Barclays Sticks to Their Buy Rating for Equity Residential (EQR)

In a report released today, Richard Hightower from Barclays maintained a Buy rating on Equity Residential, with a price target of $76.00.

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According to TipRanks, Hightower is an analyst with an average return of -0.7% and a 51.26% success rate. Hightower covers the Real Estate sector, focusing on stocks such as Gaming and Leisure, Equity Residential, and AvalonBay.

In addition to Barclays, Equity Residential also received a Buy from Piper Sandler’s Alexander Goldfarb in a report issued on April 30. However, on May 5, J.P. Morgan maintained a Hold rating on Equity Residential (NYSE: EQR).

Based on Equity Residential’s latest earnings release for the quarter ending March 31, the company reported a quarterly revenue of $779.85 million and a net profit of $90.08 million. In comparison, last year the company earned a revenue of $760.81 million and had a net profit of $256.59 million

Based on the recent corporate insider activity of 28 insiders, corporate insider sentiment is negative on the stock. This means that over the past quarter there has been an increase of insiders selling their shares of EQR in relation to earlier this year. Most recently, in February 2026, Catherine Carraway, the EVP & CHRO of EQR sold 749.00 shares for a total of $47,606.44.