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American Realty Investors

ARL
40
Real Estate - Development · Real Estate
Price
$15.88
-1.49 (-8.58%)
Market Cap
$256.5M
Winston Score
40
Winston is serious
Mixed quality — meaningful strengths and weaknesses.

American Realty Investors is a real estate company based in Dallas, Texas. It develops, owns, and manages residential apartment communities and commercial properties across the United States. The company focuses mainly on multifamily housing, meaning apartment buildings where regular people rent their homes.

The company makes money by collecting rent from tenants and by selling properties it has developed. It operates primarily in the southern and southwestern United States. American Realty Investors is a small company with a market cap of around $200 million, and its negative margins suggest it is currently spending more than it earns — a common situation for development-focused real estate firms carrying construction and debt costs. The main risk the company faces is rising interest rates, which increase borrowing costs and make real estate development more expensive, putting further pressure on already thin or negative profit margins.

Winston Score History

Growth Profile

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Revenue Growth

+2.8% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

Slow revenue growth

EPS Growth

-116.7% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

Earnings declining

R&D Spend

$0/ year

0.0% of revenue

Below sector average (1%)

Research and development spending

Insider Activity

91.9%ownership

Flat

Insiders holding steady — not selling despite ability to

Cash Position

Cash flow positive

$10M cash & investments

Company generates more cash than it spends — no dilution risk from fundraising

Growth context

American Realty Investors is growing revenue at 3% year-over-year. The Winston Score measures business quality today — these growth metrics show what could matter tomorrow.

The Winston Score above measures business quality today. Growth stocks often score lower because they invest in the future rather than maximising current profits. These metrics show what matters most for evaluating that future.

Share count broadly stable

+0.0% over 4y

The share count has stayed roughly flat over this period — little dilution or buyback activity.

Diluted shares outstanding: 16.2M (2021) → 16.2M (2025)

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Quality

Gross Margin
70.6%
Premium pricing power — 70.6% gross margin
Operating Margin
-17.8%
Losing money on operations — -17.8%
ROCE
-0.3%
Weak — -0.3% return on capital

Negative ROIC means the business is losing money on every dollar invested in it.

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Growth

Sales YoY
+6.2%
Slow sales growth (6.2% YoY)
EPS YoY
N/A
Data not available
EPS Consistency
6/8 quarters
Earnings grew in most of the last 8 quarters

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Cash Flow

Cash Conversion
22%
Weak — only 22% of profit becomes cash
FCF Margin
5.4%
Thin free cash flow (5.4%)

FCF margin between 0% and 10%. Some cash from sales, but not a lot.

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Stability

Debt / Equity
0.35
Conservative — low debt load (0.35)
Interest Cover
N/A
Data not available

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Valuation

P/E Ratio (TTM)
20.9x
Growth-priced — P/E 20.9

P/E above the market average. People are paying up for expected growth.

P/E vs Forward
N/A
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Dividends

Not applicable for this business.
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