Insider buying last 90 days
No open-market insider purchases were filed for EPRT in the last 90 days.
From Form 4 filings, dated to when each was filed.
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Essential Properties Realty Trust (EPRT) Stock Analysis & Forecast
Sep 28 close
$26.40−0.13 (−0.5%)
Gekko Brief
AI summaryThis week EPRT confirmed it will report third-quarter 2026 results on October 21, 2026, with the call the following day, and separately amended its revolving credit facility to raise borrowing capacity while lowering borrowing costs, a move framed as supporting acquisition funding without heavy reliance on new equity. The stock also touched a 52-week low of $26.46, prompting commentary on valuation, including a P/E of 21.9x and discussion of whether the earnings discount is sustainable. Executive leadership changes, including a new Chief Investment Officer, and a declared quarterly dividend of US$0.32 per share payable in October 2026 were also noted.
EPRT closed at $26.40, down 0.5%, sitting below both its 50-day ($30.03) and 200-day ($30.95) moving averages, with the 52-week range spanning $26.19 to $34.73. The GekkoIndex reads 71.7, placing the stock in the Buying zone, while the gap to Gekko Fair Value of $47.52 stands at -44.4%.
The next earnings date falls on 28 October 2026, after the close, 29 days out and beyond a typical 20-trading-day holding window; the prior report on 22 July 2026 showed EPS of $0.34 against a $0.33 estimate with a -3.5% reaction. No insider, Congress or unusual options activity appears in the current windows. Seasonally, the next 20 trading days have averaged +2.3% over 5 years, rising in 3 of them, a pattern worth noting alongside the wider gap to fair value.
Written by AI and checked automatically against the figures on this page. Generated Sep 29, 2026 from the data above.
Essential Properties Realty Trust price vs fair value
Close $26.40200-day averageGekko Fair Value $47.52
Essential Properties Realty Trust quick facts
- Market cap
- $5.71B
- P/E ratio
- 20.6
- Forward P/E
- 22.8
- EPS, TTM
- $1.29
- Revenue, TTM
- $615.5M
- Profit margin
- 43.5%
- Dividend yield
- 4.68%
- Beta
- 0.87
- Volume
- 2.01M avg 2.18M
- 1-year return
- −10.4%
- Typical daily move
- ±2.4%
- Typical 20-day move
- ±3.7%
- 50-day average
- $30.03
- 200-day average
- $30.95
- Next earnings
- Oct 28 after close
- Shares outstanding
- 216.3M
Essential Properties Realty Trust swing-trade checklist
Essential Properties Realty Trust scores 4 supportive, 0 mixed and 1 headwind across the 5 checklist items with data.
Six things swing traders check before a 20-day hold, read from the latest data.
4 supportive0 mixed1 headwind
- Trendheadwind
Below 50 and 200-day
Close $26.40 is below the 50-day ($30.03) and 200-day ($30.95) averages, and the 50-day is below the 200-day.
See the chart - GekkoIndexsupportive
71.7, Buying
Reading 71.7 is in the Buying zone.
See the GekkoIndex - Fair valuesupportive
44.4% below
Price is 44.4% below Gekko Fair Value (more than 5% below).
See fair value - Smart moneyno data
No data
No insider, Congress or unusual options activity in the window.
See smart money - Earnings risksupportive
Reports in 29 days
Next report Oct 28, 2026, 29 days away — outside a typical 20-trading-day hold.
See earnings - Seasonalitysupportive
+2.3% on average
From this point in the calendar, the next 20 trading days averaged +2.3% over 5 years, rising in 3 of them.
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Essential Properties Realty Trust stock chart and price history
Essential Properties Realty Trust closed at $26.40 on Sep 28, 2026, −10.4% over the past year, inside a 52-week range of $26.19 to $34.73.
Close50-day average200-day averageVolume
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Performance Breakdown
- 1 month
- −13.0%
- 3 months
- −13.5%
- 6 months
- −13.1%
- 1 year
- −10.4%
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About Essential Properties Realty Trust
Essential Properties Realty Trust buys, holds, and manages standalone commercial buildings across the United States, each occupied by a single business. It leases these sites out under long-term contracts, and its tenants come from a wide mix of trades, including restaurants, car washes and auto repair shops, medical and dental offices, convenience stores, equipment rental outlets, entertainment businesses, childcare centers, grocery stores, and fitness clubs. By the end of 2021 the company held 1,451 such properties.
The company is structured as a real estate investment trust for federal tax purposes, meaning it avoids corporate income tax so long as it pays out at least 90 percent of its taxable earnings to shareholders as dividends. Its income comes from the rent collected across this varied group of mid-sized business tenants rather than from any single industry.
Essential Properties Realty Trust was established in 2016 and is headquartered in Princeton, New Jersey. Its shares trade under the ticker EPRT.
