, we modify the Nareit computation of FFO to include other adjustments to GAAP net income related to certain non-cash or non-recurring revenues and expenses, including straight-line rents, cost of debt extinguishments, amortization of lease intangibles, amortization of debt issuance costs, amortization of net mortgage premiums, (gain) loss on interest rate swaps and other non-cash interest expense, realized gains or losses on foreign currency transactions, Internalization expenses, structuring and public company readiness costs, extraordinary items, and other specified non-cash items. We believe that such items are not a result of normal operations and thus we believe excluding such items assists management and investors in distinguishing whether changes in our operations are due to growth or decline of operations at our properties or from other factors. We use AFFO as a measure of our performance when we formulate corporate goals. We believe that AFFO is a useful supplemental measure for investors to consider because it will help them to better assess our operating performance without the distortions created by one-time cash and non-cash revenues or expenses.

Our leases typically include cash rents that increase through lease escalations over the term of the lease. Our leases do not typically include significant front-loading or back-loading of payments, or significant rent-free periods. Therefore, we find it useful to evaluate rent on a contractual basis as it allows for comparison of existing rental rates to market rental rates. We further exclude costs or gains recorded on the extinguishment of debt, non-cash interest expense and gains, the amortization of debt issuance costs, net mortgage premiums, and lease intangibles, realized gains and losses on foreign currency transactions, Internalization expenses, and structuring and public company readiness costs, as these items are not indicative of ongoing operational results.

FFO and AFFO may not be comparable to similarly titled measures employed by other REITs, and comparisons of our FFO and AFFO with the same or similar measures disclosed by other REITs may not be meaningful.

Neither the SEC nor any other regulatory body has passed judgment on the acceptability of the adjustments to FFO that we use to calculate AFFO. In the future, the SEC, Nareit or another regulatory body may decide to standardize the allowable adjustments across the REIT industry and in response to such standardization we may have to adjust our calculation and characterization of AFFO accordingly.

The following is a reconciliation of net income to EBITDA, EBITDAre, and Adjusted EBITDAre, debt to Net Debt and Net Debt to Annualized Adjusted EBITDAre as of and for the three months ended March 31, 2025, and 2024:

Net Debt is a non-GAAP financial measure. We define Net Debt as our Gross Debt less cash and cash equivalents. The ratios of Net Debt to EBITDAre and Net Debt to Annualized Adjusted EBITDAre represent Net Debt as of the end of the applicable period divided by EBITDAre or Annualized Adjusted EBITDAre for the period, respectively.

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