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Essex Property Trust owns a portfolio of 258 apartment communities with over 62,000 units. The company focuses on owning large, high-quality properties on the West Coast in the urban and suburban submarkets of Southern California, Northern California, and Seattle.
Essex Property Trust trades on the NYSE stock market under the symbol ESS.
As of February 23, 2026, ESS stock price climbed to $255.33 with 514,854 million shares trading.
ESS has a beta of 0.65, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. ESS has a correlation of 0.20 to the broad based SPY ETF.
ESS has a market cap of $16.43 billion. This is considered a Large Cap stock.
Last quarter Essex Property Trust reported $480 million in Revenue and $3.98 earnings per share. This beat revenue expectation by $5 million and exceeded earnings estimates by $1.50.
In the last 3 years, ESS traded as high as $317.73 and as low as $195.03.
The top ETF exchange traded funds that ESS belongs to (by Net Assets): VNQ, VTI, VOO, IVV, SPY.
ESS has underperformed the market in the last year with a return of -9.8%, while the SPY ETF gained +13.0%. In the last 3 month period, ESS fell short of the market, returning +0.8%, while SPY returned +4.9%. However, in the most recent 2 weeks ESS has outperformed the stock market by returning -1.1%, while SPY returned -1.2%.
ESS support price is $250.66 and resistance is $258.39 (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 ESS shares will trade within this expected range on the day.
