How Douglas Emmett, Inc. stacks up

DEI · against 182 other Real Estate companies listed in US-listed

Profitability

25/ 100

Below the middle of the pack.

Ranked #131 of 183 · scores higher than 27% of peers

Bars: peers in each 10-point band of the profitability score

31 peers with a profitability score of 20–29, including DEI · Click a bar to see the companies

Why profitability scores 25?

Weighted metrics compared with all Real Estate companies.

Mainly because of its return on assets and return on invested capital, which are weaker than most Real Estate peers.

a lower return on assets: weaker than 84% of peers. Return on assets: -0.2% vs peer median 2.1%
a lower return on invested capital: weaker than 69% of peers. Return on invested capital: 2.2% vs peer median 3.4%
Operating margin is close to the peer norm. Operating margin: 19.0% vs peer median 26.8%

Metric by metric

Position: dot = DEI, ranked from the worst peer (left) to the best (right); tick = middle, shaded = middle half of peers.

Metric	DEI	Peer median	Better than	Weight
Return on invested capitalHigher is better · 179 reported	2.2%	3.6%	33%	33%
Operating marginHigher is better · 160 reported	19.0%	23.6%	42%	33%
Return on assetsHigher is better · 185 reported	-0.2%	1.9%	18%	33%
Return on equityHigher is better · 177 reported	-1.9%	5.5%	16%	Context only
Gross marginHigher is better · 186 reported	63.2%	66.3%	46%	Context only

Ranking by profitability score

Top 5 and the companies ranked around DEI

Rank	Company	Market cap	Profitability	Overall
1	Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance, Inc.ARI · US-listed	310M USD	100	72
2	Annaly Capital Management, Inc.NLY · US-listed	13.7B USD	99	70
3	Apartment Investment and Management CompanyAIV · US-listed	255M USD	98	71
3	SBA Communications CorporationSBAC · US-listed	19.6B USD	98	48
5	Highwoods Properties, Inc.HIW · US-listed	3.5B USD	97	59
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126	Independence Realty Trust, Inc.IRT · US-listed	3.6B USD	26	39
126	Ladder Capital CorpLADR · US-listed	1.2B USD	26	21
126	Two Harbors Investment CorpTWO · US-listed	1.3B USD	26	14
131	AGNC Investment Corp.AGNC · US-listed	10.1B USD	25	53
131	Douglas Emmett, Inc.DEI · US-listed	2.0B USD	25	24
131	TPG RE Finance Trust, Inc.TRTX · US-listed	523M USD	25	28
134	Curbline Properties Corp.CURB · US-listed	3.3B USD	24	55
134	Kilroy Realty CorporationKRC · US-listed	4.2B USD	24	32
136	Healthpeak Properties, Inc.DOC · US-listed	13.9B USD	23	43

Scores are sector-relative percentiles from the latest snapshot, always calculated against the whole sector: narrowing the comparison group changes who you compare with, not the scores. Missing metrics are left out and the remaining weights rescaled. How we score

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