Equity Residential - EQR Stock Forecast, Price & News

16 Wall Street equities research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Equity Residential in the last twelve months. There are currently 2 sell ratings, 8 hold ratings and 6 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street equities research analysts is that investors should "hold" EQR shares. 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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16 Wall Street analysts have issued 1-year target prices for Equity Residential's stock. Their EQR share price forecasts range from $58.00 to $91.00. On average, they predict the company's stock price to reach $72.00 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 28.2% from the stock's current price.
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Equity Residential's stock was trading at $59.00 on January 1st, 2023. Since then, EQR stock has decreased by 4.8% and is now trading at $56.18.
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Equity Residential saw a decrease in short interest during the month of February. As of February 28th, there was short interest totaling 6,430,000 shares, a decrease of 21.0% from the February 13th total of 8,140,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 2,480,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 2.6 days. Approximately 1.7% of the shares of the company are short sold.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, April 25th 2023.
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Equity Residential (NYSE:EQR) released its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, April, 26th. The real estate investment trust reported $0.19 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing analysts' consensus estimates of $0.80 by $0.61. Equity Residential had a net margin of 28.40% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 6.96%. During the same quarter last year, the business posted $0.68 EPS.
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Equity Residential declared a quarterly dividend on Thursday, March 16th. Investors of record on Monday, March 27th will be given a dividend of $0.6625 per share on Friday, April 14th. This represents a $2.65 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 4.72%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Friday, March 24th. This is a boost from the stock's previous quarterly dividend of $0.63.
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ETFs with the largest weight of Equity Residential (NYSE:EQR) stock in their portfolio include Residential REIT Income ETF (HAUS), Kelly Residential & Apartment Real Estate ETF (RESI), ETFB Green SRI REITs ETF (RITA), iShares Residential and Multisector Real Estate ETF (REZ), Nuveen Short-Term REIT ETF (NURE), SP Funds S&P Global REIT Sharia ETF (SPRE), ALPS Active REIT ETF (REIT) and FlexShares Global Quality Real Estate Index Fund (GQRE).

Equity Residential (NYSE:EQR) pays an annual dividend of $2.65 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 4.73%. EQR has a dividend yield higher than 75% of all dividend-paying stocks, making it a leading dividend payer. The company has been increasing its dividend for 2 consecutive year(s), indicating that it does not yet have a strong track record of dividend growth. The dividend payout ratio is 128.64%. Payout ratios above 75% are not desirable because they may not be sustainable. Based on earnings estimates, EQR will have a dividend payout ratio of 67.95% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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Equity Residential issued an update on its first quarter 2023 earnings guidance on Thursday, February, 9th. The company provided earnings per share guidance of $0.84-$0.88 for the period, compared to the consensus EPS estimate of $0.90. The company issued revenue guidance of -.

88 employees have rated Equity Residential Chief Executive Officer Mark Parrell on Glassdoor.com. Mark Parrell has an approval rating of 90% among the company'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 a number of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Norges Bank (8.17%), Price T Rowe Associates Inc. MD (4.41%), JPMorgan Chase & Co. (2.03%), Geode Capital Management LLC (2.03%), Resolution Capital Ltd (2.02%) and First Eagle Investment Management LLC (2.00%). Insiders that own company stock include Alexander Brackenridge, Bradley A Keywell, Christa L Sorenson, Christa L Sorenson, David J Neithercut, Ian Kaufman, Linda Bynoe, Mark S Shapiro, Mary Kay Haben, Michael L Manelis, Michael L Manelis, Robert Garechana and Scott Fenster.
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Shares of EQR stock 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 $56.18.

Equity Residential (NYSE:EQR) has a market capitalization of $21.27 billion and generates $2.74 billion in revenue each year. The real estate investment trust earns $776.91 million in net income (profit) each year or $2.06 on an earnings per share basis.

The company employs 2,400 workers across the globe.

Equity Residential's mailing address is TWO NORTH RIVERSIDE PLAZA SUITE 400, CHICAGO IL, 60606. The official website for the company is www.eqr.com. The real estate investment trust can be reached via phone at (312) 474-1300, via email at mmckenna@eqrworld.com, or via fax at 312-454-8703.