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. Investors of record on Thursday, January 2nd will be paid a dividend of $0.567 per share on Friday, January 10th. This represents a $2.27 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 2.75%. The ex-dividend date is Tuesday, December 31st. View Equity Residential's Dividend History.

Equity Residential (NYSE:EQR) posted its earnings results on Tuesday, October, 22nd. The real estate investment trust reported $0.71 EPS for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of $0.88 by $0.17. The real estate investment trust earned $685.15 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $679.66 million. Equity Residential had a return on equity of 7.73% and a net margin of 29.88%. The business's revenue for the quarter was up 4.9% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period last year, the company earned $0.83 EPS. 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 EPS guidance of $0.87-0.89 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus earnings per share estimate of $0.90.

12 Wall Street analysts have issued 1-year price objectives for Equity Residential's shares. Their forecasts range from $71.00 to $90.00. On average, they expect Equity Residential's stock price to reach $82.43 in the next twelve months. 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 headlines about EQR stock have been trending neutral recently, InfoTrie Sentiment reports. InfoTrie scores the sentiment of media coverage by reviewing more than six thousand blog and news sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Equity Residential earned a news sentiment score of 0.5 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news coverage about the real estate investment trust a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, meaning that recent media coverage is extremely likely to have an impact on the company's share price in the next several days. View News Stories for Equity Residential.

Equity Residential saw a drop in short interest in 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 presently 2.4 days. Currently, 1.1% 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 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 acquired 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]