Yahoo Finance EPR Properties (EPR) Outpaces Stock Market Gains: What You Should Know
In the latest trading session, EPR Properties (EPR) closed at $43.51, marking a +1.99% move from the previous day. This move outpaced the S&P 500's daily gain of 1.47%. Elsewhere, the Dow lost 0.11%, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq added 7.94%.
Prior to today's trading, shares of the real estate investment trust had gained 14.55% over the past month. This has outpaced the Finance sector's gain of 8.23% and the S&P 500's gain of 7.41% in that time.
Wall Street will be looking for positivity from EPR Properties as it approaches its next earnings report date. This is expected to be February 22, 2023. In that report, analysts expect EPR Properties to post earnings of $1.25 per share. This would mark year-over-year growth of 12.61%. Meanwhile, the Zacks Consensus Estimate for revenue is projecting net sales of $148.02 million, up 7.77% from the year-ago period.
It is also important to note the recent changes to analyst estimates for EPR Properties. These recent revisions tend to reflect the evolving nature of short-term business trends. As a result, we can interpret positive estimate revisions as a good sign for the company's business outlook.
Research indicates that these estimate revisions are directly correlated with near-term share price momentum. We developed the Zacks Rank to capitalize on this phenomenon. Our system takes these estimate changes into account and delivers a clear, actionable rating model.
Ranging from #1 (Strong Buy) to #5 (Strong Sell), the Zacks Rank system has a proven, outside-audited track record of outperformance, with #1 stocks returning an average of +25% annually since 1988. The Zacks Consensus EPS estimate has moved 0.58% lower within the past month. EPR Properties is currently a Zacks Rank #3 (Hold).
Digging into valuation, EPR Properties currently has a Forward P/E ratio of 8.71. This represents a discount compared to its industry's average Forward P/E of 14.
We can also see that EPR currently has a PEG ratio of 0.97. This popular metric is similar to the widely-known P/E ratio, with the difference being that the PEG ratio also takes into account the company's expected earnings growth rate. REIT and Equity Trust - Retail stocks are, on average, holding a PEG ratio of 2.41 based on yesterday's closing prices.
The REIT and Equity Trust - Retail industry is part of the Finance sector. This group has a Zacks Industry Rank of 182, putting it in the bottom 28% of all 250+ industries.
The Zacks Industry Rank gauges the strength of our individual industry groups by measuring the average Zacks Rank of the individual stocks within the groups. Our research shows that the top 50% rated industries outperform the bottom half by a factor of 2 to 1.
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