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Investors Bullish on Equity Residential – What's Driving EQR's Surge?

Equity Residential stock is trading -15.2% below its average target price of $75.42 after marking a 1.1% during today's morning session. Analysts are giving the Large-Cap Specialty Real Estate Investment Trust company an average rating of buy and target prices ranging from $66.0 to $81.0 per share.

The stock has an average amount of shares sold short at 2.1%, and a short ratio of 2.9. The company's insiders own 0.53% of its outstanding shares, which indicates a strong alignment between management and shareholder interests. Finally, we also note that a significant number of institutional investors are invested in the stock, with 94.4% of Equity Residential's shares being owned by this investor type.

Institutions Invested in Equity Residential

Date Reported Holder Percentage Shares Value
2025-06-30 Vanguard Group Inc 15% 56,316,304 $3,601,990,752
2025-06-30 Blackrock Inc. 10% 38,571,434 $2,467,028,883
2025-06-30 NORGES BANK 9% 34,844,994 $2,228,685,784
2025-06-30 State Street Corporation 6% 24,234,081 $1,550,011,798
2025-06-30 Price (T.Rowe) Associates Inc 5% 20,794,966 $1,330,046,006
2025-06-30 Apg Asset Management US Inc. 3% 11,430,639 $731,103,659
2025-06-30 Geode Capital Management, LLC 3% 9,884,977 $632,243,119
2025-06-30 First Eagle Investment Management, LLC 2% 9,194,561 $588,084,113
2025-06-30 Invesco Ltd. 2% 8,019,026 $512,896,895
2025-06-30 FMR, LLC 2% 7,382,404 $472,178,553

Besides an analyst consensus of some upside potential, other market factors point to there being mixed market sentiment on Equity Residential.

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