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Spirit Realty’s stock rallies on $9 billion buyout by Realty Income Corp.


Spirit Realty Capital Inc.’s stock was up by 8% on Monday after it agreed to be acquired by Realty Income Corp. in a deal that values the Dallas-based real-estate-investment company at $9.3 billion.

The deal comes one trading day after Spirit Realty’s stock closed at a three-year low.

Realty Income’s stock
O,
-5.71%

was down 5.5% to $46.40 in regular trading. The stock is on track for its lowest close since April 6, 2020, when it closed at $45.33 a share, according to Dow Jones Market Data. The stock is on pace for the largest percent decrease since June 11, 2020, when it fell 6.84%.

Realty Income has agreed to pay 0.762 newly issued Realty Income common shares for each Spirit Realty Capital
SRC,
+8.05%

common share.

The buyout price for the company values Spirit Realty at $37.34 a share, a 15.4% premium over its $32.35-a-share close on Friday.

Realty Income is buying Spirit Realty’s portfolio of 2,064 retail and industrial properties in 49 states. Spirit had a 99.8% occupied rate as of June 30.

About 39% of Realty Income’s portfolio is in service retail, while about 26% is industrial and about 15% is in discretionary retail space. About 3% of its portfolio is office space, which has been impacted by lower demand due to employees working from home in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Realty Income said the deal will provide it with more than 2.5% accretion to its annualized adjusted funds from operations, or AFFO, per share.

Realty Income shareholders will own 87% of the combined company which will have a value of $63 billion. Spirit Realty shareholders will hold 13%.

The two real-estate companies expect the deal to close during the first quarter.

Also read: Blackstone sells Bellagio stake to Realty Income Corp. in post-COVID rebound



This story originally appeared on Marketwatch

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