No insider purchase over the last 90 days. The latest was filed 30 May 2025.
This page follows insider dealings at Whitestone REIT as filed with SEC (Form 4), a company from the Real Estate sector. Between 18 October 2025 and 18 October 2026, 10 insiders published 30 filings.
None of the filings is a plain purchase or sale on the open market; they cover grants, option exercises and other movements. Compensation-driven entries like these are tracked, but they say little about how insiders judge the share price.
No insider has bought Whitestone REIT shares on the open market in the past twelve months. Between a trade and the moment it shows up on SEC (Form 4), the median delay is 3 days. For comparison, the SEC allows two business days to file a Form 4.
For context, the typical company on the same exchange (median of 5,811 companies) published 19 filings over the same period, against 30 filings here. Our records for Whitestone REIT go back to 2016, with 11 purchases and no sales on the open market in total. For the fiscal year to 31 December 2025, the annual 10-K puts revenue at 160.9 m USD and net income at 49.9 m USD.
Elsewhere in the same sector, our signals recently picked up insider purchases at Agree Realty Corp and Simon Property Group Inc /DE/. These figures are compiled from regulatory filings published by SEC (Form 4). They describe what insiders did and are not a recommendation.
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Whitestone REIT (NYSE: WSR) is a U.S.-listed real estate investment trust focused on neighborhood-oriented retail real estate. Its portfolio is built around open-air shopping centers and community retail hubs that the company acquires, owns, operates, develops, and redevelops. For international investors, the key investment case is Whitestone’s emphasis on “neighborhood centers” in dense, high-income, fast-growing Sun Belt markets, where local consumer demand, population growth, and supply-constrained retail development can support occupancy and rent growth. Whitestone is a Maryland REIT with corporate headquarters in Houston, Texas, United States, and it maintains regional offices in Arizona and several major Texas markets including Dallas-Fort Worth, Austin, and San Antonio.
The company’s business model is not a broad mall platform but a focused retail-REIT strategy centered on curated tenant mix and active asset management. Whitestone seeks to build retail communities that serve a nearby trade area, generally described by the company as a roughly five-mile radius. Its tenant base is diversified across grocery, restaurants, health and wellness, beauty, financial services, education, entertainment, and other service-oriented categories. That mix is important because it reduces dependence on any single retail concept and tends to create more repeat local traffic than destination-style shopping assets.
From a competitive standpoint, Whitestone operates in a segment where location quality, tenant selection, rent spreads, and disciplined capital allocation matter more than headline square footage. Management has highlighted its concentration in Texas and Arizona as a structural advantage, citing strong leasing conditions in those markets. The company has also reported meaningful operating improvements: in the second quarter of 2025, occupancy rose to 93.9%, Core FFO per share increased year over year, and average base rent per leased square foot improved to $25.28. In 2024, Whitestone also completed targeted acquisitions such as Garden Oaks Shopping Center in the Houston MSA and Scottsdale Commons in the Phoenix MSA, supported by selective dispositions.
Recent corporate developments have been material. In September 2025, Whitestone expanded and extended its $750 million credit facility, which improved financing flexibility and balance-sheet runway. In December 2025, the board approved a shift in dividend timing from monthly to quarterly payments. The stock has also been in the market’s spotlight because of strategic interest and acquisition-related speculation during 2025, reinforcing that WSR remains a name investors may view through both an operating REIT lens and a potential corporate-action lens. Overall, Whitestone REIT is best understood as a U.S. neighborhood retail REIT on the NYSE, with a Sun Belt footprint, an active leasing platform, and a value-creation strategy driven by tenant curation, occupancy gains, and selective portfolio recycling.
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All recommendations| Fiscal year end | Revenue | Net income | Diluted EPS | Filing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 2025 | 160.9 m USD | 49.9 m USD | 0.95 USD | 10-K |
| Dec 2024 | 154.3 m USD | 36.9 m USD | 0.72 USD | 10-K |
| Dec 2023 | 147.0 m USD | 19.2 m USD | 0.38 USD | 10-K |
| Dec 2022 | 139.4 m USD | 35.3 m USD | 0.71 USD | 10-K |
| Dec 2021 | 125.4 m USD | 12.0 m USD | 0.26 USD | 10-K |
Amounts in USD, as filed (forms 10-K, 20-F or 40-F). Source: SEC EDGAR.