Douglas Emmett
Through the investors’ lenses
0 of 2 cleared1 of 4 criteria
Each of these investors has said in public what they look at before buying. Click a name to see how this company measures up — a tick where it passes one of their tests, a cross where it does not.
Warren Buffett 1/3
| Measure | DEI | Checked against | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Owner earnings | $222.80m | positive | ✓ |
| Return on equity | 0.9% | US median 2.8% | ✗ |
| Debt to equity | 2.91x | US median 0.57x | ✗ |
| Operating margin | — | US median 3.1% | — |
Passes 1 of 3. These are the measures Warren Buffett published, applied to Douglas Emmett’s own figures — their criteria, not their view of this company. What he looks at, and why →
Benjamin Graham 0/1
| Measure | DEI | Checked against | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Current ratio | — | 2.00x published | — |
| Long-term debt to working capital | — | 1.00x published | — |
| Positive earnings, ten years running | 2 yrs | 10 published | ✗ |
Passes 0 of 1. These are the measures Benjamin Graham published, applied to Douglas Emmett’s own figures — their criteria, not their view of this company. What he looks at, and why →
| Basis | Payout | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Operating cash flow | 32.9% | whyBefore capital spending. |
| Free cash flow | 65.4% | whyCounts property acquisitions as though they were maintenance. |
| Funds from operations | 30.7% | whyThe industry's basis — adds that depreciation back. |
No GAAP earnings figure is shown. This company does not report the inputs for it in its XBRL filings — capital expenditure, in particular, is often folded into a single investing total rather than tagged on its own. The figure is absent from the filings, not zero, and inventing one from a balance-sheet movement would be a guess dressed as a measurement.
Spread between highest and lowest: 34.8 percentage points. Same filings, different denominators.
Coverage rating 87 / 100 — Comfortable. ? Peer standing 47/50Direction 25/30Stability 15/20
Funds from operations payout, last 6 years
| Fiscal year | Payout |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-31 | 30.7% |
| 2024-12-31 | 31.2% |
| 2023-12-31 | 30.9% |
| 2022-12-31 | 40.2% |
| 2021-12-31 | 45.0% |
| 2020-12-31 | 45.8% |
94% of the 47 real estate here pay out more — comfortable for the sector.
The arithmetic
- Operating cash flow — dividends paid $127m ÷ operating cash flow $387m
- Free cash flow — dividends paid $127m ÷ (operating cash flow $387m − capex $192m)
- Funds from operations — dividends declared per share $0.760 ÷ derived FFO $2.48 per share
- FFO built NAREIT-style: net income, plus real-estate depreciation, less gains on sale, over weighted-average diluted shares
- This is an approximation. Every REIT defines its own adjusted variant in the filing text, so it will not match the earnings release exactly
Where the figures came from
- 10-K filed 2026-02-20 · accession 0001364250-26-000011
Every one is public at sec.gov and free to check. That is the point — you should not have to take our word for any of it.
Caveats on this company
- ebitda built from net income (no operating income reported)
- FFO derived (NAREIT approximation)
- basis discarded as outside the sane band (distribution far larger than the year's income — usually a special dividend or a return of capital, not a payout ratio): earnings
Computed by an open pipeline reading SEC XBRL directly. If any number here looks wrong to you, tell us — that is more useful to us than agreement.
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