Company Description
Kimco Realty Corp. (NYSE: KIM) is a real estate investment trust (REIT) that focuses on owning and operating high-quality, open-air, grocery-anchored shopping centers and mixed-use properties in the United States. The company is included in the S&P 500 Index and has been publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange since 1991. According to company disclosures, Kimco Realty has specialized in shopping center ownership, management, acquisitions, and value-enhancing redevelopment activities for more than 65 years.
Kimco’s portfolio is strategically concentrated in the first-ring suburbs of top major metropolitan markets, including high-barrier-to-entry coastal markets and Sun Belt cities. Across multiple press releases, the company describes its tenant mix as focused on essential, necessity-based goods and services that are intended to drive multiple shopping trips per week. As of various reporting dates in 2025, Kimco reports owning interests in hundreds of U.S. shopping centers and mixed-use assets, representing roughly 100 million square feet of gross leasable space.
Business focus and property mix
Kimco Realty’s core business centers on open-air, grocery-anchored shopping centers and mixed-use properties. The company highlights grocery-anchored centers as a key component of its asset base and notes that these properties generate a significant share of its annual base rent. In its communications, Kimco emphasizes the role of necessity-based tenants and essential goods and services in supporting consistent traffic and retailer demand at its centers.
In addition to traditional retail space, Kimco is involved in mixed-use projects that can include non-retail real estate. For example, the company has discussed multi-family projects within its shopping center environments and a pipeline of active and near-term development and redevelopment projects. These activities are described as part of its long-standing focus on value-enhancing redevelopment.
Geographic concentration and market strategy
The company states that its portfolio is concentrated in the first-ring suburbs of top major metropolitan markets in the United States. Within that footprint, Kimco points to high-barrier-to-entry coastal markets and Sun Belt cities as important areas of focus. Examples from company communications include ownership and operation of properties such as Dania Pointe in South Florida and El Camino Promenade in Encinitas, California, which illustrate its presence in both coastal and Sun Belt regions.
Kimco’s strategy, as described in its press releases, includes redeploying capital from single-tenant or ground-leased properties with limited growth potential into grocery-anchored shopping centers and other properties that the company believes have higher growth prospects. The company has also referenced a Structured Investment Program through which it makes structured investments associated with shopping centers and related real estate ventures.
Capital markets activity and balance sheet profile
Kimco Realty regularly accesses the capital markets to support its growth and balance sheet objectives. In 2025, the company announced an “at the market” equity offering program that allows it to offer and sell shares of its common stock up to a specified aggregate amount through designated sales agents. The related Form 8-K filing explains that Kimco may also enter into forward sale agreements with multiple financial institutions, giving it flexibility in how and when it issues shares and receives proceeds.
On the same date, Kimco’s board of directors approved a new share repurchase program for up to a defined dollar amount of its common stock, replacing a prior repurchase program. The company notes that repurchases may occur in the open market, through privately negotiated transactions, or by other means, and that the program can be suspended or discontinued at management’s discretion.
Kimco has also reported issuing senior unsecured notes and repaying existing notes, as well as maintaining significant liquidity through cash, cash equivalents, restricted cash, and availability on an unsecured revolving credit facility. Rating agency announcements cited by the company describe upgrades to A-level credit ratings from major agencies, with reasons including a predominately grocery-anchored portfolio, strong operating performance, and what those agencies characterize as a prudent financial structure.
Operations, leasing, and redevelopment
Operationally, Kimco reports on metrics such as pro-rata leased occupancy, small shop occupancy, anchor occupancy, and same property net operating income (NOI). In 2025, the company highlighted record small shop occupancy levels and a spread between leased and economic occupancy that represents signed leases not yet commenced, which it translates into future annual base rent. Kimco also reports blended cash rent spreads on new and renewal leases, indicating the change in rent levels on comparable spaces.
Kimco’s development and redevelopment activities include mixed-use projects and multi-family components within shopping center sites. The company has discussed multi-family entitlements at certain centers and a development and redevelopment pipeline with significant projected spending. These projects are presented as part of the company’s approach to enhancing the value and long-term income potential of its existing real estate.
Examples of properties and tenants
Company and partner announcements provide specific examples of Kimco-owned or Kimco-operated properties. Dania Pointe in South Florida is described as a premier open-air destination with retail, entertainment, restaurants, hotels, apartments, and a corporate campus, and is identified as being owned and operated by Kimco Realty Corp. Another example is El Camino Promenade in Encinitas, California, described as a shopping center owned and operated by an affiliate of Kimco Realty. Tenant announcements at these centers, such as the opening of a Puttshack venue at Dania Pointe and a planned Nordstrom Rack at El Camino Promenade, illustrate the type of retailers and experiential concepts that locate in Kimco’s properties.
Corporate structure and regulatory status
Kimco Realty Corp. is organized as a Maryland corporation and operates through Kimco Realty OP, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company. The company’s common stock trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol KIM. In addition to common stock, Kimco has multiple series of preferred stock represented by depositary shares, which are also listed on the New York Stock Exchange under separate symbols, as disclosed in its Form 8-K filings.
Kimco uses its investor relations website, SEC filings, press releases, public conference calls, and webcasts to communicate material information to investors. The company also states that it uses social media channels, and that information posted there may be considered material. Its SEC filings include automatic shelf registration statements and related prospectus supplements covering offerings under its at-the-market program, dividend reinvestment and direct stock purchase plan, and potential share issuances related to DownREIT structures.
Corporate responsibility and recognition
Across multiple press releases, Kimco describes itself as having a proven commitment to corporate responsibility and notes that it is a recognized industry leader in this area. While specific programs are not detailed in the provided materials, this characterization appears consistently in the company’s “About Kimco Realty” section, alongside references to its long history in shopping center ownership, management, acquisitions, and redevelopment.
Position within the REIT sector
Kimco Realty identifies itself as a REIT with a portfolio concentrated in open-air, grocery-anchored shopping centers and mixed-use properties across major U.S. metropolitan areas. The company highlights inclusion in the S&P 500 Index and A-level credit ratings from major rating agencies as part of its profile. Its disclosures emphasize a focus on necessity-based tenants, grocery-anchored centers, and mixed-use redevelopment, along with active capital markets activity and structured investments related to shopping center real estate.