 It has 1.7 times the mass of the Sun but has expanded to 14 times the Sun's radius.The star is radiating 69 times the Sun's luminosity from its enlarged photosphere at an effective temperature of 4,640 K.

72 Cygni has a wide companion at an angular separation of , corresponding to a projected separation of .This star has a J band (infrared) magnitude of and a class of M5.