Mizuho Maintains Buy Rating for Equity Residential: Here's What You Need To Know

Mizuho has decided to maintain its Buy rating of Equity Residential EQR and lower its price target from $77.00 to $66.00.

Shares of Equity Residential are trading up 6.72% over the last 24 hours, at $63.69 per share.

A move to $66.00 would account for a 3.63% increase from the current share price.

About Equity Residential

Equity Residential owns a portfolio of 310 apartment communities with around 80,000 units and is developing three additional properties with 1,136 units. The company focuses on owning large, high-quality properties in the urban and suburban submarkets of Southern California, San Francisco, Washington, D.C., New York, Seattle, and Boston.

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