Sun Communities

SUI · NYSE · Real Estate · Financials, fiscal 2016 to 2025

SUI · Last close · October 26, 2026

$119.84

Sun Communities' revenue rose 2.0% to $2.3 billion in fiscal 2025. Its net margin was 61.3%, up from 4.6% a year earlier. Free cash flow was $407 million, down 51.0%. It paid out $1.6 billion in dividends and buybacks, 389% of free cash flow. The diluted share count fell 1.8%.

SUN COMMUNITIES, INC Latest fiscal year ended December 31, 2025 10-K filed February 25, 2026 · 0000912593-26-000086 Updated October 18, 2026

Revenue

$2.3B

2.0%

Net margin

61.3%

56.7 pts

Net income

$1.4B

1264.8%

Free cash flow

$407M

51.0%

Return on equity

20.1%

18.7 pts

Market cap

$15.0B

Oct 26 close

P/E

10.8x

On $11.05 EPS, 4 qtrs

Net margin is net income as a share of revenue. Free cash flow is cash from operations minus capital spending. Return on equity is net income as a share of shareholders' equity. Market cap is the last closing share price times the latest diluted share count, so it is approximate. P/E is the last close divided by diluted earnings per share over the last four quarters, or the latest fiscal year where the quarters aren't available; there is none when the company made a loss.

About these figures. Return on capital for fiscal 2025 is blank: invested capital is small next to total assets (cash nearly matches equity and debt), so the ratio isn't meaningful. Net debt to EBITDA for fiscal 2025 is blank: the 10-K's structured data doesn't include every figure it needs.

Charts show fiscal years, from the 10-K filings.

Revenue and margins

Revenue

US$ billions, fiscal years

Margins

Percent of revenue

GrossOperatingNetFree cash flow

Net income and earnings per share

From fiscal 2016 to 2025, earnings per share grew 51.4% a year and net income 55.7% a year, as new shares raised the share count by 88% and diluted each share's earnings.

Net income

US$ billions, fiscal years; loss years in red.

Diluted earnings per share

US$ per share, fiscal years, restated for any stock splits; loss years in red.

Returns on capital

Return on capital and on equity

Percent. Return on capital is after-tax operating income over the money invested in the business (debt plus equity, minus cash); return on equity is net income over shareholders' equity. Both use the average of opening and closing balances.

Return on capitalReturn on equity

Cash flow

Free cash flow

US$ billions. Cash from operations minus capital expenditure; negative years in red.

Payouts and share count

Dividends and buybacks

US$ billions, cash paid in each fiscal year

DividendsShare buybacks

Diluted share count

Weighted-average diluted shares, millions

Valuation

Two ways to value Sun Communities yourself, both starting from its filings: a discounted cash flow model and the price-to-earnings method.

Discounted cash flow (DCF)

A discounted cash flow (DCF) model values a business as the cash it may generate in future, discounted back to today. The starting figures come from Sun Communities' 10-K (or, for net cash and shares, its latest 10-Q) and the assumptions are yours: start from one of three example scenarios, then change any figure to see what it implies for a share, and how that compares with the last share price.

The example scenarios need Sun Communities' net cash, which its filings' structured data doesn't give for its latest year. You can enter your own figure in the calculator.

From the filings

Starting free cash flow, US$ millions

Cash from operations minus capital spending in fiscal 2025.

Net cash, US$ millions Cash and short-term investments minus debt and finance leases at December 31, 2025. Negative means net debt.

Diluted shares, millions

Weighted-average diluted shares in fiscal 2025.

Your assumptions

Start from

Fitted to Sun Communities's own revenue growth, as above. Cautious: growth of -2% then 0% a year, 2% after year 10, a 11% discount rate. Base: growth of 0% then 1% a year, 2.5% after year 10, a 10% discount rate. Optimistic: growth of 2% then 2.5% a year, 3% after year 10, a 9% discount rate.

