Realty Income’s second-quarter investment mix shifted heavily toward industrial properties, with industrial assets accounting for 65% of the cash income generated by new Q2 investments compared with 34% from retail properties.
The remaining 1% came from other property types, highlighting a notable shift in deployment for a company historically best known for its large portfolio of single-tenant retail properties.
For the full first half of 2026, the mix was more balanced, with retail representing 50.3% of cash income from new investments and industrial representing 47.8%. Other property types accounted for 1.9%.
Realty Income invested approximately $2.57 billion during Q2, or $2.07 billion at its pro-rata share, across 144 investments. The initial weighted average cash yield was 7.3%. First-half investment volume reached approximately $5.34 billion.
The diversification is occurring alongside Realty Income’s move into larger alternative real estate opportunities. Management highlighted a recently announced $6 billion hyperscale data center joint venture as a new growth channel alongside continued expansion of the Realty Income Investment Management platform.
Q2 AFFO per share increased 3.8% to $1.09. Realty Income also achieved a 102.7% rent recapture rate on re-leased properties and ended the quarter with net debt to annualized pro forma Adjusted EBITDAre of 5.4x.
Following the quarter, Realty Income raised its 2026 AFFO guidance to $4.44 to $4.45 per share and increased its expected full-year investment volume to $10 billion from $9.5 billion.
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“As demonstrated by our recently announced $6 billion hyperscale data center joint venture and the continued expansion of our Realty Income Investment Management platform, we are leveraging our scale, relationships, and track record to access new sources of growth while maintaining the same disciplined underwriting standards that have defined Realty Income for decades.”
“Supported by the resilience of our core portfolio and contributions from these complementary growth channels, we delivered another quarter of solid AFFO per share growth and invested approximately $2.6 billion, or $2.1 billion at our share, during the quarter.”
Sumit Roy, CEO of Realty Income