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Kilroy Realty CorporationKRCCompetitor analysis, valuation and peers

United States · USD·Real Estate›Real Estate Investment Trusts

REIT owning office and life-science lab buildings concentrated in West Coast tech/biotech hub cities.

Momentum neutral 57
Mkt cap
$4.21B
US dollars, full cap
Free float
99%
of shares outstanding
$/day
$59.4M
20-day average traded
P/B
0.80×
price to book
ROE
0.5%
delivered
Implied ROE
9.3%
what the price asks
Official | Implied
BBB- / BB+
agencies · bond market
Next earnings
87 days
1 Feb 2027
Close · USD$35.82
1D-1.2%
1W-0.7%
1M+4.8%
3M-3.6%
6M+2.6%
YTD-4.2%
1Y-15.7%
ATR %3.1%
Beta0.63
52w lowhigh17.8% off high

What Kilroy Realty does

REIT owning office and life-science lab buildings concentrated in West Coast tech/biotech hub cities.

Collects rent under multi-year leases and adds to the portfolio by building and redeveloping properties itself. Its buildings sit in a handful of West Coast metros, such as San Francisco, San Diego, Los Angeles and Seattle, so local office and laboratory markets drive occupancy more than the national picture does.

Products and services

  • Office leasing
  • Life-science lab space leasing
  • Development/redevelopment

Customers

  • Technology companies
  • Life-science/biotech companies

Where it sits in the supply chain

  • Office/life-science REIT
  • Class-A office & lab building ownership…
  • Tech/biotech tenant leasing

What could go right

  • Life-science leasing demand recovery
  • Tech-sector office demand stabilization

What could go wrong

  • West Coast office vacancy/remote-work pressure
  • Life-science leasing slowdown after biotech funding pullback

Moat: narrow (scale, installed base). Purpose-built lab and premium office space in supply-constrained West Coast markets is costly to replicate.

Headquarters: Los Angeles, California, US · Founded: 1947 · Employees: 241

Named competitors

Kilroy Realty at a glance

Size Kilroy Realty (KRC) is a United States Real Estate company (Real Estate Investment Trusts) with a market value of $4.21B, the 1315th largest of 3,117 United States companies the cockpit tracks. Shares closed at $35.82 on 6 Nov 2026.

Performance Over six months the shares gained 2.6%, against -2.3% for the median peer and -1.1% for the United States market (cap-weighted) — 7th highest of 21 in its peer set.

Growth Revenue fell 3.6% over the last twelve months (peer median +3.1%); the operating margin is 22.9% (peer median 42.5%).

Valuation It trades at 0.80× book value against a peer median of 1.11× (4th cheapest of 21).

Price implies The share price implies a return on equity of about 9.3%; Kilroy Realty delivers 0.5%, so the price asks more than the business earns today.

Credit Kilroy Realty has 7 bonds outstanding ($2.98B), rated BBB- by the agencies and trading like BB+ at a weighted spread of 148 bp.

Short interest Short interest is 11.2% of the free float (15 Oct 2026).

Next results Next results expected around 1 Feb 2027 (exchange calendar; dates can move).

Relative performance

10011011 May 202611 Aug 20266 Nov 2026KRC 105Peer median 98
Six months, rebased to 100: Kilroy Realty against the median of its 20 peers (local-currency closes).

Kilroy Realty financials

Reported figures in USD; fiscal year ends 2025-12-31. TTM = trailing twelve months.
TTMFY2025FY2024FY2023FY2022
Revenue$1.09B$1.11B$1.14B$1.13B$1.10B
Revenue growth—-2%+1%+3%—
Gross profit$326M$384M$407M$424M$419M
EBITDA$623M$667M$692M$687M$684M
Net income$28.5M$275M$209M$211M$231M
Free cash flow$494M$566M$541M$603M$592M
Capital expenditure$0$0$0$0$0
Total debt$4.50B$4.74B$4.75B$5.08B$4.43B

Quarterly statements and history in the cockpit →

Kilroy Realty competitor charts

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Performance: 6-month against 1-month return

-20%-10%0%+10%0%+10%3283REI-UN3281DXSSKTAPLESTWDM44USHCME8UEPRSLGCOLDAJBUGGC3462CUZKRC6-month return →1-month return →
Up and to the right = strong over both horizons. Kilroy Realty is the large dot.

Fundamentals: return on equity against price-to-book

0%5%10%15%10×20×30×40×3283REI-UN3281DXSSKTSTWDM44USHCME8UEPRSLGCOLDAJBUGGCCUZKRCReturn on equity →Price / book →
A bank or insurer earning more on its equity usually trades at a higher multiple of book; points far above the trend are priced for more. Kilroy Realty is the large dot.

Capital: ROE delivered against the ROE the price implies

0%20%40%0%20%40%3283REI-UNSKTAPLEME8UEPRSLGCOLDKRCROE delivered →ROE the price implies →
Above the diagonal = the price asks for a higher return on equity than the business earns today. Kilroy Realty is the large dot.

