Currently, there are 75.73M common shares owned by the public and among those 74.39M shares have been available to trade.
The company’s stock has a 5-day price change of 5.76% and -5.14% over the past three months. EPR shares are trading 5.80% year to date (YTD), with the 12-month market performance up to 1.36% higher. It has a 12-month low price of $39.65 and touched a high of $50.26 over the same period. EPR has an average intraday trading volume of 508.95K shares. The stock is trading above its simple moving averages at the SMA20, SMA50, and SMA200, as the current price level is off by 5.16%, 4.55%, and 5.75% respectively.
Institutional ownership of EPR Properties (NYSE: EPR) shares accounts for 71.81% of the company’s 75.73M shares outstanding.
It has a market capitalization of $3.55B and a beta (3y monthly) value of 1.75. The stock’s trailing 12-month PE ratio is 20.22, while the earnings-per-share (ttm) stands at $2.32. The company has a PEG of 11.29 and the debt-to-equity ratio at 1.28. Price movements for the stock have been influenced by the stock’s volatility, which stands at 1.83% over the week and 1.86% over the month.
Analysts forecast that EPR Properties (EPR) will achieve an EPS of 0.64 for the current quarter, 0.62 for the next quarter and 2.75 for current fiscal year. The lowest estimate earnings-per-share for the quarter is 0.62 while analysts give the company a high EPS estimate of 0.62. Comparatively, EPS for the current quarter was 0.58 a year ago. Earnings per share for the fiscal year are expected to increase by 25.47%, and 9.76% over the next financial year. EPS should grow at an annualized rate of 1.79% over the next five years, compared to -9.65% over the past 5-year period.
Looking at the support for the EPR, a number of firms have released research notes about the stock. UBS stated their Neutral rating for the stock in a research note on November 14, 2024, with the firm’s price target at $48. Raymond James coverage for the EPR Properties (EPR) stock in a research note released on August 21, 2024 offered a Strong Buy rating with a price target of $54. RBC Capital Mkts was of a view on August 05, 2024 that the stock is Outperform, while BofA Securities gave the stock Underperform rating on May 20, 2024, issuing a price target of $40. JMP Securities on their part issued Mkt Perform rating on January 22, 2024.