- Sector
- Finance
- Website
- essentialproperties.com
Essential Properties Realty Trust GekkoIndex: the smart money zone
Essential Properties Realty Trust’s GekkoIndex — Gekko’s 0 to 100 smart money score — reads 71.7, in the Buying zone, down 10.8 points over five sessions.
71.7Buying
Down 10.8 points over five sessions.
Reading for Sep 28, 2026
What followed past readings in each zone
| Zone | Readings | 5 days | 20 days | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Buying (current zone) | 16 | −0.7% | +4.1% | ||
| Accumulation | 222 | +0.6% | +1.2% | ||
| Neutral | 346 | −0.2% | +0.2% | ||
| Distribution | 40 | +0.1% | −2.3% | ||
| Selling | 1 | Too few readings yet | |||
Average EPRT share-price change over the trading days after each daily reading in its GekkoIndex history. Across every stock Gekko tracks, Buying readings averaged +3.2% over 20 days. Past behaviour doesn’t guarantee future results.
Buying zone: Smart money likely accumulating heavily. About the five zones →
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Is Essential Properties Realty Trust stock overvalued? Gekko Fair Value
Essential Properties Realty Trust trades 44.4% below Gekko Fair Value of $47.52, so the shares are undervalued on Gekko’s estimate.
Gekko’s own estimate of what Essential Properties Realty Trust shares are worth, recalculated every trading day.
$47.52
Gekko Fair Value, Sep 29, 2026
44.4% Undervalued
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Essential Properties Realty Trust insider and Congress trading
No open-market insider purchases were filed for Essential Properties Realty Trust, and no Congress trades were disclosed, in the last 90 days.
Plus buybacks, unusual options and fund positions, each dated to when it became public.
Congress trades last 90 days
No trades in EPRT were disclosed by members of Congress in the last 90 days.
From congressional disclosures, which report amounts as ranges.
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Buybacks
Essential Properties Realty Trust has been buying back its own shares.
- Bought back, quarter ended Dec 31, 2024
- $1K
- As a share of market cap
- 0.00%
From company filings.
Essential Properties Realty Trust earnings: next date and track record
Essential Properties Realty Trust reports on Oct 28, 2026, after the close (29 days away), and beat the EPS estimate in 2 of its last 8 reports.
Next earnings report
Oct 28, 2026
Expected after the close, 29 days away
- EPS estimate
- $0.32
- Revenue estimate
- $158.1M
2 of 8reports beat the EPS estimate
±1.8%average move across the report
1 of 8reports followed by a gain
Share-price move across each report
Last earnings call, Jul 22, 2026 AI summary
- What they said
- EPRT reported Q2 2026 GAAP net income of $74.5M and AFFO of $110.1M, deploying $332M in investments at a 7.8% average initial cash yield. Portfolio metrics remained strong with 99.6% occupancy, 3.5x rent coverage, and 1.5% same-store rent growth. Leverage stood at 3.5x with $1.7B liquidity. The company holds 2,493 properties across 500+ tenants with a 14-year weighted average lease term.
- Guidance
- EPRT raised 2026 AFFO per share guidance to $2.01-$2.05, implying 7-8% growth at midpoint/high end. Investment volume guidance increased to $1.2B-$1.5B. Capital needs are largely addressed through 2026 and into 2027.
| Reported | EPS | Revenue | Move |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 22, 2026 | $0.34 est $0.33 | $151.1M est $155.9M | −3.5% |
| Apr 22, 2026 | $0.28 est $0.32 | $149.4M est $147.9M | −4.4% |
| Feb 11, 2026 | $0.34 est $0.33 | $140.1M est $142.6M | −0.8% |
| Oct 22, 2025 | $0.33 est $0.48 | $144.9M est $149.4M | +0.7% |
| Jul 23, 2025 | $0.32 est $0.47 | $137.1M est $138.1M | −1.0% |
| Apr 23, 2025 | $0.29 est $0.46 | $129.4M est $124.2M | −2.2% |
| Feb 12, 2025 | $0.30 est $0.31 | $119.7M est $121.2M | −0.3% |
| Oct 23, 2024 | $0.27 est $0.31 | $118.0M est $119.1M | −1.4% |
“Move” is the close of the first session after the report compared with the close of the last session before it, so it reads the same whether the company reported before the open or after the close.
Essential Properties Realty Trust stock forecast and analyst price targets
Analysts’ average 12-month price target for Essential Properties Realty Trust is $36.40, +37.9% from the last close, from 10 firms rating the stock in the last 90 days.
$36.40consensus 12-month target, +37.9% from the last close
Now $26.40Avg $36.40
Low $30High $40
Each firm’s latest rating in the last 90 days: 10 firms.
