Ladies and gentlemen, good morning, and welcome to the NETSTREIT Corp first quarter 2024 earnings conference call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. A brief question and answer session will follow the formal presentation. If anyone should require operator assistance during the conference, please press star and zero on your telephone keypad. As a reminder, this conference is being recorded. It is now my pleasure to introduce your host, Amy An, Investor Relations. Please go ahead. We thank you for joining us for NETSTREIT's first quarter 2024 earnings conference call. In addition to the press release distributed yesterday after market close, we posted a supplemental package and an updated investor presentation. Both can be found in the investor relations section of the company's website at www.netstreit.com. On today's call, management's remarks and answers to your questions may contain forward-looking statements as defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements address matters that are subject to risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ from those discussed today. For more information about these risk factors, we encourage you to review our Form 10-K for the year ended December 31st, 2023, and our other SEC filings. All forward-looking statements are made as of the date hereof, and NETSTREIT assumes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements in the future. In addition, certain financial information presented on this call includes non-GAAP financial measures. Please refer to our earnings release and supplemental package for definitions of our non-GAAP measures, reconciliations to the most comparable GAAP measure, and an explanation of why we believe such non-GAAP financial measures are useful to investors. Today's conference call is hosted by NETSTREIT's Chief Executive Officer, Mark Manheimer, and Chief Financial Officer, Dan Donlan. They will make some prepared remarks, and then we will open the call for your questions. Now I'll turn the call over to Mark. Mark? Thank you, Amy, and thank you all for taking the time to join us this morning on our first quarter 2024 earnings call. First, I want to extend my thanks to the NETSTREIT team. Our strong start to the year would not have been possible without their fantastic work. We kicked off the year as one of only two REITs to raise follow-on equity in January, while also remaining active on our ATM program. We have raised nearly $230 million of equity year- to- date, which gives the team ample dry powder to transact at our current investment pace through year-end. Due to a drastic decrease in competition, we are continuing to pursue investment opportunities at attractive prices. The team remains diligently focused on investing in properties with the strongest tenants in defensive retail sectors that heavily rely on their physical locations to make profit. We continue to see great opportunities with not only investment-grade tenants, which now make up a sector-leading 71.1% of our portfolio, but also with investment-grade profile tenants and low-risk sub-investment grade and unrated tenants. While the buyer pool has thinned, we also continue to execute on strategic dispositions to lower our concentration in certain tenants and/or recycle the capital into investments with longer leases and better rent escalations. In the first quarter, we completed over $129 million of gross investment activity at a blended cash yield of 7.5%, a 30- basis point sequential quarter-over-quarter increase. Acquisitions closed in the quarter were with strong, nationally recognized tenants such as Tractor Supply, Dollar General, and Bridgestone Firestone, to name a few. From a tenant perspective, 84.8% of our investments completed in the quarter were with investment-grade tenants, which includes the completion of 10 new developments. Moving to our disposition activity, we sold 12 properties for $21.6 million at a 6.8% cash yield in the quarter. These properties were leased to tenants in the dollar store, drugstore, pharmacy, discount, retail, and con- and convenience store industries. At quarter end, our portfolio consisted of 628 investments with an ABR of $140.3 million. Our 88 tenants operate in 26 industries across 45 states, with 84.4% of our portfolio leased to investment-grade or investment-grade profile tenants. Our focus on long-term leases and high-quality tenants has provided us with a favorable lease expiration schedule. For example, subsequent to quarter end, we renewed the one lease that was expiring in 2024 for a 12.5% increase in rent. Looking out to 2025, we have 1.8% of ABR expiring, which our team is actively addressing. We currently expect these expirations to have a positive impact on our cash flow and our portfolio weighted average lease term. We believe our high credit quality and minimal lease expiration risk in the near term provides stability of our cash flows. Turning to recent tenant headlines, I wanted to