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RYN, Rayonier Inc. REIT
We are a leading timberland real estate investment trust with assets located in some of the most productive softwood timber growing regions in the United States.
As part of the realignment, the previously reported Trading segment's log trading activities conducted in the U.S.
South and Pacific Northwest are now reported in the respective Southern Timber or Pacific Northwest Timber segments based on geographical location for all periods presented.
The business
What it sells, where the money comes from, the kind of company it is.
The business in brief
read the 10-K →What this business is and what moves its needle, from its own SEC filings.
- What it is
- Revenue is Southern Timber (47%), Real Estate (35%) and Pacific Northwest Timber (17%).
- 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 customer concentration, set against the numbers in what the filing emphasizes, below.
- Is it a good business?
- Funds from operations per share have compounded about 7% a year across the record. The dividend takes 38% of FFO, and is covered. Debt is 27% 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.
Where the money comes from
read the 10-K →Revenue spreads across 3 segments, the largest Southern Timber at 47%.
- Southern Timber47%$228M
- Real Estate35%$171M
- Pacific Northwest Timber17%$84M
From the segment footnote of the company's own 10-K. Shares are of total revenue; the profit bar shows each segment's share of segment operating profit, before unallocated corporate costs.
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 | |||||||||||
| $816M | $820M | $816M | $712M | $859M | $1.1B | $909M | $788M | $988M | $484M | $678M | RevenueRevenue |
| $212M | $149M | $102M | $59M | $37M | $153M | $107M | $173M | $359M | $474M | $465M | Net incomeNet inc. |
| Cash flow & returns | |||||||||||
| $219M | $228M | $246M | $187M | $209M | $401M | $263M | $423M | — | — | $684M | Funds from operationsFFO |
| Balance sheet | |||||||||||
| 56% | 56% | 56% | 75% | 70% | 38% | 63% | 40% | — | — | 38% | Dividend payout (FFO)Payout |
| $2.7B | $2.9B | $2.8B | $2.9B | $3.7B | $3.6B | $3.8B | $3.6B | $3.5B | $3.4B | $7.7B | Total assetsAssets |
| 40% | 36% | 35% | 37% | 36% | 38% | 40% | 37% | 30% | 31% | 27% | Debt / assetsDebt/assets |
| $1.1B | $1.0B | $973M | $1.1B | $1.4B | $1.4B | $1.5B | $1.4B | $1.1B | $1.1B | $2.1B | Total debtDebt |
| $976M | $913M | $824M | $986M | $1.3B | $1.0B | $1.4B | $1.2B | $747M | $207M | $1.4B | Net debt / (cash)Net debt |
| 7.9× | 6.3× | 5.3× | 3.4× | 1.9× | 6.0× | 4.6× | 3.8× | 10.8× | 3.2× | 1.1× | Interest coverageInt. cov. |
| $1.4B | $1.6B | $1.6B | $1.4B | $1.5B | $1.8B | $1.9B | $1.9B | $1.8B | $2.2B | $5.3B | Shareholders’ equityEquity |
| Per share | |||||||||||
| 123M | 128M | 130M | 130M | 137M | 145M | 150M | 151M | 152M | 159M | 256M | Shares out (diluted)Shares |
| $1.78 | $1.78 | $1.90 | $1.45 | $1.52 | $2.76 | $1.75 | $2.80 | — | — | $2.67 | FFO / shareFFO/sh |
| $1.00 | $0.99 | $1.05 | $1.09 | $1.07 | $1.06 | $1.10 | $1.13 | $1.32 | $1.84 | $1.03 | Dividends / shareDiv/sh |
| $11.49 | $12.46 | $12.00 | $11.11 | $10.76 | $12.19 | $12.42 | $12.32 | $11.63 | $13.92 | $20.82 | Book value / shareBVPS |
The diluted share count moved ×1.61 into TTM — shares issued, not a split the totals corroborate — and the per-share figures carry the counts as filed.
| 9-yr | 5-yr | |
|---|---|---|
| Revenue / share | −8.3%/yr | −13.4%/yr |
| Owner earnings / share | −1.5%/yr (8-yr) | −2.0%/yr |
| EPS | +6.3%/yr | +61.6%/yr |
| Dividends / share | +7.0%/yr | +11.5%/yr |
| Capital spending / share | +4.4%/yr (8-yr) | +6.4%/yr |
| Book value / share | +2.2%/yr | +5.3%/yr |
The record, charted
FY2016–2025Each measure over its full record; the current point and the worst year marked.
Quality & stewardship
Returns, the balance sheet, capital allocation, and pay.
Owner’s Scorecard
Is it a good business?
- about $4.38 per shareNet income $474M + depreciation $249M − gains on sale $29M
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.
- Lightly coveredDividends $292M ÷ FFO $695MIndustry peers: median 72%
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 31%ConservativeTotal debt $1.1B ÷ assets $3.4BIndustry peers: median 52%
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.
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.
Current Position
as of the latest quarter, Mar 31, 2026Can the business pay what it owes this year, off the freshest balance sheet: the quality of the assets, the debt actually coming due, and what a low ratio means here.
- Cash & short-term investments$682M
- Receivables$41M
- Inventory$113M
- Other current assets$60M
- Debt due within a year$200M
- Accounts payable$28M
- Other current liabilities$126M
From the company's latest filing.
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” | Owner earnings |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Mr. Nunes | $5.3M | $9.4M | $249M |
| 2022 | Mr. Nunes | $5.8M | $4.7M | $194M |
| 2023 | Mr. Nunes | $6.3M | $5.7M | $203M |
| 2024 | Mr. Nunes | $3.4M | $332k | $159M |
| 2024 | — | $4.8M | $3.2M | $159M |
| 2025 | — | $5.5M | $4.2M | — |
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. Owner earnings are the whole business's, from the record above, for the same fiscal years. A dash under the name means the filing tags the figure without naming the officer.
- Insider ownership<1%
The stake all directors and executive officers hold together, per the 2026 proxy: skin in the game, the first thing Munger reads.
- CEO pay ratio46:1
What the chief earns for every dollar the median employee makes, per the 2026 proxy. A high ratio alone settles nothing; some businesses are genuinely top-heavy in scarce skill. A runaway figure is where Buffett starts asking whether the board is doing its job.
- Stock-based compensation$11M
The slice of the business handed to employees in shares this year, 2% of revenue, equal to 13% 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, Specialty 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| COLDAmericold | $2.6B | 10% | 3.5% | 73% | 56% |
| OUTOUTFRONT Media Inc. | $1.8B | 16% | 5.1% | 70% | 48% |
| HHHHoward Hughes Holdings Inc. | $1.5B | 19% | 2.9% | — | 55% |
| TPLTexas Pacific Land | $798M | 67% | 37.5% | 28% | — |
| EPREPR Properties | $718M | 53% | 5.7% | 80% | 49% |
| RYNRayonier Inc. REIT | $484M | 28% | 8.1% | 56% | 37% |
| HASIHA Sustainable Infrastructure Capital, Inc. | $401M | 31% | 1.5% | 174% | 39% |
| SAFESafehold Inc. New Common Stock | $386M | 20% | 1.7% | 30% | 63% |
| Group median | — | 24% | 4.3% | 70% | 49% |
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.
FFO / share, delivered9%/yr’18→’23
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 $2.67 per share on 301M 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.
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