QualityDipStocks / Real Estate · REITs
Cousins Properties CUZ
Outside our quality screen, so we don’t track its dips. It’s 8% below its 52-week high.
Outside our quality screen. No fair value estimate for now: there isn’t enough data.
- Fair value est.
- n/a
- Market Value
- forming
- Off 52-wk high
- −8%
- Risk vs market
- Lowbeta 0.54
4 bullish · 5 bearish See why
Repriced or dip?
Near its high
The price is 8% below its 52-week high (Jul 29), but the business held up: earnings per share turned to a profit, shares outstanding fewer shares, each owns more, net cash (cash minus debt) +3.9% of market cap since the high.
Some numbers held up (earnings per share turned to a profit, shares outstanding fewer shares, each owns more, net cash (cash minus debt) +3.9% of market cap since the high), others slipped (revenue growth rate −3.6 pts). The price is 8% below its 52-week high.
The price is 8% below its 52-week high, and the business changed too: revenue growth rate −3.6 pts.
Within 10% of its 52-week high, so there is no dip to judge yet.
Data-based read, not advice.
Priced in
How much growth the market assumed at the 52-week high, the low and today (a reverse DCF).
At the low ($21.34, Mar 27) about 12%. The last 3 years delivered 81%/yr (free cash flow).
Dashed line: what the last 3 years delivered, 81%/yr (free cash flow)
| High | Low | Now | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price | $32.30Jul 29 | $21.34Mar 27 | $29.80 |
| Implied growth | n/a | +12% | n/a |
| P/E | n/a | 88.9× | 330.3× |
| P/FCF | — | 26.7× | — |
| EV/Sales | 9.1× | 7.0× | 8.1× |
What this means: the higher the implied growth, the more the price already counts on. If today's number sits well below what the business has delivered, the market expects less than its track record.
How it’s computed
Reverse DCF: the same 10-year free-cash-flow model as our fair value estimate (9.5% discount rate, growth for years 1–5 fading to 3% by year 10, 3% after), solved for the growth that makes it equal the market value at each price. For the high and the low we use only the filings that were public on that day, so nothing from a later report leaks back. Market value = that close × diluted shares. P/E = market value / 12-month net income; Price / FCF = market value / 12-month free cash flow; EV / Sales = (market value + debt − cash) / 12-month revenue. Hidden when the share count moved over 20% (split, merger), free cash flow is negative, or the company reports in another currency.
Valuation
What we estimate it's worth, and how it ranks on value vs every stock we cover.
Fair value estimate
No estimate for CUZ: Capital spending isn't tagged for the latest period in SEC XBRL data. We’d rather show nothing than a made-up number.
Risk vs market
How risk vs market is measured
One year of daily returns (Oct 31 to Nov 2, 252 sessions). Beta = how much CUZ moved for each 1% move in the S&P 500 (SPY); 1.0 moves with the market. Volatility is the yearly standard deviation of daily returns. Past behavior, not a forecast.
Moves much less than the market, but its own price swings are 2.1× the S&P 500’s (it moves on its own news).
- Beta vs S&P 500
- 0.54
- Volatility
- 27% vs 13% SPY
- Correlation SPY
- 0.26
- Correlation QQQ
- 0.12
Valuation details
FCF value $21.29
Fundamentals
The business itself: sales, profits, cash and debt, from SEC filings.
Bull vs bear
Rule-based from the data on this page, strongest first. Not advice.
Top bullish points 4 of 5
ProfitabilityOperating margin of 68% over the last 12 months.
Cash returnsDividend yield of 4.4% ($214M paid over 12 months).
ValuationEV/EBITDA of 7.4×: modest for what the business earns before interest, tax and depreciation.
GrowthSales grew 9% to $1.0B over the last 12 months vs the 12 months before (SEC filings).
Top bearish points 5 of 5
Balance sheetNet debt of $3.6B, 73% of the market cap (Sep 30, 2026).