provide some commentary as it relates to Dollar Tree and their concentration within our portfolio. In March of this year, Dollar Tree, who acquired Family Dollar in 2015, announced that they intend to close several stores across the country, the bulk of which will be Family Dollar-branded stores. This was not a surprise to us, as we have been addressing our Family Dollar locations via asset sales and proactive lease extensions over the past few years. With that in mind, we currently own 19 Family Dollar-branded stores, which comprise 1.4% of our ABR. Two of those stores, or 13 basis points of our ABR, have a lease that expires within five years. We would also note that in the last 12 months, we extended the initial lease terms of 10 stores, with the seven remaining stores having leases that were already long-term in nature. As such, we are confident in the productivity of our stores, and we were pleased to see none of our locations among the 103 Family Dollar stores on the initial closure list. Our relationship with Dollar Tree is strong, and we plan to continue working with them to minimize risk and maximize cash flows for our investors.... Before I turn the call over to Dan, I wanted to reiterate a couple points as it pertains to our balance sheet, portfolio, and tenancy. While there are multiple reported crosscurrents as it pertains to the health of the economy and the U.S. consumer, we believe our portfolio and tenant focus are well positioned to weather a prolonged negative impact in consumer spending, as well as provide a robust opportunity set from which to grow, should economic growth remain stable. Similarly, our low leverage and well-capitalized balance sheet provides us with sufficient capacity to grow externally, should the capital markets remain volatile, while also allowing us to remain highly competitive and opportunistic on the investment front, should the environment for spread investing improve from current levels. With that, I'm going to turn the call over to Dan to discuss our key financial highlights for the quarter. Thanks, Mark. Looking at our first quarter earnings results, we reported net income of $1 million or $0.01 per diluted share. Core FFO for the first quarter was $22.5 million, or $0.30 per diluted share, and AFFO was $22.9 million, or $0.31 per diluted share, which was a 3.3% increase over last year. Turning to the expense front, we saw total G&A, ex one-time severance payments, decline 1% year-over-year to $4.85 million, while our cash G&A, ex one-time severance payments, declined 11% year-over-year to $13.4 million. In addition, with our total quarterly G&A, ex one-time severance payments, representing 13% of total revenues in the quarter versus 17% of total revenues in the prior year quarter, our G&A continues to steadily rationalize relative to our revenue base. Turning to the balance sheet, our total adjusted net debt, which includes the impact of all forward equity as of quarter end, was $395.1 million. Our weighted average debt maturity is 3.9 years, and our weighted average interest rate is 4.36%. Including extension options, which can be exercised at our discretion, we have no debt maturing until January 2027. During the quarter, please note that we drew the remaining $100 million on our 2029 term loan. As Mark mentioned, we were active on the capital markets front this quarter. Utilizing the constructive macro backdrop that existed in early January, we sold over $198 million of forward equity at $18 per share in a follow-on offering. Additionally, we have remained opportunistic with our ATM program, with the year-to-date forward sales of $31 million through the end of April, including $2 million sold in March. At quarter end, our liquidity was $638.1 million, which consisted of $22.3 million of cash on hand, $324.9 million available on a revolving credit facility, and $290.9 million of unsettled forward equity. Including the $28.7 million of unsettled equity from our April ATM activity, our pro forma liquidity at quarter end was $666.8 million. Turning to leverage, our adjusted net debt to annualized adjusted EBITDAre was 3.1x at quarter end, which remains well below our targeted leverage range of 4.5x-5.5x. Furthermore, adjusting for our April ATM activity, our pro forma leverage declines to 2.9 x. Given this forward equity cushion, we can modestly exceed our 2023 net investment activity level and still end the year below the low end of our targeted leverage range, with no additional equity required this year. Moving on to guidance. We're increasing the low end of our 2024 AFFO per share guidance to a new range of $1.25-$1.28. In addition, we continue to expect cash G&A to range between $13.5 million and $14.5 million, which is exclusive of transaction costs and one-time severance payments. Lastly, on April 23rd, the Board declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.205 per share. The dividend will be payable on June 14th to shareholders of record as of June 3rd. Based on the dividend amount, our AFFO payout ratio for the first quarter was 66%. With that, operator, we will now open the line for questions. Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, we will now be conducting a question and answer session. If you would like to ask a question, please press star and one on your telephone keypad. A confirmation tone will indicate your line is in the question queue. You may press star and two if you would like to remove your question from the queue. For participants using speaker equipment, it may be necessary to pick up your handset before pressing the star keys. Ladies and gentlemen, we will wait for a moment while we poll for questions. Our first question is from the line of Haendel St. Juste with Mizuho Securities. Please go ahead. Hey, good morning to you guys. Morning. So, my first question, I guess, is on, you know, how should we interpret or what should we extrapolate from the first quarter activity and what it means for your capital deployment, over the near term? You've mentioned a few times that you can continue to buy at a sustainable pace without getting above your leverage metrics. But I'm curious how we should be thinking about the cap rates and spreads here. Are they indicative of where your cost of capital allows you to buy high grades in the current market? Thanks. Yeah, sure. I mean, I think with our current cost of capital and the opportunity set that we're seeing, I think you can expect us to continue to deploy at a pretty similar pace. As far as, you know, what to interpolate out of what we've acquired so far this year, you know, I think, you know, it looks a lot like what we've acquired over the past, you know, several quarters. You know, investment grade spreads and non-investment grade spreads have certainly gotten a lot more attractive than what they were. Historically, you know, on the non-investment grade side, you know, we've really focused on the very healthy non-investment grade tenants and industries that aren't facing a lot of headwinds with real estate that we think is-... Is fungible, and rents that we think are replaceable, whether they be non-investment grade, or just, or investment grade profile. I think you may see, you know, some more opportunities on the sale-leaseback side, for the remainder of the year. Certainly, in the second quarter, we, you know, we see a few of those, that we think are pretty attractive. We'll see if we get there on pricing, but I think you could see up to, you know, as much as half of what we do, in the second quarter, kind of fit some of that bucket. But, you know, really seeing a lot more attractive opportunities on the investment grade side and the, you know, what I call kind of the healthy non-investment grade side. Yeah, and Haendel, it's Dan. As we think about kind of future equity raising or debt raising, look, we've raised what we want to do for the year and frankly through the first quarter. So we can afford to be fairly patient and see if the market comes to us, whether it's on the capital side or if the opportunity set gets more attractive in terms of higher yields. So, you know, that's why we are where we are with the capital position, is we want to be able to be opportunistic if something comes available, and we've got plenty of time to ride out, you know, whatever, you know, this capital market environment may be over the next, you know, three to four quarters. Got it. Appreciate that. Maybe as a follow-up, just a bit more on how you're thinking about your ability to achieve your target, you know, 75 or 100 basis points of spread here. Should we, I guess, expect you to continue using maybe more term loans versus, you know, kind of given where the spot cost of a 10-year unsecured debt here is? Yeah, I mean, look, right now at just north of $2 billion in gross assets, you know, looking to the ten-year market is not nearly as efficient as doing as looking to the bank term loan market. That being said, you know, where we are today with all the forward equity that we have, you know, $320 million, you think about the pace that we're on, you know, our near-term capital needs will easily be able to be covered by the forward equity as well as our credit facility. You know, we really don't look—we're really not looking to do anything, you know, longer term in nature until we get out to kind of early to mid-2025, and we'll just have to see where the market is for term loans for, you know, seven-year private placements, 10-year private placements, whatever it may be. You know, thankfully, we have the capital right now not to have to, you know, concern ourselves with that right now. Got it. Got it. My second question is on Big Lots. Just wanted to check in. They're not in your top ten tenant list anymore. I'm curious if you're selling what the market is, and just generally where you'd like that exposure to get to. Thanks. Yeah, sure. Thanks, Haendel. Yeah, no, look, I mean, you know, we continue to monitor