Essex Property Trust Ownership

Who are the major shareholders and have insiders been buying or selling?

Recent Insider Transactions

NYSE:ESS Recent Insider Transactions by Companies or Individuals
Date	Value	Name	Entity	Role	Shares	Max Price
21 Jun 24	SellUS$1,051,861	Angela Kleiman	Individual		3,780	US$278.27
14 Jun 24	SellUS$2,745,700	Keith Guericke	Individual		10,000	US$274.57

Insider Trading Volume

Insider Buying: Insufficient data to determine if insiders have bought more shares than they have sold in the past 3 months.

Ownership Breakdown

What is the ownership structure of ESS?
Owner Type	Number of Shares	Ownership Percentage
Private Companies	137,000	0.213%
State or Government	170,243	0.264%
Individual Insiders	272,477	0.423%
General Public	409,678	0.636%
Institutions	63,395,779	98.5%

Dilution of Shares: Shareholders have not been meaningfully diluted in the past year.

Top Shareholders

Top 25 shareholders own 74.04% of the company

Ownership	Name	Shares	Current Value	Change %	Portfolio %
16.2%	The Vanguard Group, Inc.	10,440,274	US$3.1b	0.84%	0.04%
10.6%	BlackRock, Inc.	6,824,740	US$2.0b	-2.66%	0.03%
8.17%	State Street Global Advisors, Inc.	5,258,363	US$1.6b	0.86%	0.05%
6.64%	Cohen & Steers Capital Management, Inc.	4,273,228	US$1.3b	12.2%	2.09%
4.27%	T. Rowe Price Group, Inc.	2,746,242	US$821.0m	66.5%	0.07%
2.8%	Geode Capital Management, LLC	1,801,442	US$538.5m	2.46%	0.03%
2.56%	Norges Bank Investment Management	1,650,988	US$493.6m	0%	0.04%
2.3%	Principal Global Investors, LLC	1,481,866	US$443.0m	-0.86%	0.2%
1.94%	Northern Trust Global Investments	1,247,133	US$372.8m	10.6%	0.05%
1.93%	Massachusetts Financial Services Company	1,242,310	US$371.4m	-1.37%	0.08%
1.63%	UBS Asset Management AG	1,046,383	US$312.8m	3.73%	0.02%
1.47%	Legal & General Investment Management Limited	948,795	US$283.6m	3.59%	0.06%
1.46%	Dimensional Fund Advisors LP	938,224	US$280.5m	-1.97%	0.04%
1.33%	Columbia Management Investment Advisers, LLC	854,606	US$255.5m	6.58%	0.06%
1.28%	Resolution Capital Limited	821,968	US$245.7m	59%	3.71%
1.21%	Charles Schwab Investment Management, Inc.	778,148	US$232.6m	0.68%	0.03%
1.15%	Boston Partners Global Investors, Inc.	740,414	US$221.3m	-6.33%	0.13%
1.11%	Daiwa Asset Management Co., Ltd.	712,600	US$213.0m	6.47%	0.13%
1.02%	Wellington Management Group LLP	657,379	US$196.5m	7.4%	0.03%
0.97%	ProShare Advisors LLC	627,153	US$187.5m	-0.9%	0.38%
0.87%	Invesco Capital Management LLC	558,876	US$167.1m	-1.67%	0.05%
0.85%	FMR LLC	546,525	US$163.4m	-5.15%	0.01%
0.84%	Jacobs Levy Equity Management Inc	543,397	US$162.4m	0.31%	0.58%
0.75%	PGIM, Inc.	482,938	US$144.4m	129%	0.16%
0.69%	BNY Asset Management	445,931	US$133.3m	1.2%	0.02%

Company Analysis and Financial Data Status

Data	Last Updated (UTC time)
Company Analysis	2025/05/19 20:07
End of Day Share Price	2025/05/16 00:00
Earnings	2025/03/31
Annual Earnings	2024/12/31

Data Sources

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Package	Data	Timeframe	Example US Source ^*
Company Financials	10 years	Income statement Cash flow statement Balance sheet	SEC Form 10-K SEC Form 10-Q
Analyst Consensus Estimates	+3 years	Forecast financials Analyst price targets	Analyst Research Reports Blue Matrix
Market Prices	30 years	Stock prices Dividends, Splits and Actions	ICE Market Data SEC Form S-1
Ownership	10 years	Top shareholders Insider trading	SEC Form 4 SEC Form 13D
Management	10 years	Leadership team Board of directors	SEC Form 10-K SEC Form DEF 14A
Key Developments	10 years	Company announcements	SEC Form 8-K

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Analyst Sources

Essex Property Trust, Inc. is covered by 47 analysts. 18 of those analysts submitted the estimates of revenue or earnings used as inputs to our report. Analysts submissions are updated throughout the day.

Analyst	Institution
Wesley Golladay	Baird
Ross Smotrich	Barclays
Richard Hightower	Barclays