Essex Property Trust, Inc (NYSE:ESS) shares, rose in value on Friday, June 20, with the stock price up by 0.12% to the previous day’s close as strong demand from buyers drove the stock to $284.34.
Actively observing the price movement in the last trading, the stock closed the session at $284.01, falling within a range of $281.69 and $287.2. The value of beta (5-year monthly) was 0.802 whereas the PE ratio was 27.21 over 12-month period. Referring to stock’s 52-week performance, its high was $317.73, and the low was $243.85. On the whole, ESS has fluctuated by -1.10% over the past month.
With the market capitalization of Essex Property Trust, Inc currently standing at about $18.96 billion, investors are eagerly awaiting this quarter’s results, scheduled for on 2025-Apr-29. The company’s Forward Dividend Ratio is 9.92, with its dividend yield at 3.49%.
Technical indicators serve as essential tools for traders, offering insights into market sentiment and potential price movements. We see that ESS’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 50% Sell while long-term indicators on average have been pointing out that it is a 100% Sell.
The stock’s technical analysis shows that the price of ESS currently trading nearly 0.89% and 1.48% away from the simple moving averages for 20 and 50 days respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently indicates a reading of 51.63, while the 7-day volatility ratio is showing 0.37% which for the 30-day chart, stands at 1.21%. Furthermore, Essex Property Trust, Inc (ESS)’s beta value is 0.80, and its average true range (ATR) is 5.91.
A comparison of Essex Property Trust, Inc (ESS) with its peers suggests the former has fared considerably weaker in the market. ESS showed an intraday change of 0.12% in last session, and over the past year, it grew by 1.08%%.
Data on historical trading for Essex Property Trust, Inc (NYSE:ESS) indicates that the trading volumes over the past 10 days have averaged 0.46 and over the past 3 months, they’ve averaged 479.44K. According to company’s latest data on outstanding shares, there are 64.36 million shares outstanding.
Nearly 0.70% of Essex Property Trust, Inc’s shares belong to company insiders and institutional investors own 99.35% of the company’s shares. The data on short interest also indicates that stock shorts accounted for 1.52 million shares as on 2025-05-30, resulting in a short ratio of 3.45. According to the data, the short interest in Essex Property Trust, Inc (ESS) stood at 322.00 of shares outstanding as of 2025-05-30; the number of short shares registered in 2025-04-30 reached 1.85 million. The stock has fallen by -0.39% since the beginning of the year, thereby showing the potential of a further growth. This could raise investors’ confidence to be optimistic about the ESS stock heading into the next quarter.
