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NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE, INC. · Real Estate · CIK 0000920522
$282.45
+3.04% · live
Updated
$18.20B market value
From ESSEX PROPERTY TRUST, INC.'s FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 20, 2026 · read the filing
ESSEX PROPERTY TRUST owns income-producing property as a REIT. It took in $9.4M last year, which makes it a small company. Of every dollar it sells, about 7491 cents is left as profit.
The financial picture is led by profitability, with debt worth watching, while growth remain weak.
A conclusion from the filings, not a recommendation. Detailed figures and supporting evidence appear in their dedicated sections below.
Financial health
A mixed picture — some clear strengths and some weaknesses.
From ESSEX PROPERTY TRUST, INC.'s FY2025 annual filing · share price scored separately
Largest year-over-year changes in FY2025
Gross margin
12105.7% → 14060.1%
Operating margin
6849.4% → 9586.6%
Profit margin
7903.6% → 7491.5%
Capital spending
$2.9M → $61.9M
Measured against FY2024, from the 10-K filed Feb 20, 2026
Improved: +1954.4 pts
12105.7% to 14060.1%Critical
Why it matters: What survives each sale before overheads. Falling gross margin usually means the company is discounting or its input costs rose — it is the earliest place pricing pressure shows.
How the latest move compares (quote live), and what was published around it
ESS rose 3.04% on the latest quote. The average Real Estate company tracked here moved +1.86%, and the S&P 500 −1.04%. That is 1.2 points above its sector and 4.1 points above the market.
Expectations
Not from the filings — what other people are betting on, and what the price already assumes.
Opinions from 30 analysts covering this company, as of . Their views, not this site's.
Of 30 analysts publishing on this company, 2 say strong buy, 10 say buy, 15 say hold, 2 say sell and 1 say strong sell. Analysts are paid to publish a view and are wrong often; the split above says how much they agree with each other, which is the part a single headline rating hides.
The essentials
Each answered from the filings, with the numbers behind it.
Yes. It keeps about 7491 cents of every dollar of sales as profit, earning $702.8M last year.
No. Sales shrank 8.6% last year.
For every $1 it owes, it owns $1.77 in assets. Banks and insurers always carry high debt — that is how lending works — so this is normal for the industry and not comparable with other sectors.
Core operating and valuation reference metrics
Income
This company pays no dividend. It keeps its profits and reinvests them in the business instead, so any return would have to come from the share price.
Figures from the FY2025 annual filing
Last year it earned $702.8M and generated $1.07B of cash from operations.
As reported to the SEC, in USD. Hover or show sources to see where each figure came from.
| Income statement | FY202510-K · Feb 20, 2026Filing for FY2025 | FY202410-K · Feb 20, 2026Filing for FY2024 | FY202310-K · Feb 20, 2026Filing for FY2023 | FY202210-K · Feb 21, 2025Filing for FY2022 | FY202110-K · Feb 25, 2022Filing for FY2021 | ChangeFY2025 vs FY2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RevenueWhat is this? | $9.4M | $10.3M | $11.1M | $11.1M | $9.1M | −8.6% |
| Gross profit | $1.32B | $1.24B | $1.17B | $1.13B | — | +6.1% |
| Gross marginGross profit ÷ revenueWhat is this? | 14060.1% | 12105.7% | 10515.7% | 10130.2% | — | +1954.4 pts |
| Selling, general and administrative | $71.9M | $98.9M | $63.5M | $56.6M | $51.8M | −27.3% |
| Operating income | $899.3M | $703.1M | $584.3M | $595.2M | $530.0M | +27.9% |
| Operating marginOperating income ÷ revenueWhat is this? | 9586.6% | 6849.4% | 5249.7% | 5343.6% | 5799.9% | +2737.1 pts |
| Interest expense | $258.4M | $235.5M | $212.9M | $204.8M | $203.1M | +9.7% |
| Net income | $702.8M | $811.3M | $430.7M | $433.0M | $515.7M | −13.4% |
| Net marginNet income ÷ revenueWhat is this? | 7491.5% | 7903.6% | 3869.4% | 3887.1% | 5643.4% | −412.2 pts |
| Earnings per shareNet income ÷ shares outstanding at the period end — close to, but not the same as, the reported EPSWhat is this? | $10.91 | $12.62 | $6.71 | $6.70 | $7.90 | −13.6% |
† calculated from other reported figures, such as total liabilities as assets minus equity.
