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SBA COMMUNICATIONS CORPORATION SUPPLEMENTAL PROXY MATERIALS
For the Annual Meeting of Shareholders to be Held on
May 16, 2019
Re: Proposal 3: Advisory Vote to Approve Executive Compensation
April 30, 2019
Dear SBA Shareholder,
SBA Communications Corporation, SBA, is asking for your support at the 2019 Annual Meeting of Shareholders by voting in accordance with the recommendations of our Board of Directors on all proposals. In connection with this request, we are making available these supplemental proxy materials to provide additional disclosure regarding the financial and operational metrics that were part of our 2018 annual incentive compensation program which is more fully described in the Compensation Discussion & Analysis (“CD&A”) section of our Proxy Statement, dated April 5, 2019 (the “Proxy Statement”), for the 2019 Annual Meeting of Shareholders, beginning on page 27. As we stated in the CD&A, we believe that the annual incentive compensation program encourages executive officers to focus on those short-term financial, operational and qualitative performance metrics that will be the basis of long-term growth. We reward financial, operational and qualitative corporate metrics that we believe will drive long-term shareholder value appreciation. As disclosed in our Proxy Statement, 60% of an NEO’s annual bonus target opportunity under our annual incentive compensation program is based on company-wide financial metrics, specifically Annualized Adjusted EBITDA (30%) and AFFO per share (30%). In addition, 40% of the NEO’s annual bonus target opportunity is based on SBA’s performance against a number of selected financial and operational metrics and the Compensation Committee’s subjective analysis of each NEO’s contribution to the 2018 performance level as well as qualitative performance metrics regarding the NEO’s performance.
For 2018, as disclosed on page 39 of the Proxy Statement, these metrics included the financial metrics of (1) tower acquisitions and ground lease extensions and acquisitions, (2) leasing results on owned towers, (3) the financial and operational performance of our international operations, and (4) total cash selling, general and administrative (“SG&A”) costs as a percentage of total cash revenue. In addition, these metrics included operational and qualitative performance metrics of institutional contribution, including cross-departmental collaboration, succession planning and improved business processes and communications, and executive performance, which includes numerous areas of focus, based on the NEO, including regulatory compliance, audit results and capital allocation. Based on his responsibilities, each NEO was
assigned three to four of these financial, operational or qualitative metrics upon which he was evaluated. During 2018, the budget/target level for each NEO was set at or above the prior year’s budget performance level and the threshold/minimum level was set between 75% and 95% of the budget level. As described on page 38 of the Proxy Statement, for 2018, (1) achievement at the minimum level (set slightly below budget), entitled the NEO to approximately 50% of the bonus earnable for the applicable metric, (2) achievement at the budget level entitled the NEO to 75% of the bonus earnable for the applicable metric (3) achievement at the stretch entitled the NEO to 100% of the bonus earnable for the applicable metric and (4) achievement at the maximum level entitled the NEO to 200% of the bonus earnable for the applicable metric. The Compensation Committee does not, however, allocate a specific percentage of the 40% bonus opportunity to the individual financial, operational or qualitative metrics.
The table below sets forth the minimum, budget, stretch and maximum performance levels for each of the financial and operational metrics that were set at the beginning of the period as part of the 2018 annual incentive compensation program and the performance achieved.
| Financial or Operational Metric |
Minimum (50%) |
Budget (75%) |
Stretch (100%) |
Max. (200%) |
Performance Achieved (Component Credit %) | |||||
| Tower Acquisitions |
$336 mm | $448 mm | $560 mm | $1,008 mm | $342.9 mm (51.5%) | |||||
| Ground Lease Extensions and Acquisitions |
900 Sites |
1,000 Sites |
1,100 Sites |
1,600 Sites |
1,359 Sites (151.8%) | |||||
| Domestic Leasing Results |
0.153 BBE |
0.170 BBE |
0.187 BBE |
0.272 BBE |
0.22 BBE (138.8%) | |||||
| International Performance: |
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| New Build Towers |
373 | 415 | 457 | 664 | 383 (56.0%) | |||||
| Organic Lease-Up |
$8.73 mm | $9.70 mm | $10.67 mm | $15.52 mm | $14.2 mm (173.1%) | |||||
| Adjusted EBITDA |
$200.8 mm | $211.4 mm | $222.0 mm | $243.1 mm | $219.3 mm (93.6%) | |||||
| Cash SG&A as % of Cash Revenue |
5.74% | 5.45% | 5.19% | 4.74% | 5.44% (75.0%) | |||||
Based on our financial and operational results, each of our NEOs achieved 107.6% of their 30% Adjusted EBITDA target opportunity and 95.1% of their 30% AFFO per share target opportunity or a combined 60.8% of the 60% bonus opportunity directly tied to the two company-wide financial metrics. The Compensation Committee then evaluated, for each NEO, the financial results above for each of the metrics previously assigned to him, the results of the qualitative metrics described in the Proxy Statement and the contribution of each NEO to such results. Based on these results, the NEOs earned an average of 96.4% of the 40% target opportunity relating to the financial, operational and qualitative metrics and the CEO earned 86% of the 40% target opportunity. Consequently, our NEOs earned between 92% and 115% of their annual bonus target, while our CEO earned 95% of his annual bonus target.
We appreciate your time and consideration on these matters and ask that you vote “FOR” Proposal 3: Advisory Vote to Approve Executive Compensation.