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 declared a quarterly dividend on Thursday, December 19th. Stockholders of record on Thursday, January 2nd will be given a dividend of $0.567 per share on Friday, January 10th. This represents a $2.27 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 2.74%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Tuesday, December 31st. View Equity Residential's Dividend History.

Equity Residential (NYSE:EQR) released its earnings results on Tuesday, October, 22nd. The real estate investment trust reported $0.71 earnings per share for the quarter, missing the Zacks' consensus estimate of $0.88 by $0.17. The real estate investment trust had revenue of $685.15 million for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $679.66 million. Equity Residential had a return on equity of 7.73% and a net margin of 29.88%. The firm's quarterly revenue was up 4.9% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter last year, the business posted $0.83 earnings per share. View Equity Residential's Earnings History.

Equity Residential is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, January 28th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for Equity Residential.

Equity Residential will be holding an earnings conference call on Tuesday, January 28th at 12:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link or dial in at Not Available.

12 equities research analysts have issued 12 month price targets for Equity Residential's shares. Their forecasts range from $71.00 to $90.00. On average, they anticipate Equity Residential's share price to reach $82.43 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 0.3%. 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 headlines about EQR stock have trended somewhat positive on Thursday, InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis reports. The research group ranks the sentiment of press coverage by reviewing more than six thousand news and blog sources. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Equity Residential earned a news impact score of 1.8 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave news headlines about the real estate investment trust a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent press coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the company's share price in the next few days. View News Stories for Equity Residential.

Equity Residential saw a drop in short interest in the month of December. As of December 31st, there was short interest totalling 3,850,000 shares, a drop of 14.8% from the December 15th total of 4,520,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 1,580,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 2.4 days. Currently, 1.1% of the company's shares are short sold. View Equity Residential's Current Options Chain.

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Equity Residential's stock is owned by a number of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include PGGM Investments (1.73%), Meag Munich Ergo Kapitalanlagegesellschaft MBH (0.07%), State of Alaska Department of Revenue (0.06%), Nisa Investment Advisors LLC (0.05%), Zurcher Kantonalbank Zurich Cantonalbank (0.05%) and Manning & Napier Group LLC (0.02%). 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 Manning & Napier Group LLC, Meag Munich Ergo Kapitalanlagegesellschaft MBH, Nisa Investment Advisors LLC, Campbell & CO Investment Adviser LLC, Pensionfund DSM Netherlands, Zurcher Kantonalbank Zurich Cantonalbank, Carroll Financial Associates Inc. and Pensionfund Sabic. 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, State of Alaska Department of Revenue, Bowling Portfolio Management LLC, Alpine Global Management LLC, Diversified Trust Co, RBA Wealth Management LLC, Winfield Associates Inc. and AE Wealth Management LLC. 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 $82.70.

Equity Residential has a market capitalization of $30.71 billion and generates $2.58 billion in revenue each year. The real estate investment trust earns $657.53 million in net income (profit) each year or $3.25 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]