How to buy Essential Properties Realty Trust stock | $21.05

Essential Properties Realty Trust, Inc is a reit-diversified business based in the US. Essential Properties Realty Trust shares (EPRT) are listed on the NYSE and all prices are listed in US Dollars. Essential Properties Realty Trust employs 27 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around USD$162.1 million.

How to buy shares in Essential Properties Realty Trust

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3. Search for Essential Properties Realty Trust. Find the stock by name or ticker symbol: EPRT. 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 Essential Properties Realty Trust 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. At last close price of USD$21.05, 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 Essential Properties Realty Trust, depending on your broker.
6. Check in on your investment. Congratulations, you own a part of Essential Properties Realty Trust. 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.

Essential Properties Realty Trust share price

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Essential Properties Realty Trust shares at a glance

• Key figures

Information last updated 2020-12-27.

Latest market close	USD$21.05
52-week range	USD$5.8218 - USD$28.0967
50-day moving average	USD$20.3653
200-day moving average	USD$18.0028
Wall St. target price	USD$22.42
PE ratio	37.7522
Dividend yield	USD$0.96 (4.58%)
Earnings per share (TTM)	USD$0.565

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Essential Properties Realty Trust price performance over time

Historical closes compared with the close of $21.05 from 2020-12-09

1 week (2021-01-08)	-0.05%
1 month (2020-12-15)	-0.75%
3 months (2020-10-15)	9.29%
6 months (2020-07-15)	37.31%

1 year (2020-01-15)	-18.63%
2 years (2019-01-15)	46.69%
3 years (2018-01-11)	N/A
5 years (2016-01-11)	N/A

Is Essential Properties Realty Trust under- or over-valued?

Valuing Essential Properties Realty Trust stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of Essential Properties Realty Trust's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.

Essential Properties Realty Trust's P/E ratio

Essential Properties Realty Trust's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 38x. In other words, Essential Properties Realty Trust shares trade at around 38x recent earnings.

That's relatively high compared to, say, the trailing 12-month P/E ratio for the NASDAQ 100 at the end of 2019 (27.29). The high P/E ratio could mean that investors are optimistic about the outlook for the shares or simply that they're over-valued.

Essential Properties Realty Trust's EBITDA

Essential Properties Realty Trust's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is USD$138.1 million.

The EBITDA is a measure of a Essential Properties Realty Trust's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.

Essential Properties Realty Trust financials

Revenue TTM	USD$162.1 million
Operating margin TTM	52.32%
Gross profit TTM	USD$136.3 million
Return on assets TTM	2.49%
Return on equity TTM	3.86%
Profit margin	31.54%
Book value	$14.885
Market capitalisation	USD$2.2 billion

TTM: trailing 12 months

Shorting Essential Properties Realty Trust shares

There are currently 3.8 million Essential Properties Realty Trust shares held short by investors – that's known as Essential Properties Realty Trust's "short interest". This figure is 4.3% up from 3.7 million last month.

There are a few different ways that this level of interest in shorting Essential Properties Realty Trust shares can be evaluated.

Essential Properties Realty Trust's "short interest ratio" (SIR)

Essential Properties Realty Trust's "short interest ratio" (SIR) is the quantity of Essential Properties Realty Trust shares currently shorted divided by the average quantity of Essential Properties Realty Trust shares traded daily (recently around 1.1 million). Essential Properties Realty Trust's SIR currently stands at 3.58. In other words for every 100,000 Essential Properties Realty Trust shares traded daily on the market, roughly 3580 shares are currently held short.

However Essential Properties Realty Trust's short interest can also be evaluated against the total number of Essential Properties Realty Trust shares, or, against the total number of tradable Essential Properties Realty Trust shares (the shares that aren't held by "insiders" or major long-term shareholders – also known as the "float"). In this case Essential Properties Realty Trust's short interest could be expressed as 0.04% of the outstanding shares (for every 100,000 Essential Properties Realty Trust shares in existence, roughly 40 shares are currently held short) or 0.0473% of the tradable shares (for every 100,000 tradable Essential Properties Realty Trust shares, roughly 47 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 Essential Properties Realty Trust.

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Essential Properties Realty Trust share dividends

Dividend payout ratio: 79.49% of net profits

Recently Essential Properties Realty Trust has paid out, on average, around 79.49% of net profits as dividends. That has enabled analysts to estimate a "forward annual dividend yield" of 4.58% of the current stock value. This means that over a year, based on recent payouts (which are sadly no guarantee of future payouts), Essential Properties Realty Trust shareholders could enjoy a 4.58% return on their shares, in the form of dividend payments. In Essential Properties Realty Trust's case, that would currently equate to about $0.96 per share.

Essential Properties Realty Trust's payout ratio would broadly be considered high, and as such this stock could appeal to those looking to generate an income. Bear in mind however that companies should normally also look to re-invest a decent amount of net profits to ensure future growth.

Essential Properties Realty Trust's most recent dividend payout was on 15 January 2021. The latest dividend was paid out to all shareholders who bought their shares by 30 December 2020 (the "ex-dividend date").

Essential Properties Realty Trust share price volatility

Over the last 12 months, Essential Properties Realty Trust's shares have ranged in value from as little as $5.8218 up to $28.0967. 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 Essential Properties Realty Trust's is 1.3527. This would suggest that Essential Properties Realty Trust's shares are more volatile than the average for this exchange and represent, relatively-speaking, a higher risk (but potentially also market-beating returns).

Essential Properties Realty Trust overview

Essential Properties Realty Trust, Inc., a real estate company, acquires, owns, and manages single-tenant properties in the United States. The company leases its properties to middle-market companies, such as restaurants, car washes, automotive services, medical services, convenience stores, entertainment, early childhood education, and health and fitness on a long-term basis. As of December 31, 2019, it had a portfolio of 1000 properties. The company qualifies as a real estate investment trust for federal income tax purposes. It generally would not be subject to federal corporate income taxes if it distributes at least 90% of its taxable income to its stockholders. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Princeton, New Jersey.

Frequently asked questions

• What percentage of Essential Properties Realty Trust is owned by insiders or institutions?

  Currently 1.6% of Essential Properties Realty Trust shares are held by insiders and 104.558% by institutions.

• How many people work for Essential Properties Realty Trust?

  Latest data suggests 27 work at Essential Properties Realty Trust.

• When does the fiscal year end for Essential Properties Realty Trust?

  Essential Properties Realty Trust's fiscal year ends in December.

• Where is Essential Properties Realty Trust based?

  Essential Properties Realty Trust's address is: 902 Carnegie Center Boulevard, Princeton, NJ, United States, 08540

• What is Essential Properties Realty Trust's ISIN number?

  Essential Properties Realty Trust's international securities identification number is: US29670E1073

• What is Essential Properties Realty Trust's CUSIP number?

  Essential Properties Realty Trust's Committee on Uniform Securities Identification Procedures number is: 29670E107