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 declared a quarterly dividend on Thursday, December 19th. Shareholders 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 yield of 3.01%. The ex-dividend date is Tuesday, December 31st. View Equity Residential's Dividend History.

Equity Residential (NYSE:EQR) issued its earnings results on Tuesday, January, 28th. The real estate investment trust reported $0.77 earnings per share for the quarter, missing analysts' consensus estimates 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 return on equity of 9.36% and a net margin of 35.93%. The company's revenue for the quarter was up 4.8% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the previous year, the firm earned $0.84 EPS. 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 EPS estimate of $3.63.

12 brokers have issued twelve-month price targets for Equity Residential's shares. Their forecasts range from $75.74 to $90.00. On average, they anticipate Equity Residential's stock price to reach $83.57 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 10.9% from the stock's current price. 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 articles about EQR stock have trended very negative this week, according to InfoTrie. The research group rates the sentiment of press coverage by reviewing more than six thousand blog and news sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Equity Residential earned a media sentiment score of -3.0 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned media headlines about the real estate investment trust a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent press coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact 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 February. As of February 14th, there was short interest totalling 5,240,000 shares, an increase of 22.1% from the January 30th total of 4,290,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 1,550,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 3.4 days. Approximately 1.4% of the company's stock are short sold. View Equity Residential's Current Options Chain.

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Equity Residential's stock is owned by many different of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include State Street Corp (6.45%), Macquarie Group Ltd. (2.93%), FMR LLC (2.92%), Cohen & Steers Inc. (1.96%), Geode Capital Management LLC (1.87%) and PGGM Investments (1.73%). 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, Macquarie Group Ltd., Renaissance Technologies LLC, Daiwa Securities Group Inc., Thrivent Financial for Lutherans, Geode Capital Management LLC, First Trust Advisors LP and Echo Street Capital 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 $75.39.

Equity Residential has a market capitalization of $28.04 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]