Free cash flow growth, years 1 to 5 (% a year)

Free cash flow growth, years 6 to 10 (% a year)

Growth after year 10 (% a year)Long-run growth forever after year 10. Usually close to inflation, and always below the discount rate.

Discount rate (% a year)The yearly return an investor wants for the risk. A higher rate gives a lower value.

Value per share on these assumptions

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Last close, October 26, 2026: $119.84
Value on these assumptions, against the last close: —

Cash flows in years 1 to 10, valued today: —
Everything after year 10, valued today: —
Plus net cash: —
Share of value from after year 10: —

Projected free cash flow

US$ billions. Each column is one year's projected free cash flow, split into what it is worth today and the part removed by discounting.

Value todayRemoved by discounting

How the value changes with two assumptions

Value per share in US$, with the growth rates above. The highlighted cell matches the current assumptions.

How the model works. Free cash flow grows at the first rate for five years and the second rate for five more, and each year is discounted at the discount rate. Everything after year 10 is valued as year-10 cash flow × (1 + growth after year 10) ÷ (discount rate − growth after year 10), discounted back ten years. Net cash is added and the total is divided by diluted shares. The result depends entirely on the assumptions. It is not a forecast, a price target or a recommendation. The last close is the consolidated US closing price, from Databento.

Price-to-earnings (P/E) method

Another common way to value a company is to multiply its earnings per share by a price-to-earnings (P/E) multiple: the number of years of today's earnings an investor pays for a share. A higher multiple usually means investors expect earnings to grow. Choose a multiple, for example from similar companies, to see the value it gives.

Careful. Sun Communities' P/E today, 10.8×, is less than half the example multiple. A gap that wide usually means one of two things: its latest earnings include large one-off items, such as a tax benefit or a gain on a sale, or investors expect its earnings to fall. Either way the examples can mislead, so they aren't set against the share price. Check the earnings in its latest filings before using them.

Value per share on three example scenarios, from Sun Communities' earnings per share of $11.05 (over the last four quarters). Each grows earnings for a year at the cash flow scenarios' rates and applies a multiple to next year's earnings: 27.1×, the middle of Sun Communities' own P/E today, its peers' median and its sector's median (its peers' median) for the base scenario, 20% less and more for the cautious and optimistic ones. The price is brought back a year at 11%, 10% and 9%. Select one to load it into the calculator. These are the model's arithmetic on those assumptions, not a forecast or a price target.

Earnings per share, US$

Diluted earnings per share over the four quarters to March 31, 2026, from the 10-Qs and 10-K.

P/E multiple

P/E today is the last close divided by the latest earnings per share, the four quarters' where available. Peers: Invitation Homes, American Homes 4 Rent, Equity Lifestyle Properties, Lamar Advertising.

Earnings growth in the years ahead (% a year) Starts at Sun Communities' revenue growth over the last 3 years, -8.1% a year, kept between 0% and 20%, as the base scenario does.

Earnings per share in the years ahead, US$

Year 1Year 2Year 3Year 4Year 5

Type your own estimate for any year; the years after it carry on at the growth rate.

Apply the multiple to earnings

A multiple on a future year's earnings gives the price then, brought back to today at the discount rate below.

Discount rate (% a year) The yearly return an investor wants for the risk, as in the cash flow model.

Value per share today at this multiple

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Last close, October 26, 2026: $119.84
Value at this multiple, against the last close: —
Sun Communities' P/E at the last close: 10.8×

Company	Last close	Earnings per share	P/E today
Equity Lifestyle PropertiesELS	$61.06	$2.00	30.5×
Lamar AdvertisingLAMR	$157.01	$5.48	28.7×
American Homes 4 RentAMH	$32.11	$1.26	25.5×
Invitation HomesINVH	$27.52	$1.09	25.2×
Sun CommunitiesSUI	$119.84	$11.05	10.8×

How the P/E method works. Value per share is earnings per share times the multiple. On a future year's earnings, that gives the price in that year, which is brought back to today at the discount rate: price ÷ (1 + discount rate) for each year ahead. It is quick and easy to compare across companies, but it ignores debt and cash, and earnings can swing with one-off gains and charges, so a multiple says most about steady, profitable businesses. Like the cash flow model, the result depends entirely on the assumptions you choose. It is not a forecast, a price target or a recommendation.

