Invitation Homes Reports First Quarter 2024 Results

DALLAS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Invitation Homes Inc. (NYSE: INVH) (“Invitation Homes” or the “Company”), the nation’s premier single-family home leasing and management company, today announced its First Quarter 2024 financial and operating results.

First Quarter 2024 Highlights

• Year over year, total revenues increased 9.5% to $646 million, property operating and maintenance costs increased 10.5% to $230 million, net income available to common stockholders increased 18.4% to $142 million, and net income per diluted common share increased 18.2% to $0.23.
• Year over year, Core FFO per share increased 5.7% to $0.47 and AFFO per share increased 6.8% to $0.41.
• Same Store NOI increased 4.7% year over year on 5.6% Same Store Core Revenues growth and 7.4% Same Store Core Operating Expenses growth.
• Same Store Bad Debt was 1.0% of gross rental revenue, representing four consecutive quarters of improvement and a year over year improvement of approximately 80 basis points.
• Same Store Average Occupancy was 97.6%, down 20 basis points year over year and up 50 basis points from the prior quarter.
• Same Store renewal rent growth of 5.8% and Same Store new lease rent growth of 0.8% drove Same Store blended rent growth of 4.4%.
• Acquisitions by the Company and the Company’s joint ventures totaled 273 homes for approximately $96 million while dispositions totaled 399 homes for approximately $157 million.
• As previously announced in January 2024, the Company began providing professional property and asset management services to portfolio owners of single-family homes for lease. This was launched through an inaugural agreement with a third-party portfolio owner that brought over 14,000 single-family homes onto the Company’s industry-leading management platform.
• In March 2024, the Company entered into a third-party agreement to provide property and asset management services for a portfolio of approximately 3,000 single-family homes for lease, which is expected to commence May 15, 2024.

Subsequent to quarter end and concurrent with this earnings release, the Company announced it has entered into a new joint venture agreement whereby Invitation Homes has made a $37.5 million investment, representing a 7.2% ownership interest, in a portfolio of approximately 3,700 single-family homes for lease. The Company also expects to provide property and asset management services to those homes and an additional 700 homes beginning in the third quarter of 2024.

Comments from Chief Executive Officer Dallas Tanner

“We’re pleased to start 2024 with strong operating results and execution on our growth strategy. This includes first quarter Same Store average occupancy of 97.6%, net operating income growth of 4.7%, blended lease rate growth of 4.4%, and a substantial improvement in bad debt year over year. As the nation’s premier single-family home leasing and management company, the rapid growth of our third-party management business is attributable to the high value of our platform, scale, and people. I’d like to thank our associates for their hard work in making this a seamless transition to date, as well as extend my appreciation to all of our esteemed partners for putting their trust in us. We look forward to working with them and continuing to forge new relationships with those who desire our industry-leading management experience.”

Glossary & Reconciliations of Non-GAAP Financial and Other Operating Measures

Financial and operating measures found in the Earnings Release and Supplemental Information include certain measures used by Invitation Homes management that are measures not defined under accounting principles generally accepted in the United States (“GAAP”). These measures are defined herein and, as applicable, reconciled to the most comparable GAAP measures.

Financial Results

Net Income

Year over year, net income per common share — diluted for Q1 2024 increased 18.2% to $0.23, primarily due to an increase in gain on sale of property, net of tax.

Core FFO

Year over year, Core FFO per share for Q1 2024 increased 5.7% to $0.47, primarily due to NOI growth.

AFFO

Year over year, AFFO per share for Q1 2024 increased 6.8% to $0.41, primarily due to the increase in Core FFO per share described above.

Operating Results

Same Store NOI

For the Same Store Portfolio of 78,487 homes, Same Store NOI for Q1 2024 increased 4.7% year over year on Same Store Core Revenues growth of 5.6% and Same Store Core Operating Expenses growth of 7.4%.

Same Store Core Revenues

Same Store Core Revenues growth for Q1 2024 of 5.6% year over year was primarily driven by a 4.6% increase in Average Monthly Rent, an 80 basis point year over year improvement in Bad Debt as a percentage of gross rental revenue, and a 15.9% increase in other income, net of resident recoveries, partially offset by a 20 basis point year over year decline in Average Occupancy.

Same Store Core Operating Expenses

Same Store Core Operating Expenses for Q1 2024 increased 7.4% year over year, primarily attributable to an 11.8% increase in fixed expenses that was partially offset by a 0.5% decrease in controllable expenses. The 11.8% increase in fixed expenses was primarily attributable to property taxes expense, which for Q1 2024 increased 11.6% year over year. As previously disclosed, due to the underaccrual of property taxes expense in the first three quarters of 2023, and the associated catch up in Q4 2023, the Company expects property taxes expense growth for the first three quarters of 2024 to be elevated, prior to normalizing in Q4 2024 to result in the Company’s expected guidance range for FY 2024 property taxes expense growth of 8% to 10%.