Latest analyst actions
| Date | Firm | Target | vs price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 24 | Scotiabank | $30 | +13.6% |
| Sep 23 | Stifel Nicolaus | $36 | +36.4% |
| Sep 21 | Evercore ISI | $37 | +40.2% |
| Sep 16 | Mizuho Securities | $30 | +13.6% |
| Sep 14 | Stifel Nicolaus | $36 | +36.4% |
+4.1%average 20-day move after past Buying readings
+2.3%average move over the next 20 trading days in the last 5 years
±2.4%typical daily move, from the 14-day average range
Gekko doesn’t publish price predictions. These are analyst targets and historical base rates, which don’t guarantee future results.
Essential Properties Realty Trust seasonality: the next 20 trading days
Over the next 20 trading days from Sep 29, Essential Properties Realty Trust averaged +2.3% across the last 5 years, rising in 3 of them.
Next 20 trading days, by year
Average move and hit rate
| Window | Average | Years higher |
|---|---|---|
| Next 5 trading days | −0.6% | 2 of 5 |
| Next 10 trading days | 0.0% | 2 of 5 |
| Next 15 trading days | +1.5% | 3 of 5 |
| Next 20 trading days | +2.3% | 3 of 5 |
| Next 30 trading days | +5.1% | 4 of 5 |
For scale, EPRT’s typical 20-trading-day move in either direction is about 3.7%.
Essential Properties Realty Trust market cap and key statistics
Essential Properties Realty Trust’s market cap is $5.71B, with a P/E ratio of 20.6 and revenue of $615.5M over the last twelve months.
Valuation
- Market cap
- $5.71B
- P/E ratio
- 20.6
- Forward P/E
- 22.8
- EPS, TTM
- $1.29
- Gekko Fair Value
- $47.52
Trading
- Volume
- 2.01M
- Avg volume, 20 days
- 2.18M
- 52-week high
- $34.73
- 52-week low
- $26.19
- Shares outstanding
- 216.3M
Financials
- Revenue, TTM
- $615.5M
- Profit margin
- 43.5%
- Return on equity
- 6.5%
- Quarterly earnings growth, YoY
- +7.5%
Risk and income
- Beta
- 0.87
- Typical daily move
- ±2.4%
- Typical 20-day move
- ±3.7%
- Dividend yield
- 4.68%
Essential Properties Realty Trust stock news this week
Coverage of Essential Properties Realty Trust this week reads positive: 4 positive, 1 neutral and 0 negative headlines.
- Essential Properties Realty Trust, Inc. to Report Third Quarter 2026 Results on October 21, 2026Yahoo Finance, Sep 29
- Essential Properties Realty Trust (EPRT) Revises Credit Facility, Cuts Borrowing CostsYahoo Finance, Sep 25
- Essential Properties Realty Trust stock hits 52-week low at $26.46Investing.com, Sep 24
- Can Essential Properties Realty Trust (EPRT) Sustain Its Earnings Discount?Simply Wall Street, Sep 24
- Essential Properties Realty Trust (NYSE:EPRT) Stock Forecast & Analyst PredictionsSimply Wall Street, Sep 22
Essential Properties Realty Trust stock FAQ
What is Essential Properties Realty Trust’s market cap?
Essential Properties Realty Trust’s market cap is $5.71B at the Sep 28, 2026 close of $26.40, with 216.3M shares outstanding. The shares trade on a P/E ratio of 20.6.
What is the Essential Properties Realty Trust stock forecast?
The consensus analyst 12-month price target for Essential Properties Realty Trust is $36.40, +37.9% from the last close. Of the 10 firms that rated the stock in the last 90 days, 10 rate it a buy, 0 a hold and 0 a sell. Gekko doesn’t publish price predictions of its own.
Is Essential Properties Realty Trust stock overvalued or undervalued?
On Gekko’s estimate Essential Properties Realty Trust is undervalued: the Sep 28, 2026 close of $26.40 is 44.4% below Gekko Fair Value of $47.52. Gekko Fair Value is recalculated every trading day, and a gap inside 5% either way counts as about fair value.
When does Essential Properties Realty Trust report earnings next?
Essential Properties Realty Trust is expected to report on Oct 28, 2026, after the market closes (29 days away). Analysts expect earnings of $0.32 per share on revenue of $158.1M. Essential Properties Realty Trust beat the earnings estimate in 2 of its last 8 reports, moving 1.8% on average across the report.
What is Essential Properties Realty Trust’s 52-week high and low?
Essential Properties Realty Trust’s 52-week high is $34.73 and its 52-week low is $26.19; it closed at $26.40 on Sep 28, 2026, −10.4% over the past year. Over the last five years the shares peaked at $34.88 on Nov 29, 2024.
Is Essential Properties Realty Trust stock a buy right now?
Gekko describes the data; it does not make buy or sell recommendations. On the swing-trade checklist, 4 of the 5 items with data read as supportive (gekkoindex, fair value, earnings risk and seasonality) and 1 as a headwind (trend). The checklist is a description of current data, not a recommendation.
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