Share count
326Mpeak FY2021
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SPG, Simon Property Group
Simon Property Group, Inc. is an Indiana corporation that operates as a self-administered and self-managed real estate investment trust, or REIT, under the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, or the Internal Revenue Code.
Because Simon's REIT qualification requires Simon to distribute at least 90% of its REIT taxable income, we regularly access the debt markets to raise the funds necessary to finance acquisitions, develop and redevelop properties, and refinance maturing debt.
The business
What it sells, where the money comes from, the kind of company it is.
Revenue · FY2025
$6.4B
+6.7% YoY · 7% 5-yr CAGR
Vital signs · TTM, with 5-yr average
Revenue $1.8B +19.3% vs yr-ago qtr
Operating margin 43.4% yr-ago 49.4%
Net income $569M yr-ago $478M
Net margin 32.4% yr-ago 32.4%
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 concentrated dependence, 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. Debt is 71% of assets, heavy 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 | |||||||||||
| $5.4B | $5.5B | $5.6B | $5.8B | $4.6B | $5.1B | $5.3B | $5.7B | $6.0B | $6.4B | $6.6B | RevenueRevenue |
| $1.8B | $1.9B | $2.4B | $2.1B | $1.1B | $2.2B | $2.1B | $2.3B | $2.4B | $4.6B | $4.7B | Net incomeNet inc. |
| Cash flow & returns | |||||||||||
| $3.1B | $3.2B | $3.7B | $3.4B | $2.4B | $3.5B | $3.4B | $3.5B | $3.6B | $6.1B | $6.2B | Funds from operationsFFO |
| Balance sheet | |||||||||||
| $35.2B | $36.4B | $37.1B | $37.8B | $38.1B | $37.9B | $38.3B | $39.3B | $40.2B | $50.9B | $50.9B | Real estate (gross)RE gross |
| $31.1B | $32.3B | $30.7B | $31.2B | $34.8B | $33.8B | $33.0B | $34.3B | $32.4B | $40.6B | $39.6B | Total assetsAssets |
| 74% | 76% | 76% | 77% | 77% | 75% | 76% | 76% | 75% | 70% | 71% | Debt / assetsDebt/assets |
| $23.0B | $24.6B | $23.3B | $24.2B | $26.7B | $25.3B | $25.0B | $26.0B | $24.3B | $28.4B | $28.2B | Total debtDebt |
| $22.4B | $23.2B | $22.8B | $23.5B | $25.7B | $24.8B | $24.3B | $23.9B | $22.9B | $27.6B | $27.4B | Net debt / (cash)Net debt |
| 3.2× | 3.5× | 3.6× | 3.7× | 2.5× | 3.0× | 3.4× | 3.3× | 3.4× | 3.3× | 3.1× | Interest coverageInt. cov. |
| $4.3B | $3.7B | $3.3B | $2.5B | $3.0B | $3.4B | $3.1B | $3.0B | $2.9B | $5.2B | $4.9B | Shareholders’ equityEquity |
| Per share | |||||||||||
| 313M | 312M | 310M | 308M | 309M | 329M | 328M | 327M | 326M | 326M | 325M | Shares out (diluted)Shares |
| $9.88 | $10.34 | $12.01 | $11.17 | $7.86 | $10.68 | $10.26 | $10.84 | $11.14 | $18.54 | $19.23 | FFO / shareFFO/sh |
| $13.79 | $11.83 | $10.65 | $8.20 | $9.84 | $10.23 | $9.57 | $9.25 | $9.02 | $15.96 | $14.95 | Book value / shareBVPS |
Per-share growththe realized rate an owner's share compounded
| 9-yr | 5-yr | |
|---|---|---|
| Revenue / share | +1.3%/yr | +5.5%/yr |
| Owner earnings / share | +2.0%/yr | +10.5%/yr |
| EPS | +10.3%/yr | +31.6%/yr |
| Capital spending / share | +1.3%/yr | +12.8%/yr |
| Book value / share | +1.6%/yr | +10.1%/yr |
The record, charted
FY2016–2025Each measure over its full record; the current point and the worst year marked.
Revenue
$6.4Blow 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 $18.54 per shareNet income $4.6B + depreciation $1.4B
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 70%HeavyTotal debt $28.4B ÷ assets $40.6BIndustry peers: median 45%
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 $975MIndustry peers: median 4.4×
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.
In its own filing A competitive risk, new this year
Its FY2025 10-K names artificial intelligence as a competitive threat, in language that was not in the prior year's filing.
“Despite the risks related to AI, many of our competitors, retailers and consumers are increasingly using AI in their decision-making processes.”
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 year | Chief executive | Pay, as filed | “Actually paid” | Owner earnings |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | David Simon | $10.5M | $24.4M | $3.1B |
| 2022 | David Simon | $35.7M | $30.0M | $3.1B |
| 2023 | David Simon | $15.6M | $22.4M | $3.1B |
| 2024 | David Simon | $61.4M | $81.6M | $3.1B |
| 2025 | David Simon | $11.7M | $31.7M | $3.2B |
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.
- Insider ownership8.7%
The stake all directors and executive officers hold together, per the 2026 proxy: skin in the game, the first thing Munger reads.
- CEO pay ratio148:1
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.
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% | — | 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, delivered14%/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 $19.23 per share on 325M 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, "Simon Property Group (SPG), the owner's record," https://ownerscorecard.com/c/SPG, data as of 2026-07-09.
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