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First Capital Real Estate Investment Trust

FCR-UN.TO
52
REIT - Retail · Real Estate
Price
C$23.43
+0.05 (+0.21%)
Market Cap
C$4.98B
Exchange
Toronto Stock Exchange
Winston Score
52
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Mixed quality — meaningful strengths and weaknesses.

Winston Score between 40 and 70. The stock passes some quality checks but not all.

First Capital Real Estate Investment Trust is a Canadian company that owns and manages shopping centers and mixed-use properties. Its tenants are mostly everyday retailers like grocery stores, pharmacies, and other necessity-based businesses that people visit regularly. First Capital focuses on urban and suburban neighborhoods in Canada's largest cities, including Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal, and Calgary.

First Capital makes money by collecting rent from the businesses that lease space in its properties. It operates exclusively in Canada and manages roughly 22 million square feet of leasable space, giving it a strong foothold in high-density urban areas where land is scarce and hard to replicate. Its focus on necessity-based tenants like grocers provides more stable income than malls anchored by fashion or discretionary retailers, but rising interest rates remain a key risk since REITs carry significant debt and higher borrowing costs can compress returns and reduce the value of its properties.

Winston Score History

Growth Profile

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Revenue Growth

+3.0% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

Slow revenue growth

EPS Growth

+7.5% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

Slow EPS growth

R&D Spend

$0/ year

0.0% of revenue

Below sector average (1%)

Research and development spending

Insider Activity

0.6%ownership

Relatively low insider ownership

Cash Position

Cash flow positive

$26M cash & investments

Quarterly Free Cash Flow

↑ Burn rate improving

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

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Growth context

First Capital Real Estate Investment Trust is growing revenue at 3% year-over-year. The Winston Score measures business quality today — these growth metrics show what could matter tomorrow.

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Quality

Gross Margin
61.8%
Premium pricing power — 61.8% gross margin
Operating Margin
53.4%
Excellent — 53.4% operating margin
ROCE
1.2%
Weak — 1.2% return on capital

ROIC between 0% and 5%. They earn a few cents back per dollar invested in the business.

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Growth

Sales YoY
+6.9%
Slow sales growth (6.9% YoY)
EPS YoY
+399.1%
Earnings growing fast (399.1% YoY)

Earnings growing 25%+ a year. The compounder zone.

EPS Consistency
6/8 quarters
Earnings grew in most of the last 8 quarters

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Cash Flow

Cash Conversion
20%
Weak — only 20% of profit becomes cash
FCF Margin
18.3%
Converts sales into free cash efficiently (18.3%)

FCF margin between 10% and 20%. Every $100 in sales becomes $10 to $20 in real cash.

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Stability

Debt / Equity
0.82
Moderate — manageable debt (0.82)
Interest Cover
3.47x
Tight — interest eats into profit (3.5x)

Interest coverage between 3 and 8. Profits cover interest several times over.

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Valuation

P/E Ratio
4.2x
Attractive valuation — P/E 4.2

P/E under 10. The price tag is small relative to last year's profit.

P/E vs Forward
-14.0
SLOWING
Earnings expected to fall — forward P/E higher than today

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Dividends

Dividend Yield
3.86%
Moderate income — 3.86% yield

Standard yield zone for stable dividend payers. A meaningful piece of total return.

Dividend Growth
+1.8%
Dividend flat

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