This company's latest filing beside its peers' stored scores
| Company | Health | F-Score | Revenue growth | Profit margin | P/E | Debt to equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ESSESSEX PROPERTY TRUST, INC. · this page | 6.0/10 |
Insider activity, ownership stakes and what's coming — straight from EDGAR, before any article is written about it
Estimated from how often this has happened before, not a confirmed date.
Not investment advice, and not a signal to act on by itself — a filing says what happened, not why, and insiders trade for ordinary reasons having nothing to do with where they think the company is headed.
20 recent filings, newest first. Each is labelled from its form and item numbers, not from its wording.
Signed a material agreement · Took on a direct financial obligation
Read the filingMade a Regulation FD disclosure
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Every company's figures are checked for internal consistency: the balance sheet adding up, figures sharing one currency, cash flow and share counts within plausible ranges, and how recent the latest annual report is. Nothing here changes a figure.
Financial figures are from ESS's 10-K for fiscal year 2025 (period ending 2025-12-31, filed Feb 20, 2026), reported under the US GAAP taxonomy. View the source filing.
3 of 4 scored areas had enough reported figures to judge
The score averages profitability, growth, debt and accounting. Accounting had too few reported figures and is left out of the average rather than counted as a weakness, so a company is never marked down for a figure it did not publish. Cash generation is shown for context and already feeds profitability. Valuation is scored separately, because a share price says nothing about whether the business is sound. 7 of the 9 Piotroski checks could be evaluated. How the score works
Each year scored only from its annual report as it was first filed
| Fiscal year | Health | F-Score | Scored from |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | 6.0 | 5/7 | 10-K, filed Feb 20, 2026 |
| FY2024 | 6.0 | 6/7 | 10-K, filed Feb 21, 2025 |
| FY2023 | 6.0 | 5/6 | 10-K, filed Feb 23, 2024 |
| FY2022 | 8.7 | 5/6 | 10-K, filed Feb 23, 2023 |
| FY2021 | 6.0 | 5/7 | 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2022 |
| FY2020 | 7.3 | 6/7 | 10-K, filed Feb 19, 2021 |
A later restatement never reaches back into an earlier year, and every year is scored without a share price, so the latest point can differ a little from the headline score, which uses today's price.
Every check behind the three models, and what each one tests
5 of 7 checks passed
Nine yes-or-no tests of whether this year's finances improved on last year's. 2 could not be evaluated and are excluded from the total rather than counted as failures.
not reported — Not meaningful for banks, insurers and other financial companies. Their balance sheets have no working capital and are leveraged by design, which this model misreads as distress.
Not meaningful for banks, insurers and other financial companies. Their balance sheets have no working capital and are leveraged by design, which this model misreads as distress.
Distance from bankruptcy, from a model fitted on companies that did and did not go bust. It describes a balance sheet's shape today; it does not forecast a failure.
not reported — Not meaningful for banks, insurers and other financial companies. Their balance sheets have no working capital and are leveraged by design, which this model misreads as distress.
Not meaningful for banks, insurers and other financial companies. Their balance sheets have no working capital and are leveraged by design, which this model misreads as distress.
Screens eight accounting ratios for the pattern earnings manipulators tend to leave. A flag is a reason to read the filing closely, never evidence of wrongdoing.
Every figure above comes from the FY2025 filing as filed with the SEC.
Improved: +2737.1 pts
6849.4% to 9586.6%Critical
Why it matters: What survives each sale after running the business. A falling operating margin beside a steady gross margin points at overheads — wages, marketing, research — rather than pricing.
