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AvalonBay Communities Inc (AVB) — chart, structure and Closelooknet read

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Signals for this name

Every Closelooknet reading that exists for AVB, from the same nightly bakes the boards use. Research diary readings, not advice.

Weather around the name 3 macro readings: Money Temperature, Factor regime, Sovereign pressure

The weather around this name

Macro readings that apply by membership — the regime, the factor tape, the sector cell, the funding backdrop.

  • Money Temperature Composite 62/100 · S&P 500 fund at 67, bullish alignedEight instruments scored on position, momentum, volume, volatility and fragility — the regime every name trades inside. Temperature lab → 2026-09-25
  • Factor regime Momentum leading — risk appetite buildingMomentum against low volatility (SPMO / SPLV): above its 50-day trend, 99th percentile of the window, +8.4% over 20 sessions. Factor regime → 2026-09-25
  • Sovereign pressure Index 0.61 · up 0.29 over 21 sessionsG7 long-end yields, 10s30s and the slope — the funding weather for every balance sheet on this site. Sovereign pressure → 2026-09-25
How it trades on rate days beta 0.23 to TLT · on the worst bond days it fell more than the market

How it trades on rate days

How AVB has moved when long-dated Treasury yields rise — measured against TLT, the 20+ year Treasury fund.

  • Beta to long bonds, 1 year 0.23 — shows only a loose link to bond moves for every 1% move in TLT (20+ year Treasuries), AvalonBay Communities Inc moved 0.23% on average · correlation 0.10 · higher than 23% of US names
  • Beta, last 3 months 0.17 about the same as over the year
  • On the 10 worst bond days −1.27% on average against −0.74% for the S&P 500 the 7 sessions of the past year in which TLT fell most, i.e. long yields rose most

Daily total returns from the adjusted price series; a TLT down day is a day long yields rose. Beta = the average move of the name for a 1% move in TLT. Past sensitivity, not a forecast. An investment diary, not a recommendation.

Who it is priced against REIT - Residential · United States · 8 names with week and year-to-date

Peer group

REIT - Residential · United States

This name carries no Closelooknet score, so its cohort ranks on trend state — distance to the 50- and 200-day averages — never on a score it does not have.

Compared against AVB on the nightly bakes; the Peers tab ranks the cohort on the Closelooknet scores where it exists.

Company snapshot — AvalonBay Communities Inc

AVB in five paragraphs: what it makes and sells, where it sits in the Closelooknet stack, who it is priced against, why we track it, what we watch. Research diary, not advice.

What it does
AvalonBay Communities owns and runs apartment communities across major US metro areas, including Boston, New York/New Jersey, the Mid-Atlantic, Seattle and California, and has been expanding into markets such as Raleigh-Durham, Charlotte, Southeast Florida, Dallas, Austin and Denver. It also develops and redevelops properties itself rather than only buying finished buildings. It operates as an equity REIT, meaning it holds and manages real estate rather than lending against it, and is based in Arlington, Virginia.
Where it sits in the stack
AvalonBay carries no seat in Rubin, our AI build-out index; it sits instead in the residential REIT sleeve of our wider coverage, alongside other apartment-focused property owners.
Who it is priced against
Closelooknet's peer group does not list a formal comparison set for AVB; the market commonly places it alongside other large apartment REITs such as Equity Residential.
Why Closelooknet tracks it
AVB is a member of the S&P 500 but carries no Rubin seat, no Closelooknet score and no quotes in the diary; coverage here rests on the index membership alone.
What the diary watches
Whether the newer expansion markets it has entered add occupied homes at a pace that changes the mix away from its established coastal metro areas.

AvalonBay Communities Inc (AVB) trades on US exchanges.

Written from the company’s public profile and Closelooknet’s own readings, 2026-09-17. Descriptive, refreshed with the registry; corrections welcome via the imprint. closelook.net is an investment research diary — market structure, index membership and scores are our own readings, not investment advice. Related: index compare · sector dispersion · scanner.

