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Equity
 12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2021
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Equity

9. Equity

Equity Offering

In December 2019, the Company completed an underwritten public offering of approximately 3.5 million shares of its common stock, par value $0.01 per share, at a price to the public of $85.60 per share. Net proceeds to the Company, after deducting underwriting discounts and commissions and other expenses paid by the Company, were approximately $283 million. The Company used the net proceeds for general corporate purposes.

Dividends

During 2020, the Company’s board of directors declared a first quarter dividend of $0.95 per share of common stock, or an aggregate of $52.2 million in cash. Following the payment of the first quarter 2020 cash dividend, the Company suspended its regular quarterly dividend payments. The Company’s board of directors will consider a future dividend as permitted by the Company’s credit agreement. The Amendment described in Note 4, “Debt,” permits payment of dividends as necessary to maintain the Company’s REIT status and permits the Company to pay a dividend of $0.01 per share each quarter. Any future dividend is subject to the Company’s board of director’s determination as to the amount of distributions and the timing thereof.

During 2019, the Company’s board of directors declared quarterly dividends totaling $3.60 per share of common stock for the full year, or an aggregate of $188.3 million in cash.

To maintain its qualification as a REIT for federal income tax purposes, the Company must distribute at least 90% of its REIT taxable income each year. Prior to the suspension of dividends due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Company had planned to continue to pay a quarterly cash dividend to stockholders in an amount equal to an annualized payment of at least 50% of adjusted funds from operations (as defined by the Company) less maintenance capital expenditures or 100% of REIT taxable income on an annual basis, whichever is greater. The declaration, timing and amount of dividends will be determined by future action of the Company’s board of directors. The dividend policy may be altered at any time by the Company’s board of directors.

Treasury Stock

On December 18, 2008, following approval by the Human Resources Committee and the Board of Directors, the Company and the Company’s Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer (“Executive”) entered into an amendment to Executive’s employment agreement. The amendment provided Executive with the option of making an irrevocable election to invest his existing Supplemental Employee Retirement Plan (“SERP”) benefit in Company common stock, which election Executive subsequently made. The investment was made by a rabbi trust in which, during January 2009, the independent trustee of the rabbi trust purchased shares of Company common stock in the open market in compliance with applicable law. Executive is only entitled to a distribution of the Company common stock held by the rabbi trust in satisfaction of his SERP benefit. As such, the Company believes that the ownership of shares of common stock by the rabbi trust and the distribution of those shares to Executive in satisfaction of his SERP

benefit meets the requirements necessary so that the Company will not recognize any increase or decrease in expense as a result of subsequent changes in the value of the Company common stock and the purchased shares are treated as treasury stock and the SERP benefit is included in additional paid-in capital in the Company’s accompanying consolidated financial statements. The increase in treasury stock for a particular year represents dividends received on shares of Company common stock held by the rabbi trust.

Noncontrolling Interest in Operating Partnership

The Company consolidates the Operating Partnership, which is a majority-owned limited partnership that has a noncontrolling interest. The outstanding OP Units held by the noncontrolling limited partners are redeemable for cash, or if the Company so elects, in shares of the Company’s common stock on a one-for-one basis, subject to certain adjustments. At December 31, 2021, 0.4 million outstanding OP Units, or less than 1% of the outstanding OP Units, were held by the noncontrolling limited partners and are included as a component of equity in the accompanying consolidated balance sheet. The Company owns, directly or indirectly, the remaining 99.3% of the outstanding OP Units.

At-the-Market (“ATM”) Equity Distribution Agreement

On May 27, 2021, the Company entered into an ATM equity distribution agreement (the “ATM Agreement”) with a consortium of banks (each a “Sales Agent” and collectively, the “Sales Agents”), pursuant to which the Company may offer and sell to or through the Sales Agents (the “ATM Offering”), from time to time, up to 4.0 million shares (the “Shares”) of the Company’s common stock in such share amounts as the Company may specify by notice to the Sales Agents, in accordance with the terms and conditions set forth in the ATM Agreement.

Under the ATM Agreement, the Company will set the parameters for the sale of the Shares, including the number of the Shares to be issued, the time period during which sales are requested to be made, limitation on the number of the Shares that may be sold in any one trading day and any minimum price below which sales may not be made. Each Sales Agent will use its commercially reasonable efforts, consistent with its normal trading and sales practices, to sell such Shares up to the amount specified, and otherwise in accordance with mutually agreed terms between the Sales Agent and the Company. Neither the Company nor any of the Sales Agents are obligated to sell any specific number or dollar amount of Shares under the ATM Agreement. The Sales Agents will be paid a commission of up to 2.0% of the gross sales price from the sale of any Shares. The Company intends to use the net proceeds from any sale of Shares for the repayment of outstanding indebtedness, which may include the repayment of amounts outstanding under the Company’s credit agreement governing the Company’s revolving credit facility. Net proceeds which are not used for the repayment of outstanding indebtedness (to the extent then permitted by the Company’s credit agreement) may be used for general corporate purposes.

No shares were issued under the ATM Agreement during 2021.

Accumulated Other Comprehensive Loss

Changes in accumulated other comprehensive loss by component consisted of the following (amounts in thousands):

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Other-Than-

    

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Minimum

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Temporary

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Pension

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Impairment of

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Interest Rate

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Liability

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Investment

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Derivatives

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Total

Balance, December 31, 2018

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$

(21,814)

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$

(6,210)

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$

—

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$

(28,024)

Gains arising during period

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693

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—

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3,539

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4,232

Amounts reclassified from accumulated other comprehensive loss

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97

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333

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(1,905)

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(1,475)

Income tax expense

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(185)

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—

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—

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(185)

Net other comprehensive income

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605

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333

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1,634

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2,572

Transition adjustment related to adoption of ASU 2018-02

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(2,707)

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—

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—

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(2,707)

Balance, December 31, 2019

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$

(23,916)

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$

(5,877)

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$

1,634

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$

(28,159)

Losses arising during period

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(2,901)

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—

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(39,958)

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(42,859)

Amounts reclassified from accumulated other comprehensive loss

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194

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210

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10,505

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10,909

Net other comprehensive income (loss)

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(2,707)

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210

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(29,453)

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(31,950)

Transition adjustment related to adoption of ASU 2016-13

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—

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2,158

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—

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2,158

Balance, December 31, 2020

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$

(26,623)

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$

(3,509)

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$

(27,819)

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$

(57,951)

Gains arising during period

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10,314

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—

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1,955

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12,269

Amounts reclassified from accumulated other comprehensive loss

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(110)

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211

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16,501

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16,602

Net other comprehensive income

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10,204

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211

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18,456

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28,871

Balance, December 31, 2021

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$

(16,419)

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$

(3,298)

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$

(9,363)

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$

(29,080)

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