ESS

Essex Property Trust, Inc.
NYSEUSDEQUITY Real Estate DELAYED
Last price
272.49
▲ 0.56 (0.21%)
MARKET · —

Price

1D — H — L — Range — Vol —
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Open
272.37
Prev close
271.93
Day high
276.85
Day low
272.16
Volume
633.38K
Market cap
$18.78B
P/E (TTM)
42.31
52W range
238.46 – 303.35

Day trading desk

Current session · delayed
Gap from prior close
+0.16%
Prior close 271.93
VWAP
273.42
-0.34% from price
Relative volume
1.68×
Unusually busy
Session range
1.95%
271.57 – 276.85
Position in range
17%
Near session low
ATR (14D)
4.31
1.58% of price
Prior day high
272.42
PDH
Prior day low
265.92
PDL
Bid / ask spread
—
Quote not published
Session volume
839.75K
Avg 498.38K

VWAP and the session figures are computed from the delayed intraday series on this page, so they lag the live tape and will not match a broker's real-time VWAP exactly. Turn on Prior day H/L/C, Opening range and Volume profile in the chart's Studies menu to see these levels drawn on price.

Trailing performance

Price return · vs SPY
Returnvs SPY
1W
-0.53% -2.5%
1M
-2.20% -3.4%
3M
-6.55% -11.1%
6M
+9.74% -8.4%
YTD
+4.13% -10.1%
1Y
+3.03% -13.4%
3Y
+28.48% -53.8%
5Y
— —

Price return only. Dividends are not reinvested, so total return on a dividend payer will be higher than shown.

Unusual options activity

Account required
Nothing crossed the thresholds in the expiries we scanned.
That is the normal state — most contracts trade well inside their existing open interest.
Free account required

Contracts trading at or above their open interest, ranked by notional and where the print landed.

Free account

5 more panels on ESS open with an account.

Options chains and analytics, valuation ratios, insider filings, analyst targets and ownership. No card, no trial, nothing to cancel.

Insider net activity

6m · Form 4 rollup
Net shares
+4.95K
Net buying
Buy transactions
8
5.55K shares
Sell transactions
1
600 shares
Net transactions
+9
Buys less sells
Sell : buy shares
0.1 : 1
Mixed
Insider-held shares
471.09K
Total on file
Bought 5.55KSold 600

Insider transactions

Account required
DateInsiderAction SharesValueHeld
May 27, 26
KASARIS MARY
Director
SELL 600 $167.67K Direct
May 12, 26
GUST ANNE B
Director
STOCK 633 $0 Direct
May 12, 26
JOHNSON AMAL M
Director
STOCK 633 $0 Direct
May 12, 26
GUERICKE KEITH R
Director
STOCK 633 $0 Direct
May 12, 26
LYONS IRVING F III
Director
STOCK 633 $0 Direct
May 12, 26
MARCUS GEORGE M
Director
STOCK 1.12K $0 Direct
May 12, 26
HAWTHORNE MARIA R
Director
STOCK 633 $0 Direct
May 12, 26
ARABIA JOHN V
Director
STOCK 633 $0 Direct
May 12, 26
KASARIS MARY
Director
STOCK 633 $0 Direct
Dec 29, 25
KLEIMAN ANGELA L
Chief Executive Officer
STOCK 2.53K $0 Direct
Dec 12, 25
MORRISON ANNE
General Counsel
STOCK 7.44K $0 Direct
Dec 12, 25
KLEIMAN ANGELA L
Chief Executive Officer
STOCK 23.97K $0 Direct
Dec 12, 25
PAK BARBARA
Chief Financial Officer
STOCK 8.14K $0 Direct
May 28, 25
MARCUS GEORGE M
Director
CONVERSION 13.42K $2.90M Direct
What this is, and what it is not

These are SEC Form 4 filings — officers, directors and 10% owners reporting their own trades in the company's stock. Filing is due within two business days of the transaction, so this lags reality by days, and the provider adds its own lag on top.

A sale is not automatically bearish. Executives sell on scheduled 10b5-1 plans, to cover tax on vesting equity, and to diversify. Purchases with cash are generally the more informative signal, and they are far rarer.

This does not include congressional or senate trading. That comes from STOCK Act disclosures filed with the Senate eFD system and the House Clerk, which this data source does not carry.

