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Kimco Realty Corporation (KIM)

Q4 2025 Earnings Call· Thu, Feb 12, 2026

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Operator

Operator

Hello, everyone, and thank you for joining the Kimco Realty Corporation fourth quarter earnings call. My name is Claire, and I will be coordinating your call today. During the presentation, you can register a question by pressing star followed by 1 on your telephone keypad. If you change your mind, please press star followed by 2 on your telephone keypad. I will now hand over to David F. Bujnicki, Senior Vice President of Investor Relations and Strategy for Kimco Realty Corporation. Please go ahead. Good morning.

David F. Bujnicki

Management

Thank you for joining Kimco Realty Corporation’s quarterly earnings call. The Kimco Realty Corporation management team participating on the call today include Conor C. Flynn, Kimco Realty Corporation’s CEO; Ross Cooper, President and Chief Investment Officer; Glenn Gary Cohen, our CFO; David Jamieson, Kimco Realty Corporation’s Chief Operating Officer; as well as other members of our executive team that are also available to answer questions during the call. As a reminder, statements made during the course of this call may be deemed forward-looking, and it is important to note that the company’s actual results could differ materially from those projected in such forward-looking statements due to a variety of risks, uncertainties, and other factors. Please refer to the company’s SEC filings that address such factors. During this presentation, management may make reference to certain non-GAAP financial measures that we believe help investors better understand Kimco Realty Corporation’s operating results. Reconciliations of these non-GAAP financial measures can be found in our quarterly supplemental financial information on the Kimco Investor Relations website. Also, in the event our call was to incur technical difficulties, we will try to resolve as quickly as possible and if the need arises, we will post additional information to our IR website. Good morning. Thanks for joining us today. We appreciate your interest in Kimco Realty Corporation. Today, I will highlight what we delivered in 2025 and how we are positioned to drive value in 2026. David Jamieson will provide additional color on our leasing activity. We will also then discuss the transaction market, and Glenn will wrap up with a review of our key financial metrics and guidance. 2025 was another banner year for Kimco Realty Corporation. We delivered NAREIT FFO per share growth of 6.7%, making us one of the only shopping center REITs to achieve…

Operator

Operator

Thank you. To ask a question, if you change your mind, please press star followed by 2. For questions, you can rejoin the questions queue. When preparing to ask your question, we request that you ask one question, and if you have any follow-up, please ensure your device is unmuted locally. Our first question comes from Greg Michael McGinniss from Scotia, from Alexander David Goldfarb from Piper Sandler. Please go ahead.

Alexander David Goldfarb

Analyst

Hey. Good morning. I guess I would say I am here with Greg Michael McGinniss. But so question for you. You spoke about the potential for a special dividend depending on the level of dispositions and recycling potential. But also, Conor, you have been pretty clear that you want the company to be a top quartile earnings grower. And certainly, I would think special dividend would imply that you are losing earnings relative to investing. So can you just walk more through that and how you are balancing the desire to have Kimco Realty Corporation be a top earners grower versus the clear disconnect between where the stock is and the underlying asset value? We are happy to. It is a good question, Alex. I think when you look at where our taxable income is and where our dividend level is, you know, we need to be mindful of the fact that as we really work to close the gap between where our public valuation is currently versus where the private valuation is. We think there are multisteps we can do to do that. And one of the biggest ones is to really take assets to market, as I mentioned earlier, and really showcase the disconnect between our implied cap rate and where those assets are trading in the market today. As you probably are aware, we do not really have assets that have embedded losses, and when we look across the portfolio, most of our basis is quite low on our assets. So that will trigger a quite sizable taxable gain on any assets we sell. So we are very focused on 1031 exchanges to shield that taxable gain. We have been successful in doing that thus far. That being said, with the sizable disposition program that Ross outlined, we do want to, we thought it was important to showcase that if we are not able to shield those gains, it will trigger a special dividend. But our mission and our focus is obviously to do 1031 exchanges to shield those tax gains.

Operator

Operator

Thank you. Our next question comes from Michael Goldsmith from UBS. Your line is now open. Please go ahead.

Michael Goldsmith

Analyst

Good morning. Thanks for taking my question. My question is on capital allocation. You clearly have no shortage of options on how you choose to allocate capital with you repurchase shares, you are acquiring assets, you have the preferred lending book, you redevelopment, redevelopment. The same time you have identified a pipeline of funding sources such as ground leases and multifamily. So I guess how should we think about what are the most accretive opportunities, you know, where is the greatest upside or accretion? And then, I guess, why not accelerate some of these actions and take advantage of taking advantage of these things.

