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. Shareholders 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 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 2.61%. The ex-dividend date is Tuesday, December 31st. View Equity Residential's Dividend History.

Equity Residential (NYSE:EQR) issued its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, January, 28th. The real estate investment trust reported $0.77 earnings per share for the quarter, missing the Zacks' consensus estimate of $0.89 by $0.12. The real estate investment trust earned $683.91 million during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $685.87 million. Equity Residential had a net margin of 35.93% and a return on equity of 9.36%. Equity Residential's quarterly revenue was up 4.8% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the prior year, the firm 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 issued an update on its FY20 earnings guidance on Tuesday, January, 28th. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of $3.59-3.69 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus earnings per share estimate of $3.63.

12 analysts have issued 12 month target prices for Equity Residential's stock. Their forecasts range from $75.74 to $90.00. On average, they anticipate Equity Residential's share price to reach $83.57 in the next twelve months. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 3.9%. 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.

Media stories about EQR stock have been trending somewhat positive this week, InfoTrie reports. The research group ranks the sentiment of media coverage by reviewing more than six thousand news and blog sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Equity Residential earned a media sentiment score of 0.5 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave media stories about the real estate investment trust a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent media 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 increase in short interest in January. As of January 31st, there was short interest totalling 4,290,000 shares, an increase of 11.4% from the January 15th total of 3,850,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 1,560,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 2.8 days. Currently, 1.2% of the shares of the company are sold short. View Equity Residential's Current Options Chain.

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Equity Residential's stock is owned by a number of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors 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 $87.01.

Equity Residential has a market capitalization of $32.31 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]