EastGroup Properties (NYSE:EGP) Releases FY24 Earnings Guidance

EastGroup Properties (NYSE:EGP) issued an update on its FY24 earnings guidance on Tuesday morning. The company provided EPS guidance of $8.28-8.38 for the period, compared to the consensus EPS estimate of $8.32. EastGroup Properties also updated its Q3 guidance to $2.06-2.12 EPS.

Wall Street Analyst Weigh In

EGP has been the subject of a number of recent research reports. Evercore ISI dropped their price target on shares of EastGroup Properties from $190.00 to $178.00 and set an in-line rating for the company in a research note on Thursday, April 25th. BNP Paribas initiated coverage on EastGroup Properties in a research note on Tuesday, June 4th. They issued a neutral rating and a $167.00 price target on the stock. Wedbush upgraded EastGroup Properties from a neutral rating to an outperform rating and raised their price target for the stock from $162.00 to $208.00 in a research report on Monday. JPMorgan Chase & Co. dropped their price objective on EastGroup Properties from $190.00 to $183.00 and set a neutral rating for the company in a report on Thursday, May 2nd. Finally, Mizuho reduced their target price on EastGroup Properties from $185.00 to $175.00 and set a neutral rating on the stock in a report on Friday, May 31st. Ten research analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and six have assigned a buy rating to the company. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, the company currently has a consensus rating of Hold and an average price target of $182.75.

EastGroup Properties Stock Down 0.7 %

NYSE EGP traded down $1.39 on Tuesday, reaching $189.95. The company had a trading volume of 410,473 shares, compared to its average volume of 283,604. The company’s fifty day moving average is $169.80 and its 200-day moving average is $173.30. The firm has a market capitalization of $9.14 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 41.45, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 2.92 and a beta of 0.98. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.63, a quick ratio of 0.10 and a current ratio of 0.10. EastGroup Properties has a 1-year low of $154.75 and a 1-year high of $191.93.

EastGroup Properties Dividend Announcement

The company also recently disclosed a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Monday, July 15th. Stockholders of record on Friday, June 28th were given a dividend of $1.27 per share. The ex-dividend date was Friday, June 28th. This represents a $5.08 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 2.67%. EastGroup Properties’s dividend payout ratio is currently 110.20%.

About EastGroup Properties

EastGroup Properties, Inc (NYSE: EGP), a member of the S&P Mid-Cap 400 and Russell 1000 Indexes, is a self-administered equity real estate investment trust focused on the development, acquisition and operation of industrial properties in major Sunbelt markets throughout the United States with an emphasis in the states of Florida, Texas, Arizona, California and North Carolina.