Equity Residential (EQR) Stock Price, News & Analysis

14 Wall Street equities research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Equity Residential in the last year. There are currently 10 hold ratings and 4 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street equities research analysts is that investors should "hold" EQR shares. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in EQR, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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14 brokerages have issued 1-year price objectives for Equity Residential's stock. Their EQR share price targets range from $59.50 to $73.00. On average, they anticipate the company's share price to reach $65.32 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 7.7% from the stock's current price.
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Equity Residential's stock was trading at $61.16 at the beginning of 2024. Since then, EQR stock has decreased by 0.8% and is now trading at $60.66.
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Equity Residential saw a increase in short interest during the month of March. As of March 31st, there was short interest totaling 5,470,000 shares, an increase of 7.7% from the March 15th total of 5,080,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 2,110,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 2.6 days. Approximately 1.5% of the shares of the company are short sold.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, April 23rd 2024.
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Equity Residential will be holding an earnings conference call on Wednesday, April 24th at 11:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link.

Equity Residential (NYSE:EQR) issued its earnings results on Tuesday, January, 30th. The real estate investment trust reported $0.82 EPS for the quarter, missing analysts' consensus estimates of $1.00 by $0.18. The real estate investment trust earned $727.50 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $725.07 million. Equity Residential had a net margin of 29.07% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 7.43%. The business's revenue was up 4.0% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter last year, the company earned $0.94 earnings per share.
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Equity Residential announced a quarterly dividend on Thursday, March 14th. Investors of record on Monday, March 25th will be given a dividend of $0.675 per share on Friday, April 12th. This represents a $2.70 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 4.45%. The ex-dividend date is Friday, March 22nd. This is a positive change from the stock's previous quarterly dividend of $0.66.
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Equity Residential (NYSE:EQR) pays an annual dividend of $2.70 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 4.38%. EQR has a dividend yield higher than 75% of all dividend-paying stocks, making it a leading dividend payer. The company has been increasing its dividend for 3 consecutive year(s), indicating that it does not yet have a strong track record of dividend growth. The dividend payout ratio is 122.73%. Payout ratios above 75% are not desirable because they may not be sustainable. Based on earnings estimates, EQR will have a dividend payout ratio of 67.67% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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ETFs with the largest weight of Equity Residential (NYSE:EQR) stock in their portfolio include Kelly Residential & Apartment Real Estate ETF (RESI), ETFB Green SRI REITs ETF (RITA), iShares Residential and Multisector Real Estate ETF (REZ), JPMorgan Realty Income ETF (JPRE), SP Funds S&P Global REIT Sharia ETF (SPRE), Nuveen Short-Term REIT ETF (NURE), Residential REIT ETF (HAUS) and FlexShares Global Quality Real Estate Index Fund (GQRE).

Equity Residential issued an update on its first quarter 2024 earnings guidance on Tuesday, January, 30th. The company provided earnings per share guidance of 0.880-0.920 for the period, compared to the consensus earnings per share estimate of 0.910. The company issued revenue guidance of -.

88 employees have rated Equity Residential Chief Executive Officer Mark Parrell on Glassdoor.com. Mark Parrell has an approval rating of 90% among the company's employees.

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Equity Residential investors own include Cisco Systems (CSCO), AT&T (T), Intel (INTC), Bank of America (BAC), NVIDIA (NVDA), AbbVie (ABBV), Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM), Simon Property Group (SPG) and American Tower (AMT).

Equity Residential's stock is owned by a number of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include Hazelview Securities Inc. (0.08%), Vert Asset Management LLC (0.04%), Sarasin & Partners LLP (0.02%), Pensionfund DSM Netherlands (0.02%), Czech National Bank (0.02%) and Aurora Investment Managers LLC. (0.01%). Insiders that own company stock include Bradley A Keywell, Catherine Carraway, Christa L Sorenson, David J Neithercut, Ian Kaufman, Linda Bynoe, Mark S Shapiro, Mary Kay Haben, Michael L Manelis, Michael L Manelis, Robert Garechana and Scott Fenster.
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