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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001628280-25-057652"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CTRE"
cik: "0001590717"
company_name: "CareTrust REIT, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-12-17T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-16T12:55:10.399137+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.35
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# CareTrust REIT adopts LTIP Units program for equity awards; directors and officers eligible

## Summary
- New LTIP Units created: Basic LTIP Units (time-vesting) and Performance LTIP Units (relative TSR-based).
- Directors and executive officers may elect to receive annual equity awards as LTIP Units instead of RSUs.
- Vested LTIP Units can convert into Partnership Common Units, then redeemable for cash or CTRE common stock.
- LTIP Units intended to be 'profits interests' for tax purposes; initial distribution rate for Performance LTIP Units is 10% of Basic LTIP Unit distributions.
- Compensation Committee approved award agreements on December 11, 2025; awards under existing Incentive Award Plan.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001628280-25-057652
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CTRE
- cik: 0001590717
- company_name: CareTrust REIT, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-12-17T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.35
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1590717/000162828025057652/0001628280-25-057652-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1590717/000162828025057652/ctre-20251211.htm

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