Empire State Realty Trust Inc (NYSE: ESRT) – Time For Strategy Change?

Empire State Realty Trust Inc (NYSE:ESRT) currently has a daily average trading volume of 1.29M but it saw 2308062 shares traded in last market. With a market cap of 1.81B USD, the company’s current market price of $10.90 came falling about -2.50 while comparing to the previous closing price of $11.18. In past 52 weeks, the stock remained buoying in the range of price level as high as $11.62 and as low as $7.34. In the recent trading on the day, stock has struck highest price mark of $10.76 while lowest mark touched by it was $11.14.

Evercore ISI upgraded its recommendation for the stock as a “Outperform” from “In-line” on May 23, 2023 while assigning a price target range of $7-$8. Evercore ISI also issued its recommendations for the stock as it downgraded the price target for the stock in the range of between $8 and $7.

Over the week, ESRT’s stock price is moving -3.63% down while it is -3.71% when we observe its performance for the past one month. Year-to-date it is 12.49% up and over the past year, the stock is showing an upside performance of 43.86%.

Currently, Empire State Realty Trust Inc’s total number of outstanding shares is 162.06M. Company’s return on investment (ROI) stands at 1.31% and return on equity (ROE) at 4.82%. It has a price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) of 40.07. Stock’s beta reads 1.42. Stock has a price to book (P/B) ratio of 1.78 while price to sale or P/S ratio amounts to 2.38. Its return on asset (ROA) is 1.15% on average.