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Now trading at a price of $62.04, Realty Income has moved -3.1% so far today.

Realty Income returned gains of 13.8% last year, with its stock price reaching a high of $67.94 and a low of $54.38. Over the same period, the stock underperformed the S&P 500 index by -16.2%. The company's 50-day average price was $63.62. Realty Income Corporation, an S&P 500 company, is real estate partner to the world's leading companies. Based in San Diego, CA, the Large-Cap Real Estate company has 544 full time employees. Realty Income has offered a 5.0% dividend yield over the last 12 months.

The Firm Has a Highly Leveraged Balance Sheet:

2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025
Revenue (M) $1,647 $2,080 $3,344 $4,079 $5,271 $5,749
Operating Margins 25% 19% 27% 23% 18% 20%
Net Margins 24% 17% 26% 21% 16% 18%
Net Income (M) $395 $359 $869 $872 $861 $1,059
Net Interest Expense (M) $309 $324 $465 $730 $970 $1,072
Depreciation & Amort. (M) $677 $898 $1,670 $1,895 $2,396 $2,524
Diluted Shares (M) 345 415 612 693 864 908
Earnings Per Share $1.14 $0.87 $1.42 $1.26 $0.98 $1.17
EPS Growth n/a -23.68% 63.22% -11.27% -22.22% 19.39%
Avg. Price $52.53 $59.73 $64.45 $57.42 $53.1 $63.45
P/E Ratio 45.68 68.66 45.39 45.57 54.18 54.23
Free Cash Flow (M) $1,107 $1,303 $2,468 $2,890 $3,452 $3,863
CAPEX (M) $9 $19 $96 $69 $121 $132
EV / EBITDA 23.17 26.97 20.27 20.41 21.11 22.52
Total Debt (M) $8,517 $12,749 $14,528 $19,934 $25,016 $26,734
Net Debt / EBITDA 7.07 9.68 5.55 6.98 7.38 7.15

Realty Income has rapidly growing revenues and increasing reinvestment in the business, generally positive cash flows, and positive EPS growth. However, the firm suffers from weak operating margins with a stable trend and a highly leveraged balance sheet.

a Lower P/B Ratio Than Its Sector Average but Priced Beyond Its Margin of Safety:

Realty Income has a trailing twelve month P/E ratio of 54.4, compared to an average of 27.31 for the Real Estate sector. Based on its EPS guidance of $1.82, the company has a forward P/E ratio of 35.0. The 6.9% compound average growth rate of Realty Income's historical and projected earnings per share yields a PEG ratio of 7.88. This suggests that these shares are overvalued. In contrast, the market is likely undervaluing Realty Income in terms of its equity because its P/B ratio is 1.47 while the sector average is 1.94. The company's shares are currently trading 83.5% below their Graham number.

Analysts Give Realty Income an Average Rating of Hold:

The 20 analysts following Realty Income have set target prices ranging from $61.5 to $75.0 per share, for an average of $68.5 with a hold rating.

Realty Income has an average amount of shares sold short because 3.8% of the company's shares are sold short. Institutions own 80.1% of the company's shares, and the insider ownership rate stands at 0.12%, suggesting a small amount of insider investors. The largest shareholder is Vanguard Group Inc, whose 16% stake in the company is worth $9,331,764,543.

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