Is it safe?
Can EQR take a bad year?
Equity Residential carries $3.06B of net debt at 1.62× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
$3.06B
Net debt · as at Q1 2026 · under two and a half years of EBITDA, comfortable
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 1.62×
Net debt / EBITDA · 1.66× a year ago · the load is coming down
- Interest cover
- 2.85×
Interest cover · operating profit covers the interest bill, with room to spare
- Annualised volatility
- 22%
Annualised volatility · about as steady as the market itself
Details›
- Total debtQ1 2026
- $3.09B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $35M
- Net debt
- $3.06B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $1.89B
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $889M
- Debt / equity
- 0.29×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 1.64×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 22%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −46%
- Below its 52-week high
- −9.1%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
REIT - Residential
Ranks #7 of 10 by Smart Score