COUSINS PROPERTIES INC
At today's price, COUSINS PROPERTIES INC (CUZ) is priced for -3.3% FFO growth. boothcheck doesn't publish a fair value or a price target; it shows what the price assumes, so you can judge whether that bar is too high. Built from SEC EDGAR filings.
• Cousins owns trophy-class office towers concentrated in the high-growth Sun Belt, and at $28.29 the stock trades near 11 times adjusted funds from operations, the cash earnings left after maintenance capital, a multiple the market applies because it discounts office real estate as a category rather than because Cousins' own cash flow is shrinking. • The leasing engine is running hot: the company signed 932,000 square feet of office leases in the first quarter, its strongest first-quarter volum
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362 institutional managers reported holding CUZ in 13F filings for the quarter ended 2026-03-31. 64 opened new positions that quarter. Held by Vanguard Group, BlackRock, State Street, among others. On the short side, 13.0M shares were sold short as of the 2026-06-15 count, about 8% of shares outstanding (7.1 days of typical volume to cover).
Quarterly 13F filings arrive up to 45 days after quarter end, so the picture is never current (filed through 2026-05-29). Nothing here is investment advice.
CUZ's share count grew 11.9% over the past five years. It pays a dividend, and has paid one every year in our records (16 and counting); the current rate is $1.28 a share annually. Cash returned over the past three years: $563.60M in dividends.
Share counts are split-adjusted; repurchase totals are gross of share issuance. Nothing here is investment advice.
No open-market insider buys on file at CUZ over the trailing three years. Absence is a fact about the company, not a signal. 15 officers and directors are on file.
Code P open-market purchases from SEC Form 4 filings, non-derivative, excluding scheduled 10b5-1 plans. Nothing here is investment advice.
CUZ's recent reports: the day-one move, then what the following quarter actually did.
| report | day one | next quarter |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-07-28 | +1.1% | -16.6% |
| 2023-10-27 | +1.5% | +36.2% |
| 2024-02-08 | +4.8% | -0.4% |
| 2024-04-26 | -1.1% | +1.3% |
Day-one is the close-to-close move around the filing. Nothing here is investment advice.
CUZ's latest 8-K filings: 2026-05-04 (items 7.01, 9.01); 2026-04-29 (items 2.02, 9.01); 2026-04-01 (items 1.01, 2.03, 9.01); 2026-03-09 (items 7.01, 9.01); 2026-02-20 (items 1.01, 2.03, 8.01, 9.01).
Item codes are the SEC's own classification of what each report discloses. Nothing here is investment advice.
Last analyzed: June 28, 2026
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