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SL Green Realty Corp.SLGCompetitor analysis, valuation and peers

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

REIT and Manhattan's largest office landlord, owning and managing New York City office towers.

Momentum neutral 59
Mkt cap
$3.88B
US dollars, full cap
Free float
94%
of shares outstanding
$/day
$52.3M
20-day average traded
P/B
1.12×
price to book
ROE
-3.1%
delivered
Implied ROE
14.6%
what the price asks
Next earnings
82 days
27 Jan 2027
Close · USD$50.78
1D-1.5%
1W+0.8%
1M+3.8%
3M-7.8%
6M+11.0%
YTD+10.7%
1Y-0.1%
ATR %4.2%
Beta0.99
52w lowhigh15.5% off high

What SL Green Realty does

REIT and Manhattan's largest office landlord, owning and managing New York City office towers.

Earns rent from long office leases, mostly with finance, law and media tenants, plus ground-floor retail rents. Many buildings are held through joint ventures with outside investors, and it sells stakes to raise cash. A second income line is interest on loans and preferred equity it provides to other property owners.

Products and services

  • Manhattan office leasing
  • Debt/preferred equity investments (real estate)
  • Retail leasing (ground floor)

Customers

  • Corporate tenants (finance, law, media)

Where it sits in the supply chain

  • Office REIT
  • Manhattan office ownership
  • Corporate tenant leasing

What could go right

  • NYC return-to-office/flight-to-quality leasing
  • Debt investment platform gains

What could go wrong

  • NYC office vacancy/remote-work pressure
  • High leverage sensitivity to interest rates

Moat: narrow (scale, brand, installed base). Being Manhattan's largest office owner gives leasing scale and market intelligence others lack.

Headquarters: New York, New York, US · Founded: 1997 · Employees: 1,289

Named competitors

SL Green Realty at a glance

Size SL Green Realty (SLG) is a United States Real Estate company (Real Estate Investment Trusts) with a market value of $3.88B, the 1366th largest of 3,117 United States companies the cockpit tracks. Shares closed at $50.78 on 6 Nov 2026.

Performance Over six months the shares gained 11.0%, against -3.8% for the median peer and -1.1% for the United States market (cap-weighted) — 3rd highest of 21 in its peer set.

Growth Revenue grew 8.7% over the last twelve months (peer median +3.5%); the operating margin is 12.2% (peer median 44.9%).

Valuation It trades at 1.12× book value against a peer median of 0.95× (6th most expensive of 21).

Price implies The share price implies a return on equity of about 14.6%; SL Green Realty delivers -3.1%, so the price asks more than the business earns today.

Short interest Short interest is 18.1% of the free float (15 Oct 2026).

Next results Next results expected around 27 Jan 2027 (exchange calendar; dates can move).

Relative performance

10012011 May 202611 Aug 20266 Nov 2026SLG 115Peer median 97
Six months, rebased to 100: SL Green Realty against the median of its 20 peers (local-currency closes).

SL Green Realty financials

Reported figures in USD; fiscal year ends 2025-12-31. TTM = trailing twelve months.
TTMFY2025FY2024FY2023FY2022
Revenue$1.07B$1.03B$920M$959M$925M
Revenue growth—+12%-4%+4%—
Gross profit$367M$371M$370M$343M$370M
EBITDA$399M$439M$468M$344M$392M
Net income-$120M-$90.2M$28.8M-$560M-$73.8M
Free cash flown/a-$71.8M$79.2M$110M$117M
Capital expendituren/a$256M$212M$260M$301M
Total debt$6.37B$6.00B$5.15B$4.43B$6.66B

Quarterly statements and history in the cockpit →

SL Green Realty competitor charts

The default views of Competitor Analysis ▸ Charts, drawn from the same data. Open them in the cockpit to change the axes, pin companies and read every value.

Performance: 6-month against 1-month return

-10%0%+10%-5%0%+5%+10%ME8USHCGRT-UN32813462IRTCOVHKRCCOLCURBFCR-UNNHIHIW8972CAR-UNJ69UREI-UNPHPDXSSLG6-month return →1-month return →
Up and to the right = strong over both horizons. SL Green Realty is the large dot.

Fundamentals: return on equity against price-to-book

0%5%10%10×1.50×ME8USHCGRT-UN32813462IRTCOVHKRCCOLCURBFCR-UNNHIHIW8972CAR-UN3283J69UREI-UNPHPDXSSLGReturn 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. SL Green Realty is the large dot.

Capital: ROE delivered against the ROE the price implies

0%5%10%0%5%10%ME8USHCGRT-UN32813462IRTCOVHKRCCOLCURBFCR-UNNHIHIWCAR-UN3283J69UPHPSLGROE delivered →ROE the price implies →
Above the diagonal = the price asks for a higher return on equity than the business earns today. SL Green Realty is the large dot.