Conor C. Flynn

Analyst

Sure. It is a good question, Michael. So the final point of why not accelerate it. We are accelerating it year over year. I think Ross made that point that we are taking more to market this year than we did last year. A number of items restrict in terms of how big of a program we can take to market at any given time. The ground leases need to be separately parceled and make sure that they are on a separate tax parcel so we can sell them into the triple-net or 1031 exchange market to get the best pricing. The other piece of it is, I think when you look at where our capital allocation priorities are, we still start with leasing as number one. That is really obviously where you see the best returns. We are continuing to showcase that there is accelerating demand for our product. We are taking market share as we are reaching out and using our platform as well as our relationships to really take, I would say, the majority of deals that are being done in the open market and making sure that the retailer thinks of Kimco first as really the partner of choice when they look to roll out new store opening plans. Second to that, you know, we look at the redevelopment opportunity set that we have. You know, we did grow it year over year. So we are scaling it. We continue to see that those return on cost blend to double digits. And we continue to think that is a great use of capital because, typically, not only are you getting a double-digit return on that redevelopment, but you are getting also a halo effect on the rest of the shopping center because, in essence, you are…

Ross Cooper

Analyst

Yeah. I think that was a great overview. I would just quickly add, I mean, there is a bit of a push and pull to every component of the capital allocation strategy. So we really do look at, you know, our investment strategy somewhat holistically as a blend. And we feel really good about the guide and the baseline that we put out to start the year in terms of blending together the amount of acquisitions, dispositions, redevelopment, structured. And so at its core, at the end of the day, when we blend it together, we feel good about the accretion that we can obtain. Again, we are thinking about multiple different objectives through every one of these strategies: enhancing growth, both same-site and FFO, enhancing our grocery component of exposure, looking at the impact on watch list tenancy. So we are taking into consideration all of these factors, in addition to, of course, the tax considerations, which Conor identified earlier.

Conor C. Flynn

Analyst

And the final piece is obviously the share buyback.

Ross Cooper

Analyst

Opportunity. I think we have showcased in 2025 that we can make it a meaningful piece of our capital allocation strategy

Conor C. Flynn

Analyst

and use it opportunistically. And when Kimco Realty Corporation is selling at values that we think are extraordinarily compelling, we have the balance sheet, the free cash flow, the

Ross Cooper

Analyst

that could take advantage of that. We continue to focus and think 2026 is going to be a year where we will continue to focus on that opportunity.

Operator

Operator

Thank you. Our next question comes from Cooper R. Clark from Wells Fargo.

Ross Cooper

Analyst

Great. Thanks for taking the question. On the acquisitions guidance, I know you mentioned earlier about opportunities coming from your JV and structured investments. But historically, you have also had success buying larger portfolios and integrating them into your platform. Just curious how the opportunity set looks like today in terms of larger portfolio deals rather than one-off transactions. And any considerations we should be thinking about with respect to pricing between portfolio sales and one-off deals? Sure. And that is always going to be part of our acquisition strategy. As we indicated earlier, it is a bit challenging given where our cost of capital is compared to the private markets. And with financing readily available at pretty attractive rates, it has brought in a whole host of private investors and competition. That being said, we do believe that we have thrived on some larger M&A and portfolio acquisitions in the past, and that will always be part of the playbook and the consideration. For the moment, we feel really good about, as I mentioned, some of the foot in the door that we have within the structured program and within the joint venture program. Actually, when you look at 2025, all of our acquisitions for the year were made within investments where we already had a piece and/or a right of first offer or right of first refusal. So we will continue to lean into that while we keep the door open for other larger transactions should the opportunity arise.

Conor C. Flynn

Analyst

Thank you.

Operator

Operator

Our next question comes from Ronald Kamdem from Morgan Stanley. Your line is now open. Please go ahead. Hi, this is Caroline on for Ron. Thanks for taking the question. I was wondering if you could speak a little bit on what you are seeing in terms of tenant health so far and just how it is trending. And are there any names that we need to look out for or categories that are doing better or worse than last year?

