Equity LifeStyle Properties, Inc. (ELS)
Real Estate · NYQ
Price as at 1 Oct 2026, 19:04 UTC. Quotes are delayed.
Fundamentals
Valuation and ratings
Equity LifeStyle Properties, Inc. trades at $57.80, which is 56% above the $25.63 our fair value estimate puts on the business. On that measure it screens as expensive, which is not the same as saying it will fall.
Our moat model scores it 65 out of 100, which is a moat, but not a deep one. A moat is a structural reason competitors cannot take the profits away, and it matters more to a long holding period than any single quarter's numbers do.
It changes hands at 32.5 times earnings. Be careful reading that in isolation: for a cyclical business a low P/E arrives at the top of the cycle, when profits are peaking and about to fall, which is exactly when the shares look cheapest and are not.
ELS dividend history
Dividends per share by year
| Year | Total per share | Payments |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 (year to date) | $1.63 | 3 |
| 2025 | $2.06 | 4 |
| 2024 | $1.91 | 4 |
| 2023 | $1.79 | 4 |
| 2022 | $1.64 | 4 |
| 2021 | $1.45 | 4 |
| 2020 | $1.37 | 4 |
| 2019 | $1.23 | 4 |
| 2018 | $1.10 | 4 |
| 2017 | $0.976 | 4 |
| 2016 | $0.850 | 4 |
Split-adjusted amounts in the listing currency, grouped by the calendar year of the ex-dividend date, from the filed record. Growth and streak figures compare complete years only.
ELS earnings and analyst estimates
Recommendation mix, 19 published ratings
Estimates are the published analyst consensus and move often. An earnings date is scheduled, not certain, and a share tends to reprice most violently on the day itself.
About Equity LifeStyle Properties, Inc.
Equity LifeStyle Properties, Inc. is a self-administered, self-managed real estate investment trust. As of June 30, 2026, they own or have an interest in 453 properties in 35 states and British Columbia consisting of 173,419 sites. Equity LifeStyle Properties, Inc. is headquartered in Chicago. Equity LifeStyle Properties, Inc. was incorporated in 1992 in Maryland and based in Chicago, Illinois.
Company profile, industry and headcount are as reported by our data provider and can lag a company's own filings by a reporting period. The annual report is the authority.
ELS passes 2 of our 30 screens today
Each screen prints the exact criteria it used, and the circumstances in which it is wrong.
Super investor ownership
11 of the funds we track reported a position in their latest SEC 13F filing. Largest first:
- Arrowstreet Capital, ARROWSTREET CAPITAL, LIMITED PARTNERSHIP$121.31M · 0.1% of book
- Ken Griffin, CITADEL ADVISORS LLC$78.17M · 0.0% of book
- Cliff Asness, AQR CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LLC$39.02M · 0.0% of book
- Paul Tudor Jones, TUDOR INVESTMENT CORP ET AL$16.15M · 0.0% of book
- Joel Greenblatt, Gotham Asset Management, LLC$13.63M · 0.0% of book
A word of warning on reading these figures: a 13F reports the market value of a holding, so a fund that traded nothing at all still appears to have sold when the price fell. We found 102 companies where the standard reading gives the opposite answer. Only the share count is honest.
Politician trades in ELS
Trades in ELS disclosed by members of Congress and executive-branch officials, latest first:
- Thomas H Tuberville · SenateSell · $1,001 - $15,000 · traded 3 May 2024 · disclosed 5 Aug 2026
A disclosure reports a value band, not an amount, and is due up to 45 days after the trade; some arrive later. Every filer we track, each with their own page, is on the Congress trading tracker.
ELS peers
The largest companies in the same industry (REIT - Residential), then in the same sector.
- AVB AvalonBay Communities, Inc.
- EQR Equity Residential
- UDR UDR, Inc.
- JAN Janus Living, Inc.
- IRT Independence Realty Trust, Inc.
- CAR-UN.TO Canadian Apartment Properties Real Estate Investment Trust
- NXRT NexPoint Residential Trust, Inc.
- CSR Centerspace
Every real estate company we cover is on the Real Estate hub.
Common questions
Is Equity LifeStyle Properties, Inc. (ELS) undervalued?
Against our fair value estimate of $25.63, ELS at $57.80 is 56% above fair value. That is one model's answer, not a recommendation. It is built from normalized earning power with growth capped deliberately low, which understates companies whose value is mostly future growth.
Which funds own ELS?
11 of the institutions we track reported a position in ELS in their most recent SEC 13F filing. A 13F is filed up to 45 days after quarter end, so it tells you what a fund held then, not what it holds now.
What is ELS's P/E ratio?
ELS trades at 32.5 times earnings. A low P/E is not automatically cheap: on a cyclical company it is usually a warning that earnings are at a peak.
Does Equity LifeStyle Properties, Inc. (ELS) pay a dividend?
Yes. Equity LifeStyle Properties, Inc. yields 3.34% at the current share price. It has paid $2.14 per share over the trailing twelve months. It has paid a dividend in each of the last 33 complete calendar years. A dividend is declared by the board and can be cut at any time; a yield is a fact about the current price, not a promise.
Where does SteadyShares get its ELS data?
Fundamentals for ELS come from company filings and exchange data, as listed on NYQ; institutional ownership comes from SEC 13F filings. The share price shown was last refreshed on 1 Oct 2026, 19:04 UTC and is delayed. Our data quality score for this company is 100/100, which is the share of the inputs behind our scores that were actually available rather than assumed. Metrics we do not hold are left out of the page rather than estimated.
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Data from company filings, exchange quotes and SEC EDGAR 13F disclosures. Quotes are delayed. Metrics we do not have are left out rather than estimated. Educational information, not financial advice.