Filinvest REIT Corp., which trades under the stock symbol FILRT, has announced that it will be giving money back to its shareholders. Think of it like this: when you own shares in a company, you own a tiny piece of that company. Sometimes, when the company makes money, it shares some of that money with the people who own shares – that’s called a dividend.

How Much Money Are Shareholders Getting?

According to the company’s official filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission on May 8, 2026, FILRT’s Board of Directors approved a cash dividend of ₱0.06 for every share that investors own. This payment covers the company’s earnings from January to March 2026.

To receive this dividend, you need to be a shareholder on record by May 25, 2026. The actual payment will be sent out on June 5, 2026.

What Does This Mean for the Whole Year?

With this latest announcement, FILRT has now declared a total of ₱0.12 per share in dividends so far in 2026. Based on the company’s stock price of ₱2.95 on May 7, 2026, this represents an annualized dividend yield of 8.1 percent. In simple terms, if you invested ₱100 in FILRT shares at that price, you could expect to receive about ₱8.10 back over a year through dividends.

What Does Filinvest REIT Own?

Filinvest REIT is what’s called a Real Estate Investment Trust, or REIT for short. It’s a special type of company that owns buildings and properties, then rents them out to businesses and collects rent. By law, REITs must share most of their rental income with their shareholders through dividends.

FILRT’s property collection includes:

• 17 office buildings
• 1 shopping mall
• 1 resort lot
• A total leasable space of 452,310 square meters (that’s about the size of 63 soccer fields!)

How Well Are These Properties Doing?

The company reported that its properties were 87 percent occupied in the first quarter of 2026. This means 87 out of every 100 available spaces had tenants renting them. This is actually an improvement from the same time last year when occupancy was only 81 percent – that’s a 6 percentage point increase.

The company explained that adding Festival Main Mall to their portfolio in May of last year helped bring more tenants in. This extra income from the mall also helped make up for lower rental rates in their office buildings.

Who Rents These Spaces?

The company’s tenants are divided into three groups:

• 61 percent are office tenants
• 32 percent are retail (shops and stores)
• 7 percent are hospitality (hotels and resorts)

Among the office tenants, which had an 80 percent occupancy rate, most (84 percent) are multinational BPO companies. BPO stands for Business Process Outsourcing – these are companies that handle tasks like customer service calls for businesses around the world. The remaining 16 percent are traditional offices and co-working spaces.

New Tenants and Lease Renewals

As of March 2026, FILRT signed new leases for 3,646 square meters of space. New tenants include a school and a religious organization, while a BPO company specializing in digital solutions expanded its space in Northgate Cyberzone.

The company also shared that 39 percent of leases expiring in 2026 (which total 20,689 square meters) have already been renewed or have agreements in place to renew. The portfolio’s weighted average lease expiry (WALE) – which tells us how long until the average lease ends – was 14.2 years overall, with office leases averaging 3.3 years.

What the Company Leader Says

Maricel Brion-Lirio, who serves as FILRT’s President and CEO, commented on the company’s outlook: “We approach the rest of 2026 with cautious optimism, focusing on efficient operations, careful capital management, and ongoing asset improvement.”

About Filinvest REIT Corp.

FILRT is described as the country’s first sustainability-focused REIT and is backed by Filinvest Land Inc. (FLI), one of the Philippines’ largest property developers. The company focuses on environmentally-friendly office buildings, with 16 of its 17 office properties located in Northgate Cyberzone, a business park in Filinvest City, Alabang. The company also owns one office building in Cebu, operates Festival Main Mall, and leases land to Crimson Resort & Spa Boracay.

FILRT has 6,518,781,310 common shares outstanding, according to the SEC filing.

This article is based on the company’s official press release and disclosures filed with the Philippine Stock Exchange’s Electronic Disclosure Generation Technology (PSE EDGE) system. For the complete and official version of the announcement, readers may visit the PSE EDGE website and search for the company’s filing directly.