Advanced Flower Capital Inc. Announces Financial Results for the First Quarter 2025

First quarter 2025 GAAP net income of $4.1 million or $0.18 per basic weighted average common share and

Distributable Earnings((1) () of $4.5 million or $0.21 per basic weighted average common share

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., May 14, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Advanced Flower Capital Inc. (Nasdaq: AFCG) ("Advanced Flower Capital", "AFC" or the "Company") today announced its results for the quarter ended March 31, 2025.

AFC reported generally accepted accounting principles ("GAAP") net income of $4.1 million or $0.18 per basic weighted average common share and Distributable Earnings of $4.5 million or $0.21 per basic weighted average common share for the first quarter of 2025.

"Our top priority at AFC is reducing our exposure to underperforming credits, while also remaining disciplined on providing debt capital to accomplished operators," said Dan Neville, AFC's Chief Executive Officer. "While cannabis market sentiment continues to hinge on regulatory momentum, we are focused on taking advantage of market dislocations to invest in quality credits with strong risk adjusted returns, which our recent investments demonstrate."

Common Stock Dividend

On April 15, 2025, the Company paid a regular cash dividend of $0.23 per common share for the first quarter of 2025 to shareholders of record as of March 31, 2025.

Additional Information

Advanced Flower Capital issued a presentation of its first quarter 2025 results, titled "First Quarter 2025 Earnings Presentation," which can be viewed at advancedflowercapital.com under the Investor Relations section. The Company also filed its Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2025, with the Securities and Exchange Commission on May 14, 2025.

AFC routinely posts important information for investors on its website, advancedflowercapital.com. The Company intends to use this webpage as a means of disclosing material information, for complying with our disclosure obligations under Regulation FD and to post and update investor presentations and similar materials on a regular basis. AFC encourages investors, analysts, the media and others interested in AFC to monitor the Investors section of its website, in addition to following its press releases, SEC filings, public conference calls, presentations, webcasts and other information posted from time to time on the website. To sign-up for email-notifications, please visit the "Email Alerts" section of the website under the "IR Resources" section.

Conference Call & Discussion of Financial Results

Advanced Flower Capital will host a conference call at 10:00 am (Eastern Time) on Wednesday, May 14, 2025, to discuss its quarterly financial results. All interested parties are welcome to participate. The call will be available through a live audio webcast at the Investor Relations section of AFC's website found here: AFC -- Investor Relations. To participate via telephone, please register in advance at this link. Upon registration, all telephone participants will receive a confirmation email detailing how to join the conference call, including the dial-in number along with a unique passcode and registrant ID that can be used to access the call. The complete webcast will be archived for 90 days on the Investor Relations section of AFC's website.

(1) Distributable Earnings is a non-GAAP financial measure. See the "Non-GAAP Metrics" section of this release for a reconciliation of GAAP Net Income to Distributable Earnings.

About Advanced Flower Capital

Advanced Flower Capital Inc. (Nasdaq: AFCG) is a leading commercial mortgage real estate investment trust ("REIT") that provides institutional loans to state law compliant cannabis operators in the U.S. Through the management team's deep network and significant credit and cannabis expertise, AFC originates, structures, underwrites and manages loans ranging from $10 million to over $100 million, typically secured by quality real estate assets, license value and cash flows. It is based in West Palm Beach, Florida.

Non-GAAP Metrics

In addition to using certain financial metrics prepared in accordance with GAAP to evaluate our performance, we also use Distributable Earnings to evaluate our performance excluding the effects of certain transactions and GAAP adjustments we believe are not necessarily indicative of our current loan activity and operations. Distributable Earnings is a measure that is not prepared in accordance with GAAP. Distributable Earnings and the other capitalized terms not defined in this section have the meanings ascribed to such terms in our most-recently filed Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q. We use this non-GAAP financial measure both to explain our results to shareholders and the investment community and in the internal evaluation and management of our businesses. Our management believes that this non-GAAP financial measure and the information it provides is useful to investors since this measure permits investors and shareholders to assess the overall performance of our business using the same tools that our management uses to evaluate our past performance and prospects for future performance.

The determination of Distributable Earnings is substantially similar to the determination of Core Earnings under our Management Agreement, provided that Core Earnings is a component of the calculation of any Incentive Compensation earned under the Management Agreement for the applicable time period, and thus Core Earnings is calculated without giving effect to Incentive Compensation expense, while the calculation of Distributable Earnings accounts for any Incentive Compensation earned for such time period.

We define Distributable Earnings as, for a specified period, the net income (loss) computed in accordance with GAAP, excluding (i) stock-based compensation expense, (ii) depreciation and amortization, (iii) any unrealized gains, losses or other non-cash items recorded in net income (loss) for the period, regardless of whether such items are included in other comprehensive income or loss, or in net income (loss); provided that Distributable Earnings does not exclude, in the case of investments with a deferred interest feature (such as original issue discount, debt instruments with PIK interest and zero coupon securities), accrued income that we have not yet received in cash, (iv) provision for (reversal of) current expected credit losses, (v) taxable REIT (as defined below) subsidiary ("TRS") (income) loss, net of any dividends received from TRS and (vi) one-time events pursuant to changes in GAAP and certain non-cash charges, in each case after discussions between our Manager and our independent directors and after approval by a majority of such independent directors.

We believe providing Distributable Earnings on a supplemental basis to our net income as determined in accordance with GAAP is helpful to shareholders in assessing the overall performance of our business. As a REIT, we are required to distribute at least 90% of our annual REIT taxable income, subject to certain adjustments, and to pay tax at regular corporate rates to the extent that we annually distribute less than 100% of such taxable income. Given these requirements and our belief that dividends are generally one of the principal reasons that shareholders invest in our common stock, we generally intend to attempt to pay dividends to our shareholders in an amount at least equal to such REIT taxable income, if and to the extent authorized by our Board of Directors. Distributable Earnings is one of many factors considered by our Board of Directors in authorizing dividends and, while not a direct measure of net taxable income, over time, the measure can be considered a useful indicator of our dividends.

Distributable Earnings is a non-GAAP financial measure and should not be considered as a substitute for GAAP net income. We caution readers that our methodology for calculating Distributable Earnings may differ from the methodologies employed by other REITs to calculate the same or similar supplemental performance measures, and as a result, our reported Distributable Earnings may not be comparable to similar measures presented by other REITs.

The following table provides a reconciliation of GAAP Net income to Distributable Earnings:

 
                                               Three months ended 
                                                    March 31, 
                                          ---------------------------- 
                                              2025          2024 
                                                         ---------- 
 
Net income (loss)                         $ 4,067,685   $   (54,116) 
Adjustments to net income (loss): 
   Stock-based compensation expense           553,749       543,222 
   Depreciation and amortization                   --            -- 
   Unrealized losses (gains) or other 
    non-cash items                            685,478     3,613,693 
   (Reversal of) provision for current 
    expected credit losses                   (699,424)    4,931,674 
   TRS (income) loss, net of dividends        (63,582)      931,233 
   One-time events pursuant to changes 
   in GAAP and certain non-cash charges            --            -- 
                                           ----------    ---------- 
Distributable earnings                    $ 4,543,906   $ 9,965,706 
                                           ----------    ---------- 
Basic weighted average shares of common 
 stock outstanding                         22,097,979    20,393,875 
                                           ----------    ---------- 
Distributable earnings per basic 
 weighted average share                   $      0.21   $      0.49 
                                           ==========    ========== 
 
 

Forward-Looking Statements

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