NYSE:EPRT - Essential Properties Realty Trust Stock Price, Forecast & News

Essential Properties Realty Trust trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "EPRT."

Essential Properties Realty Trust announced a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, December 11th. Stockholders of record on Tuesday, December 31st will be given a dividend of $0.23 per share on Wednesday, January 15th. This represents a $0.92 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 3.40%. The ex-dividend date is Monday, December 30th. This is a boost from Essential Properties Realty Trust's previous quarterly dividend of $0.22. View Essential Properties Realty Trust's Dividend History.

Essential Properties Realty Trust Inc (NYSE:EPRT) posted its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, November, 6th. The company reported $0.18 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of $0.29 by $0.11. The company earned $36.29 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $34.78 million. Essential Properties Realty Trust had a net margin of 25.70% and a return on equity of 3.33%. View Essential Properties Realty Trust's Earnings History.

Essential Properties Realty Trust is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, February 26th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for Essential Properties Realty Trust.

13 brokerages have issued 1 year target prices for Essential Properties Realty Trust's stock. Their forecasts range from $16.70 to $29.00. On average, they expect Essential Properties Realty Trust's stock price to reach $21.88 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 19.2%. View Analyst Price Targets for Essential Properties Realty Trust.

13 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Essential Properties Realty Trust in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 4 hold ratings and 8 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for Essential Properties Realty Trust.

News coverage about EPRT stock has been trending somewhat negative this week, according to InfoTrie Sentiment. The research group identifies positive and negative press coverage by monitoring more than six thousand blog and news sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Essential Properties Realty Trust earned a news sentiment score of -1.4 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news coverage about the company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent press coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the next several days. View News Stories for Essential Properties Realty Trust.

Essential Properties Realty Trust saw a increase in short interest in the month of January. As of January 15th, there was short interest totalling 5,700,000 shares, an increase of 51.2% from the December 31st total of 3,770,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 1,210,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 4.7 days. Approximately 7.6% of the shares of the company are short sold. View Essential Properties Realty Trust's Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to Essential Properties Realty Trust include Federal Realty Investment Trust (FRT), National Retail Properties (NNN), Omega Healthcare Investors (OHI), Lamar Advertising (LAMR), Iron Mountain (IRM), Store Capital (STOR), Kilroy Realty (KRC), Kimco Realty (KIM), American Homes 4 Rent (AMH), Apartment Investment and Management (AIV), SL Green Realty (SLG), Douglas Emmett (DEI), Starwood Property Trust (STWD), CyrusOne (CONE) and New Residential Investment (NRZ).

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(EPRT) raised $499 million in an initial public offering on Thursday, June 21st 2018. The company issued 32,200,000 shares at $14.00-$17.00 per share. Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, Barclays, BofA Merrill Lynch and Credit Suisse served as the underwriters for the IPO and RBC Capital Markets, SunTrust Robinson Humphrey, Evercore ISI and Ladenburg Thalmann were co-managers.

Essential Properties Realty Trust's stock is owned by a variety of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include PGGM Investments (8.41%), California Public Employees Retirement System (0.29%), Manning & Napier Group LLC (0.24%), Strs Ohio (0.12%), State of Alaska Department of Revenue (0.10%) and Dupont Capital Management Corp (0.08%). Company insiders that own Essential Properties Realty Trust stock include Daniel P Donlan, Eldridge Industries, Llc, Gregg A Seibert, Hillary P Hai, Paul T Bossidy, Peter M Mavoides and Scott A Estes. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Essential Properties Realty Trust.

EPRT stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Virginia Retirement Systems ET AL, Carroll Financial Associates Inc., Zurcher Kantonalbank Zurich Cantonalbank and Brasada Capital Management LP. Company insiders that have sold Essential Properties Realty Trust company stock in the last year include Eldridge Industries, Llc, Gregg A Seibert and Peter M Mavoides. View Insider Buying and Selling for Essential Properties Realty Trust.

EPRT stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including PGGM Investments, California Public Employees Retirement System, State of Alaska Department of Revenue, New York State Teachers Retirement System, Exchange Traded Concepts LLC, Arizona State Retirement System, Executive Wealth Management LLC and Dupont Capital Management Corp. Company insiders that have bought Essential Properties Realty Trust stock in the last two years include Daniel P Donlan, Eldridge Industries, Llc, Gregg A Seibert, Hillary P Hai, Paul T Bossidy, Peter M Mavoides and Scott A Estes. View Insider Buying and Selling for Essential Properties Realty Trust.

Shares of EPRT can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of EPRT stock can currently be purchased for approximately $27.07.

Essential Properties Realty Trust has a market capitalization of $2.49 billion and generates $96.22 million in revenue each year. Essential Properties Realty Trust employs 18 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About Essential Properties Realty Trust.

The official website for Essential Properties Realty Trust is http://www.essentialproperties.com/.

Essential Properties Realty Trust's mailing address is 902 CARNEGIE CENTER BLVD. SUITE 520, PRINCETON NJ, 08540. The company can be reached via phone at 609-436-0619 or via email at [email protected]