Essex Property Trust Inc. (ESS) scored on five pillars from its reported financial statements, and ranked against 84 Real Estate companies.
Essex Property Trust Inc. (ESS) scores 6.2 out of 10 as of , computed from its reported financial statements. That reads as solid quality. The reading rests on efficiency, and growth is what holds it back.
One pillar, solvency, is unscored because the filings behind it carry too little to judge. It is shown as a dash rather than a zero, and the overall score is the weighted average of what could be scored.
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The Quality Score for ESS stands at 6.2 out of 10 as of October 19, 2026, which puts Essex Property Trust Inc. in the solid quality band. This band covers companies that do several things well but not everything, so the pillar detail below matters more than the headline. It rolls Essex Property Trust Inc.’s profitability, solvency, growth, efficiency and predictability into one number, each judged against the norms of its sector.
Among the 84 Real Estate companies with a published score, that ranks at the 83rd percentile, inside the top quarter of the group. For reference, the middle of the group scores 5.2 and a company needs 5.9 to reach its top quarter, which leaves Essex Property Trust Inc. above the median.
Profitability scores 5.9 out of 10, which reads as average. The median across 80 Real Estate companies is 4.8, so Essex Property Trust Inc. is above its peers on this pillar and ranks at the 67th percentile. An average profitability reading usually means the company earns a fair return without obvious pricing power, so the other pillars decide more of the story.
Solvency has no score for Essex Property Trust Inc. Fewer than half of the pillar’s metric weight could be computed from the reported statements, so it is drawn as a dash and left out of the overall rather than counted as a zero. For context, the median solvency score across 34 Real Estate companies is 3.7. Without it the overall says nothing about how comfortably the company carries its debt.
On growth, Essex Property Trust Inc. scores 5.5, an average reading. Its peers have a median of 5.2 across 74 Real Estate companies, which places it in line with them, at the 55th percentile. A middling growth reading is typical of a mature company whose next step depends on reinvestment rather than on its market growing for it.
Efficiency scores 7.4 out of 10, which reads as strong. The median across 80 Real Estate companies is 6.4, so Essex Property Trust Inc. is above its peers on this pillar and ranks at the 76th percentile. High efficiency means assets and earnings are being turned into cash and output better than at most peers, a sign of a well run operation.
On predictability, Essex Property Trust Inc. scores 6.3, an average reading. Its peers have a median of 4.9 across 83 Real Estate companies, which places it above them, at the 85th percentile. An average predictability reading means results have wobbled about as much as is normal for the sector.
Efficiency at 7.4 is Essex Property Trust Inc.’s best pillar and growth at 5.5 its weakest. The 1.9 point gap between them is worth keeping in mind when reading the overall. Leading with efficiency points to disciplined use of capital, a strength that compounds quietly. Slow growth limits how fast the business can compound, even when everything else is in order.
Essex Property Trust Inc. has no pillar below the median of Real Estate companies, which leaves little room to rise. Its exposure is to slippage instead, and profitability carries the most weight: one point less there would mean an overall of roughly 5.9 rather than 6.2. With one pillar unscored, the overall rests on 80 of the 100 weight points, spread across the four pillars that could be measured (the full set is profitability 25, solvency 20, growth 20, efficiency 15, predictability 20).
For a fair comparison, start with companies of a similar size: the Real Estate companies below are nearest to Essex Property Trust Inc. by market value, each scored on the same pillars.
How much profit the company generates from its capital and sales.
The company’s ability to service debt and meet its obligations.
How fast revenue, earnings and cash flow are compounding.
How well assets and earnings convert into cash and output.
How stable and consistent results have been over time.
Each metric is scored from 0 to 10 against sector-aware benchmarks, where higher is better. Metrics roll up into five pillars, and the pillars combine into the overall score using the weights shown. Sector-sensitive metrics are judged relative to peers in the same sector.
This score is a systematic, backward-looking read of reported fundamentals. It does not judge valuation, management quality, competitive moat, or future prospects, and can be distorted by one-off items or unusual accounting. Treat it as a starting point, not a recommendation.
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On this reading Essex Property Trust Inc. scores 6.2 out of 10, which reads as solid quality. Its strongest pillar is efficiency, its weakest is growth. Quality is not the same as a good investment: the score says nothing about the price you would pay.
Essex Property Trust Inc. ranks at the 83rd percentile of the 84 Real Estate companies Lemma publishes a score for. The median there is 5.2 and the top quarter starts at 5.9, against Essex Property Trust Inc.’s 6.2.
Five pillars, each scored from 0 to 10 against sector-aware benchmarks and then weighted into one overall reading: profitability, solvency, growth, efficiency and predictability. Everything comes from reported financials, and nothing comes from price, sentiment or forecasts.
This page last changed on October 19, 2026. The score moves with the financial statements, so the page changes when a new filing moves the reading rather than on a schedule. Live figures for ESS are in the app.
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