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SAUL CENTERS, INC.

Real EstateREITs
Ticker BFSBETHESDA, MDFiscal year ends DecemberBook value per share $12.13Diluted shares 24.4M

Saul Centers, Inc. (NYSE: BFS) operates as a real estate investment trust focused on the ownership, development, and management of retail and mixed-use properties, primarily in the Washington, DC and Baltimore metropolitan areas. The company's website is www.saulcenters.com. From the company’s description.

Fiscal year 2025 · ends 12-31Changes are against fiscal 2024The amber dot is the latest twelve months, to 2026-06-30
Sales & profitability
$289.84M
+7.8% year over year
Last 12 mo $302.20M
67.39%
−8.4 percentage points
Last 12 mo 67.02%
$49.22M
−27.3% year over year
Last 12 mo $45.78M
12.19%
−2.9 percentage points
Last 12 mo 11.78%
Cash & financing
$99.80M
−17.7% year over year
Last 12 mo $102.88M
$56.71M
−32.5% year over year
Last 12 mo $71.30M
5.20
Was 4.56× a year earlier
Last 12 mo 5.42
24.2M
+0.4% year over year
Last 12 mo 24.4M

Margins and return on equity change in ; everything else in percent. Fewer shares and less debt are shown plainly, not as bad news — it depends what you make of buybacks. Dotted labels explain each measure. is shown separately from the annual figures.

What SAUL CENTERS, INC. does

In the company’s own words

Saul Centers, Inc. (NYSE: BFS) operates as a real estate investment trust focused on the ownership, development, and management of retail and mixed-use properties, primarily in the Washington, DC and Baltimore metropolitan areas. The company's website is www.saulcenters.com.

The company's portfolio consists of 50 shopping center properties, nine mixed-use properties combining office, retail, and multifamily residential uses, and three development properties as of December 31, 2025. The shopping centers are predominantly anchored by grocery stores, with 34 properties featuring grocery anchors that serve as primary traffic drivers. The largest anchor tenant by revenue is Giant Food, accounting for 4.5% of total revenue. Over 85% of the company's property net operating income derives from the Washington, DC and Baltimore metropolitan area, reflecting its concentrated geographic strategy focused on transit-oriented development opportunities.

Saul Centers operates through its wholly-owned subsidiaries and limited partnerships, with an integrated property management structure comprising approximately 70 full-time equivalent corporate employees and 98 property-level employees. The company manages all properties internally rather than engaging third-party managers, maintaining direct control over leasing, design, renovation, development, and accounting functions.

The company's primary strategy emphasizes diversification through development of transit-oriented, residential mixed-use projects and expansion of grocery-anchored shopping centers. Current development projects include Twinbrook Quarter Phase I in Rockville, Maryland, featuring 452 apartment units and an 81,000 square foot Wegmans supermarket, and Hampden House in downtown Bethesda, Maryland, comprising 366 apartment units. The company maintains a pipeline of entitled sites for development of up to 2,500 apartment units and 850,000 square feet of retail and office space, all located near Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority Metro stations in Montgomery County, Maryland.

Saul Centers was formed in 1993 to continue the shopping center business previously conducted by affiliated entities controlled by the Saul Organization. The company maintains shared service arrangements with the Saul Organization for ancillary functions including information technology, payroll, human resources, and legal services, capturing economies of scale while maintaining operational independence in property management and leasing activities.

Company details
Sector
Real Estate
Industry
REITs
Headquarters
BETHESDA, MD
Fiscal year end
December
CIK
907254
SIC
6798

Financial performance, year by year

Fiscal 2013–2025 · USD
$-30.22M$60.44M$151.10M$241.76M$332.42M2013201420152016201720182019202020212022202320242025Last 12 moLast 12 monthsLast 12 months

The full income statement, balance sheet and cash flow for each of these years — every figure traceable to its filing — is on the Financials tab with a free account.

Ownership

Who owns SAUL CENTERS, INC. — and what changed

Funds as of 2026Q2 · superinvestors as of 2026-06-30

179
funds hold it
0 of 35
superinvestors hold it
$224.86M
held by funds, at market
25.0%
of shares held by funds

Largest fund holders · SAUL CENTERS, INC.’s weight in each

T. Rowe Price Small-Cap Value Fund, Inc.
PRSVX · T. ROWE PRICE SMALL-CAP VALUE FUND, INC.
0.29%of fund net assets
iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF
IJR · iShares Trust
0.03%of fund net assets
VANGUARD REAL ESTATE INDEX FUND
VNQ · VANGUARD SPECIALIZED FUNDS
0.02%of fund net assets
VANGUARD TOTAL STOCK MARKET INDEX FUND
VTI · VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS
0.00%of fund net assets
iShares Russell 2000 ETF
IWM · iShares Trust
0.02%of fund net assets

Fund ownership is a floor, not a census — pensions, insurers and people holding shares directly are not visible here.

Fund ownership counts N-PORT filers only, so it is a floor rather than a census — pensions, insurers and direct holders are not visible here, and the remainder is not “held by individuals”.

Could not be determined for this company: bond issues.

Every fund and institutional holder, quarter by quarter, is on the Ownership tab with a free account.

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