28 Apr, 2025

REIT Replay: REIT stocks underperform broader market during week ended April 25

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By Chris Hudgins


Share prices for US equity real estate investment trusts closed largely flat over the week ended April 25.

The Dow Jones Equity All REIT index ended the recent week down a slight 0.11%, compared to a 4.59% gain for the S&P 500 and a 2.48% increase for the Dow Jones Industrial Average.

Among the Dow Jones US real estate property sector indexes, the office REIT index logged the largest increase over the recent week at 1.24%. The apartment REIT index followed next with an increase of 0.82%, while the industrial and self-storage REIT indexes also closed the week with small increases of 0.36% and 0.18%, respectively. On the other hand, the healthcare REIT index closed the week down 0.80%, while the hotel and retail REIT indexes also closed down 0.53% and 0.16%, respectively.

Office REIT Brandywine Realty Trust logged the largest share-price increase over the week among all US equity REITs with at least $200 million in market capitalization, at 6.61%. Hotel REIT Xenia Hotels & Resorts Inc. and datacenter REIT Equinix Inc. followed next with share-price increases of 6.46% and 6.07%, respectively.

Alternatively, three single-tenant retail REITs closed the week with the largest share-price declines. Alpine Income Property Trust Inc.'s share price ended the recent week down 6.01%, followed by Getty Realty Corp. and NETSTREIT Corp. with share-price declines of 5.46% and 5.33%, respectively.

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