| Item 1.01 | Entry Into a Material Definitive Agreement |
Senior Notes Offering
On April 16, 2024, Public Storage Operating Company (“PSOC”), a subsidiary of Public Storage (the “Company”), completed the previously announced offering of $700 million Floating Rate Senior Notes due 2027 (the “Floating Rate Notes”) and $300 million 5.350% Senior Notes due 2053 (the “2053 Notes” and, together with the Floating Rate Notes, the “Notes”). As previously disclosed, the 2053 Notes are issued as additional notes under the indenture pursuant to which PSOC previously issued $600,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 5.350% Senior Notes due 2053. The Notes are issued by PSOC and guaranteed by the Company.
The Notes have been issued pursuant to an Indenture, dated as of September 18, 2017, as supplemented by the Sixteenth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of August 14, 2023 (the “Base Indenture”), among PSOC, as issuer, the Company, as guarantor, and Computershare Trust Company, N.A. (as successor to Wells Fargo Bank, National Association), as trustee (the “Trustee”), as supplemented by the Seventeenth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of April 16, 2024, relating to the Floating Rate Notes (the “Seventeenth Supplemental Indenture”), and the Fifteenth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of July 26, 2023 (the “Fifteenth Supplemental Indenture”) and the Eighteenth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of April 16, 2024, relating to the 2053 Notes (the “Eighteenth Supplemental Indenture” and, collectively with the Fifteenth Supplemental Indenture, the Seventeenth Supplemental Indenture and the Base Indenture, the “Indenture”), each among PSOC, the Company and the Trustee.
The Floating Rate Notes bear interest at a rate equal to Compounded SOFR (as defined in the Seventeenth Supplemental Indenture), reset quarterly, plus 70 basis points (0.700%) accruing from April 16, 2024 or from the immediately preceding interest payment date to which interest has been paid. The 2053 Notes bear interest at 5.350% per annum, accruing from February 1, 2024 or from the immediately preceding interest payment date to which interest has been paid. Interest on the Floating Rate Notes is payable quarterly on April 16, July 16, October 16 and January 16 of each year, commencing on July 16, 2024. Interest on the 2053 Notes is payable semi-annually on February 1 and August 1 of each year, commencing on August 1, 2024. The interest payment on the 2053 Notes to be made on August 1, 2024 will consist of (i) accrued and unpaid interest from, and including, February 1, 2024 to, but excluding, the settlement date of the 2053 Notes, equal to $3,343,750, and (ii) interest accrued on the 2053 Notes from, and including, the settlement date to, but excluding, August 1, 2024. The Floating Rate Notes will mature on April 16, 2027 and the 2053 Notes will mature on August 1, 2053. The Notes are PSOC’s direct, unsecured and unsubordinated obligations and will rank equally in right of payment with all of PSOC’s existing and future unsecured and unsubordinated indebtedness.
The Floating Rate Notes are not redeemable prior to maturity. The Company may redeem the 2053 Notes at any time in whole, or from time to time in part, at the applicable make-whole redemption price specified in the Indenture. If the 2053 Notes are redeemed on or after February 1, 2053 (six months prior to the maturity date), the redemption price will be equal to 100% of the principal amount of the notes being redeemed plus accrued and unpaid interest thereon to, but not including, the redemption date.
The Indenture contains certain covenants that, among other things, limit the ability of PSOC, subject to exceptions, to incur secured and unsecured indebtedness and to consummate a merger, consolidation or sale of all or substantially all of its assets. In addition, the Indenture requires PSOC to maintain total unencumbered assets of at least 125% of total unsecured indebtedness. These covenants are subject to a number of important exceptions and qualifications. The Indenture also provides for customary events of default which, if any of them occurs, would permit or require the principal of and accrued interest on the Notes to become or to be declared due and payable.
The foregoing description is a summary of the terms of the Indenture and the Notes and does not purport to be a complete statement of the parties’ rights and obligations thereunder. The foregoing description is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of the Base Indenture, the Seventeenth Supplemental Indenture and the Eighteenth Supplemental Indenture, as applicable (including the forms of Notes), copies of which are attached as Exhibits 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4 and 4.5 to this Current Report on Form 8-K and incorporated by reference herein.
The offering of the Notes was made pursuant to a shelf registration statement on Form S-3 (File Nos. 333-273970 and 333-273970-01) filed by the Company and PSOC with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) on August 14, 2023. A prospectus supplement, dated April 9, 2024, relating to the Notes and supplementing the prospectus was filed with the SEC pursuant to Rule 424(b)(5) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.
