Does BRT Apartments Generate Enough Profit?

By Scott Lee • Tuesday, December 06 12:07 • Permanent Link

Does small-cap Residential Real Estate Investment Trust company BRT Apartments have a sustainably profitable business model? By studying its gross margins and comparing them to its operating margins, we can gain insight into quality of its business. With gross margins at 56.2%, you might be telling yourself the BRT Apartments is profitable -- but there is more to the story.

Date Reported	Revenue ($)	Cost of Revenue ($)	Gross Margins (%)	YoY Growth (%)
2021-12-31	32,449,000.0	14,202,000.0	56.23	27.97
2020-12-31	22,078,000.0	12,377,000.0	43.94	26.01
2019-12-31	18,935,000.0	12,332,000.0	34.87	-16.36
2018-12-31	18,341,000.0	10,695,000.0	41.69	n/a

Date Reported	Total Revenue ($)	Operating Expenses ($)	Operating Margins (%)	YoY Growth (%)
2021-12-31	32,449,000.0	34,848,000.0	-7.39	81.34
2020-12-31	22,078,000.0	30,820,000.0	-39.6	20.26
2019-12-31	18,935,000.0	28,339,000.0	-49.66	-36.69
2018-12-31	18,341,000.0	25,005,000.0	-36.33	n/a

Despite its strong top line growth, BRT Apartments is struggling to break even because of its fixed costs of operations. One bright spot, however, is that operating margins are growing at an average yearly rate of 21.6%.

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