5. Stockholders’ Equity

Preferred Stock

The Company’s charter authorizes the Company’s Board of Directors to designate and issue one or more classes or series of preferred stock without approval of the holders of Common Shares. On February 11, 2015, the Company amended and restated its charter to authorize the issuance of 50,000,000 shares of preferred stock. Prior to the issuance of shares of each class or series, the Board of Directors will be required by Maryland law and by the charter to set, subject to the charter restrictions on ownership and transfer of stock, the terms, preferences, conversion or other rights, voting powers, restrictions, limitations as to dividends or other distributions, qualifications and terms and conditions of redemption of each class or series of preferred stock so issued, which may be more beneficial than the rights, preferences and privileges attributable to Common Shares. The issuance of preferred stock could have the effect of delaying, deferring or preventing a change in control of the Company. As of December 31, 2025, the Company had not issued any shares of preferred stock.

Common Shares

On February 11, 2015, the Company amended and restated its charter to authorize the issuance of 200 million Common Shares. Under the charter, the Company will not be able to make certain material changes to its business form or operations without the approval of stockholders holding at least a majority of the Common Shares entitled to vote on the matter.

Subject to the restrictions on ownership and transfer of stock contained in the Company’s charter and except as may otherwise be specified in the charter, the holders of Common Shares are entitled to one vote per Common Share on all matters submitted to a stockholder vote, including the election of the Company’s directors. There is no cumulative voting in the election of directors. Therefore, the holders of a majority of outstanding Common Shares are able to elect the Company’s entire Board of Directors. Except as the Company’s charter may provide with respect to any series of preferred stock that the Company may issue in the future, the holders of Common Shares possess exclusive voting power.

Holders of the Company’s Common Shares are entitled to receive distributions as authorized from time to time by the Company’s Board of Directors and declared out of legally available funds, subject to any preferential rights of any preferred stock that the Company issues in the future. In any liquidation, each outstanding Common Share will entitle its holder to share (based on the percentage of Common Shares held) in the assets that remain after the Company pays its liabilities and any preferential distributions owed to preferred stockholders. Holders of Common Shares do not have preemptive rights, which means that there is no automatic option to purchase any new Common Shares that the Company issues, nor do holders of Common Shares have any preference, conversion, exchange, sinking fund or redemption rights. Holders of Common Shares do not have appraisal rights unless the Board of Directors determines that appraisal rights apply, with respect to all or any classes or series of stock, to a particular transaction or all transactions occurring after the date of such determination in connection with which holders of such Common Shares would otherwise be entitled to exercise appraisal rights. Common Shares are nonassessable by the Company upon its receipt of the consideration for which the Board of Directors authorized their issuance.

Distributions on Common Shares

The Company made an election to qualify as a REIT for federal income tax purposes commencing with our taxable year ended December 31, 2016. U.S. federal tax law requires a REIT to distribute at least 90% of its annual REIT taxable income (which does not equal net income, as calculated in accordance with GAAP determined without regard to the deduction for dividends paid and excluding any net capital gain in order to maintain its REIT status. However, in order to continue to qualify for REIT status, it is possible the Company may be unable to make any such required distributions if they are in an amount in excess of its available cash.

The Company’s distributions, if any, are authorized at the discretion of the Board of Directors based on their analysis of the Company’s performance over the previous periods and expectations of performance for future periods. The Board of Directors considers various factors in its determination, including but not limited to, the Company’s sources and availability of capital, its operating and interest expenses, its ability to refinance near-term debt, as well as the Internal Revenue Service’s annual distribution requirement that REITs distribute no less than 90% of their taxable income. Although the Board of Directors’ decisions will be substantially influenced by the intention to maintain the Company’s federal tax status as a REIT, the Company cannot provide assurance that it will pay distributions at any particular level, or at all.

No distributions have been declared or paid for any months ending after March 2020.

SRP

The Company’s share repurchase program (“SRP”), as amended from time to time by the Board of Directors, may provide its stockholders with limited, interim liquidity by enabling them to sell their Common Shares back to the Company, subject to various restrictions. 

The Company’s SRP currently provides for redemption requests to be submitted in connection with either a stockholder’s death or certain hardships and the price for all such purchases has been set at our estimated net asset value per Common Share (“NAV per Share”) as of the date of actual redemption. The Company’s estimated NAV per Share is determined by the Board of Directors and reported by it from time to time. Requests for redemptions in connection with a stockholder’s death must be submitted and received by the Company within one year of the stockholder’s date of death to be eligible for consideration.

Additionally, the Board of Directors has established that on an annual basis the Company will not redeem in excess of 0.5% of the number of Common Shares outstanding as of the end of the preceding year for either death redemptions or hardship redemptions.

Eligible redemption requests have been and are generally expected to be processed on a quarterly basis and will be subject to proration if the type of redemption requests exceeds the annual limitations (subject to a quarterly factor) as established by the Board of Directors. Furthermore, the Board of Directors may, at their sole discretion, amend or suspend the SRP at any time without any notice to stockholders.

For the year ended December 31, 2025, the Company repurchased 82,229 Common Shares at a weighted average price per share of $9.49. For the year ended December 31, 2024, the Company repurchased 84,614 Common Shares at a weighted average price per share of $9.61.