Share count
675Mpeak FY2025
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KIM, Kimco Realty Corporation (HC)
The Company is the leading owner and operator of high-quality, open-air, grocery-anchored shopping centers and mixed-use properties in the United States.
The business
What it sells, where the money comes from, the kind of company it is.
Revenue · FY2025
$2.1B
+5.1% YoY · 15% 5-yr CAGR
Vital signs · TTM, with 5-yr average
Revenue $2.2B 5-yr avg $1.8B
Revenue $558M +4.0% vs yr-ago qtr
Operating margin 37.2% yr-ago 33.6%
Net income $166M yr-ago $135M
Net margin 29.8% yr-ago 25.1%
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 been roughly flat (2% a year). The dividend takes 62% of FFO, and is covered. Debt is 39% 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 | |||||||||||
| $1.2B | $1.2B | $1.2B | $1.2B | $1.1B | $1.4B | $1.7B | $1.8B | $2.0B | $2.1B | $2.2B | RevenueRevenue |
| $379M | $426M | $498M | $411M | $1.0B | $844M | $126M | $654M | $411M | $585M | $617M | Net incomeNet inc. |
| Cash flow & returns | |||||||||||
| $647M | $693M | $808M | $688M | $1.3B | $1.2B | $631M | $1.2B | $1.0B | $1.2B | $1.1B | Funds from operationsFFO |
| Balance sheet | |||||||||||
| 73% | 73% | 66% | 77% | 29% | 31% | 86% | 57% | 67% | 59% | 62% | Dividend payout (FFO)Payout |
| $11.7B | $12.3B | $11.6B | $11.7B | $12.1B | $18.1B | $18.5B | $18.9B | $21.2B | $21.6B | $21.6B | Real estate (gross)RE gross |
| $11.2B | $11.8B | $11.0B | $11.0B | $11.6B | $18.5B | $17.8B | $18.3B | $20.3B | $19.7B | $19.6B | Total assetsAssets |
| 35% | 39% | 40% | 44% | 43% | 38% | 38% | 40% | 39% | 39% | 39% | Debt / assetsDebt/assets |
| $3.9B | $4.6B | $4.4B | $4.8B | $5.0B | $7.0B | $6.8B | $7.3B | $8.0B | $7.7B | $7.7B | Total debtDebt |
| $3.8B | $4.4B | $4.2B | $4.7B | $4.8B | $6.7B | $6.6B | $6.5B | $7.3B | $7.5B | $7.3B | Net debt / (cash)Net debt |
| 2.0× | 2.2× | 3.2× | 2.7× | 1.8× | 2.1× | 2.5× | 2.6× | 2.0× | 2.3× | 2.4× | Interest coverageInt. cov. |
| $5.3B | $5.4B | $5.3B | $4.9B | $5.6B | $9.9B | $9.5B | $9.5B | $10.7B | $10.4B | $10.4B | Shareholders’ equityEquity |
| Per share | |||||||||||
| 420M | 424M | 421M | 422M | 432M | 511M | 618M | 618M | 672M | 675M | 673M | Shares out (diluted)Shares |
| $1.54 | $1.64 | $1.92 | $1.63 | $2.99 | $2.42 | $1.02 | $1.88 | $1.51 | $1.79 | $1.71 | FFO / shareFFO/sh |
| $1.13 | $1.19 | $1.26 | $1.26 | $0.88 | $0.75 | $0.88 | $1.06 | $1.02 | $1.05 | $1.06 | Dividends / shareDiv/sh |
| $12.52 | $12.72 | $12.66 | $11.53 | $12.99 | $19.36 | $15.40 | $15.41 | $15.85 | $15.39 | $15.44 | Book value / shareBVPS |
Per-share growththe realized rate an owner's share compounded
| 9-yr | 5-yr | |
|---|---|---|
| Revenue / share | +1.4%/yr | +5.3%/yr |
| Owner earnings / share | +4.8%/yr | — |
| EPS | −0.5%/yr | −17.9%/yr |
| Dividends / share | −0.8%/yr | +3.7%/yr |
| Capital spending / share | −24.5%/yr | — |
| Book value / share | +2.3%/yr | +3.4%/yr |
The record, charted
FY2016–2025Each measure over its full record; the current point and the worst year marked.
Revenue
$2.1Blow FY2020
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 $1.66 per shareNet income $585M + depreciation $627M − gains on sale $94M
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.
