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Equity Residential (EQR) — chart, structure and Closelooknet read

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Signals for this name

Every Closelooknet reading that exists for EQR, 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 0.36 to TLT · on the worst bond days it fell more than the market

How it trades on rate days

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

  • Beta to long bonds, 1 year 0.36 — tends to move with bonds for every 1% move in TLT (20+ year Treasuries), Equity Residential moved 0.36% on average · correlation 0.16 · higher than 35% of US names
  • Beta, last 3 months 0.45 about the same as over the year
  • On the 10 worst bond days −1.11% 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 EQR on the nightly bakes; the Peers tab ranks the cohort on the Closelooknet scores where it exists.

Company snapshot — Equity Residential

EQR 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
Equity Residential owns and operates apartment communities across major US cities, with a focus on coastal metro areas and a smaller presence in fast-growing inland cities such as Atlanta, Austin, Dallas-Fort Worth and Denver. It rents units to individual tenants rather than developing land for sale, generating income from leases across its portfolio. The company is based in Chicago and was incorporated in 1993.
Where it sits in the stack
Equity Residential sits outside the AI build-out framework the diary tracks; it belongs to the Real Estate sector, within the residential REIT sleeve of our broader equity universe, as an owner and operator of rented apartment communities.
Who it is priced against
Closelooknet's peer group does not list a comparison set for this name; the market commonly places it alongside AvalonBay Communities, another large owner of coastal apartment portfolios.
Why Closelooknet tracks it
It holds a seat in the S&P 500 but carries no Rubin or Halo index seat and no Closelooknet score yet; the diary has recorded no quotes on it.
What the diary watches
Whether occupancy and renewal rates across its coastal portfolios hold up as apartment supply and financing costs shift, since that balance sets the pace of rental income the diary would track.

Equity Residential (EQR) 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 744.53%, quarterly · last 0.70 USD on 2026-06-29

Dividends and capital return

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

  • Trailing 12 months 2.79 USD per share · a 744.53% yield on the 2026-08-25 close 4 distributions, paid quarterly 2026-08-25
  • Change on the year +35.5% against the prior twelve months prior twelve months 2.06 USD per share
  • Last distribution 0.70 USD per share as the price series records it, within days of the ex-date 2026-06-29
  • By calendar year 2023: 0.66 USD (partial) · 2024: 2.02 USD · 2025: 2.75 USD · 2026: 2.10 USD to date first distribution recorded in the three-year window: 2023-12-29

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 Equity Residential (EQR)?

Equity Residential trades as EQR on the US exchange (United States) in the Closelooknet research universe, as of the registry build of 2026-09-26.

Is EQR in a Closelooknet index?

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

Where does EQR trade against its moving averages?

Mixed moving-average stack: Trades -99.4% vs the 50-day and -99.4% vs the 200-day average, 99.5% below the 52-week high and +7.1% off the 52-week low. Computed from daily closes. As of 2026-08-25 — a technical state from the nightly Closelooknet bake, not advice. The Technical tab carries the full row.

How does Equity Residential trade when bond yields rise?

Over the past year Equity Residential had a beta of 0.36 to TLT, the long-dated Treasury fund — it tends to move with bonds, higher than 35% of US names. On the 7 sessions in which long bonds fell most it moved −1.11% 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 Equity Residential do?

Equity Residential owns and operates apartment communities across major US cities, with a focus on coastal metro areas and a smaller presence in fast-growing inland cities such as Atlanta, Austin, Dallas-Fort Worth and Denver. It rents units to individual tenants rather than developing land for sale, generating income from leases across its portfolio. The company is based in Chicago and was incorporated in 1993. Closelooknet's peer group does not list a comparison set for this name; the market commonly places it alongside AvalonBay Communities, another large owner of coastal apartment portfolios.

Where does Equity Residential sit in the AI build-out?

Equity Residential sits outside the AI build-out framework the diary tracks; it belongs to the Real Estate sector, within the residential REIT sleeve of our broader equity universe, as an owner and operator of rented apartment communities. It holds a seat in the S&P 500 but carries no Rubin or Halo index seat and no Closelooknet score yet; the diary has recorded no quotes on it.

Does Equity Residential pay a dividend?

Equity Residential has paid 2.79 USD per share over the last twelve months, paid quarterly, a trailing yield of 744.53% on the 2026-08-25 close; the last distribution recorded in the price series was 0.70 USD on 2026-06-29. 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 EQR, 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.