Equity Residential Stock Forecast, Price & News

19 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Equity Residential in the last year. There are currently 2 sell ratings, 11 hold ratings and 6 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street analysts is that investors should "hold" Equity Residential stock. 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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Equity Residential saw a increase in short interest in January. As of January 15th, there was short interest totaling 10,390,000 shares, an increase of 12.0% from the December 31st total of 9,280,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 2,990,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 3.5 days. Approximately 2.9% of the shares of the stock are short sold.
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Equity Residential is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, May 4th 2021.
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Equity Residential (NYSE:EQR) posted its earnings results on Wednesday, February, 10th. The real estate investment trust reported $0.68 earnings per share for the quarter, missing analysts' consensus estimates of $0.74 by $0.06. The real estate investment trust earned $613.40 million during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $612 million. Equity Residential had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 8.89% and a net margin of 35.97%. The company's quarterly revenue was down 10.3% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the previous year, the business earned $0.77 EPS.
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Equity Residential's stock was trading at $75.10 on March 11th, 2020 when Coronavirus (COVID-19) reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Since then, EQR shares have decreased by 12.0% and is now trading at $66.10.
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Equity Residential announced a quarterly dividend on Thursday, December 17th. Shareholders of record on Monday, January 4th will be paid a dividend of $0.6025 per share on Friday, January 15th. This represents a $2.41 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 3.65%. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, December 31st.
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Equity Residential pays an annual dividend of $2.41 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 3.48%. Equity Residential has been increasing its dividend for 3 consecutive year(s), indicating that it does not yet have a strock track record of dividend growth. The dividend payout ratio of Equity Residential is 69.05%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on EPS estimates, Equity Residential will have a dividend payout ratio of 79.28% in the coming year. This indicates that Equity Residential may not be able to sustain their current dividend.
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Equity Residential updated its first quarter earnings guidance on Wednesday, February, 10th. The company provided EPS guidance of $0.65-0.69 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus EPS estimate of $0.74.

19 brokerages have issued twelve-month price targets for Equity Residential's shares. Their forecasts range from $45.00 to $85.00. On average, they expect Equity Residential's share price to reach $66.21 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 0.2% from the stock's current price.
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88 employees have rated Equity Residential CEO Mark Parrell on Glassdoor.com. Mark Parrell has an approval rating of 90% among Equity Residential's employees.

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

Equity Residential's stock is owned by many different retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include BlackRock Inc. (10.59%), Price T Rowe Associates Inc. MD (4.47%), Northern Trust Corp (1.93%), Long Pond Capital LP (1.64%), Dimensional Fund Advisors LP (1.62%) and Bank of New York Mellon Corp (0.94%). Company insiders that own Equity Residential stock 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.
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EQR stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including PGGM Investments, BlackRock Inc., Renaissance Technologies LLC, Principal Financial Group Inc., Principal Financial Group Inc., Nuveen Asset Management LLC, Heitman Real Estate Securities LLC, and Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings Inc..
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EQR stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Price T Rowe Associates Inc. MD, Long Pond Capital LP, Resolution Capital Ltd, Brookfield Asset Management Inc., Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, Daiwa Securities Group Inc., Schf GPE LLC, and Schroder Investment Management Group.
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Shares of EQR can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include WeBull, Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity, and Charles Schwab.
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One share of EQR stock can currently be purchased for approximately $66.10.

Equity Residential has a market capitalization of $24.63 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 2,600 workers across the globe.

Equity Residential was founded in 1967.

The official website for Equity Residential is www.eqr.com.

Equity Residential is headquartered at TWO NORTH RIVERSIDE PLAZA SUITE 400, CHICAGO IL, 60606.

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]