what's going on with Big Lots. You know, they closed 48 stores last year, none of which are ours. They also opened another 15. You know, it looks like they've finally right-sized inventories, starting to now finally see improvement in margins. Their cost-cutting appears to be helping, but at the end of the day, we really need to kind of see the sales bottom out and hopefully start to increase for us to have full confidence in their turnaround. So, you know, we're really relying on the strong real estate that we've got left after selling off a handful of those locations. You know, now we've got locations with below-market rents and attractive infill retail corridors. And so that's really our ultimate backstop. But we're, you know, we're open to potentially selling some more. We just don't feel like we have to be price takers, you know, with how attractive the real estate is that we're left with. There continues to be a market for those assets. I think, you know, we'd really like to see the, you know, cap rates be a little bit more aggressive for us to pull the trigger, but we've got, you know, a couple feelers out in the market, so I would not be shocked to see us, you know, move a couple more. Great. Appreciate the color, guys. Thank you. Thank you. Our next question is from Smedes Rose with Citibank. Please go ahead. Hi, thank you. I think since your last call with investors, you know, there's this narrative of kind of just, you know, higher for longer has taken hold, and I was just wondering if you could talk about what you're seeing in terms of seller pricing. Do you think there's more people just retreating at this point, given what I assume is an upward bias in cap rates? Or maybe just talk a little bit about the landscape of what you're seeing. Yeah, sure. No, it's, you know, certainly an interesting, you know, market. Does feel like, you know, the expectations have been muted on, you know, a lot of, you know, a lot of cuts coming. You know, we started the year with, you know, the expectation, at least from the market, that we'd see, you know, call, you know, six or seven cuts during the year, which is, you know, largely why we raised some equity, because we kind of didn't see the macro quite the, you know, quite the same way. But the seller market at that point in time was still, you know, really kind of banking on, you know, those rate cuts coming. Now, obviously, I think the, you know, the consensus is that, you know, we might get one in December or nothing at all. And so, I think there's been a little bit more of an acceptance that, you know, we could be in a higher for longer market. We've seen a lot more, actually opportunities than I would have expected, and that really keeps a lot of our competition on the sidelines. So it allows us to be very selective, allows us to really negotiate terms, you know, the way we like to see them, where we're not really competing against other people that are trying to buy the assets that we, you know, that we are. So, yeah, I mean, cap rates have continued to move up. You know, what we're seeing in the second quarter, you know, I think will likely look a lot like the first quarter. But yeah, I think there has been a little bit more of an acceptance that, you know, the Fed's not gonna turn around and just start cutting rates and bring us back to 2021. ... So sorry, you said second quarter cap rates should be kind of in line with what you saw in the first quarter, or you think it'll be or you, you meant the sequential increase will be similar? You know, I think the rates will be similar in the second quarter than the first. Yeah, we still haven't, you know, depending on what closes, you know, we're still sourcing a few more opportunities in the second quarter, but kind of what we have in the pipeline today looks pretty similar. Although the lease term, we're getting much longer lease terms with better rental increases. Okay, thank you. Thank you. Our next question is from Greg McGinniss with Scotiabank. Please go ahead. Hey, good morning. On the acquisition side, I'm just curious, should we kind of expect to see more of the same in terms of what you're looking to target, from a concept and industry standpoint? Or are there any kind of new concept industries out there that, you know, given your cost of capital, maybe you're now able to address, or where cap rates have changed, you're now able to address? Or I guess, just any changes in terms of industries that you're targeting? Yeah, sure. And so I mean, you've seen, you know, specific mostly to, to Dollar General, you've seen that concentration, move up quite a bit. A lot of that was funding developers that we committed to, you know, last year. So I think we've got maybe another, you know, call it four or five months left of kind of, kind of funding some of that. But that's going to be a little bit less than what you've seen, you know, in the past. You will see a few new tenants, come into the portfolio. We do think it's important