Investment and Property Management Activity

Acquisitions for Q1 2024 totaled 273 homes for approximately $96 million through the Company’s various acquisition channels. This included 257 wholly owned homes for approximately $91 million in addition to 16 homes for approximately $5 million in the Company’s joint ventures. Dispositions for Q1 2024 included 379 wholly owned homes for gross proceeds of approximately $148 million and 20 homes for gross proceeds of approximately $9 million in the Company’s joint ventures.

As previously announced in January 2024, the Company began providing professional property and asset management services to portfolio owners of single-family homes for lease. This was launched through an inaugural agreement with a third-party portfolio owner that brought over 14,000 single-family homes onto the Company’s industry-leading management platform.

In March 2024, the Company entered into a third-party agreement to provide property and asset management services for a portfolio of approximately 3,000 single-family homes for lease, which is expected to commence May 15, 2024.

Subsequent to quarter end and concurrent with this earnings release, the Company announced it has entered into a new joint venture agreement whereby Invitation Homes has made a $37.5 million investment, representing a 7.2% ownership interest, in a portfolio of approximately 3,700 single-family homes for lease. The Company also expects to provide property and asset management services to those homes and an additional 700 homes beginning in the third quarter of 2024.

A summary of the Company’s owned and/or managed homes is included in the following table:

Balance Sheet and Capital Markets Activity

As of March 31, 2024, the Company had $1,738 million in available liquidity through a combination of unrestricted cash and undrawn capacity on its revolving credit facility. The Company’s total indebtedness as of March 31, 2024 was $8,607 million, consisting of $6,575 million of unsecured debt and $2,032 million of secured debt. Net debt / TTM adjusted EBITDAre was 5.4x at March 31, 2024, down from 5.5x as of December 31, 2023. The Company has no debt reaching final maturity until 2026, and in addition, 99.5% of its total debt was fixed rate or swapped to fixed rate and 83.6% of its wholly owned homes were unencumbered as of March 31, 2024.

Subsequent to quarter end and as previously announced on April 29, 2024, the Company’s issuer and issue-level credit ratings were upgraded by Moody’s Investors Service to ‘Baa2’ from ‘Baa3’ with a Stable outlook.

FY 2024 Guidance Details

The Company does not provide guidance for the most comparable GAAP financial measures of net income (loss), total revenues, and property operating and maintenance expense. Additionally, a reconciliation of the forward-looking non-GAAP financial measures of Core FFO per share, AFFO per share, Same Store Core Revenues growth, Same Store Core Operating Expenses growth, and Same Store NOI growth to the comparable GAAP financial measures cannot be provided without unreasonable effort because the Company is unable to reasonably predict certain items contained in the GAAP measures, including non-recurring and infrequent items that are not indicative of the Company’s ongoing operations. Such items include, but are not limited to, impairment on depreciated real estate assets, net (gain)/loss on sale of previously depreciated real estate assets, share-based compensation, casualty loss, non-Same Store revenues, and non-Same Store operating expenses. These items are uncertain, depend on various factors, and could have a material impact on the Company’s GAAP results for the guidance period.

Full year 2024 guidance remains unchanged from initial guidance provided in February 2024, as outlined in the table below.

Earnings Conference Call Information

Invitation Homes has scheduled a conference call at 11:00 a.m. Eastern Time on May 1, 2024, to discuss results for the first quarter of 2024. The domestic dial-in number is 1-888-330-2384, and the international dial-in number is 1-240-789-2701. The conference ID is 7714113. A live audio webcast may be accessed at www.invh.com. A replay of the call will be available through May 31, 2024, and can be accessed by calling 1-800-770-2030 (domestic) or 1-609-800-9909 (international) and using the playback ID 7714113, or by using the link at www.invh.com.

Supplemental Information

The full text of the Earnings Release and Supplemental Information referenced in this release are available on Invitation Homes’ Investor Relations website at www.invh.com.

About Invitation Homes

Invitation Homes, an S&P 500 company, is the nation’s premier single-family home leasing and management company, meeting changing lifestyle demands by providing access to high-quality, updated homes with valued features such as close proximity to jobs and access to good schools. The company’s mission, “Together with you, we make a house a home,” reflects its commitment to providing homes where individuals and families can thrive and high-touch service that continuously enhances residents’ living experiences.