Free account required

Officer and director trades in their own stock, straight from Form 4 filings.

Insider holders

10 reporting
NameRelationShares heldLatest
ARABIA JOHN V
Director 4.32K Stock Award(Grant)
GUERICKE KEITH R
Director 17.36K Stock Award(Grant)
HAWTHORNE MARIA R
Director 3.71K Stock Award(Grant)
JOHNSON AMAL M
Director 4.32K Stock Award(Grant)
KASARIS MARY
Director 2.84K Sale
KLEIMAN ANGELA L
Chief Executive Officer 22.93K Stock Gift
LYONS IRVING F III
Director 10.39K Stock Award(Grant)
MARCUS GEORGE M
Director 382.04K Stock Award(Grant)
MORRISON ANNE
General Counsel 7.05K Stock Award(Grant)
PAK BARBARA
Chief Financial Officer 12.66K Stock Award(Grant)

Fundamentals

TTM · reported
Market cap$18.78B
Enterprise value$24.38B
Revenue (TTM)$1.98B
Gross profit$1.36B
EBITDA$1.23B
Net income$413.84M
EPS (TTM)$6.44
Free cash flow$1.04B
Total cash$67.53M
Total debt$6.75B
Book value / share$82.83
Shares outstanding64.27M
Float63.55M
Short % of float5.40%
Dividend yield3.81%
Beta (5Y)0.72

Valuation & profitability ratios

Account required
Trailing P/E42.31
Forward P/E43.25
PEG ratio7.02
Price / sales—
Price / book3.29
EV / revenue12.31
EV / EBITDA19.82
Gross margin68.77%
Operating margin33.98%
Profit margin20.89%
Return on equity7.71%
Return on assets2.96%
Debt / equity122.41
Current ratio0.25
Free account required

Fourteen ratios including P/E, PEG, EV/EBITDA, margins and return on equity.

Financial statements

As reported · 5 years · 6 quarters
Blank means not reported, not zero
Line item20252024202320222021YoY
Total revenue $1.89B$1.77B$1.67B$1.61B— +6.4%
Operating revenue $1.89B$1.77B$1.67B$1.61B— +6.4%
Cost of revenue $608.04M$566.82M$531.35M$507.97M— +7.3%
Gross profit $1.28B$1.21B$1.14B$1.10B— +5.9%
Selling, general & admin $71.95M$98.90M$63.47M$56.58M— -27.3%
Total operating expense $677.39M$679.12M$611.91M$585.66M— -0.3%
Operating income $601.91M$528.51M$525.43M$513.18M— +13.9%
Net interest income -$238.40M-$154.58M-$166.65M-$223.84M— -54.2%
Pre-tax income $702.77M$811.31M$430.71M$432.99M— -13.4%
Tax provision ———-$10.24M$15.67M —
Net income $669.67M$741.52M$405.82M$408.31M— -9.7%
Net income to common $669.67M$741.52M$405.82M$408.31M— -9.7%
Basic EPS 10.4011.556.326.27— -10.0%
Diluted EPS 10.4011.546.326.27— -9.9%
EBIT $961.18M$1.05B$643.61M$656.82M— -8.2%
EBITDA $1.57B$1.63B$1.19B$1.20B— -3.6%
Basic shares 64.38M64.23M64.25M65.08M— +0.2%
Diluted shares 64.40M64.25M64.25M65.10M— +0.2%

Options analytics

Account required
Put / call volume
0.41
Call-heavy session
Put / call open interest
0.17
Positioning, not flow
Max pain
270.00
-0.9% from spot
ATM implied vol
31.1%
Nearest strike to spot
Skew (10% OTM)
-2.4%
Calls bid over puts
Call volume
109
Contracts, this expiry
Put volume
45
Contracts, this expiry
Heaviest call OI
310.00
501 contracts
Heaviest put OI
280.00
104 contracts

Max pain is the strike at which the largest dollar value of open contracts expires worthless. It describes current positioning; it is not a forecast and it moves as open interest changes.

Free account required

Put/call ratios, max pain, implied volatility skew and where open interest is concentrated.

