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Company snapshot — Equity Lifestyle Properties Inc

ELS in five paragraphs: what it makes and sells, where it sits in the Closelook stack, who it is priced against, why we track it, what we watch. Research diary, not advice.

What it does
Equity Lifestyle Properties is a real estate investment trust that owns and runs communities of manufactured homes and resorts for recreational vehicles across the United States. It earns income mainly from site rents paid by residents and vehicle owners rather than from selling the homes themselves. The company is headquartered in Chicago and manages its own portfolio rather than outsourcing operations.
Where it sits in the stack
Equity Lifestyle Properties has no seat in Rubin or Halo, the diary's AI-infrastructure indices; it sits outside the build-out entirely, in the residential REIT sector of our wider equity universe. It is tracked as a defensive property name rather than as a constraint on or customer of any AI layer.
Who it is priced against
Closelook does not carry a peer group for this name; it belongs to the residential REIT sector alongside a well-known operator such as Sun Communities, which runs a comparable mix of manufactured-home and RV communities.
Why Closelook tracks it
It is a Russell 1000 constituent and does not yet carry a Closelook score. The diary has quoted its ticker twice, once in a report on optical interconnects and once in a glossary entry on co-packaged optics, both incidental mentions rather than coverage of its property business.
What the diary watches
The diary watches whether occupancy and rent renewals across its communities stay steady, since any slowdown there would be the first sign the read on this REIT needs revisiting.

Equity Lifestyle Properties Inc (ELS) trades on US exchanges.

Written from the company’s public profile and Closelook’s own readings, 2026-09-17. Descriptive, refreshed with the registry; corrections welcome via the imprint. closelook.net is an investment research diary — market structure, index membership and scores are our own readings, not investment advice. Related: index compare · sector dispersion · scanner.

Signals for this name

Every Closelook reading that exists for ELS, from the same nightly bakes the boards use. Research diary readings, not advice.

The Street on this name 1 analyst action on the wire · latest: price target by Truist, 2026-09-11

The Street on this name

Analyst actions and the latest print for ELS from the Closelook wires — third-party opinions on the record, not our readings.

  • Price target Truist — target 64 from 67 Target cut to $64 from $67 (+6.1% to spot) 2026-09-11

1 action on the analyst wire since 2026-08-13: 1 target change. Analyst wire → · Earnings wire →

Who it is priced against REIT - Residential · United States · 8 names with week and year-to-date

Peer group

REIT - Residential · United States

This name carries no Closelook score, so its cohort ranks on trend state — distance to the 50- and 200-day averages — never on a score it does not have.

Compared against ELS on the nightly bakes; the Peers tab ranks the cohort on the Closelook scores where it exists.

Dividends and capital return trailing yield 3.50%, quarterly · last 0.54 USD on 2026-06-26

Dividends and capital return

What ELS pays out and buys back — distributions read from the price series, money terms from the filings.

  • Trailing 12 months 2.12 USD per share · a 3.50% yield on the 2026-09-18 close 4 distributions, paid quarterly 2026-09-18
  • Change on the year +6.6% against the prior twelve months prior twelve months 1.99 USD per share
  • Last distribution 0.54 USD per share as the price series records it, within days of the ex-date 2026-06-26
  • By calendar year 2023: 0.90 USD (partial) · 2024: 1.91 USD · 2025: 2.06 USD · 2026: 1.09 USD to date first distribution recorded in the three-year window: 2023-09-28

Per-share amounts are derived from the adjusted price series in the listing currency, so dates sit within days of the ex-date; filing figures come from the fundamentals feed for the last reported fiscal year. An investment diary, not a recommendation.

Weather around the name 3 macro readings: Money Temperature, Factor regime, Sovereign pressure

The weather around this name

Macro readings that apply by membership — the regime, the factor tape, the sector cell, the funding backdrop.

  • Money Temperature Composite 50/100 · S&P 500 fund at 49, above its 50- and 200-day averagesEight instruments scored on position, momentum, volume, volatility and fragility — the regime every name trades inside. Temperature lab → 2026-09-18
  • Factor regime Momentum leading — risk appetite buildingMomentum against low volatility (SPMO / SPLV): above its 50-day trend, 97th percentile of the window, +4.9% over 20 sessions. Factor regime → 2026-09-18
  • Sovereign pressure Index 0.07 · down 0.41 over 21 sessionsG7 long-end yields, 10s30s and the slope — the funding weather for every balance sheet on this site. Sovereign pressure → 2026-09-18

FAQ · from the current data · as of 2026-09-19

Quick answers

What is Equity Lifestyle Properties Inc (ELS)?

