Essex Property: Undervalued High Quality In Plain Sight

  • Essex Property Trust is a reliable long-term stock with strong fundamentals in high-barrier West Coast markets, benefiting from limited new housing supply and high rental demand. ESS has demonstrated driven by strong property-level metrics as growth appears to be normalizing back to pre-2020 levels. ESS offers a well-covered 3.8% dividend yield and is attractively valued at a P/FFO of 17.0, which is well below its historical average.