Share count
16Mpeak FY2018
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ARL, American Realty Investors Inc.
American Realty Investors Inc. is a fully integrated externally managed real estate company.
The business
What it sells, where the money comes from, the kind of company it is.
Revenue · FY2025
$50M
+5.7% YoY · −3% 5-yr CAGR
Vital signs · TTM, with 5-yr average
Revenue $12M +2.8% vs yr-ago qtr
Operating margin −17.8% yr-ago −6.8%
Net income ($516K) yr-ago $4M
Net margin −4.2% yr-ago 33.0%
The business in brief
read the 10-K →What this business is and what moves its needle, from its own SEC filings.
- What moves the needle
- Occupancy, rents, and the cost of debt. Read on funds from operations and net asset value, because GAAP depreciation distorts the earnings, and a property downturn meets a balance sheet built on leverage. On its own account, the filing leans hardest on pricing power & competition, set against the numbers in what the filing emphasizes, below.
- Is it a good business?
- Funds from operations per share have compounded about 21% a year across the record. Debt is 25% of assets, conservative for a REIT. The quality and location of the properties, the lease terms and occupancy, and the cost of the debt are what the 10-K settles, and no single ratio captures them.
Every line is arithmetic on the company's filings, shown in full in the sections below.
The record
Ten years of arithmetic, read across the cycle.
The record, 2016–2025
realized figures from each filing · older years to the left| 2016’16 | 2017’17 | 2018’18 | 2019’19 | 2020’20 | 2021’21 | 2022’22 | 2023’23 | 2024’24 | 2025’25 | TTMTTMMar 2026 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Income statement | |||||||||||
| $120M | $126M | $150M | $59M | $59M | $42M | $38M | $51M | $47M | $50M | $50M | RevenueRevenue |
| ($3M) | ($8M) | $174M | ($16M) | $9M | $3M | $373M | $4M | ($15M) | $16M | $12M | Net incomeNet inc. |
| Cash flow & returns | |||||||||||
| $5M | $550K | $50M | ($290K) | $28M | $18M | $386M | $19M | ($2M) | $28M | $17M | Funds from operationsFFO |
| Balance sheet | |||||||||||
| $1.1B | $1.2B | $459M | $478M | $460M | $359M | $560M | $569M | $636M | $207M | $207M | Real estate (gross)RE gross |
| $1.2B | $1.3B | $826M | $831M | $866M | $771M | $1.2B | $1.0B | $1.0B | $1.1B | $1.1B | Total assetsAssets |
| 74% | 69% | 36% | 31% | 28% | 24% | 16% | 18% | 18% | 20% | 25% | Debt / assetsDebt/assets |
| $868M | $901M | $296M | $261M | $243M | $183M | $188M | $183M | $185M | $214M | $269M | Total debtDebt |
| $855M | $858M | $259M | $210M | $206M | $117M | ($45M) | $55M | $86M | $125M | $181M | Net debt / (cash)Net debt |
| $122M | $112M | $258M | $239M | $237M | $240M | $613M | $617M | $602M | $617M | $620M | Shareholders’ equityEquity |
| Per share | |||||||||||
| 15.5M | 15.5M | 16.7M | 16.0M | 16.0M | 16.2M | 16.2M | 16.2M | 16.2M | 16.2M | 16.2M | Shares out (diluted)Shares |
| $0.31 | $0.04 | $3.01 | $-0.02 | $1.72 | $1.14 | $23.93 | $1.15 | $-0.13 | $1.75 | $1.07 | FFO / shareFFO/sh |
| $7.86 | $7.22 | $15.47 | $14.97 | $14.76 | $14.87 | $37.98 | $38.20 | $37.26 | $38.22 | $38.36 | Book value / shareBVPS |
Per-share growththe realized rate an owner's share compounded
| 9-yr | 5-yr | |
|---|---|---|
| Revenue / share | −9.6%/yr | −3.4%/yr |
| EPS | — | +11.6%/yr |
| Book value / share | +19.2%/yr | +21.0%/yr |
The record, charted
FY2016–2025Each measure over its full record; the current point and the worst year marked.
