Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc (ARE) stock analysis
Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc (ARE) clears 3 of this site's 8 mechanical value filters, 0 of 8 Buffett-style checks and 0 of 5 Lynch-style checks. A free-cash-flow DCF does not fit real estate companies, so no margin of safety is shown. It returns +14.3% to shareholders net of dilution. Figures are as of October 23, 2026, from SEC filings and market data refreshed weekly; this is educational analysis, not investment advice.
Data as of October 23, 2026. Refreshed weekly from SEC filings and market data.
What does Alexandria Real Estate Equities do?
Alexandria Real Estate Equities is a REIT that owns lab and office space leased to life-science, biotech and technology tenants, concentrated in clusters such as Boston, San Francisco and San Diego.
What stands out about Alexandria Real Estate Equities?
- Misses 1 of the 8 value filters. It fails Market Cap > $25B ($7.5B); the other 3 pass and 4 were not evaluated. See every filter.
- Close to its 52-week low. At $43.33, ARE is 7.2% above its low of $40.41 and 44.4% below its high of $77.87. See the range.
- Strongest against peers: dividend yield. At 9.32% (peer median 4.08%) it ranks 1st of 28 among real estate stocks this site tracks. See the ranking.
- Insiders have been buying. 1 open-market purchase was reported in SEC Form 4 filings in the last 90 days, about $29.7 million in all. See the Insider Buying Tracker.
How has Alexandria Real Estate Equities' share price moved?
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Is Alexandria Real Estate Equities undervalued? The value diligence check
Every value-investing signal this site computes for this stock, gathered in one place: the same real numbers from the tools below, not a new score.
- Margin of safety (DCF) n/a (Real Estate)
- Wall St. analyst rating Hold · 2.67/5 24 analysts this month: 0 strong buy, 2 buy, 13 hold, 8 sell, 1 strong sell (Finnhub). Down from 2.76 last month.
- Altman Z″-Score (bankruptcy risk) n/a (Real Estate)
- Earnings quality (is the profit real?) n/a (bank, insurer or REIT)
- Shareholder yield (cash back to owners) +14.3% net Latest fiscal year (2025): dividends 12.1% + buybacks 2.8% − stock comp 0.5%, as a share of today's market cap. Over 14 years its split-adjusted share count rose 234%. See Shareholder Yield Leaders.
- Capital needed to grow (See's test) n/a (bank, insurer, lender or REIT)
- PEG (growth at a reasonable price) n/a (falling or negative earnings)
- Compounder lenses (4) 1 of 4 · misses capital-light (n/a), real profit (n/a), price (n/a) Capital-light growth: cannot be measured (bank, insurer, lender or REIT); Profit is real: cannot be measured (bank, insurer or REIT); Cash to owners: cleared; Fair price (PEG): cannot be measured (falling or negative earnings). See Compounders at a Fair Price, which also lets you move the PEG bar.
- Munger's Inversion Check 0 flags
- Standing vs. sector peers 1 of 3 measures above the median Compared with the 29 other real estate stocks this site tracks: 1 in the top third, 2 in the bottom third.
- Dividend payout sustainability 3/6 flags
How does Alexandria Real Estate Equities compare with its peers?
1 of 3 measure sits above the median of the 29 other real estate stocks tracked here, 1 in the top third and 2 in the bottom third.
- Return on equityhigher is better · peer median 8% −6% ✕30th of 30
- Net marginhigher is better · peer median 20.9% −36.6% ✕30th of 30
- Dividend yieldamong dividend payers · peer median 4.08% 9.32% ✓1st of 28
Peers are the stocks this site tracks in the same sector group, not every listed competitor. The bar runs from the weakest peer (left) to the strongest (right); the tick is the middle. Measures that don't apply to a sector (cash-flow yield for banks, debt for financials) are left out.
What would Buffett & Lynch say?
Buffett's checklist is built around durable, profitable businesses bought at sensible prices, and ARE doesn't clear enough of it yet. Where it comes up short: ARE isn't clearing the return-on-equity bar he'd want to see right now, and its five-year average return on equity falls short too, so this isn't just a one-off dip, carries more debt relative to equity than he typically tolerates, runs thinner pretax margins than he'd like to see, hasn't grown earnings per share fast enough over five years to impress him, doesn't cover its interest expense as comfortably as he'd want, is trading above what a conservative discounted-cash-flow estimate says it's worth right now, and trades rich relative to owner earnings, the real cash the business could pay out.
- ROE (TTM) > 11% ✕
- ROE (5yr avg) > 11% ✕
- Debt/Equity < 0.5 ✕
- Pretax margin > 15% ✕
- EPS growth (5yr) > 7% ✕
- Interest coverage > 5x ✕
- Trading below intrinsic value (DCF) ✕
- Price vs. owner earnings < 25x ✕
- Bonus: returning capital via buybacks FY2025
Lynch looked for growth stories that weren't overpriced for that growth, and ARE falls short of his bar. Where it comes up short: ARE fails his signature PEG test, he'd call this pricey for the growth on offer, is growing earnings outside the 10–25% range he considered the sustainable sweet spot, is leaning on more debt than he liked a growth story to carry, is asking investors to pay a steep multiple for that growth, and isn't generating free cash flow to match the growth story.