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 (the “Exchange Act”), which include, but are not limited to, statements related to the Company’s expectations regarding the performance of the Company’s business, its financial results, its liquidity and capital resources, and other non-historical statements. In some cases, you can identify these forward-looking statements by the use of words such as “outlook,” “guidance,” “believes,” “expects,” “potential,” “continues,” “may,” “will,” “should,” “could,” “seeks,” “projects,” “predicts,” “intends,” “plans,” “estimates,” “anticipates,” or the negative version of these words or other comparable words. Such forward-looking statements are subject to various risks and uncertainties, including, among others, risks inherent to the single-family rental industry and the Company’s business model, macroeconomic factors beyond the Company’s control, competition in identifying and acquiring properties, competition in the leasing market for quality residents, increasing property taxes, homeowners’ association and insurance costs, poor resident selection and defaults and non-renewals by the Company’s residents, the Company’s dependence on third parties for key services, risks related to the evaluation of properties, performance of the Company’s information technology systems, risks related to the Company’s indebtedness, and risks related to the potential negative impact of unfavorable global and United States economic conditions (including inflation and rising interest rates), uncertainty in financial markets (including as a result of events affecting financial institutions), geopolitical tensions, natural disasters, climate change, and public health crises, on the Company’s financial condition, results of operations, cash flows, business, associates, and residents. Accordingly, there are or will be important factors that could cause actual outcomes or results to differ materially from those indicated in these statements. The Company believes these factors include, but are not limited to, those described under Part I. Item 1A. “Risk Factors” of its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2023 (the “Annual Report”), as such factors may be updated from time to time in the Company’s periodic filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”), which are accessible on the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov. These factors should not be construed as exhaustive and should be read in conjunction with the other cautionary statements that are included in this release, in the Annual Report, and in the Company’s other periodic filings. The forward-looking statements speak only as of the date of this press release, and the Company expressly disclaims any obligation or undertaking to publicly update or review any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future developments or otherwise, except to the extent otherwise required by law.

Glossary and Reconciliations

Average Monthly Rent

Average monthly rent represents average monthly rental income per home for occupied properties in an identified population of homes over the measurement period, and reflects the impact of non-service rental concessions and contractual rent increases amortized over the life of the lease.

Average Occupancy

Average occupancy for an identified population of homes represents (i) the total number of days that the homes in such population were occupied during the measurement period, divided by (ii) the total number of days that the homes in such population were owned during the measurement period.

Bad Debt

Bad debt represents the Company’s reserves for residents’ accounts receivables balances that are aged greater than 30 days, under the rationale that a resident’s security deposit should cover approximately the first 30 days of receivables. For all resident receivables balances aged greater than 30 days, the amount reserved as bad debt is 100% of outstanding receivables from the resident, less the amount of the resident’s security deposit on hand. For the purpose of determining age of receivables, charges are considered to be due based on the terms of the original lease, not based on a payment plan if one is in place. All rental revenues and other property income, in both Total Portfolio and Same Store Portfolio presentations, are reflected net of bad debt.

Core Operating Expenses

Core operating expenses for an identified population of homes reflect property operating and maintenance expenses, excluding any expenses recovered from residents.

Core Revenues

Core revenues for an identified population of homes reflects total revenues, net of any resident recoveries.

EBITDA, EBITDAre, and Adjusted EBITDAre

EBITDA, EBITDAre, and Adjusted EBITDAre are supplemental, non-GAAP measures often utilized to evaluate the performance of real estate companies. The Company defines EBITDA as net income or loss computed in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States (“GAAP”) before the following items: interest expense; income tax expense; depreciation and amortization; and adjustments for unconsolidated joint ventures. National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts (“Nareit”) recommends as a best practice that REITs that report an EBITDA performance measure also report EBITDAre. The Company defines EBITDAre, consistent with the Nareit definition, as EBITDA, further adjusted for gain on sale of property, net of tax, impairment on depreciated real estate investments, and adjustments for unconsolidated joint ventures. Adjusted EBITDAre is defined as EBITDAre before the following items: share-based compensation expense; severance; casualty losses, net; (gains) losses on investments in equity securities, net; and other income and expenses. EBITDA, EBITDAre, and Adjusted EBITDAre are used as supplemental financial performance measures by management and by external users of the Company’s financial statements, such as investors and commercial banks. Set forth below is additional detail on how management uses EBITDA, EBITDAre, and Adjusted EBITDAre as measures of performance.

The GAAP measure most directly comparable to EBITDA, EBITDAre, and Adjusted EBITDAre is net income or loss. EBITDA, EBITDAre, and Adjusted EBITDAre are not used as measures of the Company’s liquidity and should not be considered alternatives to net income or loss or any other measure of financial performance presented in accordance with GAAP. The Company’s EBITDA, EBITDAre, and Adjusted EBITDAre may not be comparable to the EBITDA, EBITDAre, and Adjusted EBITDAre of other companies due to the fact that not all companies use the same definitions of EBITDA, EBITDAre, and Adjusted EBITDAre. Accordingly, there can be no assurance that the Company’s basis for computing these non-GAAP measures is comparable with that of other companies.

Contacts

Investor Relations Contact
Scott McLaughlin

844.456.INVH (4684)

IR@InvitationHomes.com

Media Relations Contact
Kristi DesJarlais

972.421.3587

Media@InvitationHomes.com

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