Postal Realty Trust, Inc. 10-Q

ITEM 3. QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE DISCLOSURES ABOUT MARKET RISK Market risk is the risk of loss from adverse changes in market prices and interest rates. Our future earnings, cash flows and fair values relevant to financial instruments are dependent upon prevailing market interest rates. Our primary market risk results from our indebtedness, which bears interest at both fixed and variable rates. Subject to maintaining our status as a REIT for federal income tax purposes, we may manage our market risk on variable rate debt through the use of derivative instruments such as interest cap agreements to, in effect, cap the interest rate on all or a portion of the debt for varying periods up to maturity. In the future, we may use interest rate swaps or other derivatives that fix the rate on all or a portion of our variable rate debt for varying periods up to maturity. This in turn, reduces the risks of variability of cash flows created by variable rate debt and mitigates the risk of increases in interest rates. Our objective when undertaking such arrangements will be to reduce our floating rate exposure. However, we provide no assurance that our efforts to manage interest rate volatility will successfully mitigate the risks of such volatility in our portfolio and we do not intend to enter into hedging arrangements for speculative purposes. We may utilize swap arrangements in the future. As of September 30, 2020, our total indebtedness was approximately $65.8 million, consisting of approximately $49.0 million of variable-rate debt and approximately $16.8 million of fixed rate debt. Assuming no increase in the amount of our outstanding variable-rate indebtedness, if the one-month LIBOR were to increase or decrease by 0.50%, our cash flows would decrease or increase by approximately $245,000 on an annualized basis.