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NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE, INC. · Real Estate · CIK 0000895417
$61.17
+3.40% · delayed ~15 min
Last price from Oct 22, 2026
$11.86B market value
From EQUITY LIFESTYLE PROPERTIES INC's FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 18, 2026 · read the filing
EQUITY LIFESTYLE PROPERTIES owns income-producing property as a REIT. It took in $1.53B last year, which makes it a mid-sized company. Of every dollar it sells, about 26 cents is left as profit.
The financial picture is led by profitability, with growth and debt worth watching.
A conclusion from the filings, not a recommendation. Detailed figures and supporting evidence appear in their dedicated sections below.
Financial health
Generally healthy, with a few things to watch.
From EQUITY LIFESTYLE PROPERTIES INC's FY2025 annual filing · share price scored separately
Largest year-over-year changes in FY2025
Profit margin
25.2% → 26.3%
Free cash flow
$355.4M → $334.1M
Cash
$24.6M → $26.1M
Shares in issue
191.1M → 193.8M
Measured against FY2024, from the 10-K filed Feb 18, 2026
Improved: +1.0 pts
25.2% to 26.3%Notable
Why it matters: What survives to the very end of each sale. Worth reading beside revenue: growing sales on a shrinking margin means the company is buying its growth.
How the latest move compares (quote delayed ~15 min), and what was published around it
ELS rose 3.40% on the latest quote. The average Real Estate company tracked here moved +1.90%, and the S&P 500 −1.04%. That is 1.5 points above its sector and 4.4 points above the market.
Expectations
Not from the filings — what other people are betting on, and what the price already assumes.
Opinions from 22 analysts covering this company, as of . Their views, not this site's.
Of 22 analysts publishing on this company, 7 say strong buy, 6 say buy and 9 say hold. Analysts are paid to publish a view and are wrong often; the split above says how much they agree with each other, which is the part a single headline rating hides.
Published by Finnhub. Analyst coverage skews towards larger companies and towards optimism — sell ratings are rare across the whole market, so a company with none is ordinary rather than endorsed.
The essentials
Each answered from the filings, with the numbers behind it.
Yes. It keeps about 26 cents of every dollar of sales as profit, earning $402.1M last year.
Barely. Sales were roughly flat, up 0.3%.
For every $1 it owes, it owns $1.46 in assets. Banks and insurers always carry high debt — that is how lending works — so this is normal for the industry and not comparable with other sectors.
Core operating and valuation reference metrics
Whether the dividend is covered by what the business actually earns
It pays out 96% of its profit. Property trusts are required to distribute most of their income and report profit after heavy depreciation, so a figure above 100% is normal here rather than a warning. It paid out 68% of the cash its operations generated. It has paid in each of the last 12 years.
GoodNext payment expected around , projected from how regularly it has paid before rather than from a date the company has announced.
Figures from the FY2025 annual filing
Last year it earned $402.1M and generated $571.1M of cash from operations.
As reported to the SEC, in USD. Hover or show sources to see where each figure came from.
| Income statement | FY202510-K · Feb 18, 2026Filing for FY2025 | FY202410-K · Feb 25, 2025Filing for FY2024 | FY202310-K · Feb 22, 2024Filing for FY2023 | FY202210-K · Feb 22, 2024Filing for FY2022 | FY202110-K · Feb 22, 2024Filing for FY2021 | ChangeFY2025 vs FY2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RevenueWhat is this? | $1.53B | $1.53B | $1.49B | $1.45B | $1.32B | +0.3% |
| Selling, general and administrative | $37.5M | $38.5M | $47.3M | $44.9M | $39.6M | −2.5% |
| Operating income | $391.3M | $380.7M | $320.1M | $295.5M | $272.2M | +2.8% |
| Operating marginOperating income ÷ revenueWhat is this? | 25.6% | 24.9% | 21.5% | 20.4% | 20.7% | +0.6 pts |
| Interest expense | $131.0M | $137.7M | $132.3M | $116.6M | $108.7M | −4.9% |
| Income before tax | — | — | — | $295.5M | $272.1M | — |
| Net income | $402.1M | $384.8M | $329.7M | $298.8M | $276.0M | +4.5% |
| Net marginNet income ÷ revenueWhat is this? | 26.3% | 25.2% | 22.1% | 20.7% | 21.0% | +1.0 pts |
| Earnings per shareNet income ÷ shares outstanding at the period end — close to, but not the same as, the reported EPSWhat is this? | $2.07 | $2.01 | $1.77 | $1.61 | $1.49 | +3.0% |
† calculated from other reported figures, such as total liabilities as assets minus equity.
