DRI Healthcare Trust Reports First Quarter 2025 Results and Announces Internalization of Manager
DRI Healthcare Trust Reports First Quarter 2025 Results and Announces Internalization of Manager |
| [12-May-2025] |
TORONTO, May 12, 2025 /CNW/ - DRI Healthcare Trust (TSX: DHT.UN) (TSX: DHT.U) (the "Trust") today announced its financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2025. The Trust's first quarter 2025 financial statements and Management's Discussion & Analysis ("MD&A") have been filed on SEDAR+ (www.sedarplus.ca). All dollar amounts are expressed in U.S. dollars unless otherwise indicated.
"We are excited to announce that we have entered into definitive agreements for a transaction that will terminate the existing management agreement with our manager, and allow the Trust to internalize the investment management function," said Gary Collins, the Trust's Chief Executive Officer and Chairman. "We believe this evolutionary step forward will create alignment of interests and transparency for all stakeholders, and is intended to generate value for unitholders. We have a robust pipeline backed by a portfolio that continues to increase and produce significant returns. At the same time, we will opportunistically allocate capital towards unit buybacks via our renewed normal course issuer bid to ensure accretive value generation on a per unit basis." Internalization Transaction In accordance with the definitive management agreement termination agreement and asset purchase agreement entered into by the Trust and DRI Capital Inc. (the "manager" or "DRI Capital") on the date hereof, the Trust will pay an aggregate of $49 million in cash to DRI Capital to extinguish the management agreement, along with all management and performance fee obligations (with expenses payable in connection with the pre-closing period payable by the Trust), and to acquire all the relevant assets of DRI Capital. As a result of this transaction, employees of the manager will also transition over to a Trust subsidiary. This simplified structure is intended to generate strategic, financial, and operational benefits and accretive value over the long term. Furthermore, the manager will indemnify the Trust and its affiliates for any damages relating to the events of last summer. The internalization transaction was recommended for approval by a special committee of the Trust's board composed of independent trustees. The amount paid reflects an approximately 4x multiple of trailing twelve month management fees and compares favourably to precedent transactions. Subject to the satisfaction of customary closing conditions, the transaction is expected to close before the beginning of the fourth quarter of 2025. Q1 Highlights
Subsequent to Quarter End
Financial Highlights
Asset Performance As at March 31, 2025, the Trust's portfolio included 28 royalty streams on 21 products that address a variety of therapeutic areas, such as oncology, neurology, ophthalmology, endocrinology, hematology, dermatology, lysosomal storage disorders and immunology. On March 31, 2025, the royalty asset portfolio had a book value, net of accumulated amortization, of $799.2 million, which during the three months ended March 31, 2025 generated Total Cash Royalty Receipts1 of $62.0 million and royalty income of $39.6 million. On March 31, 2025, the financial royalty asset had a book value of $55.1 million and generated a gain on the change in its fair value of $2.6 million during the three months ended March 31, 2025. Portfolio
Liquidity and Capital On March 31, 2025, the Trust had cash and cash equivalents of $55.7 million. The Trust's credit facility had an outstanding principal balance of $309.9 million on March 31, 2025. Subsequent to March 31, 2025, the Trust revised the credit facility to obtain lender consent for internalization. In addition, $25 million of the acquisition credit facility was reallocated to the working capital credit facility, increasing it to $50 million. Furthermore, the interest rate on the amended credit agreement was revised to SOFR plus (i) a margin which may vary from 1.75% to 2.50% based on the Trust's leverage ratio; and (ii) a margin of 0.10%. The Trust had 56,310,920 units issued and outstanding on March 31, 2025. Distributions On March 3, 2025, the board of trustees approved a quarterly cash distribution of $0.10 per Unit to unitholders of record as of March 31, 2025, which was paid on April 17, 2025. The Trust also announced today that its board of trustees has declared a quarterly cash distribution in the amount of $0.10 per Unit for the second quarter of 2025, payable on July 18, 2025, to unitholders of record as of June 30, 2025. Normal Course Issuer Bid The Trust also announced today the acceptance by the TSX of the Trust's Notice of Intention to make a normal course issuer bid (the "NCIB"). Pursuant to the NCIB, the Trust proposes to purchase, from time to time, if considered advisable, up to an aggregate of 3,148,536 of its trust units, being 10% of its 31,485,368 