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XRN, Chiron Real Estate Inc.

Chiron Real Estate Inc. is a Maryland corporation and internally managed REIT that primarily acquires healthcare facilities leased to physician groups and regional and national healthcare systems.

Latest annual: FY2025 10-K
XRN · Chiron Real Estate Inc.
I

The business

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

Revenue · FY2025
$148M
+6.8% YoY · 10% 5-yr CAGR
Vital signs · TTM, with 5-yr average
Revenue $152M 5-yr avg $136M
FFO margin 19% 5-yr avg 34%
Dividend payout (FFO) 5% 5-yr avg 13%

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 cyclicality & demand, set against the numbers in what the filing emphasizes, below.
Is it a good business?
Funds from operations per share do not form a clean trend in the record. The dividend takes 5% of FFO, and is covered. 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
2016’162017’172018’182019’192020’202021’212022’222023’232024’242025’25TTMTTMMar 2026
Income statement
$8M$30M$53M$71M$94M$116M$137M$141M$139M$148M$152MRevenueRevenue
($6M)($87K)$15M$10M($2M)$18M$13M$15M$811K($12M)($15M)Net incomeNet inc.
Cash flow & returns
($4M)$8M$21M$29M$24M$52M$47M$56M$41M$30M$28MFunds from operationsFFO
Balance sheet
10%28%20%24%11%13%10%14%19%5%Dividend payout (FFO)Payout
$207M$472M$648M$906M$1.1B$1.3B$1.5B$1.4B$1.5B$1.5B$1.5BReal estate (gross)RE gross
$227M$472M$636M$885M$1.1B$1.3B$1.4B$1.3B$1.3B$1.2B$1.2BTotal assetsAssets
$38M$39M$39M$39M$65M$57M$58M$26M$14M$1M$15MTotal debtDebt
$19M$33M$35M$36M$59M$50M$54M$25M$8M($8M)$7MNet debt / (cash)Net debt
$155M$246M$269M$430M$445M$623M$633M$584M$534M$510M$500MShareholders’ equityEquity
Per share
1.9M3.9M4.4M6.8M9.3M12.1M13.1M13.1M13.2M13.4M13.2MShares out (diluted)Shares
$-2.16$2.00$4.67$4.23$2.62$4.30$3.55$4.28$3.13$2.27$2.14FFO / shareFFO/sh
$0.00$0.19$1.32$0.86$0.63$0.48$0.44$0.44$0.44$0.44$0.11Dividends / shareDiv/sh
$83.33$62.79$61.28$63.53$48.08$51.35$48.35$44.51$40.50$38.10$37.79Book value / shareBVPS

The diluted share count moved ×2.11 into 2017 — shares issued, not a split the totals corroborate — and the per-share figures carry the counts as filed.

The diluted share count moved ×1.54 into 2019 — shares issued, not a split the totals corroborate — and the per-share figures carry the counts as filed.

Share counts before 2023 are restated ×1/5 for a stock split, so per-share figures sit on one basis.

Per-share growththe realized rate an owner's share compounded
9-yr5-yr
Revenue / share+10.8%/yr+1.8%/yr
Dividends / share−7.1%/yr
Book value / share−8.3%/yr−4.5%/yr

The record, charted

FY2016–2025

Each measure over its full record; the current point and the worst year marked. Share counts on the current split basis.

Share count
13Mpeak FY2025
Revenue
$148Mlow 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 $2.27 per share
    Net income ($12M) + depreciation $44M − gains on sale $2M
    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 covered
    Dividends $6M ÷ FFO $30M
    Industry peers: median 85%
    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?

  • Not cleanly captured
    Industry peers: median 37%
    What this means

    This REIT tags its borrowings in a way the pipeline could not fully total, so we decline to show a leverage figure rather than a misleadingly low one. The debt schedule in the 10-K is where to read its true leverage.

  • Adequate
    (operating income + depreciation) ÷ interest $32M
    Industry peers: median 4.8×
    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 Named as a competitive risk

Its FY2025 10-K names artificial intelligence as a competitive threat.

“See "— Artificial intelligence and other machine learning techniques could increase competitive, operational, legal and regulatory risks to our business in ways that we cannot predict ."”

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, and the company is using it that way.

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, Feb 28, 2014

Can 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.

Current assets$7K
  • Cash & short-term investments$8M
  • Receivables$7M
Current liabilities$44K
  • Accounts payable$316K
Current ratio0.16×all current assets ÷ what's due · Graham looked for 2×
Quick ratio0.16×stricter: inventory excluded
Cash ratio184.70×strictest: cash alone against what's due
Working capital($37K)the cushion left after near-term bills
Revenue, latest quarter vs. a year ago+87.0%the freshest read on whether the business is still growing
Deeper floors
Tangible book value$452Mequity stripped of goodwill & intangibles
Net current asset value($717M)Graham's net-net: current assets less all liabilities
Debt incl. operating leases$1Mno operating-lease liability tagged this quarter, so debt alone

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 yearPay, as filed“Actually paid”Net income
2021$1.5M$2.9M$18M
2022$1.8M−$1.0M$13M
2023$2.2M$2.5M$15M
2024$2.5M$1.9M$811K
2025$1.8M$1.9M($12M)
2025$329k$37k($12M)

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 ownership8.9%

    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$4M

    The slice of the business handed to employees in shares this year, 3% of revenue, equal to 23% 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.

What an owner would ask, FY2025

read the 10-K →
  • Which reported numbers are a judgment call?
    Management names Revenue recognition, Acquisitions, Stock compensation 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, Healthcare 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
CTRECareTrust REIT$476M61%6.5%80%37%
NHINational Health Investors$376M67%7.9%77%46%
NHPNational Healthcare Properties Inc.$342M-2%-0.3%181%25%
LTCLTC Properties$263M57%6.4%88%45%
SILASila Realty Trust Inc.$198M52%4.0%72%19%
XRNChiron Real Estate Inc.$148M32%3.2%14%
CHCTCommunity Healthcare Trust Incorporated$121M53%5.5%107%35%
UHTUniversal Health Realty Income Trust$99M56%8.5%85%58%
Group median54%6.0%83%
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, delivered45%/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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Price / FFO
Justified by growth
Dividend yield

FFO about $2.14 per share on 13M 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, "Chiron Real Estate Inc. (XRN), the owner's record," https://ownerscorecard.com/c/XRN, data as of 2026-07-09.

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