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NNN, NNN REIT

NNN's top line of trade concentrations are the automotive service, convenience stores, restaurants, entertainment and dealerships sectors.

Estimates are sensitive to evaluations by management about current and future expectations of market and economic conditions.

Latest annual: FY2025 10-K
NNN · NNN REIT
I

The business

What it sells, where the money comes from, the kind of company it is.

Revenue · FY2025
$926M
+6.6% YoY · 7% 5-yr CAGR
Vital signs · TTM, with 5-yr average
Revenue $926M 5-yr avg $825M
FFO margin 66% 5-yr avg 68%
Dividend payout (FFO) 73% 5-yr avg 72%
Debt / assets 48% 5-yr avg 48%

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 debt terms & refinancing, set against the numbers in what the filing emphasizes, below.
Is it a good business?
Funds from operations per share have been roughly flat (3% a year). The dividend takes 73% of FFO, and is covered. Debt is 48% of assets, moderate 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.

II

The record

Ten years of arithmetic, read across the cycle.

The record, 2016–2025

realized figures from each filing · older years to the left
2016’162017’172018’182019’192020’202021’212022’222023’232024’242025’25TTMTTMDec 2025
Income statement
$534M$585M$623M$670M$661M$726M$773M$828M$869M$926M$926MRevenueRevenue
$240M$265M$292M$299M$229M$290M$335M$392M$397M$390M$390MNet incomeNet inc.
Cash flow & returns
$361M$402M$402M$456M$409M$472M$541M$583M$604M$610M$610MFunds from operationsFFO
Balance sheet
71%69%75%73%87%78%70%69%70%73%73%Dividend payout (FFO)Payout
$6.6B$7.3B$7.8B$8.4B$8.5B$8.9B$9.7B$10.2B$10.7B$11.4B$11.4BReal estate (gross)RE gross
$6.3B$6.6B$7.1B$7.4B$7.6B$7.8B$8.1B$8.7B$8.9B$9.4B$9.4BTotal assetsAssets
36%37%40%38%42%48%46%49%49%48%48%Debt / assetsDebt/assets
$2.3B$2.4B$2.8B$2.8B$3.2B$3.7B$3.7B$4.2B$4.4B$4.5B$4.5BTotal debtDebt
$2.0B$2.4B$2.7B$2.8B$2.9B$3.6B$3.7B$4.2B$4.4B$4.5B$4.5BNet debt / (cash)Net debt
3.5×3.4×3.7×3.5×2.9×3.3×3.3×3.4×3.1×2.9×2.9×Interest coverageInt. cov.
$3.9B$3.8B$4.2B$4.3B$4.3B$3.9B$4.1B$4.2B$4.4B$4.4B$4.4BShareholders’ equityEquity
Per share
145M149M156M165M172M175M177M182M184M188M188MShares out (diluted)Shares
$2.50$2.69$2.57$2.76$2.38$2.70$3.06$3.21$3.28$3.24$3.24FFO / shareFFO/sh
$1.78$1.85$1.94$2.02$2.07$2.10$2.15$2.23$2.28$2.36$2.36Dividends / shareDiv/sh
$27.08$25.70$26.58$26.24$25.08$22.32$23.29$22.88$23.70$23.45$23.45Book value / shareBVPS
Per-share growththe realized rate an owner's share compounded
9-yr5-yr
Revenue / share+3.3%/yr+5.1%/yr
EPS+2.5%/yr+9.3%/yr
Dividends / share+3.2%/yr+2.6%/yr
Book value / share−1.6%/yr−1.3%/yr

The record, charted

FY2016–2025

Each measure over its full record; the current point and the worst year marked.

Share count
188Mpeak FY2025
Revenue
$926Mlow FY2016
III

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 $3.24 per share
    Net income $390M + depreciation $268M − gains on sale $48M
    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.

  • Covered
    Dividends $443M ÷ FFO $610M
    Industry peers: median 81%
    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?

  • Moderate
    Total debt $4.5B ÷ assets $9.4B
    Industry peers: median 40%
    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 $204M
    Industry peers: median 4.5×
    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 contestability

The moat is physical, regulated or balance-sheet-funded, the kind AI cuts costs within but does not contest.

In its own filing Raised, but not as a competitor

The filing raises AI among its risks, but in other terms (security, regulation, energy or the like), not as a competitor to its product.

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, beside what the business earned for its owners in the same years.

Fiscal yearPay, as filed“Actually paid”Net income
2021$7.8M$7.7M$290M
2022$5.0M$9.1M$335M
2022$6.8M$8.9M$335M
2023$7.2M$6.3M$392M
2024$8.4M$7.1M$397M
2025$9.7M$11.6M$390M

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 ownership0.9%

    The stake all directors and executive officers hold together, per the 2026 proxy: skin in the game, the first thing Munger reads.

Peers, Net-lease 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.

CompanyRevenueFFO marginFFO / assetsPayout (FFO)Debt / assets
WPCW. P. Carey Inc. REIT$1.7B60%5.5%88%45%
GLPIGaming and Leisure Properties Inc.$1.6B62%7.8%86%61%
NNNNNN REIT$926M68%6.1%72%44%
ADCAgree Realty$738M60%4.3%79%29%
EPRTEssential Properties$561M64%4.5%70%36%
GNLGlobal Net Lease$495M39%3.7%110%40%
BNLBroadstone Net Lease Inc.$454M56%4.4%59%38%
FCPTFour Corners Property Trust$294M60%6.4%81%46%
Group median60%5.0%80%42%
IV

The price

What a price has to assume.

What the price implies

price / FFO

A 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, delivered6%/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.

Enter a price above to run it.

Price / FFO
Justified by growth
Dividend yield

FFO about $3.24 per share on 190M 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, "NNN REIT (NNN), the owner's record," https://ownerscorecard.com/c/NNN, data as of 2026-07-09.

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