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NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE, INC. · Real Estate · CIK 0001541401
$4.93
+5.57% · delayed ~15 min
Last price from Oct 22, 2026
$830.9M market value
From Empire State Realty Trust, Inc.'s FY2025 10-K, filed Mar 2, 2026 · read the filing
Empire State Realty Trust owns income-producing property as a REIT. It took in $766.8M last year, which makes it a smaller company. Of every dollar it sells, about 10 cents is left as profit.
The financial picture is mixed, with profitability, growth and debt needing attention.
A conclusion from the filings, not a recommendation. Detailed figures and supporting evidence appear in their dedicated sections below.
Financial health
A mixed picture — some clear strengths and some weaknesses.
From Empire State Realty Trust, Inc.'s FY2025 annual filing · share price scored separately
Largest year-over-year changes in FY2025
Free cash flow
$88.0M → $50.6M
Cash
$385.5M → $132.7M
Operating margin
20.7% → 17.7%
Operating income
$158.7M → $135.6M
Measured against FY2024, from the 10-K filed Mar 2, 2026
Deteriorated: -42.5%
$88.0M to $50.6MCritical
Why it matters: Cash left after paying for the plant that produced it — the money genuinely available for dividends, buybacks or paying down debt. Harder to flatter than profit.
How the latest move compares (quote delayed ~15 min), and what was published around it
ESRT rose 5.57% on the latest quote. The average Real Estate company tracked here moved +1.90%, and the S&P 500 −1.04%. That is 3.7 points above its sector and 6.6 points above the market.
These coincide with the move in time. None is presented as its cause: a price can move on news that names no company, on the wider market, or on trading that no document records.
Expectations
Not from the filings — what other people are betting on, and what the price already assumes.
Opinions from 12 analysts covering this company, as of . Their views, not this site's.
Of 12 analysts publishing on this company, 3 say strong buy, 4 say buy, 4 say hold and 1 say sell. Analysts are paid to publish a view and are wrong often; the split above says how much they agree with each other, which is the part a single headline rating hides.
Published by Finnhub. Analyst coverage skews towards larger companies and towards optimism — sell ratings are rare across the whole market, so a company with none is ordinary rather than endorsed.
The essentials
Each answered from the filings, with the numbers behind it.
Yes. It keeps about 10 cents of every dollar of sales as profit, earning $73.0M last year.
Barely. Sales were roughly flat, up 0.0%.
For every $1 it owes, it owns $1.69 in assets. Banks and insurers always carry high debt — that is how lending works — so this is normal for the industry and not comparable with other sectors.
Core operating and valuation reference metrics
Whether the dividend is covered by what the business actually earns
It pays out 33% of its profit. Property trusts are required to distribute most of their income and report profit after heavy depreciation, so a figure above 100% is normal here rather than a warning. It paid out 10% of the cash its operations generated. It has paid in each of the last 12 years.
GoodNext payment expected around , projected from how regularly it has paid before rather than from a date the company has announced.
Figures from the FY2025 annual filing
Last year it earned $73.0M and generated $249.1M of cash from operations.
As reported to the SEC, in USD. Hover or show sources to see where each figure came from.
| Income statement | FY202510-K · Mar 2, 2026Filing for FY2025 | FY202410-K · Feb 28, 2025Filing for FY2024 | FY202310-K · Feb 28, 2025Filing for FY2023 | FY202210-K · Feb 28, 2025Filing for FY2022 | FY202110-K/A · Feb 25, 2022Filing for FY2021 | ChangeFY2025 vs FY2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RevenueWhat is this? | $766.8M | $766.8M | $738.2M | $725.7M | $624.1M | +0.0% |
| Selling, general and administrative | $72.8M | $70.2M | $63.9M | $61.8M | $55.9M | +3.7% |
| Operating income | $135.6M | $158.7M | $146.7M | $127.0M | $79.1M | −14.5% |
| Operating marginOperating income ÷ revenueWhat is this? | 17.7% | 20.7% | 19.9% | 17.5% | 12.7% | −3.0 pts |
| Interest expense | $103.1M | $105.2M | $101.5M | $101.2M | $94.4M | −2.0% |
| Income before tax | $75.5M | $83.0M | $87.1M | $64.8M | -$14.8M | −9.0% |
| Net income | $73.0M | $80.4M | $84.4M | $63.2M | -$13.0M | −9.2% |
| Net marginNet income ÷ revenueWhat is this? | 9.5% | 10.5% | 11.4% | 8.7% | -2.1% | −1.0 pts |
| Earnings per shareNet income ÷ shares outstanding at the period end — close to, but not the same as, the reported EPSWhat is this? | $0.433 | $0.4873 | $0.5239 | $0.383 | $-0.0756 | −11.1% |
† calculated from other reported figures, such as total liabilities as assets minus equity.
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Officers, directors and major shareholders must report within two business days of a trade.
