Federal Realty Investment Trust

FRT Real Estate · REIT - Retail
Delayed 15 min
Last close
$105.68
Oct 16, 2026
52-week range
$90.03 — $128.21
-18% from high
Market cap
9.2B
Diluted basis
Dividend yield
4.4%
P/E
21.3
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Verdict status · Oct 16, 2026

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AI synthesis · written from this company's SEC filings · not investment advice

What the filing actually says.

AI · forensic preset

This synthesis is limited by what is on file. No forensic scores are available for Federal Realty Investment Trust in this data set, so this section does not assign a Beneish M-Score, Piotroski F-Score, Altman Z-Score, or Fog Index value, and no reading of those tools should be inferred here. Readers may want to look at those results when they are on file, and should read each one against the label that accompanies it. The data also contains no MD&A text, no risk-factor text, and no news headlines classified as fact, so the company's own explanation of its results, including its properties, debt instruments, leasing activity, and legal matters, cannot be checked here. What the numbers do show is that reported revenue, operating income, and net income all grew in 2025 relative to 2024. Operating margin, calculated as operating income divided by revenue, rose from about 39.4% to about 47.0%. Revenue alone grew about 6.7%, so most of the profit improvement came from lines below revenue. The filings in this set do not show whether that came from rent growth, lower costs, lower interest expense, or one-time items. The history is also uneven. Revenue fell about 10.7% in 2020 before recovering, and the net income series begins in 2021, so a longer earnings record is not available here. A careful reader would want the full annual report to tie these figures to their drivers before drawing conclusions about how durable the 2025 improvement is.

Catalyst.The only business signal in this data set is the reported financial results. Total revenues rose from $1.2 billion in 2024 to $1.28 billion in 2025, about 6.7% growth, following growth of about 6.2% from $1.13 billion in 2023 to $1.2 billion in 2024. Operating income increased from $472.36 million in 2024 to $602.2 million in 2025, roughly 27.5%, and net income rose from $295.21 million to $411.08 million, roughly 39.2%. The MD&A text needed to explain what is driving these results is not on file, so this section cannot name the causes.

Hidden risk.The most useful thing a casual reader could miss is how much earnings have moved from year to year. Net income was $385.49 million in 2022, fell to $236.99 million in 2023, a drop of about 38.5%, and then recovered to $411.08 million in 2025. Operating income moved in a similar pattern, declining from $526.41 million in 2022 to $406.47 million in 2023. In 2025, net income was about 68% of operating income ($411.08 million versus $602.2 million), and the gap between those two lines is not explained by the data provided. Without the balance sheet, debt detail, or risk-factor text, this swing cannot be tied to a cause.

Market signals · from trading data, not filings

What traders are betting.

The scores above come from what FRT reports to the SEC. These readings come from how traders are positioned in its shares. They change quickly, they can be wrong, and they are not part of the verdict.
Short interest Shares sold short · reported twice a month
6.4%
of the shares available to trade
Moderate
0%5% · 10% · 20%25%+

The metric

Shares that traders have borrowed and sold, betting the price will fall, and not yet bought back. Brokers report the total to FINRA twice a month. Days to cover divides it by the shares that change hands on a typical day.

Shares sold short
4.7M
Change since Aug 31
+25.9%
Days to cover
5.0

What it tells us

A noticeable minority of traders is betting that FRT shares will fall.

Short sellers added to their bets: shares sold short grew 25.9% since the Aug 31 report.

Short sellers would need about 5.0 days of normal trading to buy back every borrowed share. A slow exit like that can make a rush to cover sharper.

How investors use it

  • Squeeze watching. Some aggressive traders seek out heavily shorted stocks, betting that good news will force short sellers to buy back shares and push the price higher.
  • Hedging. Funds short one company to offset risk in another, often owning a stronger business and shorting a weaker one in the same industry.
  • Timing. Chart-based traders pair rising short interest with price patterns, such as a break below a level where buyers used to step in, to decide when to enter or exit.
  • Warning sign. Some owners treat a sharp rise in short interest as a red flag and respond by tightening stop-loss orders or holding smaller positions.

Lesson: short interest, explained →

Short-interest report for Sep 30, 2026, via Yahoo Finance. Reports come out about a week and a half after that date.

SEC filings · last 12 months

Quarterly report

The quarterly report (10-Q) and current report (8-K) Federal Realty Investment Trust filed in the last 12 months, each linked to the original document on SEC EDGAR.

  • Jul 31, 2026
    10-Q
    Quarterly report0
    EDGAR →
  • Jul 31, 2026
    8-K
    Current reportItem 2.02: Results of operations (earnings)0
    EDGAR →
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