Dividends and capital return trailing yield 3.71%, quarterly · last 0.64 USD on 2026-06-30

Dividends and capital return

What AVB pays out and buys back — distributions read from the price series, money terms from the filings.

  • Trailing 12 months 2.53 USD per share · a 3.71% yield on the 2026-08-24 close 4 distributions, paid quarterly 2026-08-24
  • Change on the year +2.3% against the prior twelve months prior twelve months 2.47 USD per share
  • Last distribution 0.64 USD per share as the price series records it, within days of the ex-date 2026-06-30
  • By calendar year 2023: 3.30 USD (partial) · 2024: 3.53 USD · 2025: 2.51 USD · 2026: 1.27 USD to date first distribution recorded in the three-year window: 2023-09-28

Per-share amounts are derived from the adjusted price series in the listing currency, so dates sit within days of the ex-date; filing figures come from the fundamentals feed for the last reported fiscal year. An investment diary, not a recommendation.

FAQ · from the current data · as of 2026-09-26

Quick answers

What is AvalonBay Communities Inc (AVB)?

AvalonBay Communities Inc trades as AVB on the US exchange (United States) in the Closelooknet research universe, as of the registry build of 2026-09-26.

Is AVB in a Closelooknet index?

Not currently — AvalonBay Communities Inc is tracked in the Closelooknet research universe but is not a constituent of a Closelooknet functional index as of 2026-09-26.

Where does AVB trade against its moving averages?

Uptrend stack intact: Trades +1.7% vs the 50-day and +7.2% vs the 200-day average, 4.2% below the 52-week high and +21.1% off the 52-week low. Computed from daily closes. As of 2026-08-24 — a technical state from the nightly Closelooknet bake, not advice. The Technical tab carries the full row.

How does AvalonBay Communities Inc trade when bond yields rise?

Over the past year AvalonBay Communities Inc had a beta of 0.23 to TLT, the long-dated Treasury fund — it shows only a loose link to bond moves, higher than 23% of US names. On the 7 sessions in which long bonds fell most it moved −1.27% on average, against −0.74% for the S&P 500. The "How it trades on rate days" block on this page carries the lines.

What does AvalonBay Communities Inc do?

AvalonBay Communities owns and runs apartment communities across major US metro areas, including Boston, New York/New Jersey, the Mid-Atlantic, Seattle and California, and has been expanding into markets such as Raleigh-Durham, Charlotte, Southeast Florida, Dallas, Austin and Denver. It also develops and redevelops properties itself rather than only buying finished buildings. It operates as an equity REIT, meaning it holds and manages real estate rather than lending against it, and is based in Arlington, Virginia. Closelooknet's peer group does not list a formal comparison set for AVB; the market commonly places it alongside other large apartment REITs such as Equity Residential.

Where does AvalonBay Communities Inc sit in the AI build-out?

AvalonBay carries no seat in Rubin, our AI build-out index; it sits instead in the residential REIT sleeve of our wider coverage, alongside other apartment-focused property owners. AVB is a member of the S&P 500 but carries no Rubin seat, no Closelooknet score and no quotes in the diary; coverage here rests on the index membership alone.

Does AvalonBay Communities Inc pay a dividend?

AvalonBay Communities Inc has paid 2.53 USD per share over the last twelve months, paid quarterly, a trailing yield of 3.71% on the 2026-08-24 close; the last distribution recorded in the price series was 0.64 USD on 2026-06-30. The "Dividends and capital return" block on this page carries the lines.

What does this page show?

A live price chart with SMA overlays and drawing tools for AVB, performance metrics, index-membership context and the Closelooknet structure read — an investment research diary view, not investment advice.

Related in the Closelooknet universe

then REIT - Residential, then Real Estate. Scored names rank on their Closelooknet score; names without one rank on trend state — above or below their 50- and 200-day averages — never on a score they do not carry.