profit from every $100 of sales.
$0$100
Cousins Properties
$30.12+1.76% today
+15.1% in 1 year
1-year low $21.341-year high $32.30
Trading in the middle of its range for the past year.
The essentials
Four questions every investor asks, answered in one line each.
more sales each year, on average, 2020 to 2025.
0%20% a year
You pay $122.42 for every $1 of profit it makes in a year.
CheapExpensive
of earnings would pay off all its debt.
No debt5 years
Money in, money out
What Cousins Properties sold, what it kept, and what it did with the cash.
Sales went from $762 million in 2022 to $994 million in 2025, with $40.5 million of profit last year.
SalesProfit
Cousins Properties handed back more cash to shareholders than it generated last year.
$216M
Free cash flow 2025$135M
Bought back its own shares–
Paid as dividends$216M
Cash vs. debt$6M vs. $3.4B
Cousins Properties vs. similar companies
Cousins Properties grows in the middle of these 5 and is the most expensive for its profits.
| Company | Profit from $100 of sales | Sales growth a year | Price per $1 of profit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cousins Properties | 122.4× · Very expensive | ||
 BXP | 43.2× · Expensive | ||
 MERLIN Properties SOCIMI | 9.2× · Cheap | ||
 Alexandria Real Estate Equities | No profit yet | ||
 Vornado Realty | 8.2× · Cheap |
AI analysis
An AI analyst reads Cousins Properties's last five years, its segments, earnings, insiders and peers, and writes the bull case, the bear case and what the price expects.
Run the AI analysisFull statementsIncome, balance sheet and cash flow, year by year
Income statement
| In millions of USD | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 740 | 755 | 762 | 803 | 857 | 994 | |
| 489 | 496 | 504 | 536 | 576 | 679 | |
| – | – | 180 | 189 | 174 | 225 | |
| – | – | 536 | 504 | 534 | 616 | |
| 237 | 279 | 167 | 83 | 46 | 41 | |
| 1.60 | 1.87 | 1.11 | 0.55 | 0.30 | 0.24 | |
| 66.1% | 65.6% | 66.1% | 66.8% | 67.2% | 68.4% | |
| – | – | 23.6% | 23.6% | 20.4% | 22.7% | |
| 32.0% | 36.9% | 21.9% | 10.3% | 5.4% | 4.1% |
Balance sheet
| In millions of USD | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total assets | 7,107 | 7,312 | 7,537 | 7,634 | 8,802 | 8,890 |
| Cash | 4 | 9 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 6 |
| Total debt | 2,221 | 2,287 | 2,388 | 2,511 | 3,146 | 3,391 |
| Total liabilities | 2,612 | 2,712 | 2,890 | 3,086 | 3,932 | 4,188 |
| 4,467 | 4,567 | 4,626 | 4,524 | 4,847 | 4,680 | |
| 149 | 149 | 150 | 152 | 154 | 169 | |
| – | – | 2.7% | 2.1% | 1.7% | 2.0% | |
| 5.3% | 6.1% | 3.6% | 1.8% | 0.9% | 0.9% |
Cash flow
| In millions of USD | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 351 | 389 | 365 | 368 | 400 | 402 | |
| – | – | 342 | 280 | 253 | 267 | |
| – | – | 23 | 89 | 148 | 135 | |
| Dividends paid | 176 | 183 | 192 | 194 | 195 | 216 |
| – | – | 0 | 0 | 1 | – | |
| 9 | 11 | 10 | 12 | 15 | 16 |
Valuation
- 122.4×
- 109.9×
- –
- 1.0×
- 5.0×
- 36.7×
- 13.5×
- 2.7%
- 0.8%
- 4.9%
Profitability
- 68.4%
- 22.7%
- 4.1%
- 59.7%
- 2.6%
- 1.7%
- -0.1%
- -0.1%
- 2.6%
- –
Growth
- +6.1%
- −31.6%
- −8.4%
- −3.0%
- +3.1%
Financial health
- 6.3×
- 0.85
- 42.1%
- 1.8×
- 0.55
- 0.55
- 0.11
How it ranks in Real Estate
Each dot is where the company stands among every company over $300M in the sector. Further right is better.
Bottom 25%of 746
Bottom 33%of 752
Bottom 4%of 667
Bottom 47%of 763
Bottom 30%of 762
What analysts expect
- Average price target
- $29.50
- Range
- $27.00 – $34.00
- 4 analysts
These targets were collected on May 20, 2026 and our analyst feed has not updated since, so we no longer compare them with today's price.
Recent earnings
Our results feed has not updated since May 21, 2026. Results reported after that are not in this table yet.
| Date | EPS | Expected | Surprise |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 29, 2026 | 0.73 | 0.71 | +2.8% |
| Feb 5, 2026 | 0.71 | 0.06 | +1,027.3% |
| Oct 30, 2025 | 0.69 | 0.69 | +0.0% |
| Jul 31, 2025 | 0.70 | 0.70 | +0.0% |
| May 1, 2025 | 0.74 | 0.71 | +4.2% |
| Feb 6, 2025 | 0.69 | 0.07 | +885.7% |
| Oct 24, 2024 | 0.67 | 0.67 | +0.0% |
| Jul 25, 2024 | 0.68 | 0.66 | +3.0% |
4.9%of the share price, paid each year
On $1,000 invested$49a year at today's yield, before tax
−3.0%2020 to 2025
Raised–not every year
Paid per share, each year
$0.90 in 2015 → $1.28 in 2025
How safe it looks
532.8% of its profit
Room to growStretchedMore than it earns: 159.8%
News
No recent news on file.
Insider trades
Our insider feed has not updated since May 26, 2026. Trades filed after that are not listed yet.
No insider trades on file.
The seven classic investing rulebooks
0/7Passes 0 of 7. Each bar is how well the company fits that investor's published rules, from 0 to 100; 60 or more counts as a pass.
Warren Buffett
45No pass
Benjamin Graham
32No pass
Philip Fisher
44No pass
Peter Lynch
14No pass
Joel Greenblatt
40No pass
Charlie Munger
42No pass
Terry Smith
35No pass
Questions about Cousins Properties
Is Cousins Properties a good stock to buy?
A business with weak numbers, priced as if everything goes right. 0 of the 7 famous investors' published rulebooks we apply pass it. Whether it suits you depends on your goals and the price you pay; invest-like never tells anyone to buy or sell. The AI analysis lays out the case for and against. Read the Cousins Properties AI analysis
What does Cousins Properties do?
Cousins Properties is a fully integrated, self-administered and self-managed real estate investment trust (REIT). It is in REIT - Office, based in Atlanta, GA, United States, with 351 employees.
Does Cousins Properties pay a dividend?
Yes. At today's price the dividend is 4.9% a year. In 2025 it paid out $216 million in dividends.
Is Cousins Properties stock halal?
No. Cousins Properties does not pass our halal screen: its debt is 68% of its market value, at or above the 33% limit. How we check
How has Cousins Properties stock done over the past year?
Up 15.1% over the past twelve months, to $30.12. It traded between $21.34 and $32.30 and is 6.7% below its high.
Who are Cousins Properties's competitors?
The largest listed companies in the same industry are BXP, MERLIN Properties SOCIMI, Alexandria Real Estate Equities and Vornado Realty. The peers table on this page compares their profit, growth and price with Cousins Properties's.
Prices: daily closes to Nov 9, 2026. Fundamentals: company reports via invest-like data.