Ross Cooper

Analyst

Yeah. Thanks for the question. So as I mentioned in my prepared remarks, sorry, the credit quality, I think, of our portfolio today is better than it has been in a number of years, especially coming out of COVID. A few notable

Conor C. Flynn

Analyst

retailers that were on the watch list previously, one of which is now off, say, is Michaels, where they have really been opportunistic in trying to restructure their capital stack. They had a

Ross Cooper

Analyst

great year last year, in terms of repositioning their value proposition, their customer base, leveraging their brick-and-mortar fleet to really drive sales. So we continue to see that as an

Conor C. Flynn

Analyst

encouraging move forward. 24 Hour Fitness obviously has their CEO from the past now come in, wanting to retake the reins and reposition that portfolio. Although our exposure is low to them, it is another good indication that

Ross Cooper

Analyst

retailers are really taking bold and important steps

Conor C. Flynn

Analyst

to reposition

Ross Cooper

Analyst

their value proposition to ensure that they are offering the customer what is in demand today. When you look at our the tenant strength of our existing fleet, I sort of look at

Conor C. Flynn

Analyst

2026 and how much we have already resolved that I mentioned in my prepared remarks, and to get another indication when you have, you know, 47 anchor leases that are coming due with no options, and we have resolved

Ross Cooper

Analyst

98% of them. Again, it is an indication either through renewals, new lease opportunities, that the demand is high, and people are continuing to see opportunities within our

Conor C. Flynn

Analyst

sector and, more specifically, within our portfolio, which, again, is also reflective of the retention levels that we are already seeing in 2026.

Ross Cooper

Analyst

So we have not seen anything

Conor C. Flynn

Analyst

concerning. We continue to see consumer growth being strong on the discretionary side within our sector. Within our shopping centers, retailers are really looking at

Ross Cooper

Analyst

2027 now, even into 2028, to ensure that they are continuing their momentum to hit their open-to-buy mandates and make sure that they continue to grab the market share when it becomes available.

Operator

Operator

Thank you. Our next question comes from Greg Michael McGinniss from Scotiabank.

Michael Goldsmith

Analyst

Hey. Good morning. Glenn, could you just help

Conor C. Flynn

Analyst

us better understand the underlying components of the same-store NOI guidance of around 3%? Especially considering the significant sign on occupied pipeline and comping versus, you know, last year’s bankruptcies.

Michael Goldsmith

Analyst

Sure. You know, again,

Ross Cooper

Analyst

we put out 2.5% to 3.5% as the range. We know, as I mentioned in my prepared remarks, that the beginning, the first quarter, is going to be the most challenging in terms of where we are based on the comp and us lapping the bankrupt tenants. But overall, we see the SNO pipeline coming online the way David Jamieson talked about, and we feel comfortable that, you know, the range is the right level, and it tied into the, you know, the entire guidance to get us to the $1.80, $1.84. But as a major

Michael Goldsmith

Analyst

component of it.

Operator

Operator

Our next question comes from Juan Carlos Sanabria from BMO Capital. Your line is now open. Please go ahead.

Michael Goldsmith

Analyst

Hi. Good morning. Hoping you could talk a little bit about the realignment to a national leadership on terms of the asset management and kind of what drove that? What changes day to day in terms of leasing decisions and streamlining of those procedures? Kind of the savings as well. Seems like the G&A is coming down a bit.

Ross Cooper

Analyst

Sure, Juan. Yeah. Thanks for the question. It was a, as you may know, Kimco Realty Corporation for decades had operated as a regional structure where we had multiple regions overseen by regional presidents. And it served the company very well for decades. And when we look forward in terms of what we are looking to in terms of our efficiency of scale, wanting to move quickly, wanting to adapt and evolve as the market and the environment continues to change very quickly as well, we came to appreciate that if we streamlined our operating model, so replaced the regional structure with two functional teams, one for national leasing and one for asset management,

Conor C. Flynn

Analyst

that will ensure alignment and consistency across our platform

Ross Cooper

Analyst

end to end, coast to coast, and that will enable us to accelerate all the workflows that we have in process, to ensure that we are fully taking advantage of our scale

Conor C. Flynn

Analyst

and be able to grow with that as the market environment comes as well as

Ross Cooper

Analyst

able to better utilize all the technology and the investing that we are doing on that side, both from a new investment as well as just streamlining our business

Michael Goldsmith

Analyst

workflows.

Conor C. Flynn

Analyst

And so we felt it was prudent that we took that step now. We started to test it when you really take a look back in the last year, as I was mentioning these package deals.

Ross Cooper

Analyst

That was a good example of how we started to consolidate our efforts, streamline it, and have one accountable party go and execute. We could do this much, much quicker. The fact that we got Ross’s deals done in 30 days from approved REC to lease execution was phenomenal, and that was really

Conor C. Flynn

Analyst

a direct reflection of streamlining that process. On the asset management side, it is ensuring consistency and continuity across the portfolio. Tom Simmons, previously running the

Ross Cooper

Analyst

Southern Region as President, has a depth of experience in mixed-use activity, repositionings, redevelopments, is a great strategist. And so we will be able to expand that expertise across the entire country,

Conor C. Flynn

Analyst

with consistency. So we felt it was prudent at this time to take that step forward. And then as it relates to savings,

Ross Cooper

Analyst

we are early days on the restructuring strategy. We have obviously made the, and we intend similar to what we have done with the Weingarten integration and the RPT integration. We view this very much as a similar effort, and that we will be very thoughtful in terms of using the first several months to go through the restructuring,

Conor C. Flynn

Analyst

rebuild the team, identify and introduce new operating roles. With a full rollout towards the ’3. Within that exercise, we will start to identify more of the savings that will come through the organization.

