NYSE:EQR - Equity Residential Stock Price, Forecast & News

Equity Residential trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "EQR."

Equity Residential announced a quarterly dividend on Thursday, December 19th. Investors of record on Thursday, January 2nd will be paid a dividend of $0.567 per share on Friday, January 10th. This represents a $2.27 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 2.72%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Tuesday, December 31st. View Equity Residential's Dividend History.

Equity Residential (NYSE:EQR) released its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, January, 28th. The real estate investment trust reported $0.77 EPS for the quarter, missing analysts' consensus estimates of $0.89 by $0.12. The real estate investment trust earned $683.91 million during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $685.87 million. Equity Residential had a return on equity of 9.36% and a net margin of 35.93%. Equity Residential's revenue was up 4.8% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the prior year, the company posted $0.84 earnings per share. View Equity Residential's Earnings History.

Equity Residential is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, May 5th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for Equity Residential.

Equity Residential updated its FY20 earnings guidance on Tuesday, January, 28th. The company provided EPS guidance of $3.59-3.69 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus earnings per share estimate of $3.63.

12 brokerages have issued 1 year price objectives for Equity Residential's stock. Their forecasts range from $75.74 to $90.00. On average, they expect Equity Residential's share price to reach $83.57 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 0.3% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Equity Residential.

12 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Equity Residential in the last year. There are currently 4 sell ratings, 7 hold ratings and 1 buy rating for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for Equity Residential.

News coverage about EQR stock has been trending somewhat positive on Wednesday, InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis reports. InfoTrie identifies positive and negative press coverage by reviewing more than six thousand news and blog 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. Equity Residential earned a media sentiment score of 2.0 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave headlines about the real estate investment trust a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, indicating that recent press coverage is extremely likely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the next few days. View News Stories for Equity Residential.

Equity Residential saw a increase in short interest in the month of February. As of February 14th, there was short interest totalling 5,240,000 shares, an increase of 22.1% from the January 30th total of 4,290,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 1,550,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 3.4 days. Approximately 1.4% of the company's shares are sold short. View Equity Residential's Current Options Chain.

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Equity Residential's stock is owned by many different of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include State Street Corp (6.45%), FMR LLC (2.92%), Cohen & Steers Inc. (1.96%), Geode Capital Management LLC (1.87%), PGGM Investments (1.73%) and Boston Partners (1.54%). Company insiders that own Equity Residential stock include Alan W George, Alexander Brackenridge, Barry Altshuler, Charles L Atwood, Christa L Sorenson, David J Neithercut, David S Santee, Gerald A Spector, Ian Kaufman, Linda Bynoe, Mark J Parrell, Mark S Shapiro, Michael L Manelis, Robert Garechana, Samuel Zell and Scott Fenster. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Equity Residential.

EQR stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Cohen & Steers Inc., State Street Corp, FMR LLC, Resolution Capital Ltd, Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Russell Investments Group Ltd., Bank of New York Mellon Corp and Prudential Financial Inc.. Company insiders that have sold Equity Residential company stock in the last year include Alan W George, Alexander Brackenridge, Barry Altshuler, Charles L Atwood, Christa L Sorenson, David J Neithercut, Gerald A Spector, Ian Kaufman, Linda Bynoe, Mark J Parrell, Mark S Shapiro, Michael L Manelis, Robert Garechana, Samuel Zell and Scott Fenster. View Insider Buying and Selling for Equity Residential.

EQR stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including PGGM Investments, Renaissance Technologies LLC, Daiwa Securities Group Inc., Thrivent Financial for Lutherans, Geode Capital Management LLC, First Trust Advisors LP, Echo Street Capital Management LLC and Duff & Phelps Investment Management Co.. View Insider Buying and Selling for Equity Residential.

Shares of EQR 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 EQR stock can currently be purchased for approximately $83.36.

Equity Residential has a market capitalization of $31.01 billion and generates $2.70 billion in revenue each year. The real estate investment trust earns $970.38 million in net income (profit) each year or $3.49 on an earnings per share basis. Equity Residential employs 2,700 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About Equity Residential.

The official website for Equity Residential is http://www.eqr.com/.

Equity Residential's mailing address is TWO NORTH RIVERSIDE PLAZA SUITE 400, CHICAGO IL, 60606. The real estate investment trust can be reached via phone at 312-474-1300 or via email at [email protected]