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CTO Realty Growth (NYSE:CTO) is a publicly traded real estate investment trust that owns and operates a portfolio of high-quality, retail-based properties located primarily in higher growth markets in the U.S.

It is set to report its Q1 2025 earnings on May 1. Wall Street analysts expect the company to post EPS of $0.48, down from $0.52 in the prior-year period. According to Benzinga Pro, quarterly revenue is expected to reach $34.91 million, up from $28.13 million a year earlier.

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If You Bought CTO Realty Growth Stock 10 Years Ago

The company's stock traded at approximately $15.38 per share 10 years ago. If you had invested $10,000, you could have bought roughly 650 shares. Currently, shares trade at $17.99, meaning your investment's value could have grown to $11,697 from stock price appreciation alone. However, CTO Realty Growth also paid dividends during these 10 years.

CTO Realty Growth's dividend yield is currently 8.45%. Over the last 10 years, it has paid about $11.24 in dividends per share, which means you could have made $7,308 from dividends alone.

Summing up $11,697 and $7,308, we end up with the final value of your investment, which is $19,005. This is how much you could have made if you had invested $10,000 in CTO Realty Growth stock 10 years ago. This means a total return of 90.05%. However, this figure is significantly less than the S&P 500 total return for the same period, which was 204.94%.

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What Could The Next 10 Years Bring?

CTO Realty Growth has a consensus rating of "Buy" and a price target of $21.36 based on the ratings of 11 analysts. The price target implies more than 18% potential upside from the current stock price.

On Feb. 20, the company announced its Q4 2024 earnings, posting FFO of $0.49, compared to the consensus estimate of $0.45, and revenues of $35.742 million, compared to the consensus of $33.379 million, as reported by Benzinga.

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"2024 was an outstanding year for the company. We closed $331 million of investments at a weighted average yield of 9.3% and produced record high Core FFO of $1.88 per share,"  CEO John P. Albright said. "We also opportunistically raised capital ending the year with $222 million of liquidity to support future growth and our current signed-not-open leasing pipeline is over $5 million."

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The company provided its full-year 2025 guidance, expecting AFFO per common share in the range of $1.93 to $1.98.

Given the expected upside potential of more than 18%, growth-focused investors may find CTO Realty Growth stock attractive. Furthermore, they can benefit from the company's solid dividend yield of 8.45%.

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