Will Teichman

Analyst

And just to add to that, this is Will Teichman. Just to add a bit more about

Ross Cooper

Analyst

how we are approaching this project as a whole. Conor mentioned on our last earnings call that we have formed an Office of Innovation and Transformation to guide a lot of these operational improvement efforts for the company, and in conjunction with this operational restructuring, our Office of Innovation and Transformation is helping David and his team to quarterback and coordinate this overall planning

Conor C. Flynn

Analyst

process. In addition to that, in the past quarter since launching the new office, we have really been focusing in on

Ross Cooper

Analyst

a number of digital transformation efforts that we believe will help us to unlock additional efficiencies within the business.

Conor C. Flynn

Analyst

I want to just quickly touch on three of those. The first is around automation,

Ross Cooper

Analyst

where we are bringing together many of our early pilots around robotic process automation and agentic AI under a single governance structure that will allow us to more rapidly build the

Conor C. Flynn

Analyst

deploy, and drive adoption of these tools. The second is a proprietary data visualization tool that we have constructed

Ross Cooper

Analyst

and launched last quarter. It is allowing us to gain better visibility into market- and property-specific insights through some interactive maps and site plans and other tools that we have created. And then finally, we completed work on an internal natural language chatbot which pairs our property and lease data with the power of OpenAI’s latest GPT models and puts that into the hands of our associates. I think we are really excited overall about how things are coming together and about the opportunity to leverage a lot of these digital transformation efforts together with organizational changes to drive further efficiencies in the business.

Operator

Operator

Our next question comes from Craig Mailman from Citi.

Michael Goldsmith

Analyst

Hey, good morning. Maybe just circle back on capital recycling here a bit. I know you guys mentioned 100 basis points of redeployment accretion here, but I am just kind of curious, that seems to be on a nominal basis. As you guys look on sort of an economic cap rate basis, which more directly impacts AFFO, like selling ground leases with zero CapEx to redeploy into high-quality shopping centers. Like, what ends up being the AFFO contribution relative to that 100 basis points as kind of the CapEx differential plays into it.

Ross Cooper

Analyst

Yeah. It is a good question. You know, the way that we think about it is on a number of levels. You know, as mentioned, first of all, it is the going-in spread on the cap rate that is sort of your day one. More importantly, when we are looking at the CAGR of that, you know, plus or minus 200 basis point spread, that does factor in sort of the net effective rent impact of the new deals that we are signing at elevated rents, as well as the cost of, or the capital that is being incurred, both on the CapEx and the leasing side. So we are looking at it both from an FFO and AFFO standpoint, understanding that some of the investments that we make on multitenant shopping centers compared to flat ground leases are going to have additional capital needs. But the rent increases and what we are able to achieve from a growth standpoint and a leasing spread standpoint far outweighs that. So the AFFO should continue to be positive and growing, in addition to the FFO level on its surface.

Operator

Operator

Thank you. Our next question comes from Samir Upadhyay Khanal from Bank of America. Please go ahead.

Conor C. Flynn

Analyst

Glenn, just

Michael Goldsmith

Analyst

sticking to guidance maybe a little bit here.

Conor C. Flynn

Analyst

The term fees, at the midpoint,

Michael Goldsmith

Analyst

maybe expand on that. I know you had

Conor C. Flynn

Analyst

you are kind of assuming $11,000,000 for the year. I have gotten some questions this morning and kind of how much of this is sort of speculative versus known at this point? Anything you can talk around, that would be great. Thanks.

Michael Goldsmith

Analyst

Sure. You know, look. Lease terminations are just a part of the business generally.

Ross Cooper

Analyst

If you look at what we did last year, we had about $10,000,000 in total. Again, they are episodic. It depends on which leases you get back and what you are working on. I would say today, we have visibility into about $5,000,000 to $7,000,000 of it. But, again, it is early in the year, and, you know, it is fluid. So we baked into the full guidance range, again, the $7,000,000 to $15,000,000 range. To your point, at the midpoint, you are around $11,000,000. It is around the same level as we had last year. So it is not a driver of growth, but it is another component of just operating the business day to day.