Kilroy Realty competitors and peer comparison

Head to head with its named competitors (KRC vs ARE vs BXP vs HPP)
CompanyMarket cap6M returnRevenue growthROEPrice / bookImplied ROE
Kilroy Realty KRC$4.21B+3%-4%1%0.80×9.3%
Alexandria Real Estate Equities ARE$7.80B-2%-10%-9%0.52×7.0%
BXP BXP$10.4B+11%+3%10%2.00×17.2%
Hudson Pacific Properties HPP$471M-22%+3%-18%0.19×5.3%

How Kilroy Realty compares with its peers

Peer set: Industry: the same industry and sector in any market, nearest in size. This is the same default set the interactive Competitor Analysis opens with.

Kilroy Realty against its 20 peers (data as of 6 Nov 2026)
MeasureKRCPeer medianRank in peer set
1-month return+4.8%+3.6%8th highest of 21
6-month return+2.6%-2.3%7th highest of 21
Return on equity0.5%5.8%4th lowest of 21
Price / book0.80×1.11×4th cheapest of 21
Trailing P/E148.1×20.6×2nd most expensive of 19
ROE the price implies9.3%8.9%11th least demanding of 21
ROE delivered0.5%5.5%4th lowest of 20
Bond spread148 bp137 bp2nd widest of 6

Peer table

Peer set: Industry: the same industry and sector in any market, nearest in size
CompanyMarketMarket cap6M returnRevenue growthROEPrice / bookImplied ROEDelivered ROE
Kilroy Realty KRCUnited States$4.21B+3%-4%1%0.80×9.3%0.5%
Nippon Prologis REIT 3283.TJapan$4.37B-8%+9%6%1.39×6.6%6.0%
RioCan Real Estate Investment Trust REI-UN.TOCanada$4.41B-3%-13%7%0.86×7.7%6.9%
Glp J-reit 3281.TJapan$4.00B-2%-6%7%1.43×5.4%6.8%
Dexus DXS.AXAustralia$4.44B0%-28%5%0.65×8.0%4.9%
Tanger SKTUnited States$4.45B+6%+11%19%6.60×51.9%19.3%
Apple Hospitality REIT APLEUnited States$4.46B+34%+1%6%1.42×12.2%5.5%
Starwood Property Trust STWDUnited States$4.46B-32%+11%3%0.69×8.0%3.4%
Mapletree Logistics Trust M44U.SISingapore$4.47B-6%-1%3%0.87×5.7%3.3%
Shaftesbury Capital SHC.LUnited Kingdom$3.91B+16%+9%10%0.71×10.2%9.7%
Mapletree Industrial Trust ME8U.SISingapore$3.89B-10%-5%4%1.07×5.0%4.1%
EPR Properties EPRUnited States$4.56B+2%+7%13%1.95×16.8%12.7%
SL Green Realty SLGUnited States$3.88B+11%+9%-3%1.12×14.6%-3.1%
Americold Realty Trust COLDUnited States$4.57B+8%0%-16%1.89×15.5%-16.5%
Granite Real Estate Investment Trust GRT-UN.TOCanada$3.85B-6%+9%7%0.93×10.4%6.5%
Keppel DC REIT AJBU.SISingapore$4.67B-6%+30%11%1.26×6.8%11.4%
General de Galerias Comerciales GGC.MCSpain$4.70B0%+3%18%3.99×13.5%n/a
Nomura Real Estate Master Fund 3462.TJapan$3.66B-23%-18%5%0.96×4.5%4.8%
Cousins Properties CUZUnited States$4.87B+11%+8%0%1.10×11.4%0.3%
Japan Metropolitan Fund Investment 8953.TJapan$4.87B-8%0%7%1.17×4.8%7.1%
Independence Realty Trust IRTUnited States$3.63B-9%+3%2%1.06×9.8%1.8%

Kilroy Realty bonds and credit

Kilroy Realty has 7 bonds outstanding with $2.98B face value. The agencies rate it BBB-; its bonds trade like BB+. Weighted yield 6.14%, a spread of 148 bp over government bonds.

Every bond, yield and spread in the cockpit →

Questions

Who are Kilroy Realty's main competitors?
Named competitors: Alexandria Real Estate Equities (ARE), Boston Properties (BXP), Hudson Pacific Properties (HPP). The cockpit's measured peer set (industry) also includes Nippon Prologis REIT (3283.T), RioCan Real Estate Investment Trust (REI-UN.TO), Glp J-reit (3281.T), Dexus (DXS.AX), Tanger (SKT), Apple Hospitality REIT (APLE).
Is Kilroy Realty expensive compared with its peers?
On price / book it trades at 0.80× against a peer median of 1.11×, 4th cheapest of 21 in its peer set. The share price implies a return on equity of about 9.3%; Kilroy Realty delivers 0.5%, so the price asks more than the business earns today.
How has Kilroy Realty stock performed?
Over six months to 6 Nov 2026 the shares returned +2.6% against -2.3% for the median peer; over one year -15.7%.

How these numbers are made. Returns are close-to-close in local currency. Revenue growth and margins are trailing twelve months. Req g is the revenue growth that today's enterprise value requires for seven years at the company's own cost of capital; Delivered g is what it actually grew; the gap is the hurdle (honest precision about ±8 points, so read the ranking more than the decimal). No fair values, price targets or analyst ratings are shown, by design. Method and validation.