public float of units as of May 5, 2025, through the facilities of the TSX and/or through various eligible alternative Canadian trading systems at the market price at the time of purchase. The Trust had 56,310,920 units issued and outstanding as of such date. Purchases may commence on May 20, 2025 and will conclude on the earlier of the date on which the Trust has purchased the maximum number of trust units permitted under the NCIB and May 19, 2026. The average daily trading volume of the units over the most recently completed six calendar months was 43,352 units. Accordingly, for purposes of the TSX rules, the Trust is entitled to purchase, on any trading day, up to 10,838 units and to make block purchases of its units which exceed such daily limit no more frequently than once per calendar week. Under the Trust's prior normal course issuer bid that commenced on November 20, 2023 and concluded on November 19, 2024 (the "Prior NCIB"), the Trust obtained approval from the TSX to purchase 3,280,195 units. The Trust purchased 406,346 units under the Prior NCIB through the facilities of the TSX and alternative Canadian trading systems at a volume weighted average price of $9.64 per unit. The Trust remains focused on its primary strategy of acquiring new pharmaceutical royalty streams and using its capital for that purpose. DRI Capital Inc., the manager of the Trust ("DRI Capital"), believes that there is a robust and growing pipeline of royalty stream acquisitions opportunities and is active in reviewing a number of potential transactions. However, it is also the opinion of DRI Capital that, from time to time, the market price of the Trust's units may not adequately reflect the value of the underlying assets of the Trust, and the Trust wishes to take advantage of the market trading prices of its units in those instances. The board of trustees of the Trust believes that at such times the proposed purchases would be in the best interests of the Trust and would constitute an appropriate use of available funds. All units purchased by the Trust pursuant to the NCIB will be cancelled. In connection with the NCIB, the Trust will establish an automatic purchase plan with its designated broker (the "Plan") to allow for purchases of units during self-imposed blackout periods, subject to certain parameters as to price and number of units. Outside of these pre- determined black-out periods, units will be repurchased in accordance with management's discretion, subject to applicable law. The Plan will constitute an automatic plan for purposes of applicable Canadian securities legislation and has been pre-cleared by the TSX. First Quarter 2025 Conference Call & Webcast As previously announced, management will hold a conference call on Tuesday, May 13, 2025 at 8:00 a.m. (ET) to review the Trust's 2025 first quarter results. You can join the call by dialing 1-888-699-1199 or 416-945-7677 approximately 15 minutes prior to the call to secure a line. A live webcast of the conference call, including a slide presentation, will be available at https:// emportal.ink/4lgQeY1. Please connect at least 15 minutes prior to the conference call to ensure adequate time for any software download that may be required to join the webcast. The webcast will be archived on the Trust's website following the call date. Non-GAAP Financial Measures The reconciliations of non-GAAP financial measures and non-GAAP ratios for the three months ended March 31, 2025 and 2024 to the most directly comparable measures calculated in accordance with IFRS are presented below. Total Cash Royalty Receipts, Total Cash Receipts and Normalized Total Cash Receipts Total Cash Receipts refer to Total Cash Royalty Receipts plus cash receipts from all products. Total Cash Receipts include cash receipts from interest as well as non-recurring cash receipts. Total Cash Royalty Receipts refers to aggregate cash royalty receipts and milestone royalty receipts from the Trust's portfolio of royalty assets and forms part of Total Cash Receipts. Because of the lag between when the Trust records royalty income and receives the corresponding cash payments on its royalties and milestones, management believes Total Cash Receipts and Total Cash Royalty Receipts are useful measures when evaluating the Trust's operations, as they represent actual cash generated in respect of all royalty assets held during a period. The Trust also presents Normalized Total Cash Receipts, which refers to Total Cash Receipts adjusted to remove cash receipts that are not expected to recur in the normal course of our operations. Management believes that Normalized Total Cash Receipts will assist readers in evaluating the period over period performance of the Trust's royalty portfolio since Normalized Total Cash Receipts only include cash receipts generated by royalties and other amounts payable pursuant to the terms of the Trust's royalty assets. There were no adjustments required to normalize cash receipts for the three months ended March 31, 2025 and 2024.
