Equity Lifestyle Properties, Inc.

ELS Real Estate Reit Residential

Equity Lifestyle Properties, Inc.’s revenue for fiscal 2025 (year ended December 2025) was $1.5 billion, roughly unchanged from fiscal 2024.

Revenue
+4.22%
EPS
−10.0%
Free cash flow
+33.5%
Total debt
+19.5%

Quarter to September 2026, against a year earlier

62.55 2.25 +3.73%
Market cap
$12.6B
P/E
29.7×
Fwd P/E
28.8×
Dividend yield
3.56%
F-score
6/9
Altman Z
n/a
Beneish M
n/a
Dividend safety
n/a

Equity Lifestyle Properties, Inc. (ELS) Return on invested capital

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Equity Lifestyle Properties, Inc.'s return on invested capital over the twelve months to 30 September 2026 was 14.5%, up 0.5 percentage points from fiscal 2025 (14.0%). Over the past ten years it has ranged from 12.0% (fiscal 2022) to 15.5% (fiscal 2018); the current reading is higher than 36% of that period. That is above the Reit Residential industry median of 2.99% and above the Real Estate sector median of 2.17%.

Return on invested capital, annual

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Annual newest first

Period Return on invested capital Change (points)
FY2025 14.0% (1.31)
FY2024 15.3% 0.98
FY2023 14.3% 2.30
FY2022 12.0% (0.03)
FY2021 12.1% (2.58)
FY2020 14.7% 1.66
FY2019 13.0% (2.55)
FY2018 15.5% 0.55
FY2017 15.0% 0.37
FY2016 14.6% (0.51)

Against its own ten years

Low 12.0% High 15.5%
Ten-year median 14.6%
Current reading's percentile 36

Return on invested capital against peers

Company Return on invested capital
ELS Equity Lifestyle Properties, Inc. 14.5%
UDR United Dominion Realty Trust, Inc. compare 6.82%
SUI Sun Communities, Inc. compare 3.82%
INVH Invitation Home compare 3.44%
MAA Mid-America Apartment Communities, Inc. compare 3.27%
ESS Essex Property Trust, Inc. compare 2.99%
AMH American Homes 4 Rent compare 2.37%
CPT Camden Property Trust compare 2.03%
JAN Janus Living, Inc. compare −0.56%
Reit Residential industry median 2.99%
Real Estate sector median 2.17%
Market median 0.00%

What Return on invested capital is

Return on Invested Capital shows how much after-tax operating profit a company earns on the money its lenders and shareholders have put in.

TTM: (Operating Income × 0.625) ÷ (Shareholders Equity (Total) (latest quarter) + Long Term Debt (Total) (latest quarter) + Current Part of Debt (latest quarter) − Cash & Short Term Investments (latest quarter)); Annual: (Operating Income × 0.625) ÷ (Shareholders Equity (Total) + Long Term Debt (Total) + Current Part of Debt − Cash & Short Term Investments)

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