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title: "Tax Protection Agreements Could Restrict Essential Properties Realty Trust’s Asset Sales and Pressure Liquidity"
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description: "Essential Properties Realty Trust (EPRT) faces risks from tax protection agreements that may restrict asset sales and refinancing, potentially pressuring liquidity and limiting shareholder distributions. Analysts note these constraints could dampen earnings. The average stock price target is $36.81, implying a 14.67% upside potential."
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# Tax Protection Agreements Could Restrict Essential Properties Realty Trust’s Asset Sales and Pressure Liquidity

Essential Properties Realty Trust (EPRT) has disclosed a new risk, in the Taxation & Government Incentives category.

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The analyst notes that tax protection agreements tied to prior and future acquisitions can constrain Essential Properties Realty Trust’s ability to sell or refinance certain assets when it may be strategically advantageous. He also observes that any required indemnification payments to protected unitholders could be significant, pressuring liquidity, dampening earnings, and potentially limiting distributions to common shareholders.

The average EPRT stock price target is $36.81, implying 14.67% upside potential.

To learn more about Essential Properties Realty Trust’s risk factors, click here.

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