Valyte Ratings

Every REIT, rated 0 to 100.

One score that weighs what a REIT costs against how well it runs. Valuation counts for 55%, operating quality the other 45%, and the inputs come from audited filings and daily prices. Same math for every company, and we show all of it.

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Valyte Ratings are informational, data-driven scores based on quantitative analysis of company filings and market data. They are not investment advice or a recommendation to buy or sell any security, and should not be relied upon for investment decisions.

Valyte Ratings Sample data
Highest rated
1
A Residential Multifamily ▲ NAV discount
VAL 92
QUAL 81
87 Strong
2
K Industrial Industrial ▲ leverage
VAL 84
QUAL 78
81 Strong
3
E Storage Self-Storage
VAL 76
QUAL 74
75 Strong
Lowest rated
1
V Office Trust Office ▼ leverage
VAL 38
QUAL 11
26 Weak
2
B Retail Partners Retail ▼ NAV discount
VAL 24
QUAL 31
27 Weak
3
H Lodging Hospitality
VAL 41
QUAL 28
35 Weak
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How it's scored

One score, no black box.

Most ratings ask you to take their word for it. Every Valyte Rating breaks down into the factors, weights, and peer ranks behind it, so when you disagree with a score, you can see exactly where and why.

55% valuation, 45% quality

Cheap alone doesn’t cut it. Valuation makes up 55% of the score, operating quality the other 45%, and those weights hold for every REIT we rate.

Score = 55% valuation + 45% quality

Cheap has to mean cheap

Valuation looks at a REIT’s NAV discount two ways: how it ranks against its sector, and whether it’s cheap in absolute terms. So when a whole sector trades at a premium, nothing in it gets called cheap just for being the least expensive of the bunch.

Relative + absolute cheapness

The value-trap guardrail

Some REITs are cheap for a reason. When operating quality lands in the bottom fifth of its peers, we cap the score and flag it, so a big discount can never drag a struggling operator up to a Strong rating.

Bottom-fifth quality caps the score

Governance, scored from facts

Governance gets its own 0–100 scorecard built from what the filings actually say about management structure, takeover defenses, and board terms. If a fact isn’t known, it doesn’t count. We don’t guess.

Management · MUTA · board terms

Audited before it ever scores

Filings come in nightly, every extracted number cites the page it came from, and a human signs off before anything goes live. The rating runs on those audited numbers, the same ones you see everywhere else in the app.

Same pipeline as the screener

Two percentiles per factor

Every factor gets ranked two ways: against sector peers and against the whole REIT universe. An office REIT can look great next to other office REITs and still be middling overall. You see both.

94th in sector · 93rd overall
Methodology

How the score is built.

Every input starts as a line in an SEC filing. We pull new filings nightly, extract the numbers with a citation to the exact page they came from, and have a person sign off before anything goes live. The rating runs on the same audited values as the rest of the platform, so the NAV discount in a rating always matches the one in your screener.

From there, the score sizes up a REIT the way a good analyst would. Is it cheap against its sector, and cheap in absolute terms? Are operations earning that discount, or excusing it? Growth prospects count for something, but they can't paper over a rich price.

One thing a Valyte Rating is not: a price call. The research behind NAV-discount investing plays out over years, not quarters. A high score doesn't mean a stock is about to jump, and a low one doesn't mean it's about to fall.

Rating Breakdown
Sample
Valuation · 55% of score
NAV discount+12.6%
Rank vs sector82nd percentile
Valuation subscore84 / 100
Quality · 45% of score
Same-store NOI growth+4.1% · 76th
G&A burden0.9% · 71st
Leverage31.4% · 74th
Governance scorecard80 / 100
Quality subscore75 / 100
Composite · 55/45 blend 80 / 100
Valyte Rating Strong Discounted, strong operations
Illustrative sample · Informational only, not investment advice.
Honest by design

When the data is thin, we say so.

A score you can trust starts with us admitting what we don't know. So the caveats sit right on the rating as flags, not in a footnote.

Value-trap risk

Bottom-fifth operating quality caps the score and raises this flag. However deep the discount, a struggling operator can’t rate Strong.

Limited data

When too few quality metrics are available, we show the score but hold back the tier. Better no tier than a fake one.

Thin peer set

When a sector has only a handful of rated names, we rank against the full REIT universe instead. Three companies don’t make a peer group.

Unknowns score zero

A governance fact counts only once a filing states it. We never score a company on silence, and we never fill a gap with a guess.

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The Full Platform

Ratings is one piece of Valyte.

Behind the rating is a full REIT research platform: written briefings, screening, years of history, alerts, and an API. The score is where research starts, not where it ends.

Know where every REIT stands.

One score for every public REIT, built from audited filings, and we're honest about what we don't know.

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Valyte Ratings are informational, data-driven scores based on quantitative analysis of company filings and market data. They are not investment advice or a recommendation to buy or sell any security, and should not be relied upon for investment decisions.