Deteriorated: −412.2 pts
7903.6% to 7491.5%Critical
Why it matters: What survives to the very end of each sale. Worth reading beside revenue: growing sales on a shrinking margin means the company is buying its growth.
Changed: +2053.0%
$2.9M to $61.9MCritical
Why it matters: Neither good nor bad on its own. Heavy spending is a company building capacity or a company struggling to stand still, and the two look identical in this figure.
Improved: +27.9%
$703.1M to $899.3MSignificant
Why it matters: Profit from running the business, before interest and tax. Less exposed than profit to one-off financing and tax items, so a clearer read on the business itself.
Deteriorated: -8.6%
$10.3M to $9.4MNotable
Why it matters: Sales are what everything else is built on. A fall can be lost customers, lower prices, or a business the company sold — the filing itself says which.
Improved: +6.1%
$1.24B to $1.32BNotable
Why it matters: What is left of sales after the direct cost of producing them. It normally moves with revenue, so a move out of step with revenue is the part worth noticing.
Deteriorated: -13.4%
$811.3M to $702.8MNotable
Why it matters: Profit swings far more than sales do, and one-off items — a legal settlement, a tax charge, an asset sale — move it without the underlying business changing.
Deteriorated: -13.6%
$12.62 to $10.91Notable
Why it matters: Profit divided by the shares in issue at the period end, so it sits close to but not on the company's own reported figure. It can rise with no growth in profit when the company buys back stock — read it beside the share count.
Improved: +14.1%
$66.8M to $76.2MNotable
Why it matters: A falling cash pile is only a warning if the company is consuming it. Paying down debt, buying back stock and paying a dividend all reduce cash by choice.
Q2 FY2026 against Q2 FY2025, from the 10-Q filed Jul 30, 2026 — read it.
Deteriorated: -60.9%
$279.7M to $109.4MCritical
Why it matters: Profit from running the business, before interest and tax. Less exposed than profit to one-off financing and tax items, so a clearer read on the business itself.
Deteriorated: -71.1%
$231.5M to $66.9MCritical
Why it matters: Profit swings far more than sales do, and one-off items — a legal settlement, a tax charge, an asset sale — move it without the underlying business changing.
Deteriorated: −28.8 pts
14942.9% to 14914.1%Critical
Why it matters: What survives each sale before overheads. Falling gross margin usually means the company is discounting or its input costs rose — it is the earliest place pricing pressure shows.
Deteriorated: −7863.7 pts
12582.1% to 4718.4%Critical
Why it matters: What survives each sale after running the business. A falling operating margin beside a steady gross margin points at overheads — wages, marketing, research — rather than pricing.
Deteriorated: −7527.7 pts
10415.0% to 2887.4%Critical
Why it matters: What survives to the very end of each sale. Worth reading beside revenue: growing sales on a shrinking margin means the company is buying its growth.
Deteriorated: -71.0%
$3.59 to $1.04Critical
Why it matters: Profit divided by the shares in issue at the period end, so it sits close to but not on the company's own reported figure. It can rise with no growth in profit when the company buys back stock — read it beside the share count.
Q2 FY2026 against Q1 FY2026, from the 10-Q filed Jul 30, 2026 — read it. Quarter-to-quarter moves include seasonal swings — a retailer's holiday quarter — which the year-earlier comparison removes.
Deteriorated: -40.4%
$112.2M to $66.9MCritical
Why it matters: Profit swings far more than sales do, and one-off items — a legal settlement, a tax charge, an asset sale — move it without the underlying business changing.
Improved: +163.3 pts
14750.8% to 14914.1%Critical
Why it matters: What survives each sale before overheads. Falling gross margin usually means the company is discounting or its input costs rose — it is the earliest place pricing pressure shows.
Deteriorated: −1991.2 pts
6709.6% to 4718.4%Critical
Why it matters: What survives each sale after running the business. A falling operating margin beside a steady gross margin points at overheads — wages, marketing, research — rather than pricing.
