How to buy Douglas Emmett stock

Douglas Emmett, Inc is a reit-office business based in the US. Douglas Emmett shares (DEI) are listed on the NYSE and all prices are listed in US Dollars.

How to buy shares in Douglas Emmett

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2. Open and fund your brokerage account. Complete an application with your personal and financial details, like your ID and bank information. Fund your account with a bank transfer, credit card or debit card.
3. Search for Douglas Emmett. Find the stock by name or ticker symbol: DEI. Research its history to confirm it's a solid investment against your financial goals.
4. Purchase now or later. Buy today with a market order or use a limit order to delay your purchase until Douglas Emmett reaches your desired price. To spread out your purchase, look into dollar-cost averaging, which smooths out buying at consistent intervals and amounts.
5. Decide on how many to buy. Weigh your budget against a diversified portfolio that can minimize risk through the market's ups and downs. You may be able to buy a fractional share of Douglas Emmett, depending on your broker.
6. Check in on your investment. Congratulations, you own a part of Douglas Emmett. Optimize your portfolio by tracking how your stock — and even the business — performs with an eye on the long term. You may be eligible for dividends and shareholder voting rights on directors and management that can affect your stock.

Douglas Emmett share price

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Douglas Emmett shares at a glance

• Key figures

Information last updated 2021-02-24.

52-week range	USD$22.265 - USD$39.8292
50-day moving average	USD$28.5203
200-day moving average	USD$28.1191
Wall St. target price	USD$31.31
PE ratio	113.7857
Dividend yield	USD$1.12 (3.75%)
Earnings per share (TTM)	USD$0.28

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Douglas Emmett financials

Revenue TTM	USD$892 million
Operating margin TTM	18.13%
Gross profit TTM	USD$586.5 million
Return on assets TTM	1.09%
Return on equity TTM	0.92%
Profit margin	5.65%
Book value	$13.895
Market capitalisation	USD$5.6 billion

TTM: trailing 12 months

Shorting Douglas Emmett shares

There are currently 6.7 million Douglas Emmett shares held short by investors – that's known as Douglas Emmett's "short interest". This figure is 0.8% up from 6.7 million last month.

There are a few different ways that this level of interest in shorting Douglas Emmett shares can be evaluated.

Douglas Emmett's "short interest ratio" (SIR)

Douglas Emmett's "short interest ratio" (SIR) is the quantity of Douglas Emmett shares currently shorted divided by the average quantity of Douglas Emmett shares traded daily (recently around 1.4 million). Douglas Emmett's SIR currently stands at 4.96. In other words for every 100,000 Douglas Emmett shares traded daily on the market, roughly 4960 shares are currently held short.

However Douglas Emmett's short interest can also be evaluated against the total number of Douglas Emmett shares, or, against the total number of tradable Douglas Emmett shares (the shares that aren't held by "insiders" or major long-term shareholders – also known as the "float"). In this case Douglas Emmett's short interest could be expressed as 0.04% of the outstanding shares (for every 100,000 Douglas Emmett shares in existence, roughly 40 shares are currently held short) or 0.0554% of the tradable shares (for every 100,000 tradable Douglas Emmett shares, roughly 55 shares are currently held short).

Such a low SIR usually points to an optimistic outlook for the share price, with fewer people currently willing to bet against Douglas Emmett.

Find out more about how you can short Douglas Emmett stock.

Douglas Emmett's environmental, social and governance track record

Environmental, social and governance (known as ESG) criteria are a set of three factors used to measure the sustainability and social impact of companies like Douglas Emmett.

When it comes to ESG scores, lower is better, and lower scores are generally associated with lower risk for would-be investors.

Douglas Emmett's total ESG risk score

Total ESG risk: 18.61

Socially conscious investors use ESG scores to screen how an investment aligns with their worldview, and Douglas Emmett's overall score of 18.61 (as at 01/01/2019) is excellent – landing it in it in the 16th percentile of companies rated in the same sector.

ESG scores are increasingly used to estimate the level of risk a company like Douglas Emmett is exposed to within the areas of "environmental" (carbon footprint, resource use etc.), "social" (health and safety, human rights etc.), and "governance" (anti-corruption, tax transparency etc.).

Douglas Emmett's environmental score

Environmental score: 0.89/100

Douglas Emmett's social score

Social score: 4.63/100

Douglas Emmett's governance score

Governance score: 3.09/100

Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) summary

Douglas Emmett, Inc was last rated for ESG on: 2019-01-01.

Total ESG score	18.61
Total ESG percentile	16.3
Environmental score	0.89
Social score	4.63
Governance score	3.09

Douglas Emmett share price volatility

Over the last 12 months, Douglas Emmett's shares have ranged in value from as little as $22.265 up to $39.8292. A popular way to gauge a stock's volatility is its "beta".

Beta is a measure of a share's volatility in relation to the market. The market (NYSE average) beta is 1, while Douglas Emmett's is 0.8837. This would suggest that Douglas Emmett's shares are less volatile than average (for this exchange).

Douglas Emmett overview

Douglas Emmett, Inc. (DEI) is a fully integrated, self-administered and self-managed real estate investment trust (REIT), and one of the largest owners and operators of high-quality office and multifamily properties located in the premier coastal submarkets of Los Angeles and Honolulu. Douglas Emmett focuses on owning and acquiring a substantial share of top-tier office properties and premier multifamily communities in neighborhoods that possess significant supply constraints, high-end executive housing and key lifestyle amenities.

Frequently asked questions

• What percentage of Douglas Emmett is owned by insiders or institutions?

  Currently 5.531% of Douglas Emmett shares are held by insiders and 96.968% by institutions.

• When does the fiscal year end for Douglas Emmett?

  Douglas Emmett's fiscal year ends in December.

• Where is Douglas Emmett based?

  Douglas Emmett's address is: 1299 Ocean Avenue, Santa Monica, CA, United States, 90401

• What is Douglas Emmett's ISIN number?

  Douglas Emmett's international securities identification number is: US25960P1093

• What is Douglas Emmett's CUSIP number?

  Douglas Emmett's Committee on Uniform Securities Identification Procedures number is: 25960P109