EAST PROVIDENCE – For the three months ended Sept. 30, Capital Properties Inc. (Amex: CPI) posted a profit of $333,000, a decline of $40,000 or 10.7 percent from the year-ago period’s $373,000. Basic income per common share fell to 10 cents from 11 cents per share in the third quarter of 2006.
General and administrative expenses rose $60,000 compared with a year ago to $308,000, the company said, due mostly to costs of Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, the company said.
Third-quarter revenue in the petroleum-storage segment rose $68,000, or 8.6 percent, compared with a year ago to $860,000. CPI credited the increase principally to income from its new 175,000-barrel storage tank, effective August 2006, and higher monthly rent resulting from annual cost-of-living adjustments. But storage-segment expenses outpaced revenue, rising $82,000, or 18.9 percent, to $516,000 due to higher depreciation, mostly on the new tank, and the hiring of a new employee, CPI said.
Third-quarter revenue in the company’s leasing segment rose or 3.5 percent year-over-year to $676,000. CPI credited most of the gain to increases in rent on short-term leases. Segment expenses were roughly level as an increase in real estate property taxes was offset by a decline in professional fees.
Other income rose 11.5 percent to $29,000.
A regular quarterly dividend of 6 cents per share of the company’s outstanding Class A common stock – payable Nov. 28 to shareholders of record at the close of business on Nov. 14 – was declared by the CPI board of directors on Oct. 30.
Capital Properties Inc. (Amex: CPI) and its subsidiaries operate in two segments: leasing, both of commercial real estate in downtown Providence and of outdoor advertising sites along highways in Rhode Island and Massachusetts; and petroleum storage, at the CPI facility in East Providence.
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