Essential Properties Realty Trust Inc (NYSE:EPRT) shares, rose in value on Friday, January 24, with the stock price up by 0.45% to the previous day’s close as strong demand from buyers drove the stock to $31.41.
Actively observing the price movement in the last trading, the stock closed the session at $31.27, falling within a range of $31.075 and $31.54. The value of beta (5-year monthly) was 1.397 whereas the PE ratio was 27.30 over 12-month period. Referring to stock’s 52-week performance, its high was $34.88, and the low was $23.58. On the whole, EPRT has fluctuated by -0.38% over the past month.
With the market capitalization of Essential Properties Realty Trust Inc currently standing at about $5.52 billion, investors are eagerly awaiting this quarter’s results, scheduled for in February. The company’s Forward Dividend Ratio is 1.16, with its dividend yield at 3.69%.
Projections by analysts suggest varying estimates for the company’s quarterly revenue. Analysts have estimated the company’s revenue for the quarter at 449.15M, with a low estimate of 116.18M and a high estimate of 124.64M. Wall Street analysts also predicted that the company’s y-o-y revenues would reach 121.22M.
Technical indicators serve as essential tools for traders, offering insights into market sentiment and potential price movements. We see that EPRT’s technical picture suggests that short-term indicators denote the stock is a Hold on average. However, medium-term indicators have put the stock in the category of Hold while long-term indicators on average have been pointing out that it is a Hold.
The stock’s technical analysis shows that the PEG ratio is about 11.24, with the price of EPRT currently trading nearly 0.13% and -2.86% away from the simple moving averages for 20 and 50 days respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently indicates a reading of 47.60, while the 7-day volatility ratio is showing 1.81% which for the 30-day chart, stands at 2.06%. Furthermore, Essential Properties Realty Trust Inc (EPRT)’s beta value is 1.42, and its average true range (ATR) is 0.71.
A comparison of Essential Properties Realty Trust Inc (EPRT) with its peers suggests the former has fared considerably weaker in the market. EPRT showed an intraday change of 0.45% in last session, and over the past year, it grew by 25.94%%.
Data on historical trading for Essential Properties Realty Trust Inc (NYSE:EPRT) indicates that the trading volumes over the past 10 days have averaged 0.96 and over the past 3 months, they’ve averaged 1.20 million. According to company’s latest data on outstanding shares, there are 175.33 million shares outstanding.
Nearly 0.62% of Essential Properties Realty Trust Inc’s shares belong to company insiders and institutional investors own 114.37% of the company’s shares. The data on short interest also indicates that stock shorts accounted for 12.25 million shares as on 2024-12-31, resulting in a short ratio of 9.36. According to the data, the short interest in Essential Properties Realty Trust Inc (EPRT) stood at 1027.00 of shares outstanding as of 2024-12-31; the number of short shares registered in 2024-11-29 reached 20.3 million. The stock has risen by 0.42% since the beginning of the year, thereby showing the potential of a further growth. This could raise investors’ confidence to be optimistic about the EPRT stock heading into the next quarter.
