NYSE:EQR - Equity Residential Stock Price, Forecast & News

Equity Residential's stock was trading at $75.10 on March 11th, 2020 when Coronavirus reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization. Since then, EQR stock has decreased by 16.5% and is now trading at $62.68. View which stocks have been mosted impacted by Coronavirus.

13 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Equity Residential in the last year. There are currently 3 sell ratings, 8 hold ratings and 2 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View analyst ratings for Equity Residential.

Equity Residential is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, May 5th 2020. View our earnings forecast for Equity Residential.

Equity Residential (NYSE:EQR) posted its earnings results on Tuesday, January, 28th. The real estate investment trust reported $0.77 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of $0.89 by $0.12. The real estate investment trust had revenue of $683.91 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $685.87 million. Equity Residential had a return on equity of 9.36% and a net margin of 35.93%. The business's revenue for the quarter was up 4.8% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the prior year, the firm earned $0.84 earnings per share. View Equity Residential's earnings history.

Equity Residential declared a quarterly dividend on Thursday, March 12th. Shareholders of record on Monday, March 23rd will be given a dividend of $0.6025 per share on Monday, April 13th. This represents a $2.41 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 3.84%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Friday, March 20th. This is an increase from Equity Residential's previous quarterly dividend of $0.57. View Equity Residential's dividend history.

Equity Residential issued an update on its FY20 earnings guidance on Tuesday, January, 28th. The company provided EPS guidance of $3.59-3.69 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus estimate of $3.63.

13 brokerages have issued 1-year target prices for Equity Residential's stock. Their forecasts range from $73.00 to $90.00. On average, they expect Equity Residential's share price to reach $83.16 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 32.7% from the stock's current price. View analysts' price targets for Equity Residential.

News articles about EQR stock have trended extremely negative this week, InfoTrie Sentiment reports. InfoTrie identifies positive and negative media coverage by monitoring more than six thousand news and blog sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded 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 -4.0 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave news headlines 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 stock's share price in the next several days. View the latest news aboutEquity Residential.

Equity Residential saw a decline in short interest during the month of March. As of March 13th, there was short interest totaling 4,629,400 shares, a decline of 9.2% from the February 27th total of 5,100,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 1,620,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 2.9 days. Currently, 1.3% of the company's shares are sold short. View Equity Residential's Current Options Chain.

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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 variety of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include State Street Corp (6.45%), Norges Bank (6.42%), Macquarie Group Ltd. (2.93%), FMR LLC (2.92%), Cohen & Steers Inc. (1.96%) and Geode Capital Management LLC (1.87%). 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, Ian Kaufman, Mark J Parrell, Mark S Shapiro, Michael L Manelis, Robert Garechana, Samuel Zell, and Scott Fenster. View insider buying and selling activity for Equity Residential.

EQR stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Norges Bank, PGGM Investments, Macquarie Group Ltd., Renaissance Technologies LLC, Daiwa Securities Group Inc., Thrivent Financial for Lutherans, Geode Capital Management LLC, and Nuveen Asset Management LLC. View insider buying and selling activity 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 $62.68.

Equity Residential has a market capitalization of $23.32 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]