Realty Income Successfully Prices $500 Million Offering of Senior Notes Due 2054

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Aug 19, 2024, 19:20 ET

SAN DIEGO, Aug. 19, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Realty Income Corporation (Realty Income, NYSE: O), The Monthly Dividend Company^®, today announced the pricing of a public offering of $500 million of 5.375% senior unsecured notes due 2054 (the "Notes"). The public offering price for the Notes was 98.374% of the principal amount for an effective semi-annual yield to maturity of 5.486%.

The net proceeds from this offering will be used for general corporate purposes, which may include, among other things, the repayment or repurchase of Realty Income's indebtedness (including borrowings under Realty Income's revolving credit facility and commercial paper programs), foreign currency swaps or other hedging instruments, the development, redevelopment and acquisition of additional properties, acquisition or business combination transactions, redemptions of Realty Income's outstanding preferred stock, and the expansion and improvement of certain properties in our portfolio.

This offering is expected to close on August 26, 2024, subject to the satisfaction of customary closing conditions.

The active joint book-running managers for the offering are Barclays, J.P. Morgan, RBC Capital Markets, TD Securities, and Wells Fargo Securities.

A copy of the prospectus supplement and prospectus, when available, related to this offering may be obtained by contacting: Barclays Capital Inc., c/o Broadridge Financial Solutions 1155 Long Island Avenue, Edgewood, NY 11717, [email protected], 1-888-603-5847; J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, 383 Madison Avenue, New York, New York 10179, Attention: Investment Grade Syndicate Desk, 3rd Floor, Facsimile: 212-834-6081; RBC Capital Markets, LLC, 200 Vesey Street, 8th Floor, New York, NY 10281, Toll-Free Number: (866) 375-6829, Fax: (212) 428-6308, Email: [email protected], ATTN: Syndicate Operations; TD Securities (USA) LLC, 1 Vanderbilt Avenue, 11th Floor, New York, New York 10017, Attention: DCM – Transaction Advisory, by telephone (toll free) at 1-855-495-9846; and Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, 608 2nd Avenue South, Suite 1000, Minneapolis, MN 55402, Attn: WFS Customer Service, Email: [email protected], by telephone (toll free) at 1-800-645-3751.

These securities are offered pursuant to a Registration Statement that has become effective under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended. These securities are only offered by means of the prospectus included in the Registration Statement and the prospectus supplement related to the offering. This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy, nor shall there be any offer or sale of these securities in any state or other jurisdiction where, or to any person to whom, the offer, solicitation, or sale of these securities would be unlawful prior to the registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state or other jurisdiction.

About Realty Income

Realty Income (NYSE: O), an S&P 500 company, is real estate partner to the world's leading companies. Founded in 1969, we invest in diversified commercial real estate and have a portfolio of 15,450 properties in all 50 U.S. states, the U.K., and six other countries in Europe. We are known as "The Monthly Dividend Company^®," and have a mission to deliver stockholders dependable monthly dividends that grow over time. Since our founding, we have declared 650 consecutive monthly dividends and are a member of the S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats^® index, having increased our dividend for the last 30 consecutive years.

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SOURCE Realty Income Corporation