Essential Properties Realty Trust, Inc.
At today's price, Essential Properties Realty Trust, Inc. (EPRT) is priced for -0.1% FFO growth. boothcheck doesn't publish a fair value or a price target; it shows what the price assumes, so you can judge whether that bar is too high. Built from SEC EDGAR filings.
• Essential Properties is a fast-growing net-lease REIT with a 99.7%-leased book of 2,300 properties, a 14.4-year weighted average lease term, and only 5.2% of base rent expiring before 2031, compounding AFFO per share 11% year over year. • The biggest specific risk is the external-growth model itself: roughly $419 million of equity was raised in one quarter to fund acquisitions, so per-share growth depends on the spread between deal yields and a roughly 9% cost of capital staying positive. • Wh
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368 institutional managers reported holding EPRT in 13F filings for the quarter ended 2026-03-31. 50 opened new positions that quarter. Held by BlackRock, Cohen & Steers, State Street, among others. On the short side, 15.5M shares were sold short as of the 2026-06-15 count, about 7% of shares outstanding (7.2 days of typical volume to cover).
Quarterly 13F filings arrive up to 45 days after quarter end, so the picture is never current (filed through 2026-05-29). Nothing here is investment advice.
EPRT's share count grew 80.7% over the past five years. It pays a dividend, and has for 7 years running, raised 5 years straight; the current rate is $0.88 a share annually. Cash returned over the past three years: $586.64M in dividends.
Share counts are split-adjusted; repurchase totals are gross of share issuance. Nothing here is investment advice.
No open-market insider buys on file at EPRT over the trailing three years. Absence is a fact about the company, not a signal. 13 officers and directors are on file.
Code P open-market purchases from SEC Form 4 filings, non-derivative, excluding scheduled 10b5-1 plans. Nothing here is investment advice.
EPRT's recent reports: the day-one move, then what the following quarter actually did.
| report | day one | next quarter |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-07-28 | -3.7% | -11.7% |
| 2023-10-26 | +2.4% | +21.4% |
| 2024-02-15 | +1.4% | +2.5% |
| 2024-04-25 | -2.1% | +7.2% |
Day-one is the close-to-close move around the filing. Nothing here is investment advice.
EPRT's latest 8-K filings: 2026-06-15 (items 1.01, 8.01, 9.01); 2026-06-01 (items 8.01, 9.01); 2026-06-01 (items 7.01, 9.01); 2026-05-12 (items 5.07, 9.01); 2026-04-22 (items 2.02, 7.01, 9.01).
Item codes are the SEC's own classification of what each report discloses. Nothing here is investment advice.
Last analyzed: June 27, 2026
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