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Equity Lifestyle Properties Inc. Common Stock (ELS) fair value

Real Estate · REIT - Residential · NYSE · United States
$60.84-0.54%
Market cap $12.3BNext earnings 2026-10-20Updated Oct 23, 2026
Our verdict
Trades 129% above our fair value
Price
$60.84
Model fair valueConfidence: medium
$26.61
Only one of our models could value this stock with confidence, so use it as a guide.
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Valued as a REIT (property company): Price to FFO, Dividend discount, and EV/EBITDA comparison.
ACCE opinionEquity Lifestyle Properties Inc. Common Stock (ELS)
Fair value (2 models)
Not available
ACCE price target
$58.00
Rating
Not rated
Horizon
12 months
ACCE price target published on 21 Oct 2026, 01:52 CEST; previously $60.00 since 26 Sept 2026, 00:00 CEST.
Price used: $60.84 at the close on 23 Oct 2026, 22:00 CEST.
Models: Dividend discount, EV/EBITDA comparison, and Price to FFO.
Fair value: the average of the applicable valuation models (discounted cash flow, multiples, residual income, dividend discount, shareholder yield), each run on the latest financial statements and the market price shown. Opinion columns (fair value, target, rating) are shown apart from the data. Full methodology: acceinvestments.com/data/how-we-value-stocks
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Data
ACCE score
48
out of 100
Analysts
58% buy
19 covering
P/E
29.3x
forward 28.6x
1-year return
-0.2%
Dividend yield
3.62%

Equity Lifestyle Properties Inc. Common Stock in four questions

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Overview

ACCE thesis

Equity Lifestyle Properties owns and operates manufactured housing communities and RV resorts, collecting rent on pads that tenants own their homes on, with a large base of annual membership and seasonal RV sites layered on top. Its moat is scarcity: new manufactured home communities are almost impossible to entitle in most coastal and supply-constrained markets, so existing sites carry pricing power that has held up through cycles. Revenue growth of 3.8% is modest, but a 53.9% gross margin and 33.4% operating margin show how much of each rent dollar reaches the bottom line. The stock trades at 30.1 times trailing earnings and 27.9 times forward, a premium that prices in durable rent increases and steady occupancy, so the case rests on whether that cash flow compounding holds. With a score of 48/100 and no index membership, it reads as a quality compounder that is not cheap, and it merits a deeper look on rent growth and occupancy trends before any conviction is formed.

AI-assisted·How I use AIWritten Oct 24, 2026
⚠ Investor warnings · 3 flagsAI-assisted·How I use AI
  • moderate
    Earnings declining despite revenue growth
    Revenue grew 3.8% year over year while earnings fell 11.1%, so margins or costs are moving against the top line. Worth checking the trend before sizing.
  • moderate
    Leverage elevated
    Debt to equity of 1.92 is high even for a REIT, which leaves less room if rates or occupancy shift. Free cash flow of $334M gives some cushion.
  • moderate
    Price above ACCE price target
    The stock trades 4.9% above the ACCE price target of $58.00, with the price at $60.84. The valuation is already stretched on our numbers.

AI research notes

AI-assisted·How I use AIWritten Oct 23, 2026 · figures from 2026-09-30 · prices to Oct 23, 2026
Why it could do well
  • Revenue has grown at a 7.2% average yearly pace over five years, showing the business has compounded steadily.
  • A 24.7% net margin and 22.3% return on equity suggest the portfolio turns sales into profit efficiently.
  • Eleven of nineteen analysts rate the stock Buy or Strong Buy, and their mean target sits 11.3% above the current price.
Why it could disappoint
  • At 30.3 times trailing earnings and a 2.7% free cash flow yield, the shares already price in a lot of future growth.
  • Debt equals 1.92 times equity, so refinancing at higher rates or wider property cap rates could squeeze returns.
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Valuation

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Where ELS's valuation models land
Price
$60.84
Model fair valueConfidence: medium
$26.61
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Wall Street consensus

Mixed58% buy · 19 covering analysts
● Strong buy 8● Buy 3● Hold 8● Sell 0● Strong sell 0
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Where it sits vs peers