Converted a derivative security — 3,061,902 shares
Holds 3,061,902 shares after this filing.
Estimated from how often this has happened before, not a confirmed date.
Not investment advice, and not a signal to act on by itself — a filing says what happened, not why, and insiders trade for ordinary reasons having nothing to do with where they think the company is headed.
20 recent filings, newest first. Each is labelled from its form and item numbers, not from its wording.
Quarterly report for Q2 FY2026
Operating margin −88.9 pts · Operating income turned negative · Profit turned negative — against Q2 FY2025
Read the filingPublished results · Made a Regulation FD disclosure
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Every company's figures are checked for internal consistency: the balance sheet adding up, figures sharing one currency, cash flow and share counts within plausible ranges, and how recent the latest annual report is. Nothing here changes a figure.
Financial figures are from ESRT's 10-K for fiscal year 2025 (period ending 2025-12-31, filed Mar 2, 2026), reported under the US GAAP taxonomy. View the source filing.
3 of 4 scored areas had enough reported figures to judge
The score averages profitability, growth, debt and accounting. Accounting had too few reported figures and is left out of the average rather than counted as a weakness, so a company is never marked down for a figure it did not publish. Cash generation is shown for context and already feeds profitability. Valuation is scored separately, because a share price says nothing about whether the business is sound. 6 of the 9 Piotroski checks could be evaluated. How the score works
Each year scored only from its annual report as it was first filed
| Fiscal year | Health | F-Score | Scored from |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | 6.0 | 4/6 | 10-K, filed Mar 2, 2026 |
| FY2024 | 7.3 | 3/6 | 10-K, filed Feb 28, 2025 |
| FY2023 | 7.3 | 6/6 | 10-K, filed Feb 28, 2024 |
| FY2022 | 7.3 | 6/6 | 10-K, filed Feb 28, 2023 |
| FY2021 | 3.3 | 4/6 | 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2022 |
| FY2020 | 2.0 | 3/6 | 10-K, filed Feb 26, 2021 |
A later restatement never reaches back into an earlier year, and every year is scored without a share price, so the latest point can differ a little from the headline score, which uses today's price.
Every check behind the three models, and what each one tests
4 of 6 checks passed
Nine yes-or-no tests of whether this year's finances improved on last year's. 3 could not be evaluated and are excluded from the total rather than counted as failures.
not reported — Not meaningful for banks, insurers and other financial companies. Their balance sheets have no working capital and are leveraged by design, which this model misreads as distress.
Not meaningful for banks, insurers and other financial companies. Their balance sheets have no working capital and are leveraged by design, which this model misreads as distress.
Distance from bankruptcy, from a model fitted on companies that did and did not go bust. It describes a balance sheet's shape today; it does not forecast a failure.
not reported — Not meaningful for banks, insurers and other financial companies. Their balance sheets have no working capital and are leveraged by design, which this model misreads as distress.
Not meaningful for banks, insurers and other financial companies. Their balance sheets have no working capital and are leveraged by design, which this model misreads as distress.
Screens eight accounting ratios for the pattern earnings manipulators tend to leave. A flag is a reason to read the filing closely, never evidence of wrongdoing.
Every figure above comes from the FY2025 filing as filed with the SEC.
Deteriorated: -65.6%
$385.5M to $132.7MCritical
Why it matters: A falling cash pile is only a warning if the company is consuming it. Paying down debt, buying back stock and paying a dividend all reduce cash by choice.
Deteriorated: −3.0 pts
20.7% to 17.7%Significant
Why it matters: What survives each sale after running the business. A falling operating margin beside a steady gross margin points at overheads — wages, marketing, research — rather than pricing.
Deteriorated: -14.5%
$158.7M to $135.6MNotable
Why it matters: Profit from running the business, before interest and tax. Less exposed than profit to one-off financing and tax items, so a clearer read on the business itself.
Deteriorated: -9.2%
$80.4M to $73.0MNotable
Why it matters: Profit swings far more than sales do, and one-off items — a legal settlement, a tax charge, an asset sale — move it without the underlying business changing.
Deteriorated: -11.1%
$0.49 to $0.43Notable
Why it matters: Profit divided by the shares in issue at the period end, so it sits close to but not on the company's own reported figure. It can rise with no growth in profit when the company buys back stock — read it beside the share count.
Deteriorated: +2.2%
164.9M to 168.5MNotable
Why it matters: New shares divide the same company into more pieces, so each existing holding owns slightly less of it. Often pay for staff or an acquisition rather than anything wrong.
Changed: +14.8%
$172.9M to $198.5MNotable
Why it matters: Neither good nor bad on its own. Heavy spending is a company building capacity or a company struggling to stand still, and the two look identical in this figure.
Q2 FY2026 against Q2 FY2025, from the 10-Q filed Aug 6, 2026 — read it.
