Real Estate
Live Price
Offline$62.97
-0.52% today
1Y Change
-0.34%
Window
Jun 25, 2025 → Jun 18, 2026
Coverage: 248 bars · Jun 25, 2025 → Jun 18, 2026
Research Briefing
A compact read on the setup, peer context, quarterly changes, and recent earnings reaction.
Research Snapshot
Equity LifeStyle Properties, Inc. (ELS) is a Real Estate stock with a market cap of $12.12B and listed on NYSE. The stock last traded around $62.97 and down 0.3% across the available one-year price window (Jun 25, 2025 → Jun 18, 2026). Baseline metrics include revenue growth of +6.8%, EPS growth of -1.5%, a dividend yield of 3.3%. What stands out right now is revenue +6.8%, EPS -1.5%, free cash flow -6.0% with operating margin 34.6% and ROIC 10.6%. The dividend matters to the case here, with a current yield around 3.3%. Valuation already assumes a fairly strong business story at P/E 31.4 and price/sales 7.8. Overall, the current profile looks closer to a turnaround or cyclical reset than a generic broad-market placeholder. Stock Foundry combines ELS price history, valuation, growth, dividend context, earnings, analyst forecasts, news, related Real Estate peers on this page.
Benchmark Edge
Normalized return, excess return, max drawdown, and calendar-year wins against the benchmarks investors actually use.
ELS
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Normalized return
SPY
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S&P 500
Excess Return
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Relative to SPY
ELS Max Drawdown
-11.12%
Trailing 1Y
SPY Max Drawdown
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Trailing 1Y
Uses the longest available daily history for ELS and SPY.
Financial profile
Profitability, balance sheet stamina, and cash efficiency drawn from the latest filings.
FY Revenue
$1.3B
-4.3% YoY
FY Net Income
$262.5M
-7.8% YoY
Free Cash Flow
$304.8M
+34.5% YoY
Revenue Growth
+6.8%
EPS Growth
-1.5%
Gross Margin
31.5%
Net Margin
24.7%
Income statement
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| Metric | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | 1.5B | 1.4B | 1.4B | 1.4B | 1.3B |
| Gross Profit | 576M | 708M | 673M | 645M | 262M |
| Operating Income | 518M | 416M | 373M | 350M | 383M |
| EBITDA | 608M | 732M | 661M | 622M | 572M |
| Net Income | 387M | 367M | 314M | 285M | 262M |
| EPS (Diluted) | — | — | — | — | — |
Balance sheet
USD
| Metric | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cash & Equivalents | 26M | 6M | 4M | 3M | 94M |
| Total Assets | 5.7B | 5.6B | 5.6B | 5.5B | 5.3B |
| Total Liabilities | 3.9B | 3.8B | 4.1B | 4.0B | 3.8B |
| Shareholder Equity | 1.8B | 1.7B | 1.4B | 1.4B | 1.4B |
| Total Debt | 3.4B | 3.2B | 3.5B | 3.4B | 3.3B |
| Net Debt | 3.3B | 3.2B | 3.5B | 3.4B | 3.2B |
Cash flow positioning
Latest Full Year
Operating Cash Flow
509M
+7.0% YoY
Capital Expenditures
204M
+18.1% YoY
Free Cash Flow
305M
+34.5% YoY
Key ratios
Gross Margin
31.5%
Operating Margin
34.6%
Net Margin
24.7%
ROE
22.0%
Debt / Equity
1.87x
Next Step
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