Balance sheet

Fiscal year end	FY21	FY22	FY23	FY24	FY25
Cash and short-term investments	66	73	29	48	570
Debt incl. finance leases	10	7,250	7,831	7,402	—
Net debt (negative means net cash)	−56	7,177	7,802	7,354	—
Net debt to EBITDA	−0.1x	6.5x	10.2x	10.2x	—
Debt to equity	0.0x	0.9x	1.1x	1.1x	—
Interest coverage	2.8x	2.2x	0.8x	0.7x	−0.2x
Current ratio	—	—	—	—	—
Quick ratio	—	—	—	—	—

US$ millions unless stated, at each fiscal year end. Net debt to EBITDA is debt minus cash, divided by operating income before depreciation and amortization: roughly how many years of those earnings the net debt equals. Debt to equity is debt as a multiple of shareholders' equity. Interest coverage is operating income divided by interest expense. The current ratio is current assets over current liabilities; the quick ratio leaves out inventory.

Insider trades

Over the 12 months between October 27, 2025 and October 26, 2026, no insider bought Sun Communities shares on the open market, and 3 insiders sold $27.7 million.

Date	Insider	Trade	Shares	Price	Value	Filing
Jun 24, 2026	Gary A ShiffmanDirector	Sold	25,031	$119.96	$3.0 million	Form 4
May 26, 2026	Fernando Castro-CaratiniEVP, CFO, Sec. & Treas.	Sold	23,750	$124.43	$3.0 million	Form 4
Mar 5, 2026	Clunet R LewisDirector	Sold	7,000	$136.07	$952,518	Form 4
Feb 27, 2026	Clunet R LewisDirector	Sold	7,000	$136.51	$955,560	Form 4
Dec 17, 2025	Gary A ShiffmanDirector	Sold	156,875	$123.53	$19.4 million	Form 4
Nov 10, 2025	Clunet R LewisDirector	Sold	4,000	$126.24	$504,957	Form 4

Open-market purchases and sales by officers, directors and 10% owners, from their Form 4 filings with the SEC: one row per person, day and filing, at the day's average price. Grants, option exercises and shares withheld for tax aren't counted. Insiders buy and sell for many reasons, such as taxes, spreading their savings or a plan set up months earlier, so a trade on its own says little about where a company is heading. For information only, not investment advice. Insider trades at all companies

Piotroski F-score

The F-score counts how many of nine simple tests of profitability, funding and efficiency a company passed in a year (Piotroski, 2000). The more tests passed, the stronger the year: 8 or 9 is strong, 0 to 2 weak. Companies that report no gross profit are scored on the other eight.

Test	FY23	FY24	FY25
Net income is positive	Fail	Pass	Pass
Cash from operations is positive	Pass	Pass	Pass
Return on assets rose	Fail	Pass	Pass
Cash from operations exceeds net income	Pass	Pass	Fail
Debt fell relative to assets	Pass	Pass	—
Current ratio rose	—	—	—
Share count didn't rise	Fail	Fail	Pass
Gross margin rose	—	—	—
Revenue rose relative to assets	Fail	Fail	Pass
F-score	—	—	—
Accruals ratio	−5.9%	−4.5%	3.8%

The accruals ratio is net income minus cash from operations, over average total assets.

Compare

Put Sun Communities side by side with any other company we cover: revenue, growth, margins, cash flow and returns, with ten years of charts.

