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. Investors 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 yield of 2.75%. 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, October, 22nd. The real estate investment trust reported $0.71 EPS 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 net margin of 29.88% and a return on equity of 7.73%. Equity Residential's revenue was up 4.9% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period last year, the company earned $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.

Equity Residential issued an update on its fourth quarter earnings guidance on Tuesday, October, 22nd. The company provided earnings per share guidance of $0.87-0.89 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus estimate of $0.90.

12 Wall Street analysts have issued 1-year target prices for Equity Residential's stock. Their forecasts range from $71.00 to $90.00. On average, they anticipate Equity Residential's stock price to reach $82.43 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 0.1%. 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 stories about EQR stock have trended positive on Monday, according to InfoTrie Sentiment. InfoTrie ranks the sentiment of news coverage by monitoring more than six thousand news and blog sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Equity Residential earned a coverage optimism score of 3.0 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news stories about the real estate investment trust a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent news coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the immediate future. View News Stories for Equity Residential.

Equity Residential saw a decline in short interest during the month of December. As of December 31st, there was short interest totalling 3,850,000 shares, a decline 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 days-to-cover ratio is presently 2.4 days. Approximately 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 variety of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders 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%), Manning & Napier Group LLC (0.02%) and Contravisory Investment Management Inc. (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, Pensionfund DSM Netherlands, Carroll Financial Associates Inc., Pensionfund Sabic, IFM Investors Pty Ltd and First Hawaiian Bank. 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 purchased 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 $82.50.

Equity Residential has a market capitalization of $30.64 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]