GETTY REALTY CORP /MD/

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Global political and economic uncertainties, including changes in tariff policies and trade relationships, geopolitical conflicts, and public health crises, and their related impact on macroeconomic conditions may adversely impact the market on which our common stock trades, our tenants’ businesses and the markets in which we operate, our operations and our results of operations.

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We, and our tenants’ businesses may be disrupted by global political and economic uncertainties, including changes in trade relationships and tariff policies, geopolitical conflicts, and public health crises, that could result in adverse macroeconomic conditions. In April 2025, the Trump administration imposed a 10% tariff on all countries and individualized reciprocal higher tariffs on countries with which the United States has the largest trade deficits, to which certain countries have responded by imposing retaliatory tariffs on U.S. imports. Escalated geopolitical tensions resulting from such changes in trade policies and tariffs have significantly disrupted the markets and increased the risk of a major economic recession or slowdown. The extent of the impact of such tariffs and changes in trade policies or other regulatory changes enacted by the current administration is uncertain and unpredictable, and may significantly adversely affect the global economy, the market price of our common stock, and our and our tenants’ businesses. Further, the extent to which public health crises such as pandemics or epidemics impact our business, operations and financial results is uncertain, and will depend on numerous factors that we may not be able to accurately predict, including governmental, business, and individual actions taken in response to any such outbreak and the extent and duration of the adverse impact on the global economy. Such outbreaks may disrupt the supply of products or services from third-party vendors or result in shortages of raw materials necessary to operate our tenants’ businesses or prolonged closure, which may adversely impact their businesses, financial condition and liquidity, and may cause one or more of our tenants to be unable to meet their obligations to us in full, or at all, or to otherwise seek modifications of such obligations. Moreover, general decline in business activity and demand for real estate transactions could adversely affect our ability or desire to grow our portfolio of properties and the financial impact of any such outbreak could negatively impact our future compliance with the financial covenants of our various borrowings, resulting in a default and potentially an acceleration of indebtedness, which non-compliance could negatively impact our ability to make additional borrowings under our Credit Facility and pay dividends.

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Additionally, geopolitical conflicts, such as terrorist attacks or other acts of violence or war (including the conflicts in Russia and Ukraine and the Middle East) and the related adverse impact on macroeconomic conditions as a result of such conflicts could negatively affect our business or the businesses of our tenants. Such geopolitical conflicts may also directly or indirectly impact the physical facilities, networks or the business or the financial condition of us or those of our tenants, vendors or financial institutions with which we have a relationship or conduct business. The consequences of such conflicts are unpredictable, and we may not be able to foresee events that could have a material adverse effect on us. More generally, any of these events resulting from global political and economic uncertainties could cause consumer confidence and spending to decrease, result in an economic recession or increase volatility of the financial markets and economy of the United States and worldwide. Any of these occurrences could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, results of operations, liquidity, ability to pay dividends or stock price.

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Adverse developments in general business, economic or political conditions could have a material adverse effect on us.

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Adverse developments in general business and economic conditions, including through inflation, recession, or other kinds of negative economic change, either in the economy generally or in those regions in which a large portion of our business is conducted, could have a material adverse effect on us and significantly increase certain of the risks to which we are subject. Among other effects, adverse economic conditions, including those resulting from changes in trade policies or tariffs, could depress real estate values, impact our ability to re-lease or sell our properties and have an adverse effect on our tenants’ level of sales and financial performance generally. As our revenues are substantially dependent on the economic success of our tenants, any factors that adversely impact our tenants could also have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations, liquidity, ability to pay dividends or stock price.