News and Record

Press releases mentioning this company

Recent performance

1 week
-0.6%
1 month
+1.9%
3 months
-7.9%
6 months
-3.9%
YTD
+0.4%
1 year
-0.2%

SEC filings

Recommendation history, last 12 months

DateTypeNewPreviousPrice
21 Oct 2026, 01:52 CESTACCE price target$58.00$60.00$61.97
5 Oct 2026, 00:00 CESTFair value$28.43$28.80$58.25
29 Sept 2026, 00:00 CESTFair value$28.80$29.18$59.23
26 Sept 2026, 00:00 CESTACCE price target$60.00first publication$59.23
22 Sept 2026, 00:00 CESTFair value$29.18$29.57$60.40
15 Sept 2026, 00:00 CESTFair value$29.57$32.67$60.08
12 Sept 2026, 00:00 CESTFair value$32.67$33.25$60.30
5 Sept 2026, 00:00 CESTFair value$33.25$31.60$62.61
31 Aug 2026, 00:00 CESTFair value$31.60$33.81$63.74
26 Aug 2026, 00:00 CESTFair value$33.81$31.33$65.45

This analysis is not personalised investment advice and does not take your situation, objectives or risk tolerance into account. ACCE Investments is not an authorised investment firm.

Investing in shares carries a risk of losing capital. The value of an investment can go down as well as up.

Valuation horizon: 12 months from the publication date.

Conflicts of interest. ACCE Investments is operated by Adrien Chantreuil, who may hold personal positions in the securities analysed. Positions are declared on each security. ACCE receives no payment from the companies analysed or from any intermediary for this analysis.

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Snapshot

Growth28Value40Quality77Momentum47Total48
Valuation
Trailing P/E
29.3x
Forward P/E
28.6x
PEG
4.39
P/B
6.74x
EV / Revenue
10.2x
Book value/sh
$9.01
Enterprise value
$14.9B
Profitability
ROE
22.3%
FCF yield
2.73%
ROIC
6.2%
Health and risk
Debt / equity
1.92
Dividend yield
3.62%
Beta
0.64

Price

-1.2% · 1Y

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Answered from Equity Lifestyle Properties Inc. Common Stock fundamentals + recent valuations. Every number shows its source and date.

This stock Peer Peer median weaker → stronger
P/Ebetter than 50% of peers
low 0.0x29.3xhigh 88.1x
ROEbetter than 100% of peers
low 2%22%high 22%
Div yieldbetter than 0% of peers
low 3.6%3.6%high 6.7%

Peers

Prices Oct 23, 2026
CompanyPriceFair valuevs fair valueP/EROEQualityScore
ELS Equity Lifestyle Properties Inc. Common Stock$60.84--29.3x22.3%7748
CPT Camden Property Trust Common Stock$102.74$1021% above33.9x7.9%7241
AMH American Homes 4 Rent Common Shares of Beneficial Interest$31.90$2242% above25.3x7.1%7755
UDR UDR Inc. Common Stock$36.18$2544% above22.7x13.7%7252
MAA Mid-America Apartment Communities Inc. Common Stock$121.17$10515% above35.4x7.0%6948
SUI Sun Communities Inc. Common Stock$119.86$9723% above88.1x1.7%5938
AIZN Assurant Inc. 5.25% Subordinated Notes due 2061$17.10$3145% below-7.5%3826

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  • PR Newswire•Oct 12, 2026
    Equity LifeStyle Properties, Inc. Announces Third Quarter 2026 Earnings Release And Conference Call
  • PR Newswire•Sep 14, 2026
    ELS TO PARTICIPATE AT BANK OF AMERICA SECURITIES 2026 GLOBAL REAL ESTATE CONFERENCE
  • PR Newswire•Sep 2, 2026
    US Army Signs Basic Ordering Agreement with Elsight for Uncrewed Systems Connectivity
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October 2026
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8-KCurrent reportPeriod 2026-10-20
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Oct 5
Form 4Insider transactionPeriod 2026-10-01
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September 2026
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8-KCurrent reportPeriod 2026-09-10
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