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Equity Lifestyle Properties is a residential REIT that focuses on owning manufactured housing, residential vehicle communities, and marinas. The company currently has a portfolio of 455 properties across the US with a higher concentration in the Sunbelt; 38% of the company's properties are in Florida, 12% in Arizona, and 8% in California. Equity Lifestyle targets owning properties in attractive retirement destinations. More than 70% of the company's properties are either age-restricted or have an average resident age over 55.
Equity Lifestyle Props trades on the NYSE stock market under the symbol ELS.
As of February 18, 2026, ELS stock price declined to $67.11 with 1,100,997 million shares trading.
ELS has a beta of -0.12, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. ELS has a correlation of 0.02 to the broad based SPY ETF.
ELS has a market cap of $13.01 billion. This is considered a Large Cap stock.
Last quarter Equity Lifestyle Props reported $374 million in Revenue and $.79 earnings per share. This fell short of revenue expectation by $-5 million and exceeded earnings estimates by $.17.
In the last 3 years, ELS traded as high as $76.60 and as low as $58.15.
The top ETF exchange traded funds that ELS belongs to (by Net Assets): VNQ, IJH, VTI, VB, VBK.
ELS has underperformed the market in the last year with a return of +6.4%, while SPY returned +13.8%. This shows that you would have done better investing in the overall market (through SPY) over the last year than in ELS shares. However, ELS has outperformed the market in the last 3 month and 2 week periods, returning +10.2% and +4.7%, while SPY returned +3.4% and -0.5%, respectively. This indicates ELS has been having a stronger performance recently.
ELS support price is $66.97 and resistance is $68.81 (based on 1 day standard deviation move). This means that using the most recent 20 day stock volatility and applying a one standard deviation move around the stock's closing price, stastically there is a 67% probability that ELS shares will trade within this expected range on the day.