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Essex Property Trust (Essex Property Trust) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %

: 2.94% (As of Dec. 2023)
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Essex Property Trust's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $21,913 Mil. Essex Property Trust's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2023 was $644 Mil. Essex Property Trust's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was 2.94%.

The historical rank and industry rank for Essex Property Trust's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % or its related term are showing as below:

ESS' s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 1.38   Med: 2.75   Max: 4.7
Current: 3.08

During the past 13 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of Essex Property Trust was 4.70%. The lowest was 1.38%. And the median was 2.75%.

ESS's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is ranked better than
52.45% of 898 companies
in the REITs industry
Industry Median: 2.845 vs ESS: 3.08

Joel Greenblatt's definition of earnings yield has the same problems the regular earnings yield does. It does not consider the growth of the company. It only looks at one-year's business operation. For cyclical companies, the earnings yield is usually highest at the peak of the business cycle. But these earnings are rarely sustainable.

A better indicator of the attractiveness of an investment which takes growth into account is the Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) %. Essex Property Trust's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was 6.01%. The Forward Rate of Return uses the normalized Free Cash Flow of the past seven years, and considers growth. The forward rate of return can be thought of as the return that investors buying the stock today can expect from it in the future.


Essex Property Trust Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data

The historical data trend for Essex Property Trust's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % can be seen below:

* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD.
* For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.

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Essex Property Trust Annual Data
Trend Dec14 Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 2.65 3.78 2.45 3.32 2.94

Essex Property Trust Quarterly Data
Mar19 Jun19 Sep19 Dec19 Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 3.32 3.73 3.62 3.84 2.94

Competitive Comparison

For the REIT - Residential subindustry, Essex Property Trust's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %, along with its competitors' market caps and Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % data, can be viewed below:

* Competitive companies are chosen from companies within the same industry, with headquarter located in same country, with closest market capitalization; x-axis shows the market cap, and y-axis shows the term value; the bigger the dot, the larger the market cap. Note that "N/A" values will not show up in the chart.


Essex Property Trust Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution

For the REITs industry and Real Estate sector, Essex Property Trust's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Essex Property Trust's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % falls into.



Essex Property Trust Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Calculation

In his book, The Little That Beat the Market, hedge fund manager Joel Greenblatt defines Earnings Yield as operating income divided by enterprise value.

Essex Property Trusts Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2023 is calculated as

Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt)=EBIT/Enterprise Value
=643.613/21913.33479
=2.94 %

Essex Property Trust's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2023 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $644 Mil.



Essex Property Trust  (NYSE:ESS) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Explanation

Joel Greenblatt defines the earnings yield using the above equation because it more accurately reflects the company's profitability relative to its stock price. Items like interest payment and tax etc. are not directly related to the company's operational profitability.

Enterprise Value instead of market cap (share price) is used in the calculation because it is the real price stock and bond investors together pay for the company.


Be Aware

Joel Greenblatt's definition of earnings yield has the same problems the regular earnings yield does. It does not consider the growth of the company. It only looks at one-year's business operation. For cyclical companies, the earnings yield is usually highest at the peak of the business cycle. But these earnings are rarely sustainable.

Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % based on Don Yacktman's definition is a better measure of the expected rate of return for a stock.


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Essex Property Trust (Essex Property Trust) Business Description

Industry
Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
1100 Park Place, Suite 200, San Mateo, CA, USA, 94403
Essex Property Trust owns a portfolio of 252 apartment communities with over 62,000 units and is developing another property with 264 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.
Executives
Anne Morrison officer: SVP - General Counsel C/O ESSEX PROPERTY TRUST, INC., 1100 PARK PLACE, SUITE 200, SAN MATEO CA 94403
Amal M Johnson director C/O MELLANOX TECHNOLOGIES, INC., 350 OAKMEAD PARKWAY, SUITE 100, SUNNYVALE CA 94085
Angela L. Kleiman officer: Executive Vice President & CFO 1100 PARK PLACE, SUITE 200, SAN MATEO CA 94403
Michael J Schall director, officer: Sr. Exec. Vice President & CFO C/O ESSEX PROPERTY TRUST, 1100 PARK PLACE, SUITE 200, SAN MATEO CA 94403
Adam W Berry officer: Co-Chief Investment Officer C/O ESSEX PROPERTY TRUST, INC., 1100 PARK PLACE, SUITE 200, SAN MATEO CA 94403
Barbara Pak officer: Executive Vice President & CFO C/O ESSEX PROPERTY TRUST, INC., 1100 PARK PLACE, SUITE 200, SAN MATEO CA 94403
John Farias officer: Group Vice President and CAO C/O ESSEX PROPERTY TRUST, INC, 1100 PARK PLACE, SUITE 200, SAN MATEO CA 94403
Lyons Irving F Iii director C/O ESSEX PROPERTY TRUST, INC., 925 E. MEADOW DRIVE, PALO ALTO CA 94303
Thomas E Robinson director 309 GARRISON FOREST ROAD, OWNINGS MILLS MD 21117
Byron A Scordelis director
Maria R Hawthorne director 701 WESTERN AVENUE, GLENDALE CA 91201
John F. Burkart officer: Executive Vice President C/O ESSEX PROPERTY TRUST INC., 1100 PARK PLACE, SUITE 200, SAN MATEO CA 94403
Craig K Zimmerman officer: Executive Vice President C/O ESSEX PROPERTY TRUST, 1100 PARK PLACE, SUITE 200, SAN MATEO CA 94403
Janice L. Sears director 1100 PARK PLACE, SUITE 200, SAN MATEO CA 94403
John D Eudy officer: Executive Vice President C/O ESSEX PROPERTY TRUST, 1100 PARK PLACE, SUITE 200, SAN MATEO CA 94403

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