Earnings

History & consensus estimates
Reported vs expected · EPS
QuarterEst.ActualSurprise
Jun 2026 1.470.94 -36.0%
Mar 2026 1.431.65 +15.6%
Dec 2025 1.471.25 -14.9%
Sep 2025 1.671.59 -4.7%
Forward consensus
PeriodEPSAnalystsRevenueGrowth
Current quarter 1.46 4 $491.44M +4.4%
Next quarter 1.49 4 $493.57M +3.4%
Current year 5.50 3 $1.96B +4.2%
Next year 6.30 7 $2.02B +3.3%

Analyst targets & ownership

Account required
Mean target$304.07
High target$352.00
Low target$239.00
Implied upside11.59%
Analyst count25
ConsensusHOLD
Strong buy / Buy6 / 4
Hold14
Sell / Strong sell1 / 1
Held by insiders0.73%
Held by institutions104.43%
Institutions holding963
Free account required

Price targets, consensus spread, insider and institutional ownership.

Moving averages & technicals

Computed from 2Y daily closes
SMA 10
271.56
+0.34% from price
SMA 20
272.22
+0.10% from price
SMA 50
280.03
-2.69% from price
SMA 100
282.47
-3.53% from price
SMA 200
268.54
+1.47% from price
EMA 12
271.90
+0.22% from price
EMA 26
274.50
-0.73% from price
EMA 50
277.60
-1.84% from price
RSI (14)
45.5
Neutral
MACD (12,26,9)
-2.59
Hist 0.42
ATR (14)
4.31
1.58% of price
Realised vol 30D
14.6%
Annualised
Bollinger upper
276.26
20, 2σ
Bollinger lower
268.18
20, 2σ
50 / 200 cross
Golden
280.03 vs 268.54
Trend bias
Above 200
+1.47%

Options chain

Account required
Expiry
Spot 272.49
Calls
StrikeLastBidAskVolOIIV
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Puts
StrikeLastBidAskVolOIIV
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Free account required

Every listed expiry, both sides of the book, with volume, open interest and implied volatility.

Risk profile

Daily returns · 1Y window
Beta vs SPY
0.14
Less volatile than market
Correlation to SPY
0.10
Largely independent
Realised vol 30D
14.6%
Annualised
Market vol 1Y
13.0%
SPY, annualised
Max drawdown 1Y
-9.9%
Peak to trough
Max drawdown 5Y
-45.4%
Peak to trough
ATR 14
4.31
1.58% of price
Beta (reported)
0.72
5Y monthly, from filing

Short interest

Semi-monthly exchange report · lags by ~2 weeks
Shares short
2.19M
Prior 1.97M
Change vs prior
+10.8%
Shorts adding
% of float
5.40%
Normal
% of shares out
3.40%
Against total outstanding
Days to cover
4.5
Liquid
Float
63.55M
Freely tradeable shares

Exchanges publish short interest twice a month with a settlement lag, so this is roughly two weeks behind. Days to cover divides shares short by average daily volume — it estimates how long covering would take, not whether it will happen.

Rating changes

417 on file
DateFirm ActionFromTo
Sep 21, 26 Evercore ISI Group MAINTAINED Outperform Outperform
Sep 17, 26 Scotiabank MAINTAINED Sector Outperform Sector Outperform
Sep 8, 26 Mizuho DOWNGRADE Outperform Neutral
Aug 17, 26 Barclays MAINTAINED Equal-Weight Equal-Weight
Aug 14, 26 JP Morgan MAINTAINED Underweight Underweight
Aug 3, 26 Cantor Fitzgerald MAINTAINED Overweight Overweight
Jul 31, 26 RBC Capital MAINTAINED Outperform Outperform
Jul 31, 26 Citizens UPGRADE Market Perform Market Outperform
Jul 30, 26 Evercore ISI Group MAINTAINED Outperform Outperform
Jul 22, 26 Wells Fargo MAINTAINED Equal-Weight Equal-Weight
Jul 21, 26 Piper Sandler MAINTAINED Overweight Overweight
Jul 14, 26 Barclays MAINTAINED Equal-Weight Equal-Weight

Dividends & splits

Declared · from the issuer
Forward rate$10.36 / yr
Forward yield3.81%
5-year avg yield3.48%
Payout ratio160.50%
Ex-dividend dateSep 30, 2026
Next pay dateOct 15, 2026
Last split—
Split date—

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