Operator

Operator

Thank you. Our next question comes from Haendel St. Juste from Mizuho. Please go ahead.

Conor C. Flynn

Analyst

Hi. Good morning. This is Ravi Vedi on the line for Haendel. I hope you guys are doing well. I wanted to ask about the ground lease portfolio. How large is this segment within the overall portfolio? And what is the appetite, cadence, and forecast for dispositions within this category going forward?

Ross Cooper

Analyst

Thank you. Yeah. So we are still right around 9% of our ABR that comes from these long-term flat ground leases. So last year, we were able to dispose just over $100,000,000, which was in line with our expectations for last year. We do intend to accelerate that pace for this year. So part of that $300,000,000 to $500,000,000 that we have outlined is, a big component of that is going to be the ground leases. We will continue to be very opportunistic about where and when we sell those assets. We are off to a good start so far this year. We have seen a really increased demand from private investors for this, in addition to the retailers themselves, I think, have gotten more active and aggressive in buying back some of their own real estate. We have a high level of conviction in our ability to hit the targets from a cap rate perspective. And that will be somewhat ratable over the course of the year. But we very much believe that we will see a number of dispositions that is substantially higher than what we achieved in ’25. I think the nice part about the program is that it is

Conor C. Flynn

Analyst

recurring, and we are able to backfill that pipeline going forward because

Ross Cooper

Analyst

when you think about

Conor C. Flynn

Analyst

the 9% that Ross outlined, we are actually still doing deals with Walmart, with Home Depot, with Lowe’s, with Target, across the portfolio, in similar structures where we set it up as a long-term ground lease, are separately parceling off that off. So in essence, the shopping center has many different components to it. Some are growthier pieces than others. And this is a component that we see in the market today as being one that is priced very aggressively but does not really drive

Ross Cooper

Analyst

any enhancement to our same-site NOI.

Conor C. Flynn

Analyst

And if we recycle it correctly, we think it can enhance FFO as well as same-store NOI. So it is a nice recurring program. We have got our development team working on separately parceling all of them out.

Ross Cooper

Analyst

We have the whole pipeline of opportunities.

Conor C. Flynn

Analyst

And as I mentioned earlier, the cadence is really of when they are ripe for disposition, meaning, like, we have built the right tenor in terms of length, the lease term, as well as separately parceled so that it hits the sweet spot of where the investors are looking for

Ross Cooper

Analyst

that credit investment.

Operator

Operator

Thank you. Our next question comes from Floris van Dijkum from Ladenburg.

Conor C. Flynn

Analyst

Appreciate the color on your capital recycling from your ground rent. Let me ask you a question sort of following up on that. I think you have 3,700 apartment units that are entitled or, you know, essentially, you know, shovel-ready almost. What is your appetite in pursuing those yourself versus monetizing them, selling them completely versus

Ross Cooper

Analyst

JVing? How do you, how should we think about how those

Conor C. Flynn

Analyst

those units will get built and whose capital will be used for that.

Ross Cooper

Analyst

Yes. It is a great question, Floris, and it is another important component of the overall opportunity set. As you pointed out, we have a number of open operating and stabilized multifamily projects. We continue to have a tremendous amount of entitlement opportunity and additional land for development in the future. So with the continued sort of disparity between our public market pricing and where the private market is still valuing these really strong multifamily projects, it is another opportunity for us to consider crystallizing value, monetizing, and recycling. So within those different components, we are evaluating our existing fleet of multifamily as well as some of the future. We look at each and every opportunity on sort of a one-off basis and then identify what is the best way to monetize and/or activate that project. So even as we are considering monetization of some of the existing and future projects via the entitlements, we are also continuing to activate new projects that will be the future opportunity to continue to recycle, and so on and so forth. So we are getting closer later this year to stabilizing our Coulter Avenue, which is our Suburban Square asset. We will consider at that point in time what the best strategy is for monetization and recycling of

Michael Goldsmith

Analyst

capital.

Ross Cooper

Analyst

At the same time, we have recently broken ground up in Daly City in Westlake in California, which is sort of bringing one project online, stabilizing it, and then looking at the next. We have been, I think, very selective in how we activate these projects, some of which will continue to be long-term ground leases that are the most CapEx-light way for us to activate, as well as the joint venture structure where we have contributed our land into a joint venture with a multifamily developer where our land contribution sits in sort of a preferred equity component of the capital stack. So we are extremely focused on recycling capital, crystallizing value, and then when we are activating new projects, how do we do it in the most efficient way, whether it be the CapEx-light ground leases or in our contribution into a joint venture where we are able to generate FFO during the development stage and then figure and determine the exit strategy upon completion.

