Empire State Realty Trust Inc. (NYSE:ESRT) saw an upside of 0.86% to $8.17 after adding $0.07on Wednesday. The 5-day average trading volume is 801,125 shares of the company’s common stock. It has gained $8.46 in the past week and touched a new high 1 time within the past 5 days. An average of 1,387,016 shares of the company has been traded in the last 20 days, and the 50-day average volume stands at 1,472,771.
ESRT’s 1-month performance is 2.90% or $0.30 on its low of $7.85 reached on 07/24/23. The company’s shares have touched a 52-week low of $5.39 and high of $9.08, with the stock’s rally to the 52-week high happening on 07/31/23. YTD, ESRT has achieved 21.22% or $1.43 and has reached a new high 12 times. However, the current price is down -10.02% from the 52-week high price.
Valuation Metrics
ESRT stock has a beta of 1.28. Moving on to other valuation ratios, the trailing price-to-sales (P/S) ratio is 1.82 while the price-to-book (PB) in the most recent quarter is 1.35.
As well, the company’s long term debt to equity for the quarter ending September 29 was 2.32, while the total debt to equity was 2.32. In terms of profitability, the gross margin trailing 12 months is 55.10%. The firm’s gross profit as reported stood at $127.03 million against revenue of $727.04 million.
Earnings Surprise
For the quarterly period ending September 29 this year, Net income and sales went up compared to those figures reported in the previous quarter. Net income shrunk -17.48% to -$6.98 million, while revenue of $2.08 million was 129.8% off the previous quarter. Analysts expected ESRT to announce $0.06 per share in earnings in its latest quarter, but it posted $0.03, representing a -50.00% surprise. EBITDA for the quarter stood at more than $96.03 million. Shareholders hold equity totaling $161.1 million.
Let’s look briefly at Empire State Realty Trust Inc. (ESRT) price momentum from a technical analysis perspective. The 9-day relative strength index as at close on 22 August was 37.51% to suggest the stock is trending Neutral, with historical volatility in this time period at 16.99%.
The stock’s 5-day moving average is $8.21, reflecting a -1.98% or -$0.16 change from its current price. ESRT is currently trading -0.06% above its 20-day SMA, +27.38% above its 100-day SMA. However, the stock’s current price level is away from the SMA50 by +16.31% and SMA200 by+15.65%.
Stochastic %K and %D was 7.77% and 10.18% and the average true range (ATR) pointed at 0.22. The RSI (14) points at 45.85%, while the 14-day stochastic is at 12.14% with the period’s ATR at 0.24. The stock’s 9-day MACD Oscillator is pointing at -0.17 and -0.32 on the 14-day charts.
Analyst Ratings
In the most recent analyst report for Empire State Realty Trust Inc. (NYSE: ESRT), Evercore ISI upgraded it to an Outperform rating. They previously had an In-line rating on the stock. Analysts offering their rating for ESRT stock have a consensus rating for the stock as Hold. Currently, 1 brokerage advisors rate ESRT as a “sell,”, while 4 advise that investors “Hold.” 0 analysts have rated the stock as underweight. 0 rates the stock as overweight while 3 have offered a “buy” rating.
What is ESRT’s price target for the next 12 months?
Analysts have a consensus price target ranging from a low of $6.00 and a high of $10.00, with their median price target at $9.00. Looking at these predictions, the average price target given by analysts is for Empire State Realty Trust Inc. (ESRT) stock is $8.80.