Adjusted EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA Margin Management believes Adjusted EBITDA provides meaningful information about the Trust's operating cash flows as it eliminates the effects of other non-cash expenses and accruals and income and expenses that are not expected to recur, that have been recorded on the statement of net earnings (loss) and comprehensive earnings (loss). The Trust refers to EBITDA when reconciling its comprehensive earnings (loss) to Adjusted EBITDA but does not use EBITDA as a measure of its performance. Management believes that Adjusted EBITDA Margin is a useful supplemental measure to demonstrate the operating efficiency of the Trust's business on a cash basis.
Adjusted Cash Earnings per Unit Management believes that Adjusted Cash Earnings per Unit provides meaningful information about the Trust's performance as it provides a measure of the cash generated by the Trust's assets on a per unit basis, excluding cash earnings that are not expected to recur.
About DRI Healthcare Trust The Trust is managed by DRI Capital Inc., a pioneer in global pharmaceutical royalty monetization. Since its initial public offering in 2021, the Trust has deployed more than $1.0 billion, acquiring more than 25 royalties on 20-plus drugs, including Eylea, Orserdu, Omidria, Spinraza, Stelara, Vonjo, Zejula and Zytiga. The Trust's units are listed and trade on the Toronto Stock Exchange in Canadian dollars under the symbol "DHT.UN" and in U.S. dollars under the symbol "DHT.U". To learn more, visit drihealthcare.com or follow us on LinkedIn. Caution concerning forward-looking statements This news release may contain forward-looking information within the meaning of applicable securities legislation. Forward-looking information can generally be identified by the use of words such as "expect", "continue", "anticipate", "intend", "aim", "plan", "believe", "budget", "estimate", "forecast", "foresee", "close to", "target" or negative versions thereof and similar expressions. Some of the specific forward-looking information in this news release may include, among other things, statements regarding the Trust's ability to execute on its strategy, the internalization of the Trust's manager and the terms and conditions, benefits and expected timing thereof, the value to be provided to unitholders, the potential and timing of royalty payments, the anticipated royalty income and anticipated sales of the products underlying such royalties, and the Trust's normal course issuer bid. Forward- looking information is based on a number of assumptions and is subject to a number of risks and uncertainties, many of which are beyond the Trust's control that could cause actual results to differ materially from those that are disclosed in or implied by such forward-looking information. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, the risk that the conditions to closing of the internalization of the Trust's manager will not be satisfied or waived on the timeframe required by the management agreement termination agreement and asset purchase agreement, or at all, the risk that the internalization of the Trust's manager will not generate the levels of anticipated benefits for the Trust and its unitholders, and those additional risks and uncertainties that are disclosed in the Trust's most recent annual information form and under "Risk Factors" in the Trust's Management's Discussion and Analysis. The anticipated royalty terms for products in our portfolio may be shorter than the period of patent protection for the applicable product, depending on many factors, including the entry of generic drugs into the marketplace and competition, all of which are outside our control. No assurance can be given that these are all the factors that could cause actual results to vary materially from the forward-looking statements in this press release. You should not put undue reliance on forward-looking statements. No assurances can be given that any of the events anticipated by the forward-looking statements will transpire or occur, or if any of them do occur, the actual results, performance or achievements of the Trust could differ materially from the results expressed in, or implied by, any forward-looking statements. Certain assumptions underlying the forward-looking information in this news release include: the Trust's assumptions regarding demand and growth in pharmaceutical sales, R&D and opportunities for royalty investing; the competitive environment in which the Trust operates; the performance of the Trust's manager during the period prior to the completion of the internalization transaction; the ability of the Trust and the manager to satisfy the conditions to closing of the internalization transaction; the Trust's ability to implement its growth strategies; the Trust's ability to obtain financing and maintain its existing financing on acceptable terms; the Trust's ability to maintain good business relationships with marketers and other industry partners; timely receipt of cash royalty receipts; expectations regarding the duration of royalties; the Trust's ability to keep pace with changing consumer preferences; the absence of material adverse changes in the Trust's industry or the global economy; currency exchange and interest rates; the impact of competition; the changes and trends in the Trust's industry or the global economy; and stability in laws, rules, regulations and global standards in the pharmaceutical industry. All forward-looking information in this news release speaks as of the date of this news release. The Trust does not undertake to update any such forward-looking information whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise except as required by law. Additional information about these assumptions and risks and uncertainties is contained in the Trust's filings with securities regulators, including its latest annual information form and Management's Discussion and Analysis. These filings are also available at the Trust's website at drihealthcare.com. SOURCE DRI Healthcare Trust | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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