Highwoods Properties Inc. Reports Operating Results (10-K)

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Feb 07, 2012
Highwoods Properties Inc. (HIW, Financial) filed Annual Report for the period ended 2011-12-31.

Highwoods Properties Inc. has a market cap of $2.44 billion; its shares were traded at around $33.58 with a P/E ratio of 13.5 and P/S ratio of 5.3. The dividend yield of Highwoods Properties Inc. stocks is 5.1%.

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Rental and other revenues from continuing operations were $21.7 million, or 4.7%, higher in 2011 as compared to 2010 primarily due to the acquisitions of office properties in Pittsburgh, PA, Atlanta, GA and Raleigh, NC in 2011 and office properties in Memphis, TN and Tampa, FL in 2010, which accounted for $20.0 million of the increase, and the contribution of development properties placed in service at various times throughout the two-year period, which accounted for $1.8 million of the increase. Same property revenues were virtually unchanged in 2011 compared to 2010 primarily due to an increase in average occupancy from 89.7% in 2010 to 90.2% in 2011, offset by a slight decrease in annualized GAAP rents per square foot from $18.46 in 2010 to $18.38 in 2011. We expect 2012 rental and other revenues, adjusted for any discontinued operations, to increase over 2011 due to the full year contribution of acquisitions closed in 2011 and slightly higher average occupancy as a result of improving economic conditions.

Operating margin, defined as rental and other revenues less rental property and other expenses expressed as a percentage of rental and other revenues, was lower at 63.5% in 2011 as compared to 64.5% in 2010. Operating margin is expected to be similar in 2012 as compared to 2011.

Rental and other revenues from continuing operations were $13.1 million, or 2.9%, higher in 2010 as compared to 2009. The increase in rental and other revenues was primarily due to the acquisitions of an office property in Memphis, TN in 2010 and an office property in Tampa, FL in 2009, which accounted for $9.2 million of the increase, and the contribution of development properties placed in service at various times throughout the two-year period, which accounted for $7.3 million of the increase. Same property revenues were $4.4 million, or 1.1%, lower in 2010 compared to 2009. The decrease in same property revenues resulted primarily from a decrease in average occupancy from 90.0% in 2009 to 89.6% in 2010 and in annualized GAAP rents per square foot from $18.19 in 2009 to $18.08 in 2010.

Operating margin, defined as rental and other revenues less rental property and other expenses expressed as a percentage of rental and other revenues, was higher at 64.5% in 2010 as compared to 63.8% in 2009.

Equity in earnings of unconsolidated affiliates was $1.6 million lower in 2010 as compared to 2009 due to the disposition of our equity interests in a series of unconsolidated joint ventures relating to properties in Des Moines, IA in 2010 and our proportionate share of a gain on disposition of property in one of our joint ventures in 2009.

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