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EQR (Equity Residential) Graham Number : $24.82 (As of Jun. 2024)


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What is Equity Residential Graham Number?

Graham Number is a figure that measures a stock's fundamental value by taking into account the company's earnings per share and book value per share. The Graham number is the upper bound of the price range that a defensive investor should pay for the stock. According to the theory, any stock price below the Graham number is considered undervalued, and thus worth investing in.

As of today (2024-10-31), the stock price of Equity Residential is $70.37. Equity Residential's graham number for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2024 was $24.82. Therefore, Equity Residential's Price to Graham Number ratio for today is 3.07.

The historical rank and industry rank for Equity Residential's Graham Number or its related term are showing as below:

EQR' s Price-to-Graham-Number Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 1.81   Med: 2.54   Max: 11.93
Current: 2.84

During the past 13 years, the highest Price to Graham Number ratio of Equity Residential was 11.93. The lowest was 1.81. And the median was 2.54.

EQR's Price-to-Graham-Number is ranked worse than
95.18% of 684 companies
in the REITs industry
Industry Median: 0.795 vs EQR: 2.84

Graham Number is a combination of asset valuation and earnings power valuation. It is a very conservative way of valuing a stock.


Equity Residential Graham Number Historical Data

The historical data trend for Equity Residential's Graham Number 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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Equity Residential Graham Number Chart

Equity Residential Annual Data
Trend Dec14 Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Graham Number
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 32.07 23.81 21.54 28.26 30.37

Equity Residential Quarterly Data
Dec19 Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23 Mar24 Jun24 Sep24
Graham Number Get a 7-Day Free Trial 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 4.92 25.14 24.95 24.82 22.45

Competitive Comparison of Equity Residential's Graham Number

For the REIT - Residential subindustry, Equity Residential's Price-to-Graham-Number, along with its competitors' market caps and Price-to-Graham-Number 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.


Equity Residential's Price-to-Graham-Number Distribution in the REITs Industry

For the REITs industry and Real Estate sector, Equity Residential's Price-to-Graham-Number distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Equity Residential's Price-to-Graham-Number falls into.



Equity Residential Graham Number Calculation

Graham Number is a concept based on Ben Graham's conservative valuation of companies.

Equity Residential's Graham Number for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2023 is calculated as

Graham Number
=sqrt of (22.5* Tangible Book per Share *EPS without NRI)
=sqrt of (22.5*29.129*1.407)
=30.37

Equity Residential's Graham Number for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2024 is calculated as

Graham Number
=sqrt of (22.5*Tangible Book per Share*EPS without NRI (TTM))
=sqrt of (22.5*28.908*0.808)
=22.92

* 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.


Equity Residential  (NYSE:EQR) Graham Number Explanation

Ben Graham actually did not publish a formula like this. But he wrote in The Intelligent Investor (1948 version) regarding to the criteria for purchases:

Current price should not be more than 15 times average earnings of the past three years.

Current price should not be more than 1.5 times the book value last reported. However, a multiplier of earnings below 15 could justify a correspondingly higher multiplier of assets. As a rule of thumb we suggest that the product of the multiplier times the ratio of price to book value should not exceed 22.5. (This figure corresponds to 15 times earnings and 1.5 times book value. It would admit an issue selling at only 9 times earnings and 2.5 times asset value, etc.)

Unlike valuation methods such as DCF or Discounted Earnings, the Graham number does not take growth into the valuation. Unlike the valuation methods based on book value alone, it takes into account the earnings power. Therefore, the Graham Number is a combination of asset valuation and earnings power valuation.

In general, the Graham number is a very conservative way of valuing a stock. It cannot be applied to companies with negative book values.

Equity Residential's Price to Graham number Ratio for today is calculated as

Price to Graham number=Share Price (Today)/Graham number (Q: Jun. 2024 )
=70.37/22.92
=3.07

* 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.


Be Aware

Please keep these in mind:

1. Graham Number does not take growth into account. Therefore it underestimates the values of the companies that have good earnings growth. We feel that if the earnings per share grows more than 10% a year, Graham Number underestimates the value.
2. Graham Number punishes the companies that have temporarily low earnings. Therefore, an average of earnings makes more sense in the calculation of Graham Number.
3. Graham Numbers underestimates companies that are light with book.


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Equity Residential Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
Two North Riverside Plaza, Chicago, IL, USA, 60606
Equity Residential owns a portfolio of 299 apartment communities with around 80,000 units and is developing three additional properties with 977 units. The company focuses on owning large, high-quality properties in the urban and suburban submarkets of Southern California, San Francisco, Washington, D.C., New York, Seattle, and Boston.
Executives
Catherine Carraway officer: Executive Vice President TWO NORTH RIVERSIDE PLAZA, SUITE 500, CHICAGO IL 60606
Alexander Brackenridge officer: Executive Vice President TWO NORTH RIVERSIDE PLAZA, SUITE 400, CHICAGO IL 60606
Scott Fenster officer: EVP & General Counsel TWO NORTH RIVERSIDE PLAZA, SUITE 400, CHICAGO IL 60606
Ian Kaufman officer: Chief Accounting Officer C/O EQUITY RESIDENTIAL, TWO NORTH RIVERSIDE PLAZA, SUITE 400, CHICAGO IL 60606
Michael L Manelis officer: Executive Vice President TWO NORTH RIVERSIDE PLAZA, SUITE 400, CHICAGO IL 60606
Robert Garechana officer: EVP & Chief Financial Officer TWO NORTH RIVERSIDE PLAZA, SUITE 400, CHICAGO IL 60606
Linda Bynoe director 980 N. MICHIGAN AVE, SUITE 1400, CHICAGO IL 60611
Mary Kay Haben director C/O EQUITY RESIDENTIAL, TWO NORTH RIVERSIDE PLAZA, SUITE 400, CHICAGO IL 60606
David J Neithercut director C/O EQUITY RESIDENTIAL, TWO NORTH RIVERSIDE PLAZA, SUITE 400, CHICAGO IL 60606
Mark S Shapiro director C/O RED ZONE LLC, 21300 REDSKIN PARK DRIVE, ASHBURN VA 20147
Christa L Sorenson officer: Executive Vice President TWO NORTH RIVERSIDE PLAZA, SUITE 400, CHICAGO IL 60606
Angela M Aman director RETAIL PROPERTIES OF AMERICA, INC., 2021 SPRING ROAD, SUITE 200, OAK BROOK IL 60523
Duckworth Connie K director EIGHT WINGS ENTERPRISES, 77 STONE AGTE LANE, LAKE FOREST IL 60045
Bradley A Keywell director
John E Neal director 2020 CALAMOS COURT, NAPERVILLE X1 60563