Conor C. Flynn

Analyst

Yeah. Floris, the only thing I would add is this is a big differentiator between

Ross Cooper

Analyst

Kimco Realty Corporation and our peers.

Conor C. Flynn

Analyst

Our focus on our strategy of First Ring Suburbs we believe is sort of the unique retail plus opportunity set that Kimco Realty Corporation brings that others do not. We entitled over 650 units just this past quarter. We have activated, as you have said, a number of projects, but the retail plus the apartments we think is really the opportunity set that differentiates Kimco Realty Corporation. Because in a way, we have a number of different ways to unlock that embedded value. And, again, that first ring suburb strategy is where we think that opportunity set is robust to unlock future value from the asset because in essence, like, the retail is underutilizing the FAR of the asset, and the parking lots that we have today, you know, driverless cars are being utilized across the country. Parking ratio requirements are coming down across the country. We believe that this strategy of unlocking value for our shareholders is really in the early innings because of the opportunity set that we see across the entire portfolio that, again, sits in these first ring suburbs where density continues to go up around us and the Kimco Realty Corporation asset, in a lot of ways, is the hole in the donut where everything has gone vertical around us and gives us the opportunity set to really add debt in the future.

Operator

Operator

Our next question comes from Michael Anderson Griffin from ISI.

Michael Anderson Griffin

Analyst

Great. Thanks.

Ross Cooper

Analyst

David, I want to go back to your comments just on leasing and particularly as it relates to leased occupancy. I think you might have mentioned that you are optimistic to get that number up year over year at the end

Conor C. Flynn

Analyst

’26 relative to ’25. But maybe can you give us a sense, are we almost reaching sort of structural vacancy within the portfolio at

Ross Cooper

Analyst

the mid-96% range? Like, could this really get into 97%, 97.5%? And I imagine that would be driven more by the small shop leasing. Do you think we could be in a world where small shop occupancy gets to 94%, 95%? Then as you kind of think about that SNO delta over the longer term, what is a good spread for that that we should think about? Yeah. Thanks for the question. So I will never say never. Obviously, the goal would love to get to 94%, 95% on the small shop side. But I tend to look at,

Conor C. Flynn

Analyst

you know, the history to try to forecast the future a little bit. So when I

Ross Cooper

Analyst

look at the overall occupancy at 96.4%,

Conor C. Flynn

Analyst

obviously, comprised of anchors and small shops. As you know, small shops were at a record high at 92.7%.

Ross Cooper

Analyst

And on anchors, though, we are just about 110 basis points off our all-time high, which actually happened in, I believe, Q4 2019, pre-COVID. And so when you think about that extra 110 basis points that is still left

Conor C. Flynn

Analyst

to be occupied, there is still room to run

Ross Cooper

Analyst

in terms of total occupancy, which is a great contributor. And tying that to SNO, that in itself could represent another, you know, $12,000,000 to $15,000,000 of value that could be contributed to SNO over time. When I think of the small shops, we continue to see momentum not only through just straight organic leasing activity, but as you have seen, we have expanded our repositioning, redevelopment activity significantly over the last couple of years. And as Conor mentioned, halo effect, you will start to see that benefit as we have already seen in terms of occupying the residual small shop space and driving rent increases for those locations. And so that is a big contributor. And as these anchor space and these repositionings start to come online, we will continue to see that forward momentum, which I think could help propel small shop occupancy. In addition to that, you know, we look at the retailer strategies, and they do vary in terms of expanding or contracting square footage. And there are a number of opportunities where we can actually expand into a small shop space and give that retailer the optimized footprint, so building them a better mousetrap within the market and just staying within our center. So that could be an opportunity as well. And then when you look at the repositioning of what we view as sort of our chronic vacancies, so we put an initiative in place just over a year ago of spaces that had not been leased in over three years. And just that renewed focus of really targeting those areas

Michael Anderson Griffin

Analyst

looking at

Conor C. Flynn

Analyst

opportunities to start repositioning those individual units have yielded great outcomes, and that has helped drive small shop activity. So I think when you roll it all together, there is definitely room to run there, and that will continue to be a

Ross Cooper

Analyst

contributor to the SNO in the near term and then occupancy growth over time. When we look at our normalized SNO levels way back when, it is around 180 basis points of spread in the SNO. So

Conor C. Flynn

Analyst

as we mentioned in our prepared remarks, you could see a further expansion, primarily because you are growing the physical occupancy as economic occupancy

Ross Cooper

Analyst

continues to come online through the balance of the year. If we continue to grow physical occupancy at the top side, you will see some SNO expansion, continued contribution of cash flow

Conor C. Flynn

Analyst

potential for the future,

Michael Anderson Griffin

Analyst

but as

Ross Cooper

Analyst

those spaces start to come online, you will start to see that compression through ’27. But that bodes well for our cash flow growth, ’27 into ’28.