Deteriorated: turned negative
$35.1M to -$138.7MCritical
Why it matters: Profit from running the business, before interest and tax. Less exposed than profit to one-off financing and tax items, so a clearer read on the business itself.
Deteriorated: turned negative
$11.4M to -$39.6MCritical
Why it matters: Profit swings far more than sales do, and one-off items — a legal settlement, a tax charge, an asset sale — move it without the underlying business changing.
Deteriorated: −88.9 pts
18.4% to -70.5%Critical
Why it matters: What survives each sale after running the business. A falling operating margin beside a steady gross margin points at overheads — wages, marketing, research — rather than pricing.
Deteriorated: −26.1 pts
6.0% to -20.1%Critical
Why it matters: What survives to the very end of each sale. Worth reading beside revenue: growing sales on a shrinking margin means the company is buying its growth.
Deteriorated: turned negative
$0.07 to -$0.23Critical
Why it matters: Profit divided by the shares in issue at the period end, so it sits close to but not on the company's own reported figure. It can rise with no growth in profit when the company buys back stock — read it beside the share count.
Deteriorated: -9.5%
$94.6M to $85.6MNotable
Why it matters: A falling cash pile is only a warning if the company is consuming it. Paying down debt, buying back stock and paying a dividend all reduce cash by choice.
Deteriorated: +1.6%
168.4M to 171.0MNotable
Why it matters: New shares divide the same company into more pieces, so each existing holding owns slightly less of it. Often pay for staff or an acquisition rather than anything wrong.
Q2 FY2026 against Q1 FY2026, from the 10-Q filed Aug 6, 2026 — read it. Quarter-to-quarter moves include seasonal swings — a retailer's holiday quarter — which the year-earlier comparison removes.
Deteriorated: turned negative
$29.5M to -$138.7MCritical
Why it matters: Profit from running the business, before interest and tax. Less exposed than profit to one-off financing and tax items, so a clearer read on the business itself.
Deteriorated: turned negative
$3.0M to -$39.6MCritical
Why it matters: Profit swings far more than sales do, and one-off items — a legal settlement, a tax charge, an asset sale — move it without the underlying business changing.
Deteriorated: −86.0 pts
15.5% to -70.5%Critical
Why it matters: What survives each sale after running the business. A falling operating margin beside a steady gross margin points at overheads — wages, marketing, research — rather than pricing.
Deteriorated: −21.7 pts
1.6% to -20.1%Critical
Why it matters: What survives to the very end of each sale. Worth reading beside revenue: growing sales on a shrinking margin means the company is buying its growth.
Deteriorated: turned negative
$0.02 to -$0.23Critical
Why it matters: Profit divided by the shares in issue at the period end, so it sits close to but not on the company's own reported figure. It can rise with no growth in profit when the company buys back stock — read it beside the share count.
Improved: +24.4%
$68.8M to $85.6MSignificant
Why it matters: A falling cash pile is only a warning if the company is consuming it. Paying down debt, buying back stock and paying a dividend all reduce cash by choice.
3 other measures barely moved. Figures compare the two most recent annual filings — read the latest one. Moves are graded on fixed lines — 5%, 15% and 40% for amounts, and 1, 3 and 8 points for margins — as notable, significant or critical. Nothing here reads the management commentary, which is where a company explains its own numbers.
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Trailing P/E is not meaningful because the latest trailing earnings are zero or negative. The price-to-book and price-to-sales figures below still provide reference points.
Not meaningful for banks, insurers and other financial companies. Their balance sheets have no working capital and are leveraged by design, which this model misreads as distress.
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Signed a material agreement · Took on a direct financial obligation
Made a Regulation FD disclosure
Read the filingHeld a shareholder vote
Read the filingQuarterly report for Q1 FY2026
Revenue +5.8% · Operating margin +1.1 pts · Profit -81.0% — against Q1 FY2025
Read the filingPublished results · Made a Regulation FD disclosure
Read the filingSigned a material agreement · Took on a direct financial obligation
Read the filingProxy statement for a shareholder meeting
Read the filingHad a director or senior officer leave or join
Read the filingAnnual report for FY2025
Operating margin −3.0 pts · Free cash flow -42.5% · Cash -65.6% — against FY2024
Read the filingPublished results · Made a Regulation FD disclosure
Read the filingMade a Regulation FD disclosure
Read the filingMade a Regulation FD disclosure
Read the filingSigned a material agreement · Took on a direct financial obligation
Read the filingQuarterly report for Q3 FY2025
Operating margin −2.8 pts · Profit -40.1% · Earnings per share -41.7% — against Q3 FY2025
Read the filingPublished results · Made a Regulation FD disclosure
Read the filingSigned a material agreement · Took on a direct financial obligation
Read the filingHad a director or senior officer leave or join
Read the filingQuarterly report for Q2 FY2025
Operating margin −2.4 pts · Profit -60.1% · Profit margin −9.1 pts — against Q2 FY2025
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