How Empire State Realty Trust, Inc. stacks up

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

Profitability

13/ 100

Near the bottom of its peers.

Ranked #162 of 183 · scores higher than 10% of peers

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

23 peers with a profitability score of 10–19, including ESRT · Click a bar to see the companies

Why profitability scores 13?

Weighted metrics compared with all Real Estate companies.

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

a thinner operating margin: weaker than 91% of peers. Operating margin: -4.4% vs peer median 26.8%
a lower return on invested capital: weaker than 89% of peers. Return on invested capital: -1.6% vs peer median 3.4%
a lower return on assets: weaker than 79% of peers. Return on assets: 0.2% vs peer median 2.1%

Metric by metric

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

Metric	ESRT	Peer median	Better than	Weight
Return on invested capitalHigher is better · 179 reported	-1.6%	3.6%	6%	33%
Operating marginHigher is better · 160 reported	-4.4%	23.6%	6%	33%
Return on assetsHigher is better · 185 reported	0.2%	1.9%	23%	33%
Return on equityHigher is better · 177 reported	0.5%	5.5%	25%	Context only
Gross marginHigher is better · 186 reported	52.3%	66.3%	31%	Context only

Ranking by profitability score

Top 5 and the companies ranked around ESRT

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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159	Chimera Investment CorporationCIM-PA · US-listed	Unavailable	15	58
159	NexPoint Residential Trust, Inc.NXRT · US-listed	850M USD	15	24
161	FrontView REIT, Inc.FVR · US-listed	568M USD	14	38
162	Brandywine Realty TrustBDN · US-listed	522M USD	13	30
162	Empire State Realty Trust, Inc.ESRT · US-listed	1.5B USD	13	35
162	InvenTrust Properties Corp.IVT · US-listed	2.4B USD	13	33
162	Transcontinental Realty Investors, Inc.TCI · US-listed	435M USD	13	43
166	Janus Living, Inc.JAN · US-listed	9.2B USD	12
166	National Healthcare Properties, Inc.NHP · US-listed	1.1B USD	12	32

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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