Company Analysis

Douglas Emmett, Inc. (DEI)

NYSE: DEI · Real Estate Investment Trusts · Santa Monica, CA · filing with the SEC since 2006
Grade5.1
◀ Past 6.2● Present 4.8▶ Future 4.5

The grade of Douglas Emmett, Inc.

Nine metrics read from its own filings, by tense
Headline grade
5.1/10
◀ Past6.225% of the headline
● Present4.845% of the headline
▶ Future4.530% of the headline

All three tenses have at least two readings, so the archetype blend applies as printed.

All nine metrics read as filed from the record.

◀ Past

What did they actually do?

6.2/1025% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Surviving crises

as filed
7.0/10

Has it survived what it has been through?

No warning events in its filings since 2017.

weight 45% of this tense · 70th percentile among 174 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Douglas Emmett, Inc.'s filings since 2017 show no warning events in the scan: no bankruptcy or receivership notice, no debt default notice, no exchange listing notice, no restatement warning, no auditor change, no material cyber incident and no late-report notice (its current reports).

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Track record

as filed
5.2/10

What has it actually done, year after year?

+3.4% a year over 10 filed years; profitable in 9 of 10.

weight 33% of this tense · 52nd percentile among 156 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Douglas Emmett, Inc.'s 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $743 million in fiscal 2016 to $1.0 billion in fiscal 2025, up 3.4% a year; it rose in 7 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 5% from fiscal 2019 to fiscal 2020; net income was positive in 9 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue growth over the filed span3.4%bottom 35% of its family
  • the share of years revenue rosetop 49% of its family
  • the share of filed years with a profittop 44% of its family
  • the deepest fall from a revenue peak4.8%top 34% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Shareholder treatment

as filed
5.9/10

How has it treated the people who own it?

Share count shrank 1.6% a year. 40% of cash flow returned. Insiders: 0 sales, 3 purchases.

weight 22% of this tense · 59th percentile among 156 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, Douglas Emmett, Inc.'s diluted share count shrank about 1.6% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 40% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 0 sales and 3 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-09-30, buying about $1 million (their Form 4 filings).

What it rests on

  • the share count over the yearstop 5% of its family
  • cash returned against operating cash flowbottom 24% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

● Present

What are they doing right now?

4.8/1045% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Financial health

as filed
4.5/10

Is it financially healthy right now?

ROE 0%: 0¢ of profit per shareholder dollar. Leverage 63%: owes 63¢ per asset dollar.

weight 45% of this tense · 45th percentile among 171 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, Douglas Emmett, Inc. earned about 0 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 7 cents per dollar of everything the company owns. Leverage: it owed about 63 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count was unchanged over the year (the filed statements).

What it rests on

  • what it owes per dollar of assetsbottom 47% of its family
  • return on equitybottom 28% of its family
  • gross profit against assetsbottom 28% of its family
  • the share count against the year beforetop 24% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Industry position

as filed
3.8/10

How strong is its position in its industry?

bottom 38% of 157 in its family; net margin 1.6%.

weight 33% of this tense · 38th percentile among 157 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Douglas Emmett, Inc.'s standing among 157 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $1.0 billion in fiscal 2025 ranks in the top 37% by size; a net margin of 1.6% ranks in the bottom 29%; revenue growth of 0.3% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the bottom 22% (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the family$1.00Btop 37% of its family
  • net margin1.6%bottom 29% of its family
  • three-year revenue growth0.3%bottom 22% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Leadership

as filed
7.1/10

What are the people in charge doing?

top 29% of 160 in its family for leadership; chief executive since 2006.

weight 22% of this tense · 71st percentile among 160 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Douglas Emmett, Inc.'s leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Kaplan, Jordan L (Chairman and CEO, as filed), filing under that title since 2006-10-23, 20.1 years (top 11% of its family); the 11 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 12.3 years (top 11%); 5 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 11 people in charge now (bottom 35%; fewer changes for each person reads higher) (the Form 4 record, its Form 8-K reports). Years count from a person's first filing in the SEC's data sets, which begin in 2006, so each is a floor.

What it rests on

  • officer and director changes on Form 8-K, against the people in charge5 in three years among 11 peoplebottom 35% of its family
  • the median years the people in charge have filed12.3 yearstop 11% of its family
  • the chief executive's years on the record20.1 yearstop 11% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

▶ Future

What are they set up to do next?

4.5/1030% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Room to expand

as filed
4.2/10

How much room does it have to grow?

bottom 41% of 146 in its family for room to expand.

weight 22% of this tense · 41st percentile among 146 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Douglas Emmett, Inc.'s room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $341 million against debt of $5.5 billion leaves -56.1% of its assets as net cash, bottom 16% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 38.5% of revenue (top 43%); a gross margin of 63.4% (top 49%) (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • cash less debt against assets-56.1%bottom 16% of its family
  • cash from operations less capital spending against revenue38.5%top 43% of its family
  • gross margin63.4%top 49% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Growth drivers

as filed
4.5/10

What could actually drive growth from here?

bottom 46% of 153 in its family for growth drivers.

weight 33% of this tense · 46th percentile among 153 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Douglas Emmett, Inc.'s growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew 0.3% a year over the last three filed years against 3.4% over all 10, slowing (bottom 40% of its family); the newest year grew 1.8% (bottom 43%); capital spending grew 5.7% a year (top 46%) (its annual reports). Douglas Emmett, Inc. reported 2 lines of business in fiscal 2025: Office at $806 million (80%), Multifamily at $198 million (20%); 2 of 2 grew against the year before (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • three-year growth against the whole span-3.1 points a yearbottom 40% of its family
  • the newest year's revenue growth1.8%bottom 43% of its family
  • three-year growth of capital spending5.7%top 46% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Expectations vs reality

as filed
4.7/10

Did its newest year beat what its own record pointed to?

bottom 47% of 150 in its family for expectations against reality.

weight 45% of this tense · 47th percentile among 150 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Douglas Emmett, Inc.'s newest year against its own record: revenue of $1.0 billion in fiscal 2025 came in 2.1% above the $983 million its prior three years' pace pointed to (top 29% of its family); net income of $16 million against a prior three-year average of $26 million (bottom 27%); a net margin of 1.6% against 2.7% before (bottom 44%) (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the prior three years' pace2.1%top 29% of its family
  • net income against the prior three years' average-37%bottom 27% of its family
  • net margin against its prior average-1.0 pointsbottom 44% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

The grade is the company against its own industry, from its filings. It is not a view on the share price. How the grade is made

SI Assistanton DEI · research, not advice