Deteriorated: −1963.8 pts
4851.2% to 2887.4%Critical
Why it matters: What survives to the very end of each sale. Worth reading beside revenue: growing sales on a shrinking margin means the company is buying its growth.
Deteriorated: -40.3%
$1.74 to $1.04Critical
Why it matters: Profit divided by the shares in issue at the period end, so it sits close to but not on the company's own reported figure. It can rise with no growth in profit when the company buys back stock — read it beside the share count.
Improved: +53.5%
$38.0M to $58.3MCritical
Why it matters: A falling cash pile is only a warning if the company is consuming it. Paying down debt, buying back stock and paying a dividend all reduce cash by choice.
Deteriorated: -29.5%
$155.2M to $109.4MSignificant
Why it matters: Profit from running the business, before interest and tax. Less exposed than profit to one-off financing and tax items, so a clearer read on the business itself.
Improved: -6.6%
$6.84B to $6.39BNotable
Why it matters: Rising debt is not automatically bad — borrowing to build something that earns more than the interest is ordinary. It matters when it grows faster than the profit meant to service it.
2 other measures barely moved. Figures compare the two most recent annual filings — read the latest one. Moves are graded on fixed lines — 5%, 15% and 40% for amounts, and 1, 3 and 8 points for margins — as notable, significant or critical. Nothing here reads the management commentary, which is where a company explains its own numbers.
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About 3.9% of this company's shares have been borrowed and sold by people expecting to buy them back cheaper. That is a bet the price falls. Those people can be wrong, and when a heavily shorted share rises they have to buy it back, which pushes it up further.
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The trailing P/E is 31.2x — a high multiple relative to the current trailing profit.
Not meaningful for banks, insurers and other financial companies. Their balance sheets have no working capital and are leveraged by design, which this model misreads as distress.
Reported annual figures
| 5/7 |
| -8.6% |
| 7491.5% |
| 25.90x |
| 1.34x |
| MAAMID AMERICA APARTMENT COMMUNITIES INC. | 7.3/10 | 4/6 | 0.8% | 20.2% | 31.69x | 1.08x |
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| CPTCAMDEN PROPERTY TRUST | 8.7/10 | 7/8 | 81.7% | 2964.9% | 27.87x | 1.06x |
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| UDRUDR, Inc. | 8.7/10 | 6/7 | 36.6% | 3324.6% | 31.45x | 1.96x |
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| Median of peers | 8.7/10 | — | 36.6% | 2964.9% | 31.45x | 1.08x |
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Peers come from the company's industry classification. A difference describes the companies; it does not rank them.
Quarterly report for Q2 FY2026
Operating margin −7863.7 pts · Operating income -60.9% · Profit -71.1% — against Q2 FY2025
Published results
Read the filingMade a Regulation FD disclosure
Read the filingHeld a shareholder vote
Read the filingQuarterly report for Q1 FY2026
Revenue -7.3% · Operating margin −3598.4 pts · Profit -47.3% — against Q1 FY2025
Read the filingPublished results
Read the filingProxy statement for a shareholder meeting
Read the filingAnnual report for FY2025
Revenue -8.6% · Operating margin +2737.1 pts · Gross margin +1954.4 pts — against FY2024
Read the filingPublished results
Read the filingSigned a material agreement · Took on a direct financial obligation
Read the filingReported another event
Read the filingQuarterly report for Q3 FY2025
Revenue -7.9% · Operating margin +3886.5 pts · Operating income +63.4% — against Q3 FY2024
Read the filingPublished results
Read the filingQuarterly report for Q2 FY2025
Revenue -13.6% · Operating margin +7240.1 pts · Operating income +103.5% — against Q2 FY2024
Read the filingPublished results
Read the filingSigned a material agreement · Took on a direct financial obligation · Reported another event
Read the filingHeld a shareholder vote
Read the filingQuarterly report for Q1 FY2025
Revenue -8.1% · Operating margin +5429.3 pts · Operating income +94.2% — against Q1 FY2024
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