Essex Property Trust Inc. (ESS): Price and Financial Metrics

ESS POWR Grades

• Sentiment is the dimension where ESS ranks best; there it ranks ahead of 87.78% of US stocks.
• ESS's strongest trending metric is Momentum; it's been moving up over the last 179 days.
• ESS's current lowest rank is in the Value metric (where it is better than 8.83% of US stocks).

ESS Stock Summary

• Of note is the ratio of Essex Property Trust Inc's sales and general administrative expense to its total operating expenses; merely 4.61% of US stocks have a lower such ratio.
• For ESS, its debt to operating expenses ratio is greater than that reported by 94.8% of US equities we're observing.
• In terms of volatility of its share price, ESS is more volatile than only 3.57% of stocks we're observing.
• If you're looking for stocks that are quantitatively similar to Essex Property Trust Inc, a group of peers worth examining would be AQN, AL, TRTN, CMS, and AEE.
• ESS's SEC filings can be seen here. And to visit Essex Property Trust Inc's official web site, go to www.essexapartmenthomes.com.

ESS Valuation Summary

• In comparison to the median Real Estate stock, ESS's price/earnings ratio is 44.87% higher, now standing at 54.4.
• ESS's EV/EBIT ratio has moved up 26.1 over the prior 243 months.
• ESS's price/sales ratio has moved up 10.5 over the prior 243 months.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for ESS.

ESS Growth Metrics

Its 4 year net income to common stockholders growth rate is now at 158.85%.
• Its 3 year net income to common stockholders growth rate is now at 70.31%.
• The 2 year net income to common stockholders growth rate now stands at 84.18%.

Over the past 34 months, ESS's revenue has gone up $31,535,000.

The table below shows ESS's growth in key financial areas (numbers in millions of US dollars).

Date	Revenue	Operating Cash Flow	Net Income to Common Stock
2021-12-31	1,440.556	905.259	488.554
2021-09-30	1,431.033	849.548	447.425
2021-06-30	1,438.987	805.069	402.696
2021-03-31	1,458.506	731.448	422.308
2020-12-31	1,495.748	803.108	568.87
2020-09-30	1,509.04	865.589	601.943

ESS's Quality Factors

The “Quality” component of the POWR Ratings focuses on 31 different factors of a companies fundamentals and operational strength. Here are some key insights as we drill into the specifics of these quality attributes.

• ESS has a Quality Grade of C, ranking ahead of 66.31% of graded US stocks.
• ESS's asset turnover comes in at 0.112 -- ranking 179th of 443 Trading stocks.
• FSP, MN, and TRTX are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with ESS.

The table below shows ESS's key quality metrics over time.