Essential Properties Realty Trust, Inc.

NYSE:EPRT Stock Report

Market Cap: US$5.5b

Essential Properties Realty Trust Dividends and Buybacks

Dividend criteria checks 3/6

Essential Properties Realty Trust is a dividend paying company with a current yield of 3.74% that is well covered by earnings. Next payment date is on 14th January, 2025 with an ex-dividend date of 31st December, 2024.

Key information

3.7%

Dividend yield

-7.8%

Buyback Yield

Total Shareholder Yield-4.0%
Future Dividend Yield4.0%
Dividend Growth-4.2%
Next dividend pay date14 Jan 25
Ex dividend date31 Dec 24
Dividend per shareUS$1.180
Payout ratio60%

Recent dividend and buyback updates

Recent updates

Essential Properties: One Of The Best REITs To Own, Just No Margin Of Safety (Rating Downgrade)

Nov 29

EPR Properties: The Simon Property Group Effect

Nov 21

Essential Properties Realty Trust Is Not A Buy Anymore (Downgrade)

Oct 11

Essential Properties Realty Trust: Great Business At Wrong Price (Rating Downgrade)

Sep 09

Essential Properties: Not Essential To My Portfolio

Aug 09

Essential Properties: 4 Reasons Why This REIT Continues To Outperform

Jul 08

Essential Properties: 2 Reasons This REIT Is Outperforming Net Lease Peers

Jun 06

Essential Properties Realty Trust: The Value Potential Is Still There After Q1 Earnings

May 02

Analysts Are Updating Their Essential Properties Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE:EPRT) Estimates After Its First-Quarter Results

Apr 26
Analysts Are Updating Their Essential Properties Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE:EPRT) Estimates After Its First-Quarter Results

Essential Properties: An Outperforming REIT You Should Accumulate Before Rate Cuts

Mar 25

Looking For Income? 5%-Yielding Essential Properties Realty Trust May Be Right For You

Feb 22

Essential Properties: One Of My Best Triple Net Lease REITs

Feb 08

Here's Why We Think Essential Properties Realty Trust (NYSE:EPRT) Is Well Worth Watching

Jan 19
Here's Why We Think Essential Properties Realty Trust (NYSE:EPRT) Is Well Worth Watching

Essential Properties Realty Trust: Financial Growth Supports Dividend And Upside

Jan 18

Essential Properties Is One Of The Best REITs Out There

Jan 08

2 REITs Trading At Less Than 15X P/AFFO And Offering Double-Digit Upside

Dec 01

Buy The Dip In High Yield REITs: Essential Properties Stock Vs. W. P. Carey Stock

Oct 25

Essential Properties Realty Trust: Undervalued With Growing Dividend

Sep 23

Essential Properties: I Bought The Debt, But I Didn't Buy The Equity

Sep 14

Essential Properties: STORE Capital 2.0? Promising Growth Prospects

Aug 21

Essential Properties: Rising Cash-On-Cash Returns, But Beware Of Emerging Risks

Aug 14

Essential Properties Realty Trust: Compelling Strategy And Solid Value

Jul 14

Essential Properties: Don't Overlook The Growth Potential

Jun 08

Better High Yield Buy: Realty Income Or Essential Properties Realty?

May 26

Essential Properties FFO of $0.39 in-line, revenue of $74.27M beats by $0.27M

Feb 15

Upcoming Dividend Payment

TodayDec 21 2024Ex Dividend DateDec 31 2024Dividend Pay DateJan 14 202514 days from Ex DividendBuy in the next 10 days to receive the upcoming dividend

Stability and Growth of Payments

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Stable Dividend: Whilst dividend payments have been stable, EPRT has been paying a dividend for less than 10 years.

Growing Dividend: EPRT's dividend payments have increased, but the company has only paid a dividend for 6 years.


Dividend Yield vs Market

Essential Properties Realty Trust Dividend Yield vs Market
How does EPRT dividend yield compare to the market?
SegmentDividend Yield
Company (EPRT)3.7%
Market Bottom 25% (US)1.4%
Market Top 25% (US)4.5%
Industry Average (REITs)5.6%
Analyst forecast (EPRT) (up to 3 years)4.0%

Notable Dividend: EPRT's dividend (3.74%) is higher than the bottom 25% of dividend payers in the US market (1.45%).

High Dividend: EPRT's dividend (3.74%) is low compared to the top 25% of dividend payers in the US market (4.51%).


Earnings Payout to Shareholders

Earnings Coverage: With its reasonable payout ratio (59.8%), EPRT's dividend payments are covered by earnings.


Cash Payout to Shareholders

Cash Flow Coverage: With its reasonable cash payout ratio (70.6%), EPRT's dividend payments are covered by cash flows.


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Company Analysis and Financial Data Status

DataLast Updated (UTC time)
Company Analysis2024/12/22 02:26
End of Day Share Price 2024/12/20 00:00
Earnings2024/09/30
Annual Earnings2023/12/31

Data Sources

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PackageDataTimeframeExample US Source *
Company Financials10 years
  • Income statement
  • Cash flow statement
  • Balance sheet
Analyst Consensus Estimates+3 years
  • Forecast financials
  • Analyst price targets
Market Prices30 years
  • Stock prices
  • Dividends, Splits and Actions
Ownership10 years
  • Top shareholders
  • Insider trading
Management10 years
  • Leadership team
  • Board of directors
Key Developments10 years
  • Company announcements

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Analyst Sources

Essential Properties Realty Trust, Inc. is covered by 30 analysts. 8 of those analysts submitted the estimates of revenue or earnings used as inputs to our report. Analysts submissions are updated throughout the day.

AnalystInstitution
Richard HightowerBarclays
Nathan CrossettBerenberg
Juan SanabriaBMO Capital Markets Equity Research