This company's latest filing beside its peers' stored scores
| Company | Health | F-Score | Revenue growth | Profit margin | P/E | Debt to equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ELSEQUITY LIFESTYLE PROPERTIES INC · this page | 7.3/10 | 5/7 | 0.3% | 26.3% |
Insider activity, ownership stakes and what's coming — straight from EDGAR, before any article is written about it
Officers, directors and major shareholders must report within two business days of a trade.
Was granted or awarded shares — 392 shares at $49.58 ($19.4K)
Holds 16,917 shares after this filing.
Was granted or awarded shares — 62 shares at $55.26 ($3.4K)
Holds 16,525 shares after this filing.
20 recent filings, newest first. Each is labelled from its form and item numbers, not from its wording.
Published results
Read the filingMade a Regulation FD disclosure
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Every figure above traces back to a filing in the timeline, each linked to the document itself.
The 4 subsidiaries named in its 10-K, incorporated across 3 places. A filer lists the significant ones and may leave the rest out, so this is the floor rather than the full count.
Source: Exhibit 21 of the 10-K filed 2026-02-18. These are legal entities, not brands or acquisitions — a company that bought a business may hold it inside an entity named here, or inside one small enough that the rule does not require naming it at all.
Every company's figures are checked for internal consistency: the balance sheet adding up, figures sharing one currency, cash flow and share counts within plausible ranges, and how recent the latest annual report is. Nothing here changes a figure.
Financial figures are from ELS's 10-K for fiscal year 2025 (period ending 2025-12-31, filed Feb 18, 2026), reported under the US GAAP taxonomy. View the source filing.
3 of 4 scored areas had enough reported figures to judge
The score averages profitability, growth, debt and accounting. Accounting had too few reported figures and is left out of the average rather than counted as a weakness, so a company is never marked down for a figure it did not publish. Cash generation is shown for context and already feeds profitability. Valuation is scored separately, because a share price says nothing about whether the business is sound. 7 of the 9 Piotroski checks could be evaluated. How the score works
Each year scored only from its annual report as it was first filed
| Fiscal year | Health | F-Score | Scored from |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | 7.3 | 5/7 | 10-K, filed Feb 18, 2026 |
| FY2024 | 7.3 | 6/7 | 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2025 |
| FY2023 | 7.3 | 6/7 | 10-K, filed Feb 22, 2024 |
| FY2022 | 7.3 | 7/7 | 10-K, filed Feb 21, 2023 |
| FY2021 | 8.7 | 6/7 | 10-K, filed Feb 22, 2022 |
| FY2020 | 7.3 | 5/7 | 10-K, filed Feb 23, 2021 |
A later restatement never reaches back into an earlier year, and every year is scored without a share price, so the latest point can differ a little from the headline score, which uses today's price.
Every check behind the three models, and what each one tests
5 of 7 checks passed
Nine yes-or-no tests of whether this year's finances improved on last year's. 2 could not be evaluated and are excluded from the total rather than counted as failures.
not reported — Not meaningful for banks, insurers and other financial companies. Their balance sheets have no working capital and are leveraged by design, which this model misreads as distress.
Not meaningful for banks, insurers and other financial companies. Their balance sheets have no working capital and are leveraged by design, which this model misreads as distress.
Distance from bankruptcy, from a model fitted on companies that did and did not go bust. It describes a balance sheet's shape today; it does not forecast a failure.
not reported — Not meaningful for banks, insurers and other financial companies. Their balance sheets have no working capital and are leveraged by design, which this model misreads as distress.
Not meaningful for banks, insurers and other financial companies. Their balance sheets have no working capital and are leveraged by design, which this model misreads as distress.
Screens eight accounting ratios for the pattern earnings manipulators tend to leave. A flag is a reason to read the filing closely, never evidence of wrongdoing.