Equity Lifestyle Properties Inc trades as ELS on the US exchange (United States) in the Closelook research universe, as of the registry build of 2026-09-19.

Is ELS in a Closelook index?

Not currently — Equity Lifestyle Properties Inc is tracked in the Closelook research universe but is not a constituent of a Closelook functional index as of 2026-09-19.

Where does ELS trade against its moving averages?

Mixed moving-average stack: Trades -5.8% vs the 50-day and -4.9% vs the 200-day average, 11.7% below the 52-week high and +4.3% off the 52-week low. Computed from daily closes. As of 2026-09-18 — a technical state from the nightly Closelook bake, not advice. The Technical tab carries the full row.

What does Equity Lifestyle Properties Inc do?

Equity Lifestyle Properties is a real estate investment trust that owns and runs communities of manufactured homes and resorts for recreational vehicles across the United States. It earns income mainly from site rents paid by residents and vehicle owners rather than from selling the homes themselves. The company is headquartered in Chicago and manages its own portfolio rather than outsourcing operations. Closelook does not carry a peer group for this name; it belongs to the residential REIT sector alongside a well-known operator such as Sun Communities, which runs a comparable mix of manufactured-home and RV communities.

Where does Equity Lifestyle Properties Inc sit in the AI build-out?

Equity Lifestyle Properties has no seat in Rubin or Halo, the diary's AI-infrastructure indices; it sits outside the build-out entirely, in the residential REIT sector of our wider equity universe. It is tracked as a defensive property name rather than as a constraint on or customer of any AI layer. It is a Russell 1000 constituent and does not yet carry a Closelook score. The diary has quoted its ticker twice, once in a report on optical interconnects and once in a glossary entry on co-packaged optics, both incidental mentions rather than coverage of its property business.

Does Equity Lifestyle Properties Inc pay a dividend?

Equity Lifestyle Properties Inc has paid 2.12 USD per share over the last twelve months, paid quarterly, a trailing yield of 3.50% on the 2026-09-18 close; the last distribution recorded in the price series was 0.54 USD on 2026-06-26. The "Dividends and capital return" block on this page carries the lines.

What has Wall Street done on Equity Lifestyle Properties Inc recently?

The most recent analyst action on Equity Lifestyle Properties Inc on the Closelook wire is a price target by Truist on 2026-09-11 (target 64 from 67). 1 action on the analyst wire since 2026-08-13: 1 target change. Analyst actions are third-party opinions recorded by the wire, not Closelook readings. The “The Street on this name” block on this page lists the moves; the full feeds are the analyst wire and the earnings wire.

Where has Closelook written about Equity Lifestyle Properties Inc?

Equity Lifestyle Properties Inc appears in 2 Closelook pieces, most recently Report: Optical Interconnects — The Toll Nobody Keeps (2026-08-13); Glossary: CPO (Co-Packaged Optics). What Closelook said most recently: Lumentum's initial ELS order is a small number and a large signal: the laser survives the relocation of the socket it used to live in. (Report, 2026-08-13). The "Mentioned on Closelook" block on this page lists the long reads, the reference entries and the dailies that name it.

What does this page show?

A live price chart with SMA overlays and drawing tools for ELS, performance metrics, index-membership context and the Closelook structure read — an investment research diary view, not investment advice.

Mentioned on Closelook 2 pieces · newest: Report, “Optical Interconnects — The Toll Nobody Keeps” (2026-08-13)

Mentioned on Closelook

Where ELS appears in the diary — 2 pieces, newest first. Every link is our own writing.

Long reads

101 and glossary

  • CPO (Co-Packaged Optics)GlossaryWhy it matters in 2026 CPO moved from conference slides to deployment: Broadcom's Tomahawk-6-class CPO switches see their first hyperscaler deployments this year, Nvidia's first optical engines built on TSMC's COUPE platform are shipping…

Related in the Closelook universe

then REIT - Residential, then Real Estate. Scored names rank on their Closelook score; names without one rank on trend state — above or below their 50- and 200-day averages — never on a score they do not carry.