Company Analysis

Franklin Street Properties Corp (FSP)

NYSE: FSP · Real Estate Investment Trusts · Wakefield, MA · filing with the SEC since 2001
Grade3.9
◀ Past 4.7● Present 3.9▶ Future 3.4

The grade of Franklin Street Properties Corp

Nine metrics read from its own filings, by tense
Headline grade
3.9/10
◀ Past4.725% of the headline
● Present3.945% of the headline
▶ Future3.430% 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?

4.7/1025% 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

Franklin Street Properties Corp'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
1.1/10

What has it actually done, year after year?

-9% a year over 10 filed years; profitable in 6 of 10.

weight 33% of this tense · 11th percentile among 156 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Franklin Street Properties Corp's 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $250 million in fiscal 2016 to $107 million in fiscal 2025, down 9% a year; it rose in 2 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 61% from fiscal 2017 to fiscal 2025; net income was positive in 6 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue growth over the filed span-9.0%bottom 3% of its family
  • the share of years revenue rosebottom 2% of its family
  • the share of filed years with a profitbottom 24% of its family
  • the deepest fall from a revenue peak60.7%bottom 14% of its family

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

Shareholder treatment

as filed
5.1/10

How has it treated the people who own it?

Share count grew 0.1% a year. 41% of cash flow returned. Insiders: 0 sales, 0 purchases.

weight 22% of this tense · 51st percentile among 156 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, Franklin Street Properties Corp's diluted share count grew about 0.1% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 41% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 0 sales and 0 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-09-30 (their Form 4 filings).

What it rests on

  • the share count over the yearstop 22% of its family
  • cash returned against operating cash flowbottom 25% 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?

3.9/1045% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Financial health

as filed
5.5/10

Is it financially healthy right now?

ROE -7%: lost 7¢ per shareholder dollar. Leverage 32%: owes 32¢ per asset dollar.

weight 45% of this tense · 55th percentile among 171 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, Franklin Street Properties Corp lost about 7 cents for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 7 cents per dollar of everything the company owns (revenue less the cost of revenue). Leverage: it owed about 32 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count grew 0.1% over the year (the filed statements).

What it rests on

  • what it owes per dollar of assetstop 5% of its family
  • return on equitybottom 14% of its family
  • gross profit against assetsbottom 39% of its family
  • the share count against the year beforetop 28% of its family

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

Industry position

as filed
1.0/10

How strong is its position in its industry?

bottom 10% of 157 in its family; net margin -42%.

weight 33% of this tense · 10th percentile among 157 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Franklin Street Properties Corp's standing among 157 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $107 million in fiscal 2025 ranks in the bottom 18% by size; a net margin of -42% ranks in the bottom 7%; revenue growth of -13.5% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the bottom 5% (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the family$107Mbottom 18% of its family
  • net margin-42.0%bottom 7% of its family
  • three-year revenue growth-13.5%bottom 5% of its family

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

Leadership

as filed
5.0/10

What are the people in charge doing?

bottom 50% of 160 in its family for leadership.

weight 22% of this tense · 50th percentile among 160 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Franklin Street Properties Corp's leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: no one files under a chief executive's title, so that part is not read; the 4 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 20.4 years (top 2%); 6 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 4 people in charge now (bottom 2%; 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 charge6 in three years among 4 peoplebottom 2% of its family
  • the median years the people in charge have filed20.4 yearstop 2% 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?

3.4/1030% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Room to expand

as filed
4.5/10

How much room does it have to grow?

bottom 45% of 146 in its family for room to expand.

weight 22% of this tense · 45th percentile among 146 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Franklin Street Properties Corp's room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $31 million against no long-term debt tagged leaves 3.4% of its assets as net cash, top 12% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is -11.8% of revenue (bottom 6%); a gross margin of 60.8% (bottom 40%) (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • cash less debt against assets3.4%top 12% of its family
  • cash from operations less capital spending against revenue-11.8%bottom 6% of its family
  • gross margin60.8%bottom 40% of its family

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

Growth drivers

as filed
1.9/10

What could actually drive growth from here?

bottom 19% of 153 in its family for growth drivers.

weight 33% of this tense · 19th percentile among 153 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Franklin Street Properties Corp's growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew -13.5% a year over the last three filed years against -9% over all 10, slowing (bottom 34% of its family); the newest year grew -10.8% (bottom 9%); capital spending grew -33.1% a year (bottom 13%) (its annual reports). Franklin Street Properties Corp tags no split of its revenue by line in the annual report on file, so growth by line cannot be read here; research and capital spending are on the trend.

What it rests on

  • three-year growth against the whole span-4.5 points a yearbottom 34% of its family
  • the newest year's revenue growth-10.8%bottom 9% of its family
  • three-year growth of capital spending-33.1%bottom 13% 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
4.0/10

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

bottom 40% of 150 in its family for expectations against reality.

weight 45% of this tense · 40th percentile among 150 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Franklin Street Properties Corp's newest year against its own record: revenue of $107 million in fiscal 2025 came in 4.8% above the $102 million its prior three years' pace pointed to (top 22% of its family); net income of $45 million against a prior three-year average of $33 million (bottom 28%); a net margin of -42% against -25.4% before (bottom 14%) (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the prior three years' pace4.8%top 22% of its family
  • net income against the prior three years' average-35%bottom 28% of its family
  • net margin against its prior average-16.5 pointsbottom 14% 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 FSP · research, not advice