Balance sheetDebt rose 36% to $3.3B from FY2023 to FY2025.
GrowthDiluted EPS fell 20% to $0.24 in FY2025.
ProfitabilityReturn on equity is only 0% over the last 12 months.
QualityDoesn’t pass our quality screen: ROE under 12% and ROIC under 10%; net debt 5.5× EBITDA (limit 3×).
All fundamentals
ROE 0% · Sales +9%
Valuation
- P/E
- n/an/m: earnings near zero (P/E above 300)
- Price / FCF
- n/anot reported in its SEC filings
- FCF yield
- n/anot reported in its SEC filings
- EV / EBITDA
- 7.4×
- Price / sales
- 4.68×
- Price / book
- 1.10×
- Market cap
- $4.9Blisted
- Enterprise value
- $8.5B
Growth
- Revenue, 12 months
- $1.0B
- Sales growth, 12 months
- +8.5%vs the 12 months before
- Sales growth, 3 yrs
- +9.2%/yrfrom FY2022
- Diluted EPS, 12 months
- $0.09
- EPS growth, last FY
- −20.0%
- Net income, 12 months
- $15M
- Net income growth
- −74%12 months vs before
Profitability
- Gross margin
- 68.4%
- Operating margin
- 68.3%
- Net margin
- 1.4%
- FCF margin
- n/anot reported in its SEC filings
- Return on equity
- 0%
- Return on invested capital
- 7%
Balance sheet
- Cash & short-term inv.
- $5M
- Total debt
- $3.6B
- Net cash
- −$3.6B
- Debt / equity
- 0.80×
- Interest coverage
- 4.0×operating income / interest
Cash flow & returns
- Free cash flow, 12 months
- n/anot reported in its SEC filings
- FCF growth, 12 months
- n/anot reported in its SEC filings
- Dividend yield
- 4.38%$214M paid
- Payout ratio
- n/an/m
- Buybacks, 12 months
- n/anot reported in its SEC filings
- Share count, 1 year
- −1.7%diluted shares vs a year ago
- Stock-based comp
- n/anot reported in its SEC filings
Trailing 12 months to Sep 30, 2026; balance sheet at Sep 30, 2026. From Cousins Properties’s SEC filings. Sparklines show up to six fiscal years. n/a means we don’t hold that number, with the reason. How each is computed.
The business
FCF $0.1B · Sales +5%
- Free cash flow, 12 months$0.1B
- Free-cash-flow yield2.9%
- Free-cash-flow margin13%
- Gross margin68%
- Operating margin25%
- Return on invested capital2%
- Return on equity0%
- Sales growth (latest quarter vs year-ago quarter)+5%
- Net debt / EBITDA5.5×
Chart & levels
Where the price is vs its key levels and trends.
Key levels
Every level vs today’s $29.80
- 52-wk lowlowest close, 1 year$21.34−28.4%
- PriceMon Nov 2 close$29.80you are here
- 52-wk highhighest close, 1 year$32.30+8.4%
Momentum & 52-week range
RSI 64 · 5 days +2.1%
Signals
Reversal signal setups, the public ledger and the next earnings date.
Setup & signals
No setup armed
No setup armed, so there’s no trigger or stop to track yet. Reversal signal rules only run on companies that pass our quality screen.
CUZ is outside our quality screen
One text when a published rule fires on one of the 332 quality companies we track: the ticker, the price, the stop and a link to the numbers. Nothing else.
Voices & buzz
Who is talking about it, and how it compares with peers.
Who’s talking about it
Notable investors, executives, analysts and public figures on Cousins Properties in the last 48 hours. Headlines as published, each linked. Their words, not ours.
No notable mentions in the last 48 hours. Checked Nov 3, 1:01 PM ET.
Compare with peers
Closest in size in REITs
Information only, not investment advice. Fair value estimates and talking points are rule-based model output from public data and can be wrong; stop levels are reference points, not orders. How every number is computed.