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    The Bull Case For Global Net Lease (GNL) Could Change Following £250M McLaren Campus Sale To Cut Debt

    Simply Wall St·12/08/2025 14:17:38
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    • Global Net Lease, Inc. recently completed an agreement to sell the McLaren Campus in Woking, Surrey, England for £250 million, following rent increases of 14.5% since acquiring the asset in April 2021.
    • The company plans to direct a large share of the proceeds toward reducing its multi-billion-dollar debt load, aiming to strengthen the balance sheet and potentially free up capacity for future share repurchases and acquisitions.
    • Next, we’ll explore how using the McLaren Campus sale proceeds to cut debt could reshape Global Net Lease’s investment narrative.

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    Global Net Lease Investment Narrative Recap

    To own Global Net Lease, you need to believe in its shift toward a focused net lease portfolio while steadily working down a heavy debt load. The McLaren Campus sale fits that story by recycling capital into debt reduction, which directly affects the key near term catalyst of deleveraging and helps address the biggest current risk of elevated leverage and interest costs.

    In this context, the ongoing share repurchase program, which has already retired over 12 million shares in 2025, matters because it competes with debt reduction for capital and can magnify the impact of any income loss from asset sales like McLaren. How Global Net Lease balances these two uses of cash will influence whether disposition driven deleveraging supports or strains future AFFO and dividend capacity.

    Yet investors should also be aware that high leverage and a US$3.1 billion gross debt load could still...

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    Global Net Lease's narrative projects $493.0 million revenue and $97.6 million earnings by 2028. This requires a 13.8% yearly revenue decline and an earnings increase of about $372 million from -$274.4 million today.

    Uncover how Global Net Lease's forecasts yield a $9.36 fair value, a 15% upside to its current price.

    Exploring Other Perspectives

    GNL Community Fair Values as at Dec 2025
    GNL Community Fair Values as at Dec 2025

    Four Simply Wall St Community fair value estimates for Global Net Lease currently span roughly US$8.08 to US$13.72 per share, reflecting very different expectations about risk and reward. Against that backdrop, the focus on using large asset sales to cut a US$3.1 billion debt load gives you a concrete issue to weigh as you compare these varied viewpoints.

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