AvalonBay Communities (NYSE:AVB) Issues Q1 2025 Earnings Guidance

AvalonBay Communities (NYSE:AVB) updated its first quarter 2025 earnings guidance on Wednesday. The company provided EPS guidance of 2.750-2.850 for the period, compared to the consensus EPS estimate of 2.850. The company issued revenue guidance of -. AvalonBay Communities also updated its FY 2025 guidance to 11.140-11.640 EPS.

AvalonBay Communities Trading Down 0.8 %

NYSE:AVB traded down $1.82 during mid-day trading on Friday, reaching $219.96. The company’s stock had a trading volume of 129,471 shares, compared to its average volume of 619,108. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.70, a current ratio of 1.64 and a quick ratio of 1.64. The stock has a market cap of $31.29 billion, a P/E ratio of 30.10, a P/E/G ratio of 3.09 and a beta of 1.00. AvalonBay Communities has a twelve month low of $169.37 and a twelve month high of $239.29. The company’s fifty day simple moving average is $220.79 and its two-hundred day simple moving average is $221.98.

AvalonBay Communities (NYSE:AVB) last announced its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, February 5th. The real estate investment trust reported $2.80 earnings per share for the quarter, missing analysts’ consensus estimates of $2.83 by ($0.03). AvalonBay Communities had a net margin of 36.20% and a return on equity of 8.84%. On average, equities analysts predict that AvalonBay Communities will post 11.04 EPS for the current year.

AvalonBay Communities Increases Dividend

The firm also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Tuesday, April 15th. Stockholders of record on Monday, March 31st will be paid a dividend of $1.75 per share. This is a boost from AvalonBay Communities’s previous quarterly dividend of $1.70. This represents a $7.00 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 3.18%. The ex-dividend date is Monday, March 31st. AvalonBay Communities’s dividend payout ratio is 93.02%.

Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth

Several equities analysts have recently commented on AVB shares. Scotiabank lowered their target price on AvalonBay Communities from $244.00 to $241.00 and set a “sector perform” rating for the company in a report on Thursday, November 14th. JPMorgan Chase & Co. upgraded shares of AvalonBay Communities from a “neutral” rating to an “overweight” rating and boosted their price target for the company from $247.00 to $262.00 in a report on Tuesday, December 17th. Mizuho raised AvalonBay Communities from a “neutral” rating to an “outperform” rating and increased their price objective for the stock from $239.00 to $242.00 in a research note on Monday, January 6th. Morgan Stanley lowered shares of AvalonBay Communities from an “overweight” rating to an “equal weight” rating and decreased their target price for the company from $236.00 to $223.00 in a research note on Friday, January 24th. Finally, Barclays lowered their price target on AvalonBay Communities from $243.00 to $230.00 and set an “equal weight” rating for the company in a research note on Friday, January 24th. Nine research analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and seven have assigned a buy rating to the stock. According to data from MarketBeat, AvalonBay Communities has a consensus rating of “Hold” and an average price target of $234.60.

Insider Buying and Selling

In other AvalonBay Communities news, Director Timothy J. Naughton sold 23,697 shares of the stock in a transaction that occurred on Wednesday, November 13th. The shares were sold at an average price of $233.47, for a total transaction of $5,532,538.59. Following the transaction, the director now owns 87,239 shares in the company, valued at $20,367,689.33. This represents a 21.36 % decrease in their position. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which is available at this hyperlink. 0.48% of the stock is owned by corporate insiders.

About AvalonBay Communities

AvalonBay Communities, Inc is a real estate investment trust, which engages in the development, acquisition, ownership, and operation of multifamily communities. It operates through the following segments: Same Store, Other Stabilized, and Development or Redevelopment. The Same Store segment refers to the operating communities that were owned and had stabilized occupancy.