Every figure above comes from the FY2025 filing as filed with the SEC.
Deteriorated: -6.0%
$355.4M to $334.1MNotable
Why it matters: Cash left after paying for the plant that produced it — the money genuinely available for dividends, buybacks or paying down debt. Harder to flatter than profit.
Improved: +6.3%
$24.6M to $26.1MNotable
Why it matters: A falling cash pile is only a warning if the company is consuming it. Paying down debt, buying back stock and paying a dividend all reduce cash by choice.
Deteriorated: +1.5%
191.1M to 193.8MNotable
Why it matters: New shares divide the same company into more pieces, so each existing holding owns slightly less of it. Often pay for staff or an acquisition rather than anything wrong.
Changed: +10.7%
$350.6M to $388.0MNotable
Why it matters: Cash handed to shareholders. A rise can be a higher dividend or simply more shares, and a cut is a decision the company explains in its own filing — neither is rated here.
Q1 FY2026 against Q1 FY2025, from the 10-Q filed Apr 28, 2026 — read it.
Deteriorated: -17.4%
$47.5M to $39.2MSignificant
Why it matters: A falling cash pile is only a warning if the company is consuming it. Paying down debt, buying back stock and paying a dividend all reduce cash by choice.
Deteriorated: −1.5 pts
29.5% to 28.0%Notable
Why it matters: What survives to the very end of each sale. Worth reading beside revenue: growing sales on a shrinking margin means the company is buying its growth.
Deteriorated: +1.5%
191.1M to 193.9MNotable
Why it matters: New shares divide the same company into more pieces, so each existing holding owns slightly less of it. Often pay for staff or an acquisition rather than anything wrong.
Changed: +9.4%
$91.2M to $99.8MNotable
Why it matters: Cash handed to shareholders. A rise can be a higher dividend or simply more shares, and a cut is a decision the company explains in its own filing — neither is rated here.
7 other measures barely moved. Figures compare the two most recent annual filings — read the latest one. Moves are graded on fixed lines — 5%, 15% and 40% for amounts, and 1, 3 and 8 points for margins — as notable, significant or critical. Nothing here reads the management commentary, which is where a company explains its own numbers.
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About 5.3% of this company's shares have been borrowed and sold by people expecting to buy them back cheaper. That is a bet the price falls. Those people can be wrong, and when a heavily shorted share rises they have to buy it back, which pushes it up further.
Collected by FINRA from broker-dealers twice a month. It counts positions, not intentions, and some of it is hedging rather than a directional bet against the company.
Nothing in this section is a figure this company reported about itself. These are expectations and positions — what the price implies, what analysts have published, what short sellers are betting, and what large funds held at the last count. WylthIQ reports them; it does not endorse them, does not forecast prices, and takes no view on whether any of them will turn out to be right.
The trailing P/E is 28.9x — investors pay $28.9 for each $1 of trailing profit.
Not meaningful for banks, insurers and other financial companies. Their balance sheets have no working capital and are leveraged by design, which this model misreads as distress.
Reported annual figures
| 29.49x |
| 2.24x |
| INVHInvitation Homes Inc. | 6.0/10 | 6/7 | 4.2% | 21.5% | 28.60x | 0.96x |
|---|
| Median of peers | 6.0/10 | — | 4.2% | 21.5% | 28.60x | 0.96x |
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Peers come from the company's industry classification. A difference describes the companies; it does not rank them.
Gifted shares — 3,615 shares
Holds 10,973 shares after this filing.
Was granted or awarded shares — 377 shares at $51.65 ($19.5K)
Holds 16,463 shares after this filing.
Estimated from how often this has happened before, not a confirmed date.
Not investment advice, and not a signal to act on by itself — a filing says what happened, not why, and insiders trade for ordinary reasons having nothing to do with where they think the company is headed.
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Profit margin −1.5 pts · Cash -17.4% · Shares in issue +1.5% — against Q1 FY2025
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Profit margin +1.0 pts · Free cash flow -6.0% · Cash +6.3% — against FY2024
Read the filingHad a director or senior officer leave or join · Reported another event
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Operating margin +3.7 pts · Operating income +19.1% · Profit +15.5% — against Q3 FY2024
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