SL Green Realty competitors and peer comparison

Head to head with its named competitors (SLG vs VNO vs ESRT vs BXP)
CompanyMarket cap6M returnRevenue growthROEPrice / bookImplied ROE
SL Green Realty SLG$3.88B+11%+9%-3%1.12×14.6%
Vornado Realty Trust VNO$6.70B+11%+2%0%1.44×17.3%
Empire State Realty Trust ESRT$919M-7%+2%5%0.85×10.7%
BXP BXP$10.4B+11%+3%10%2.00×17.2%

How SL Green 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.

SL Green Realty against its 20 peers (data as of 6 Nov 2026)
MeasureSLGPeer medianRank in peer set
1-month return+3.8%+3.8%11th highest of 21
6-month return+11.0%-3.8%3rd highest of 21
Return on equity-3.1%6.2%lowest of 21
Price / book1.12×0.95×6th most expensive of 21
ROE the price implies14.6%7.8%most demanding of 21
ROE delivered-3.1%6.2%lowest of 21

Peer table

Peer set: Industry: the same industry and sector in any market, nearest in size
CompanyMarketMarket cap6M returnRevenue growthROEPrice / bookImplied ROEDelivered ROE
SL Green Realty SLGUnited States$3.88B+11%+9%-3%1.12×14.6%-3.1%
Mapletree Industrial Trust ME8U.SISingapore$3.89B-10%-5%4%1.07×5.0%4.1%
Shaftesbury Capital SHC.LUnited Kingdom$3.91B+16%+9%10%0.71×10.2%9.7%
Granite Real Estate Investment Trust GRT-UN.TOCanada$3.85B-6%+9%7%0.93×10.4%6.5%
Glp J-reit 3281.TJapan$4.00B-2%-6%7%1.43×5.4%6.8%
Nomura Real Estate Master Fund 3462.TJapan$3.66B-23%-18%5%0.96×4.5%4.8%
Independence Realty Trust IRTUnited States$3.63B-9%+3%2%1.06×9.8%1.8%
Covivio Hotels SCA COVH.PAFrance$3.61B-9%+5%9%0.89×7.2%9.5%
Kilroy Realty KRCUnited States$4.21B+3%-4%1%0.80×9.3%0.5%
Colonial SFL SOCIMI COL.MCSpain$3.58B-2%+4%6%0.55×7.6%5.6%
Curbline Properties CURBUnited States$3.57B+5%+51%1%1.57×10.6%1.3%
First Capital Real Estate Investment Trust FCR-UN.TOCanada$3.55B0%+3%24%1.01×8.1%24.2%
National Health Investors NHIUnited States$3.50B-5%+24%11%2.23×13.0%10.9%
Highwoods Properties HIWUnited States$3.47B+24%+6%8%1.48×13.8%7.9%
KDX Realty Investment 8972.TJapan$3.47B-16%+3%5%0.87×4.9%5.4%
Canadian Apartment Properties Real Estate Investment Trust CAR-UN.TOCanada$3.45B-14%-7%-2%0.58×6.0%-1.5%
Nippon Prologis REIT 3283.TJapan$4.37B-8%+9%6%1.39×6.6%6.0%
Frasers Centrepoint Trust J69U.SISingapore$3.43B-5%+16%8%0.92×3.4%7.9%
RioCan Real Estate Investment Trust REI-UN.TOCanada$4.41B-3%-13%7%0.86×7.7%6.9%
Primary Health Properties PHP.LUnited Kingdom$3.41B+6%+104%8%0.99×10.9%8.0%
Dexus DXS.AXAustralia$4.44B0%-28%5%0.65×8.0%4.9%

Questions

Who are SL Green Realty's main competitors?
Named competitors: Vornado Realty Trust (VNO), Empire State Realty Trust (ESRT), Boston Properties (BXP). The cockpit's measured peer set (industry) also includes Mapletree Industrial Trust (ME8U.SI), Shaftesbury Capital (SHC.L), Granite Real Estate Investment Trust (GRT-UN.TO), Glp J-reit (3281.T), Nomura Real Estate Master Fund (3462.T), Independence Realty Trust (IRT).
Is SL Green Realty expensive compared with its peers?
On price / book it trades at 1.12× against a peer median of 0.95×, 6th most expensive of 21 in its peer set. The share price implies a return on equity of about 14.6%; SL Green Realty delivers -3.1%, so the price asks more than the business earns today.
How has SL Green Realty stock performed?
Over six months to 6 Nov 2026 the shares returned +11.0% against -3.8% for the median peer; over one year -0.1%.

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.