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Stockholders’ Equity
 12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2020
Stockholders' Equity Note [Abstract]  
Stockholders’ Equity Stockholders’ Equity
(a)Preferred Stock

The Company had 200,000,000 authorized shares of preferred stock, par value $0.01 per share, with 20,872,888 shares issued and outstanding as of December 31, 2020 and 2019.

As of December 31, 2020, the Company has issued four series of cumulative redeemable preferred stock (the “Preferred Stock”): 7.75% Series B Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Stock (“Series B Preferred Stock”), 7.875% Series C Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Stock (“Series C Preferred Stock”), 8.00% Series D Fixed-to-Floating Rate Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Stock (“Series D Preferred Stock”) and 7.875% Series E Fixed-to-Floating Rate Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Stock (“Series E Preferred Stock”). Each series of the Preferred Stock is senior to the Company’s common stock with respect to dividends and distributions upon liquidation, dissolution or winding up.

In October 2019, the Company issued 6,900,000 shares of Series E Preferred Stock, with a par value of $0.01 per share and a liquidation preference of $25 per share, in an underwritten public offering for net proceeds of approximately $166.7 million, after deducting underwriting discounts and offering expenses. On November 27, 2019, the Company classified and designated an additional 3,000,000 shares of the Company’s authorized but unissued preferred stock as Series E Preferred Stock. On March 28, 2019, the Company classified and designated an additional 2,460,000 shares and 2,650,000 shares of the Company’s authorized but unissued preferred stock as Series C Preferred Stock and Series D Preferred Stock, respectively.

The following table summarizes the Company’s Preferred Stock issued and outstanding as of December 31, 2020 and 2019 (dollar amounts in thousands):

Class of Preferred StockShares AuthorizedShares Issued and OutstandingCarrying ValueLiquidation Preference
Contractual Rate (1)
Optional Redemption Date (2)
Fixed-to-Floating Rate Conversion Date (1)(3)
Floating Annual Rate (4)
Fixed Rate
Series B6,000,000 3,156,087 $76,180 $78,902 7.750 %June 4, 2018
Series C6,600,000 4,181,807 101,102 104,545 7.875 %April 22, 2020
Fixed-to-Floating Rate
Series D8,400,000 6,123,495 148,134 153,087 8.000 %October 15, 2027October 15, 2027
3M LIBOR + 5.695%
Series E9,900,000 7,411,499 179,349 185,288 7.875 %January 15, 2025January 15, 2025
3M LIBOR + 6.429%
Total30,900,000 20,872,888 $504,765 $521,822 

(1)Each series of fixed rate preferred stock is entitled to receive a dividend at the contractual rate shown, respectively, per year on its $25 liquidation preference. Each series of fixed-to-floating rate preferred stock is entitled to receive a dividend at the contractual rate shown, respectively, per year on its $25 liquidation preference up to, but excluding, the fixed-to-floating rate conversion date.
(2)Each series of Preferred Stock is not redeemable by the Company prior to the respective optional redemption date disclosed except under circumstances intended to preserve the Company’s qualification as a REIT and except upon occurrence of a Change in Control (as defined in the Articles Supplementary designating the Series B Preferred Stock, Series C Preferred Stock, Series D Preferred Stock and Series E Preferred Stock, respectively).
(3)Beginning on the respective fixed-to-floating rate conversion date, each of the Series D Preferred Stock and Series E Preferred Stock is entitled to receive a dividend on a floating rate basis according to the terms disclosed in footnote (4) below.
(4)On and after the fixed-to-floating rate conversion date, each of the Series D Preferred Stock and Series E Preferred Stock is entitled to receive a dividend at a floating rate equal to three-month LIBOR plus the respective spread disclosed above per year on its $25 liquidation preference.
For each series of Preferred Stock, on or after the respective redemption date disclosed, the Company may, at its option, redeem the respective series of Preferred Stock in whole or in part, at any time or from time to time, for cash at a redemption price equal to $25.00 per share, plus any accumulated and unpaid dividends. In addition, upon the occurrence of a Change of Control, the Company may, at its option, redeem the Preferred Stock in whole or in part, within 120 days after the first date on which such Change of Control occurred, for cash at a redemption price of $25.00 per share, plus any accumulated and unpaid dividends.

