Investor FAQs

The merger between GNL and The Necessity Retail REIT, Inc. closed on September 12, 2023. For additional information on the merger and the combined company, please review GNL’s latest investor presentation which can be found within the Investor section of this website under Events & Presentations.

GNL’s fiscal year ends on December 31st.

GNL’s SEC filings can be viewed within the Investor section of this website under SEC Filings  or on the SEC’s website at www.SEC.gov.

GNL’s Investor Presentations can be found within the Investor section of this website under Events and Presentations. GNL also generally furnishes all Investor Presentations as exhibits to SEC filings, which are available as described above.

GNL trades on the New York Stock Exchange and has five classes of publicly traded shares:

• Common stock: NYSE: GNL
• Series A preferred stock: NYSE: GNL.PRA
• Series B preferred stock: NYSE: GNL.PRB
• Series D preferred stock: NYSE: GNL.PRD
• Series E preferred stock: NYSE: GNL.PRE

• GNL’s common stock listed on the NYSE on June 2, 2015.
• GNL’s Series A preferred stock listed on the NYSE on September 7, 2017.
• GNL’s Series B preferred stock listed on the NYSE on November 26, 2019
• GNL's Series D preferred stock listed on the NYSE on September 12, 2023
• GNL's Series E preferred stock listed on the NYSE on September 12, 2023

• The CUSIP for GNL’s common stock is 379378201
• The CUSIP for GNL’s Series A preferred stock is 379378300
• The CUSIP for GNL’s Series B preferred stock is 379378409
• The CUSIP for GNL's Series D Preferred Stock is 379378508
• The CUSIP for GNL's Series E Preferred Stock is 379378607

Please contact your financial advisor or broker to discuss investing in GNL. Shares must be purchased through a registered broker-dealer.

GNL's transfer agent is American Stock Transfer (AST). Shareholders who hold shares directly on AST's books may contact AST as follows

Yes. GNL pays Quarterly dividends on both classes of stock. Please see below for details: To view GNL's historical common stock dividends please click here: (link)

• If you hold your shares in your own name through GNL's transfer agent, American Stock Transfer, you will receive payment each quarter directly from AST. Checks are mailed to the address of record.
• If you hold your shares in a brokerage account, your dividend will be deposited directly into your account by that brokerage firm.

GNL does not have a dividend reinvestment program. Please contact your broker directly to inquire whether your brokerage firm can facilitate a program whereby you can invest your dividends automatically in additional GNL shares.

• Shareholders who own GNL shares in a brokerage account should contact that brokerage firm to request a Form 1099-DIV copy.
• Shareholders whose shares are held on the books of GNL's transfer agent, American Stock Transfer ('AST'), may contact AST to request a Form 1099-DIV.

• Please click GNL E-Mail Notification Options to receive periodic communications and filing alerts from GNL via e-mail. These notifications include including press releases, investor presentations, quarterly Forms 10-Q and annual Forms 10-K filings as well as quarterly earnings call announcements.

You may reach GNL's investor relations department as follows:

A REIT is a company dedicated to owning, and in most cases, operating income-producing commercial real estate such as office, industrial / distribution, warehouse, healthcare and retail properties. Some REITs also engage in financing real estate.

An estimated 87 million Americans own REIT shares through their retirement savings or other investment funds. (source: Nareit) 

• To qualify as a REIT a company must:

  • Invest at least 75 percent of its total assets in real estate, cash, and government securities
  • Derive at least 75 percent of its gross income from rents from real property, interest on mortgages financing real property or from sales of real estate
  • Pay at least 90 percent of its taxable income in the form of shareholder dividends each year
  • Have a minimum of 100 shareholders
  • Have no more than 50 percent of its shares held by five or fewer individuals
  
  

  REITs generally pay little or no U.S. corporate income taxes because they are able to deduct dividends they pay from their taxable earnings.

For REITs, dividend distributions for tax purposes are allocated to ordinary income, capital gains and return of capital, each of which may be taxed at a different rate. Currently, the maximum capital gains tax rate of 20 percent applies generally to the sale of REIT stock. All public companies, including REITs, are required early in the year to provide shareholders with information clarifying how the prior year's dividends should be allocated for tax purposes.

Tax information is reported on Form 1099-DIV. Shareholders should contact a tax professional for tax-related questions