- CoveredDividends $712M ÷ FFO $1.1BIndustry peers: median 60%
What this means
A REIT must distribute most of its taxable income, so a high payout is normal and the question is whether FFO covers it. Above 100%, the trust is funding the dividend with debt or asset sales, and a cut usually follows.
Is it sound?
- Debt / assets 39%ConservativeTotal debt $7.7B ÷ assets $19.7BIndustry peers: median 51%
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.
- Strong(operating income + depreciation) ÷ interest $330MIndustry peers: median 4.6×
What this means
How many times the property cash earnings cover the interest bill. Comfortable coverage is what lets a REIT refinance through a tight credit market instead of being forced to sell into one.
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.
Debt maturity
the debt note, SEC EDGAR →Not how much it owes, but when it falls due, and against what. The ladder the company files, beside cash on hand and a year's owner earnings.
Bars scaled to the largest single year; “later” is everything due after 2030, shown apart since it dwarfs the years.
Due in the next 12 months$882Mthe first rung: what must be repaid or rolled over within the year
Within two years$2.1Bthe near wall, the part most exposed to today’s credit conditions
Biggest single year$1.2Bin 2027the lumpiest maturity, where a refinancing, if needed, is largest
Total scheduled principal$8.2Bevery year plus what lies beyond, as the footnote totals it
Against what the business has and earns
Cash & short-term investments, Mar 31, 2026$392M
One year of owner earnings (FY2025)$1.1B
Together, against $882M due next year1.7×
Cash on hand as of Mar 31, 2026 plus a year’s owner earnings comes to $1.5B against the $882M due in the twelve months after the Dec 31, 2025 schedule: 1.7 times it.
Maturity schedule extracted from the company’s Dec 31, 2025 annual report and reconciled to the total the table states.
Management, ownership & pay
read the proxy →From the proxy: how much of the business the people running it own, and how they are paid, beside what the business earned for its owners in the same years.
| Fiscal year | Chief executive | Pay, as filed | “Actually paid” | Net income |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Conor Flynn | $10.5M | $22.6M | $844M |
| 2022 | Conor Flynn | $11.6M | $11.1M | $126M |
| 2023 | Conor Flynn | $14.0M | $14.6M | $654M |
| 2024 | Conor Flynn | $10.9M | $18.4M | $411M |
| 2025 | Conor Flynn | $11.6M | $9.7M | $585M |
Both pay figures are the company’s own, from the pay-versus-performance table its proxy statement files. “As filed” is the Summary Compensation Table total: salary, bonus, and equity awards at their value on the day of grant. “Actually paid” is the SEC’s prescribed recalculation, which re-marks those equity awards to what they became as they vested; it can swing far above or below the filed figure in either direction, and negative years occur. Net income is the whole business's, as filed, for the same fiscal years.
- Insider ownership2.2%
The stake all directors and executive officers hold together, per the 2026 proxy: skin in the game, the first thing Munger reads.
- Stock-based compensation$33M
The slice of the business handed to employees in shares this year, 2% of revenue, equal to 4% of operating profit. Buffett's oldest accounting fight: this is compensation, compensation is an expense, real whether or not the headline earnings admit it. One trap: the cash-flow statement adds SBC back, so the operating cash, and the owner earnings drawn from it, are flattered by exactly this amount; counted as the cost it is, what an owner keeps is lower.
Peers, Retail REITs
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SPGSimon Property Group | $6.4B | 62% | 10.4% | — | 76% |
| KIMKimco Realty Corporation (HC) | $2.1B | 58% | 6.2% | 66% | 39% |
| REGRegency Centers Corporation | $1.6B | 52% | 5.5% | 65% | 35% |
| BRXBrixmor | $1.4B | 48% | 6.8% | 26% | 60% |
| FRTFederal Realty Investment Trust | $1.3B | 51% | 7.3% | — | 53% |
| MACMacerich | $1.0B | 34% | 3.5% | 110% | 51% |
| KRGKite Realty Group Trust | $844M | 43% | 4.4% | 60% | 45% |
| PECOPhillips Edison | $727M | 43% | 4.6% | 50% | 45% |
| Group median | — | 50% | 5.9% | 62% | 48% |
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, delivered−9%/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 $1.71 per share on 674M 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, "Kimco Realty Corporation (HC) (KIM), the owner's record," https://ownerscorecard.com/c/KIM, data as of 2026-07-09.
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