The Preferred Stock generally do not have any voting rights, subject to an exception in the event the Company fails to pay dividends on such stock for six or more quarterly periods (whether or not consecutive). Under such circumstances, holders of the Preferred Stock voting together as a single class with the holders of all other classes or series of our preferred stock upon which like voting rights have been conferred and are exercisable and which are entitled to vote as a class with the Preferred Stock will be entitled to vote to elect two additional directors to the Company’s Board of Directors (the “Board”) until all unpaid dividends have been paid or declared and set apart for payment. In addition, certain material and adverse changes to the terms of any series of the Preferred Stock cannot be made without the affirmative vote of holders of at least two-thirds of the outstanding shares of the series of Preferred Stock whose terms are being changed.

The Preferred Stock has no stated maturity, is not subject to any sinking fund or mandatory redemption and will remain outstanding indefinitely unless repurchased or redeemed by the Company or converted into the Company’s common stock in connection with a Change of Control.

Upon the occurrence of a Change of Control, each holder of Preferred Stock will have the right (unless the Company has exercised its right to redeem the Preferred Stock) to convert some or all of the Preferred Stock held by such holder into a number of shares of our common stock per share of the applicable series of Preferred Stock determined by a formula, in each case, on the terms and subject to the conditions described in the applicable Articles Supplementary for such series.

    (b) Dividends on Preferred Stock

From the time of original issuance of the Preferred Stock through December 31, 2019, the Company declared and paid all required quarterly dividends on such series of stock. On March 23, 2020, the Company announced that it had suspended quarterly dividends on its Preferred Stock that would have been payable in April 2020 to focus on conserving capital during the difficult market conditions resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. On June 15, 2020, the Company reinstated the payment of dividends on its Preferred Stock and declared dividends in arrears for the quarterly period that began on January 15, 2020 and ended on April 14, 2020. The following table presents the relevant information with respect to quarterly cash dividends declared on the Series B Preferred Stock, Series C Preferred Stock and Series D Preferred Stock commencing January 1, 2018 through December 31, 2020 and on the Series E Preferred Stock from its time of original issuance through December 31, 2020:
Cash Dividend Per Share
Declaration DateRecord DatePayment DateSeries B Preferred StockSeries C Preferred StockSeries D Preferred StockSeries E Preferred Stock
December 7, 2020January 1, 2021January 15, 2021$0.484375 $0.4921875 $0.50 $0.4921875 
September 14, 2020October 1, 2020October 15, 20200.484375 0.4921875 0.50 0.4921875 
June 15, 2020July 1, 2020July 15, 20200.968750 
(1)
0.9843750 
(1)
1.00 
(1)
0.9843750 
(1)
December 10, 2019January 1, 2020January 15, 20200.484375 0.4921875 0.50 0.4757800 
(2)
September 9, 2019October 1, 2019October 15, 20190.484375 0.4921875 0.50 — 
June 14, 2019July 1, 2019July 15, 20190.484375 0.4921875 0.50 — 
March 19, 2019April 1, 2019April 15, 20190.484375 0.4921875 0.50 — 
December 4, 2018January 1, 2019January 15, 20190.484375 0.4921875 0.50 — 
September 17, 2018October 1, 2018October 15, 20180.484375 0.4921875 0.50 — 
June 18, 2018July 1, 2018July 15, 20180.484375 0.4921875 0.50 — 
March 19, 2018April 1, 2018April 15, 20180.484375 0.4921875 0.50 — 

(1)Preferred Stock dividends declared on June 15, 2020 included cash dividends in arrears for the quarterly period that began on January 15, 2020 and ended on April 14, 2020 and cash dividends for the quarterly period that began on April 15, 2020 and ended on July 14, 2020.
(2)Cash dividend for the partial quarterly period that began on October 18, 2019 and ended on January 14, 2020.
(c)Dividends on Common Stock

On March 23, 2020, the Company announced that it had suspended its quarterly dividend on common stock for the first quarter of 2020 to focus on conserving capital during the difficult market conditions resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. As a result, the Company did not declare a cash dividend on its common stock during the three months ended March 31, 2020. The Company declared a regular quarterly cash dividend on common stock for the second, third and fourth quarters of 2020. The following table presents cash dividends declared by the Company on its common stock with respect to the quarterly periods commencing January 1, 2018 and ended December 31, 2020:
PeriodDeclaration DateRecord DatePayment DateCash
Dividend
Per Share
Fourth Quarter 2020December 7, 2020December 17, 2020January 25, 2021$0.100 
Third Quarter 2020September 14, 2020September 24, 2020October 26, 20200.075 
Second Quarter 2020June 15, 2020July 1, 2020July 27, 20200.050 
Fourth Quarter 2019December 10, 2019December 20, 2019January 27, 20200.200 
Third Quarter 2019September 9, 2019September 19, 2019October 25, 20190.200 
Second Quarter 2019June 14, 2019June 24, 2019July 25, 20190.200 
First Quarter 2019March 19, 2019March 29, 2019April 25, 20190.200 
Fourth Quarter 2018December 4, 2018December 14, 2018January 25, 20190.200 
Third Quarter 2018September 17, 2018September 27, 2018October 26, 20180.200 
Second Quarter 2018June 18, 2018June 28, 2018July 26, 20180.200 
First Quarter 2018March 19, 2018March 29, 2018April 26, 20180.200 