Revenue
$50Mlow FY2022
Quality & stewardship
Returns, the balance sheet, capital allocation, and pay.
Owner’s Scorecard
FY2025 10-K · source on SEC EDGAR →
Is it a good business?
- about $1.76 per shareNet income $16M + depreciation $13M − gains on sale ($80K)
What this means
GAAP net income with property depreciation added back, because the buildings a REIT charges against earnings usually hold or grow their value. This, not net income, is what a REIT is actually priced on. It is an approximation here: where a filing reports gains on property sales, we remove them, the way the NAREIT definition does.
- Not enough data
What this means
FFO or dividends missing.
Is it sound?
- Debt / assets 24%ConservativeTotal debt $261M ÷ assets $1.1BIndustry peers: median 21%
What this means
Every REIT runs on leverage; how much is the question. Heavy debt is what turns a property downturn into a wipeout, as 2008 showed, so a conservative balance sheet is part of the moat here, not a drag on it.
- Not enough data
What this means
Operating income or interest is missing, or operating income sits far below net income (a triple-net REIT's lease income bypasses the operating line), so an EBITDA coverage would mislead — read it on net income against the interest bill, and on debt / assets, instead.
Does AI threaten the moat?
Low contestabilityThe moat is physical, regulated or balance-sheet-funded, the kind AI cuts costs within but does not contest.
AI is unlikely to contest a moat that is physical, regulated or balance-sheet-funded; here it reads more as a cost tool than a threat.
Read from the filing's own risk factors, paired with the industry's structure under its SIC code; the durability is read above, the price below.
All figures as filed; the source filing is linked above.
Management, ownership & pay
read the proxy →From the proxy: how much of the business the people running it own, and how they are paid.
- Insider ownership90.8%
The stake all directors and executive officers hold together, per the 2025 proxy: skin in the game, the first thing Munger reads.
What an owner would ask, FY2025
read the 10-K →- Which reported numbers are a judgment call?Management names Revenue recognition, Acquisitions as critical estimates
each rests partly on management's judgment; the filing's note sets out the assumptionsverify →
The questions the record and the charts do not answer on their own; each carries the figure and the place to look.
Peers, Real Estate Development & Services
The same industry, side by side on the REIT lens. Each figure is a through-cycle median, so a peak or trough year can’t distort it; the group median at the foot is the line to read each against.
| Company | Revenue | FFO margin | FFO / assets | Payout (FFO) | Debt / assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CURBCurbline Properties Corp. | $183M | 64% | 4.5% | 0% | 17% |
| GOODGladstone Commercial Corp | $161M | 47% | 5.7% | 101% | 61% |
| BOCBoston Omaha Corporation | $114M | 12% | 1.4% | — | — |
| FPHFive Point Holdings LLC Class A | $110M | 15% | 1.0% | — | 21% |
| ARLAmerican Realty Investors Inc. | $50M | 33% | 2.1% | — | 26% |
| TRCTejon Ranch Co | $50M | 18% | 1.3% | — | 12% |
| SKYHSky Harbour Group Corporation | $28M | -183% | -3.5% | — | 40% |
| MLPMaui Land & Pineapple Company Inc. | $19M | -16% | -4.3% | — | — |
| Group median | — | 17% | 1.4% | — | 23% |
The price
What a price has to assume.
What the price implies
price / FFOA REIT is priced on a multiple of its funds from operations (FFO), the cash it earns once the depreciation on its buildings is added back. Type today’s price; we show the multiple you would pay and the income and growth it implies.
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The assumptions
FFO / share, delivered0%/yr’20→’25
The justified multiple is 1 ÷ (required return − growth), a perpetuity on FFO. At an 8% required return and 3% growth, a REIT is worth about 20× FFO.
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FFO about $1.07 per share on 16M shares. The dials set the multiple they justify; your price sets the multiple you are paying. FFO here adds back depreciation and removes property-sale gains, the NAREIT method; it does not net out maintenance capex (AFFO), occupancy or lease terms, which the 10-K does.
Cite: Owner Scorecard, "American Realty Investors Inc. (ARL), the owner's record," https://ownerscorecard.com/c/ARL, data as of 2026-07-09.
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