AMH Q1 2026 Earnings Call Transcript

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Thu, May 7, 2026 astatine 12:35 PM CDT 29 min read

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DATE

Thursday, May 7, 2026 astatine 12 p.m. ET

CALL PARTICIPANTS

• Chief Executive Officer — Bryan Smith

• Chief Operating Officer — Lincoln Palmer

• Chief Financial Officer — Christopher Lau

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Full Conference Call Transcript

Bryan Smith: Welcome, everyone, and convey you for joining america today. 2026 is disconnected to a bully start. Our beardown archetypal 4th was characterized by coagulated seasonal request and fantabulous execution by our tract and plus absorption teams. Against the backdrop of governmental and economical uncertainty, our results show the resiliency of single-family rentals and the spot of the American Homes 4 Rent platform. Seasonal request picked up arsenic expected successful the backmost fractional of the archetypal 4th contempt a somewhat aboriginal commencement this year. This resulted successful grounds leasing volumes for March and continued momentum done April. The caller occupancy and caller lease dispersed trajectories enactment america successful a bully presumption arsenic we determination done the remainder of highest leasing season.

The teams did a large occupation successful gathering the accelerating demand, efficiently turning homes successful a play of heightened lease expirations, and their quality to power the controllables drove an awesome simplification successful same-home halfway operating expenses twelvemonth implicit year. This resulted successful beardown same-home halfway NOI maturation of 3.7% for the quarter. For April, the leasing momentum from March continued, further improving caller lease spreads to 1.2% and same-home mean occupied days to 95.6%, representing a 30 ground constituent sequential improvement. On the concern front, we proceed to execute connected our 2026 superior plan. During the quarter, we delivered implicit 500 high-quality purpose-built American Homes 4 Rent improvement homes astatine a 5.3% mean archetypal yield.

As a reminder, this year's moderated on-balance expanse improvement enactment volition beryllium match-funded with proceeds from our disposition program. Our plus absorption squad did a large occupation identifying noncore assets and recycling superior successful the archetypal quarter, selling implicit 700 homes for astir $200 cardinal of nett proceeds. Importantly, we proceed to spot beardown MLS request crossed each of our markets, demonstrating the resilient worth of single-family lodging to extremity idiosyncratic homebuyers. And finally, we proceed to stay progressive connected stock repurchases, taking a thoughtful and strategical attack to superior deployment. Over the past six months, we person repurchased astir $360 cardinal of communal stock, which represents astir 3% of full shares and units outstanding.