During 2020, aggregate dividends for our common stock were $0.225 per share. For tax reporting purposes, the 2020 dividends were classified as ordinary income and return of capital in the amounts of $0.180 and $0.045, respectively, per share. During 2019, aggregate dividends for our common stock were $0.80 per share. For tax reporting purposes, the 2019 dividends were classified as ordinary income, capital gain distribution and return of capital in the amounts of $0.42, $0.13 and $0.25, respectively, per share. During 2018, aggregate dividends for our common stock were $0.80 per share. For tax reporting purposes, the 2018 dividends were classified as ordinary income, capital gain distribution and return of capital in the amounts of $0.37, $0.12 and $0.31, respectively, per share.

(d)Public Offering of Common Stock

The following table details the Company's public offerings of common stock during the three years ended December 31, 2020 (dollar amounts in thousands):
Share Issue MonthShares Issued
Net Proceeds (1)
February 202050,600,000 $305,274 
January 202034,500,000 206,650 
November 201928,750,000 172,150 
September 201928,750,000 173,093 
July 201923,000,000 137,500 
May 201920,700,000 123,102 
March 201917,250,000 101,160 
January 201914,490,000 83,772 
November 201814,375,000 85,261 
August 201814,375,000 85,980 

(1)    Proceeds are net of underwriting discounts and commissions and offering expenses
(e)Equity Distribution Agreements

On August 10, 2017, the Company entered into an equity distribution agreement (the “Common Equity Distribution Agreement”) with Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC (“Credit Suisse”), as sales agent, pursuant to which the Company may offer and sell shares of its common stock, par value $0.01 per share, having a maximum aggregate sales price of up to $100.0 million, from time to time through Credit Suisse. On September 10, 2018, the Company entered into an amendment to the Common Equity Distribution Agreement that increased the maximum aggregate sales price to $177.1 million. The Company has no obligation to sell any of the shares of common stock issuable under the Common Equity Distribution Agreement and may at any time suspend solicitations and offers under the Common Equity Distribution Agreement.
    
There were no shares of the Company's common stock issued under the Common Equity Distribution Agreement during the year ended December 31, 2020. During the year ended December 31, 2019, the Company issued 2,260,200 shares of its common stock under the Common Equity Distribution Agreement, at an average price of $6.12 per share, resulting in total net proceeds to the Company of $13.6 million. During the year ended December 31, 2018, the Company issued 14,588,631 shares of its common stock under the Common Equity Distribution Agreement, at an average price of $6.19 per share, resulting in total net proceeds to the Company of $89.0 million. As of December 31, 2020, approximately $72.5 million of common stock remains available for issuance under the Common Equity Distribution Agreement.

On March 29, 2019, the Company entered into an equity distribution agreement (the “Preferred Equity Distribution Agreement”) with JonesTrading Institutional Services LLC, as sales agent, pursuant to which the Company may offer and sell shares of the Company's Series B Preferred Stock, Series C Preferred Stock and Series D Preferred Stock, having a maximum aggregate gross sales price of up to $50.0 million, from time to time through the sales agent. On November 27, 2019, the Company entered into an amendment to the Preferred Equity Distribution Agreement that increased the maximum aggregate sales price to $131.5 million. The amendment also provided for the inclusion of sales of the Company’s Series E Preferred Stock. The Company has no obligation to sell any of the shares of Preferred Stock issuable under the Preferred Equity Distribution Agreement and may at any time suspend solicitations and offers under the Preferred Equity Distribution Agreement.
There were no shares of Preferred Stock issued under the Preferred Equity Distribution Agreement during the year ended December 31, 2020. During the year ended December 31, 2019, the Company issued 1,972,888 shares of Preferred Stock under the Preferred Equity Distribution Agreement, at an average price of $24.88 per share, resulting in total net proceeds to the Company of $48.4 million. As of December 31, 2020, approximately $82.4 million of Preferred Stock remains available for issuance under the Preferred Equity Distribution Agreement.