- PEG < 1 ✕
- EPS growth 10%-25% ✕
- Debt/Equity < 0.5 ✕
- P/E < 27 n/a
- Price/FCF < 30 ✕
- Bonus: insiders buying (90d) 1 buy, ~$29.7M
Quantitative approximations of each investor's documented approach, not endorsed by either investor or their estates - commentary, not this site's actual ranking criteria. Buffett never published a numeric checklist: only 2 of his 8 checks here trace to his own documented concepts ("owner earnings," from his 1986 shareholder letter, and "price is what you pay, value is what you get," his case against fixed P/E/P/B ceilings) - the other 6 (ROE, debt, margins, growth, interest coverage) use commonly-cited thresholds that are not numbers he himself published. The 8 hard filters below (plus the Munger check and Graham margin of safety) are this site's real, mechanical screen and are computed completely independently of the checklists above.
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Which of the 8 value filters does Alexandria Real Estate Equities pass?
- Market Cap > $25B $7.5B
- Trailing P/E < 25 n/a
- PEG Ratio < 1.5 -0.00
- Price/Book < 8 0.48
- Price/Sales < 7 2.69
- EPS Growth YoY > -5% n/a
- vs 50-day MA (±12%) Not evaluated †
- vs 200-day MA (±12%) Not evaluated †
What is Alexandria Real Estate Equities' margin of safety?
A standard free-cash-flow DCF doesn't fit how real estate companies report cash flow.
Where is Alexandria Real Estate Equities in its 52-week range?
What is the short interest in Alexandria Real Estate Equities?
7,882,235 shares short as of 2026-09-30 (FINRA settlement date). Reported twice a month, so this only changes roughly every two weeks, not daily.
What could go wrong with Alexandria Real Estate Equities? Munger's inversion check
"Invert, always invert." Instead of reasons to buy, these are reasons to hesitate, not a verdict, and not everything worth knowing about a business.
- Margin of safety, even in the bull case n/a (Real Estate)
- Short interest under 5% of float 4.6%
- Passes most of the 6 fundamental filters 5/6 passed
Doesn't cover circle of competence, management quality, or accounting concerns: those need judgment, not data.
How much have Alexandria Real Estate Equities shareholders gained per year?
Not enough clean earnings history to compute this for ARE yet - a loss year in the window breaks the growth math rather than faking a number through it.
An earnings-based proxy, not a stock-price total return - it doesn't capture multiple expansion/contraction or reinvested dividends. EPS from ARE's own 10-K filings; dividend yield is the current trailing yield on today's price, from the same weekly fetch as the rest of this site.
What do Alexandria Real Estate Equities' 10-year financials show?
From ARE's own 10-K filings (SEC EDGAR): up to the last 10 fiscal years. Press any year's bars for the exact figures.
Frequently asked questions about Alexandria Real Estate Equities
What kind of company is Alexandria Real Estate Equities?
Alexandria Real Estate Equities is a REIT that owns lab and office space leased to life-science, biotech and technology tenants, concentrated in clusters such as Boston, San Francisco and San Diego. This site groups it with Real Estate stocks.
Why does Alexandria Real Estate Equities have no margin of safety on this site?
This site's DCF values a company from its free cash flow, and that does not fit real-estate companies, which are valued on property income rather than on free cash flow. So ARE gets no margin of safety; judge it on the other checks on this page, such as its filters, shareholder yield and ranking against its peers. The method is in the Intrinsic Value Calculator.
How many of this site's 8 value filters does Alexandria Real Estate Equities pass?
ARE passes 3 of 8. It passes PEG Ratio < 1.5 (-0.00), Price/Book < 8 (0.48) and Price/Sales < 7 (2.69). It misses Market Cap > $25B ($7.5B). Trailing P/E < 25, EPS Growth YoY > -5%, vs 50-day MA (±12%) and vs 200-day MA (±12%) were not evaluated, because the moving-average checks only run on stocks that clear the fundamentals first. The 8-filter list shows every stock that passes all of them.
Where is Alexandria Real Estate Equities trading compared with its 52-week range?
At $43.33, ARE trades 7.8% above its 52-week low of $40.41 and 44.4% below its 52-week high of $77.87. The Near 52-Week Low list tracks stocks in that position.
Are Alexandria Real Estate Equities's insiders buying its shares?
Yes: 1 open-market insider purchase of Alexandria Real Estate Equities shares, worth about $29.7 million in total, was reported in SEC Form 4 filings in the 90 days up to this page's last update. Only open-market purchases count here, not option exercises or stock awards. See the Insider Buying Tracker.
When does Alexandria Real Estate Equities report earnings next?
Alexandria Real Estate Equities's next earnings report is expected on October 26, 2026 after the market closes, with analysts expecting earnings of $-0.03 per share. Dates come from the Finnhub earnings calendar and can move. In its last 4 quarters it beat the estimate 1 time, by an average of −349.1%.
Where do these numbers come from?
- Financial statements: Alexandria Real Estate Equities's 10-K annual report for the year ended Dec 31, 2025, filed Jan 26, 2026 (filing index). Every earlier year in the 10-year financials comes from the company's older 10-K filings, all listed on SEC EDGAR.
- Prices and market data: quotes, P/E and analyst ratings from Finnhub; daily price history and the 52-week range from Twelve Data, both refreshed weekly. Short interest comes from FINRA, reported twice a month.
- How to check a figure: click any number in the card above to see its exact source, and read the Editorial Standards for every rule behind the checks.
About this Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc analysis
This page shows every value-investing check the site runs on Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc (ARE) in one place: the 8 mechanical filters, the Buffett and Lynch checklists, a margin of safety from a disclosed DCF, earnings quality, shareholder yield and how it ranks against its sector peers. The numbers come from SEC filings and public market data, refreshed weekly, and the same rules apply to every stock on the stock list. See Editorial Standards for the sources and the rules, or run your own filters in the stock screener.