Dividends (Distributions)

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2023

Payments of Dividends [Abstract]

Dividends (Distributions)

Capital Stock

The limited partner equity interests in our operating partnership (commonly called “OP Units”), are exchangeable on a one-for-one basis for shares of our common stock or, at our election, cash of equivalent value.

During the year ended December 31, 2023, the company exchanged no OP Units held by third parties. During the year ended December 31, 2022, the Company exchanged 591,349 OP Units held by third parties, of which 244,683 OP Units were exchanged for an equal number of common shares of the Company and 346,667 OP Units were exchanged for cash consideration of $4.6 million, representing approximately 85% of the OP Units held by third parties with a carrying value of $11.9 million as of the exchange dates.

We are authorized to issue up to 500,000,000 shares of voting common stock and 50,000,000 shares of preferred stock, of which 236,558,601 and 0 shares, respectively, were outstanding at December 31, 2023. We had 263,441,399 shares of voting common stock available for issuance at December 31, 2023.

Dividends (Distributions)

Distributions with respect to our common stock is characterized for federal income tax purposes as taxable ordinary dividends, capital gains dividends, non-dividend distribution or a combination thereof. For the years ended December 31, 2023, 2022, and 2021, our common stock distribution per share was $0.45, $0.75 and $0.45, respectively, characterized as follows:

	Year Ended December 31,
	2023		2022		2021
Ordinary dividends	$	0.45	$	0.75	$	0.45
Capital gain distribution	$	—	$	—	$	—
Total	$	0.45	$	0.75	$	0.45