for us to, to increase the diversification, not only in the top 20, just, you know, just broadly across, the portfolio. And we are seeing, you know, some attractive sale-leasebacks and, and other opportunities that we hadn't in the past. There's a few that we've been active with on the development side that, you know, maybe haven't popped into our top 20, but are kind of getting close there, in the collision space. So, I, I think you will see a few new tenants, you know, pop into the portfolio, that I think, you know, we find to be very attractive, and cap rates would have been, you know, much lower, call it, you know, 18, 24 months ago, that we would not have been able to, to have put in the portfolio. Mm-hmm. Okay. And then, and then on that development side, I, I believe you previously mentioned that you've been able to negotiate escalators into some of those development deals that previously didn't have them. Have there been any other changes on the, on the leasing side in terms of being able to build in escalators or, or different terms as the, the financing market has changed? Yeah, I mean, I think, you know, not much of a change quarter- over- quarter, but yeah, I mean, we're getting, you know, better rent escalators in leases that historically have been flat, so that's driven a lot of our capital recycling program. Bringing in some of those tenants with now longer leases, with better rent bumps, and then turn around and selling, you know, some of the flat leases with less term, you know, out of the portfolio, and being able to do that, you know, slightly accretively, has been something that we've focused on. But no real big change quarter- over- quarter. Okay, thanks. And final for me. Apologies if you already addressed this, but have you guys talked about bad debt expectations built into guidance for the year? Yeah, we did on the last call. I think as we sit here today, you know, we're still on an annualized basis, we're still modeling somewhere between 20-25 basis points at the high end of our AFFO guidance range. Okay, thank you. Thank you. Our next question is from the line of Alex Fagan with Baird. Please go ahead. Hi, thank you for taking my question this morning. First one for me is, can you just talk about what are the categories that are in the assets held for sale? Yeah, it's a pretty big mix. You know, we've got, you know, some of the Big Lots are in there. And, you know, a lot of the dollar stores that, you know, I mentioned, where we're kind of recycling through to improve the escalators, but it's a broad, pretty broad mix of property type. Got it. Thank you. And second one is, may you provide some color on the current in-place rents for the 19 Family Dollar stores in the portfolio, and where you think the market is at for those properties, if you did need to lease them? Yes. I mean, you're, you're talking about, you know, $90,000-$100,000 per property, so, in annual rent. So very inexpensive, rents that we think are largely, replaceable. That being said, you know, you know, we've worked very closely with, with the tenant there and understanding the profitability and, and their commitment to, to our sites. So we still feel good, that there's, you know, you know... They could always close, you know, a couple, you know, if they're gonna close as many stores as, as, as they're talking about. But, you know, certainly pleased to see, you know, their first list of 103 locations, that none of ours were, were on that list. That being said, you know, we do think that, you know, a lot of ours are pretty infill locations and we would have a lot of interest from, you know, various different tenants to take those assets at similar rents or potentially even higher rents. Got it. That's helpful. Thank you. Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, a reminder, if you wish to ask a question, please press star and one. Our next question is from the line of Joshua Dennerlein with Bank of America. Please go ahead. Hi, this is Farrell Granath on behalf of Josh. I wanted to know if you could touch on, what you're seeing in investment spreads relative to where you can deploy capital today? Yeah, sure. I mean, you know, I'll take the first piece, which is, you know, we've you know most recent quarter, we're calling you know 7.5%. I think you're gonna kind of expect that to be similar in the second quarter. You know, we really only have visibility going out you know into the second quarter and you know not as far as you know getting into the third. So, tough to project you know beyond that, but you know certainly gives us a pretty healthy spread off of where we raised capital earlier this year. Great. And I know you already touched on Big Lots and Family Dollar. I was curious if there's any other color on tenant watch list? Yeah, sure. I mean, nothing on the watch list, you know, but, you know, to give you a little bit more color than that, I mean, we are focused on, you know, the product mix, product mix of