Similar companies

Company	Year	Revenue growth	Operating margin	Free cash flow margin	Return on capital	Net debt to EBITDA	F-score	Compare
Sun Communities	FY25	2.0%	—	17.7%	—	—	—
Invitation Homes	FY25	4.2%	—	—	—	—	—	Compare
American Homes 4 Rent	FY25	7.0%	—	44.5%	—	—	—	Compare
Equity Lifestyle Properties	FY25	0.3%	25.6%	21.8%	7.7%	5.5x	—	Compare
Lamar Advertising	FY25	2.7%	34.2%	30.1%	17.3%	3.1x	8	Compare

Each company's latest fiscal year. Fiscal years end in different months, so the periods don't line up exactly. Free cash flow margin is free cash flow as a share of revenue. Net debt to EBITDA is explained under the balance sheet, and the F-score above.

10 years of figures

Fiscal year	FY16	FY17	FY18	FY19	FY20	FY21	FY22	FY23	FY24	FY25
Income statement
Revenue	834	983	1,127	1,264	1,398	2,273	2,970	2,284	2,260	2,306
Revenue growth	23.6%	17.9%	14.7%	12.2%	10.6%	62.5%	30.7%	−23.1%	−1.0%	2.0%
Gross profit	753	888	1,004	1,115	1,251	2,067	2,658	—	—	—
Research and development	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Operating income	467	551	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Net income	26	72	107	162	132	408	261	−207	104	1,414
Diluted EPS (US$)	0.26	0.85	1.29	1.80	1.34	3.36	2.00	−1.72	0.71	10.84
Diluted shares (millions)	66	77	82	89	98	115	123	124	127	125
Cash flow
Cash from operations	242	258	363	477	543	754	735	790	861	864
Capital expenditure	223	288	389	569	538	673	921	7	30	457
Free cash flow	18	−31	−26	−93	5	81	−186	783	831	407
Dividends paid	0	0	0	0	313	391	434	475	491	1,044
Share buybacks	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	539
Acquisitions	0	116	292	426	1,946	1,649	2,214	47	22	462
Stock-based compensation	10	13	15	18	23	28	38	35	33	37
Balance sheet at fiscal year end
Cash and short-term investments	8	10	50	22	77	66	73	29	48	570
Debt incl. finance leases	3,091	3,070	3,122	8	9	10	7,250	7,831	7,402	—
Total assets	5,871	6,112	6,710	7,802	11,207	13,494	17,084	16,941	16,549	12,523
Total liabilities	3,442	3,405	3,479	3,848	5,315	6,475	8,993	9,507	9,097	5,194
Shareholders' equity	2,296	2,598	3,107	3,820	5,525	6,624	7,810	7,083	7,082	6,956
Margins and ratios
Gross margin	90.3%	90.3%	89.0%	88.2%	89.5%	90.9%	89.5%	—	—	—
Operating margin	56.0%	56.1%	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Net margin	3.2%	7.3%	9.5%	12.8%	9.4%	18.0%	8.8%	−9.1%	4.6%	61.3%
Free cash flow margin	2.2%	−3.1%	−2.3%	−7.3%	0.3%	3.6%	−6.3%	34.3%	36.8%	17.7%
Return on capital	—	9.9%	4.3%	5.4%	5.6%	7.2%	4.5%	1.4%	1.2%	—
Return on equity	1.4%	3.0%	3.8%	4.7%	2.8%	6.7%	3.6%	−2.8%	1.5%	20.1%
Return on assets	0.5%	1.2%	1.7%	2.2%	1.4%	3.3%	1.7%	−1.2%	0.6%	9.7%
Net debt to EBITDA	4.5x	3.8x	5.6x	−0.0x	−0.1x	−0.1x	6.5x	10.2x	10.2x	—

US$ millions unless stated. Where a later 10-K restated a year, the latest filed figure is shown. Download all figures (CSV, US$ millions)

Source: Sun Communities' Form 10-K filings, from SEC EDGAR. For information only, not investment advice. The Filing Desk is not affiliated with Sun Communities.