Operator

Operator

Thank you. Our next question comes from Richard Allen Hightower from Barclays. Your line is now open. Please go ahead.

Conor C. Flynn

Analyst

Obviously, covered a lot of ground

Michael Goldsmith

Analyst

so far, but I want to go back to maybe some action you are seeing in the private market. And I guess on some other calls, even not necessarily in retail, you know, we are hearing that new buyers are sort of coming to the market in various property types, maybe in reaction to the new tax laws and accelerated depreciation and some elements like that. So maybe dig into, if you do not mind, dig into some of the motivations you are seeing behind some of that activity, especially as cap rates, you know, potentially continue to compress from here? Just give us a sense of what that looks like.

Ross Cooper

Analyst

Yeah. No. It is absolutely a very compelling time to be an investor in open-air retail. I think you have heard from us and from other peers the group, the fundamentals that are approaching all-time highs in multiple different metrics. Investors, generalist investors, real estate, are taking notice. And even with cap rates continuing to compress, the financing has gotten much improved in terms of available liquidity and spreads. And so you can still see in many instances situations where there is positive leverage, which is a bit of a differentiator for retail versus some other asset classes. So we really have gone supercharged from what we were talking about 12 months ago in the retail curious to investors that are retail active. And while that makes it more competitive in the open market when we are trying to acquire assets and bidding tents are getting, you know, more and more full, it is a very healthy indication of the interest level and the fundamentals that we see in our business. And with the supply-demand dynamics not realistically going to change anytime in the near to medium term, we think that this is going to continue to be compelling for investors to put capital to work while the fundamentals are going to continue to be extremely strong for the foreseeable future.

Conor C. Flynn

Analyst

Great. Thank you.

Operator

Operator

Thank you. Our next question comes from Caitlin Burrows from Goldman Sachs. Your line is now open. Hi, everyone. Maybe a quick question on the structured investments. I see the guidance is a net number. Can you give some more details on what visibility you have to existing investments being repaid in ’26? And then your confidence in being able to backfill those?

Ross Cooper

Analyst

Sure. As you saw in 2025, you know, we did a number of new deals. But we did have several very large repayments. You know, in particular, we had our largest individual relationship and our largest individual asset that achieved its business plan. Everything was successfully repaid, so it was a positive outcome for everybody involved. As we look into 2026, we do not anticipate any significant or meaningful sort of single repayments. There will always be some churn within this program. But what we have seen thus far, with closing a couple deals that we funded here in the early stages of January and a pipeline that has some additional assets and investments that are already lined up, we are very confident in our ability to go back to growth for this book in 2026 and beyond. So there will be a little bit of repayment activity throughout 2026, but on the net, as we put in our guide, we are highly confident that we will see some growth here.

Operator

Operator

Thank you. Our next question comes from Wesley Golladay from Baird. I just want to go back to the 47 anchors that have the

Conor C. Flynn

Analyst

the large mark to market. Those are some nice spreads, but are you looking to replace any of those tenants, bring in a better tenant that drives more traffic? And does, do any of these unlock any redevelopments?

Ross Cooper

Analyst

Yeah. That is a great question. So when I do say it in terms of resolve, that is either continuing to renew the tenant in place or reposition the box itself for either redevelopment or a higher-quality credit tenant. So in one example, we are replacing one of the boxes with Sprouts in South Miami and repositioning the entirety of the asset. So that is a redevelopment that is underway. That is going to create significant upside for the remainder of

Conor C. Flynn

Analyst

small shop activity and completely transform the site, which we are extremely excited about.

Ross Cooper

Analyst

And then in terms of a repositioning, we took what was a watch list tenant at natural expiration and backfilled that with Total Wine, which is

Conor C. Flynn

Analyst

another great example, which there is huge mark-to-market opportunity there. And repositioning more complementary to what the remainder of that asset was really showcasing in terms of its direction. So we look at all of the

Ross Cooper

Analyst

available options, and then make sure that we are making the best, obviously, economic deal, one, but two, choosing the best quality credit that will have the greatest impact long term for the asset.

Conor C. Flynn

Analyst

In several of these cases, it is really transitioning, transforming the asset from what it was to what it could be going forward.