our tenants, you know, how discretionary that product mix is and who their customer is, and if they're kind of on the, the lower income, you know, type consumer, that's really where we're seeing pressure. You know, the consumer overall is healthy. And so you see a lot of those, you know, government numbers come out that look pretty healthy, but it's, you know, kind of been a tale of two cities, you know, where the kind of, you know, middle and upper, you know, consumer is doing well, but the lower-end consumer is certainly struggling. And you see that with, you know, some tenants having trouble passing on, you know, inflation, inflationary costs onto the consumers. I mean, Walgreens is, you know, has been topical. That's why you've really seen their gross margins, you know, kind of come in, you know, from kind of 22%-23% to 18%+. So that's, you know, really impacting their cash flow. And so we're really making sure that we're getting out ahead of those types of risks, and then looking at, you know, the balance sheets of our tenants. Fortunately, there's really not much in there that, you know, is of concern. But, you know, when a lot of these tenants have to refinance their debt, it's gonna be a lot more expensive than it was if they, you know, financed themselves, you know, a few years ago. And even just the ability to access debt has been, is likely to be more challenged for some of these tenants. So that's those are the things that we're focused on. But yeah, nothing really is popping up that rises to the level of getting on our watch list at this point. Okay. I was also curious, is there anything in the market that you're waiting to see, or what's maybe leading to some hesitancy on providing a net investment guidance? Yeah, I mean, I just think there's been a, you know, a lot of volatility, you know, in the markets over the past couple of years, obviously. And then, you know, we really wanted to see cap rates move up. You know, obviously, we, you know, making some progress there. We really wanted to... We, you know, early in the year, we really didn't think it made a lot of sense to come out with a number and then, you know, potentially change it, you know, one or two times over the year. But I think just overall for, you know, acquisitions, which we haven't given, you know, guidance on that, but I think a good way to think about that is, you know, if the environment persists in a similar manner, you can expect us to deploy capital at a similar quantum that we did last year. Okay, thank you so much. Thank you. Our next question is from the line of Todd Thomas with KeyBanc Capital Markets. Please go ahead. Hi, good morning. This is Antara Nag-Chaudhuri on for Todd Thomas. Apologies if you discussed this already, but could you discuss your current investment pipeline and where it stands? Just thinking about 2Q and 3Q volumes. Yeah, sure. I mean, I think the volumes will probably, you know, continue to be spread fairly evenly over the year if, you know, market conditions continue to be similar. And so I don't think you'll see much of a change in yield or you know, or how much we deploy in the second quarter or third quarter, probably a little bit too far out for us to figure out, but you may see a couple you know, chunky deals that are in the sale-leaseback category and some that we're developing a little bit more or funding development for a little bit more than we have in the past. Okay, got it. And, on disposition pricing, are you still able to achieve a sub-7 cap rate, or are disposition cap rates trending higher? They're trending higher a little bit on the margin. And I think, you know, depending on what we sell is gonna, you know, drive that a little bit. But, you know, cap rates have moved up a little bit. I think really what the issue has been on the disposition side and us getting, you know, kind of, you know, figuring out how we want to approach dispositions is there just aren't as many buyers. And so that helps us on the acquisition side, where, you know, we're not really competing with anybody for acquiring the properties that we want to acquire. But then on the disposition side, you know, it takes a little bit longer and the buyers have been a little bit flakier than they've been in the past. So that's, you know, something that we're just making sure that we're, you know, staying on top, on top of costs and not incurring a bunch of dead deal costs. But cap rates have moved up a little bit on dispositions, but I think, you know, what we're looking at potentially selling in this quarter, you know, very likely could be below 7%. Okay, got it. Thank you. Thank you. As there are no further questions, I now hand the conference over to Mark Manheimer for his closing comments. Mark? Well, thank you. Thank you, everyone, for joining. Really appreciate the support, and have a great day. Thank you. The conference of NETSTREIT Corp has now concluded. Thank you for your participation. You may now disconnect your lines.