Q3 2024 Simon Property Group Inc Earnings Call

In This Article:

Participants

Tom Ward; Senior Vice President of Investor Relations; Simon Property Group Inc

David Simon; Chairman of the Board, President, Chief Executive Officer; Simon Property Group Inc

Brian McDade; Chief Financial Officer, Executive Vice President; Simon Property Group Inc

Steve Sakwa; Analyst; EVERCORE ISI

Caitlin Burrows; Analyst; Goldman Sachs

Jeffrey Spector; Analyst; BofA Global Research

Craig Mailman; Analyst; Citi

Greg McGinniss; Analyst; Scotiabank GBM

Alexander Goldfarb; Analyst; Piper Sandler Companies

Floris van Dijkum; Analyst; Compass Point Research & Trading LLC

Vince Tibone; Analyst; Green Street

Juan Sanabria; Analyst; BMO Capital Markets

Michael Goldsmith; Analyst; UBS Equities

Michael Mueller; Analyst; JPMorgan

Linda Tsai; Analyst; Jefferies

Ki Bin Kim; Analyst; Truist Securities

Ronald Kamdem; Analyst; Morgan Stanley

Presentation

Operator

Greetings and welcome to the Simon Property Group third quarter, 2024 earnings conference call. (Operator Instructions) As a reminder, this conference is being recorded. It is now my pleasure to introduce your host, Tom Ward, Senior Vice President of Investor Relations. Thank you, Tom. You may begin.

Tom Ward

Thank you, Paul. Good morning and thank you for joining us today. Presenting on today's call are David Simon, Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President and Brian McDade, Chief Financial Officer.
A quick reminder that statements made during this call may be deemed forward-looking statements within the meaning of the safe harbor of the private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1,995. And actual results may differ materially due to a variety of risks uncertainties and other factors. We refer you to today's press release and our SEC filings for a detailed discussion of the risk factors relating to those forward-looking statements.
Please note that this call includes information that may be accurate only as of today's date. Reconciliations of non-GAAP financial measures to the most directly comparable GAAP measures are included within the press release. And the supplemental information in today's form 8-K filing.
Both the press release and the supplemental information are available on our IR website at investors.simon.com. Our conference call this morning will be limited to one hour for those who would like to participate in the question answer session. We ask that you please respect our request to limit yourself to one question.
I am pleased to introduce David Simon.

David Simon

Good morning, everybody. And I'm pleased with our financial and operational performance. In the third quarter, we saw increased leasing volumes, occupancy gains and the total retail sales volumes. Demand for our space from a broad spectrum of tenants is strong and steady and we continue to strengthen our unique retail real estate platform through our growing development and redevelopment pipeline.
This combined with our A rated balance sheet really sets us apart and allows us to focus on the future. We raised our dividend again to $2.10. We're now in our historical high overcoming the arbitrary capricious closing of our real estate during COVID, we have a low payout ratio.
And now turn it over to Brian, who will cover our third quarter results and full year guidance in more detail, Brian.