Operator

Operator

Our next question comes from Michael William Mueller from JPMorgan. Please go ahead.

Conor C. Flynn

Analyst

Yes. Hi. Just a quick one. You are guiding to higher acquisition and disposition volumes. And while I get it that they are net neutral,

Michael Goldsmith

Analyst

each of the components is higher than what you have guided to recently.

Conor C. Flynn

Analyst

Is this more of a function of the specific near-term pipelines you are seeing today? Or is it just kind of a

Michael Goldsmith

Analyst

broader confidence that the transaction markets have opened up more? Yes. It is really an

Ross Cooper

Analyst

strategy of accretive capital recycling that we are undertaking, acknowledging that we have some components within the portfolio that are very valuable and attractive to the private markets that we are not necessarily getting credit for in our public market valuation. On top of that, you know, pun intended, what we are selling are truly anchors to the growth profile of the organization and of our portfolio. So when you think about the impact of selling off some of these long-term ground leases in the 5% cap rate range that have a CAGR of sub 1% and being able to recycle that into acquisitions that are higher year one, but also compounding at a significantly higher growth rate of, on average, 200 basis points, this is an inactive strategy that we are employing to generate additional growth and to improve the portfolio and the long-term perspective of the growth opportunity within the organization. So the market is clearly open and conducive to it. We are fortunate that we have a lot of opportunity to recycle that capital from even within the portfolio, as we mentioned from within our joint venture program, where there is going to be some recycling opportunities, as well as our structured program where we have proven the ability to exercise on these rights that we have to acquire. We closed on two of those opportunities in 2025 and are hopeful that there will be more in 2026. So we just think that the landscape really shapes up really well for the strategy that we have outlined, and that is just our baseline. And, hopefully, we can even outperform that, and anything that we do will just be incremental to that.

Operator

Operator

Our next question comes from Linda Tsai from Jefferies. In terms of driving further efficiencies in the business with digital transformation,

Sydney McEntee

Analyst · digital transformation,

do you expect the immediate beneficial impact to flow through soonest? Would it be in boosting the top line, reducing operating expenses, or G&A?

Will Teichman

Analyst · digital transformation,

Thanks for the question. I think

Ross Cooper

Analyst · digital transformation,

really, on the expense side is where we are seeing impacts initially. And I think that is consistent as you look outside the real estate industry as well with what you are seeing in other large corporates. There was a study that was published by MIT last year about the relative lack of success that many large companies are having in deploying AI, and one of the big takeaways from that was the degree to which companies are overly prioritizing top line opportunities over back-office and expense reduction opportunities. So it is not to say that there are not opportunities in both areas.

Sydney McEntee

Analyst · digital transformation,

But

Ross Cooper

Analyst · digital transformation,

as we look at our strategy and where we have already been able to take costs out of the business, I would say it has largely been around G&A to start with.

Conor C. Flynn

Analyst · digital transformation,

To drill down on that just a little bit further, I think

Ross Cooper

Analyst · digital transformation,

obviously, there is a lot of conversation around

Sydney McEntee

Analyst · digital transformation,

the cost of human capital.

Ross Cooper

Analyst · digital transformation,

But I think it cannot be underestimated that there are other G&A efficiencies to be taken out of the operation. So as you think about our announcement to form, for example, our Office of Innovation and Transformation, one of the areas that that team is already having a significant impact out of the gate is in reducing our need for professional services vendors, to bring those vendors in to perform software and other kind of organizational transformation work. We are also having quite a bit of success around vendor consolidation, which is part of the playbook that we have developed through our M&A transactions over the past couple of years. So those are just a couple examples of what we are seeing. We are optimistic about some of the early efforts that we are seeing around automation and agentic AI. And I think one of the things that I would just say about Kimco Realty Corporation’s approach and how it differentiates us from other companies

Conor C. Flynn

Analyst · digital transformation,

is that many other companies seem today to be stuck in the pilot phase,

Ross Cooper

Analyst · digital transformation,

buying off-the-shelf products and testing one-off use cases within individual functional areas. Our approach is different in that we are really building an engine to integrate technology and talent across the enterprise.

Operator

Operator

Thank you. We currently have no further questions, and I would like to hand back to David F. Bujnicki for any closing remarks.

David F. Bujnicki

Management

Thanks so much. We are really excited about our opportunities set for 2026. Continue building the momentum from 2025. Thanks, everybody, who joined the call today. If you have any follow-up questions, please contact us. Thank you so much.

Operator

Operator

Thank you. This now concludes today’s call. Thank you all for joining. You may now disconnect your lines.