NYSE:ESS - Essex Property Trust Stock Price, Forecast & News

Essex Property Trust trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "ESS."

Essex Property Trust announced a quarterly dividend on Monday, December 16th. Shareholders of record on Thursday, January 2nd will be paid a dividend of $1.95 per share on Wednesday, January 15th. This represents a $7.80 annualized dividend and a yield of 2.53%. The ex-dividend date is Tuesday, December 31st. View Essex Property Trust's Dividend History.

Essex Property Trust Inc (NYSE:ESS) announced its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, October, 23rd. The real estate investment trust reported $1.53 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing analysts' consensus estimates of $3.36 by $1.83. The real estate investment trust earned $366.93 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $365.49 million. Essex Property Trust had a net margin of 29.78% and a return on equity of 6.73%. During the same quarter in the prior year, the business earned $3.15 earnings per share. View Essex Property Trust's Earnings History.

Essex Property Trust is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, January 29th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for Essex Property Trust.

Essex Property Trust will be holding an earnings conference call on Wednesday, January 29th at 12:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link or dial in at Not Available.

14 analysts have issued 1 year target prices for Essex Property Trust's shares. Their forecasts range from $295.00 to $355.00. On average, they anticipate Essex Property Trust's stock price to reach $330.31 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 7.1% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Essex Property Trust.

14 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Essex Property Trust in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 6 hold ratings and 7 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for Essex Property Trust.

Media headlines about ESS stock have been trending somewhat positive this week, InfoTrie reports. The research group rates the sentiment of press coverage by monitoring 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 five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Essex Property Trust earned a news impact score of 0.8 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave news articles about the real estate investment trust a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent press coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the near term. View News Stories for Essex Property Trust.

Essex Property Trust saw a decrease in short interest in the month of January. As of January 15th, there was short interest totalling 952,500 shares, a decrease of 17.2% from the December 31st total of 1,150,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 375,600 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 2.5 days. Currently, 1.5% of the shares of the stock are sold short. View Essex Property Trust's Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to Essex Property Trust include Equity Residential (EQR), AvalonBay Communities (AVB), Mid-America Apartment Communities (MAA), Sun Communities (SUI), UDR (UDR), Equity Lifestyle Properties (ELS), Camden Property Trust (CPT), Apartment Investment and Management (AIV), American Campus Communities (ACC) and UMH PROPERTIES/SH SH (UMH).

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Essex Property Trust investors own include Cisco Systems (CSCO), AT&T (T), Mcdonald's (MCD), Activision Blizzard (ATVI), Intel (INTC), Starbucks (SBUX), Boeing (BA), Walt Disney (DIS), Mastercard (MA) and Simon Property Group (SPG).

Essex Property Trust's stock is owned by a number of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include California Public Employees Retirement System (0.83%), PGGM Investments (0.55%), Duff & Phelps Investment Management Co. (0.18%), Johanson Financial Advisors Inc. (0.18%), Strs Ohio (0.14%) and New York State Teachers Retirement System (0.14%). Company insiders that own Essex Property Trust stock include Adam W Berry, Angela L Kleiman, Byron A Scordelis, Craig K Zimmerman, Gary P Martin, Glenn Olnick, Janice L Sears, John D Eudy, John F Burkart, John Farias and Michael J Schall. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Essex Property Trust.

ESS stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including PGGM Investments, Hexavest Inc., Duff & Phelps Investment Management Co., Manning & Napier Group LLC, California Public Employees Retirement System, Zurcher Kantonalbank Zurich Cantonalbank, Meag Munich Ergo Kapitalanlagegesellschaft MBH and Dupont Capital Management Corp. Company insiders that have sold Essex Property Trust company stock in the last year include Adam W Berry, Angela L Kleiman, Byron A Scordelis, Craig K Zimmerman, Janice L Sears, John D Eudy, John F Burkart, John Farias and Michael J Schall. View Insider Buying and Selling for Essex Property Trust.

ESS stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Johanson Financial Advisors Inc., SG Americas Securities LLC, State of Alaska Department of Revenue, Bowling Portfolio Management LLC, J.W. Cole Advisors Inc., Strs Ohio, Nisa Investment Advisors LLC and Diversified Trust Co. View Insider Buying and Selling for Essex Property Trust.

Shares of ESS 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 ESS stock can currently be purchased for approximately $308.41.

Essex Property Trust has a market capitalization of $20.38 billion and generates $1.40 billion in revenue each year. The real estate investment trust earns $390.15 million in net income (profit) each year or $12.57 on an earnings per share basis. Essex Property Trust employs 1,826 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About Essex Property Trust.

The official website for Essex Property Trust is http://www.essexapartmenthomes.com/.

Essex Property Trust's mailing address is 1100 PARK PLACE SUITE 200, SAN MATEO CA, 94403. The real estate investment trust can be reached via phone at 650-655-7800 or via email at [email protected]