S&P 500 Real Estate stocks: today's ranking and data
The S&P 500 has 30 companies in Real Estate today. It accounts for 1.8% of the market value of the index companies. Its median P/E is 32.7, against 23.7 for the index as a whole.
What Real Estate is and what drives its earnings
What it includes. Almost all REITs: companies that own rental property and pay out most of what they earn. Every kind is here: logistics warehouses, apartments, offices, shopping centers, cell towers, data centers, self-storage, senior housing and hospitals, hotels and casinos, even timberland. A few real-estate services firms complete the sector.
What drives its earnings. Rents and occupancy, which follow the economics of each property type (e-commerce for warehouses, remote work for offices, artificial intelligence for data centers), and interest rates, which raise their financing costs and lower the values at which buildings are appraised.
A word on P/E. A REIT depreciates its buildings on the books, which cuts reported earnings even if the property holds its value. That is why this sector's P/E looks high and says little: the sector itself is measured by FFO (earnings plus depreciation), which this page does not publish.
The classification is the one used by this site's data provider, similar to but not the same as GICS, S&P's standard: this sector roughly matches "Real Estate". Counts may therefore differ from other sources.
All 30 stocks in the sector, by today's multi-factor rank
The rank is the order produced by a quantitative model on data as of Nov 3, 2026: the average of four factors (momentum, value, quality and growth) computed from public data, against the 461 index companies that score. It is a calculation, not a recommendation to buy or sell: it knows nothing about anyone's situation, horizon or risk, and the returns of portfolios built with it are simulated. How it is computed: see the methodology.
| In sector | Index rank | Company | P/E | Market cap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 58 of 461 | HST Host Hotels & Resorts | 17.4 | $18.00B |
| 2 | 82 of 461 | SPG Simon Property | 16.0 | $86.27B |
| 3 | 140 of 461 | WELL Welltower | 107.4 | $181.23B |
| 4 | 148 of 461 | FRT Federal Realty Investment Trust | 22.7 | $9.94B |
| 5 | 159 of 461 | REG Regency Centers | 25.8 | $14.32B |
| 6 | 161 of 461 | IRM Iron Mountain | 83.1 | $34.63B |
| 7 | 162 of 461 | UDR UDR | 17.5 | $13.59B |
| 8 | 218 of 461 | PLD Prologis | 28.3 | $124.93B |
| 9 | 225 of 461 | CSGP CoStar | 76.1 | $13.48B |
| 10 | 241 of 461 | KIM Kimco Realty | 24.1 | $17.10B |
| 11 | 246 of 461 | SBAC SBA Communications | 21.4 | $20.73B |
| 12 | 259 of 461 | EQIX Equinix | 61.6 | $101.47B |
| 13 | 282 of 461 | EXR Extra Space Storage | 32.7 | $35.50B |
| 14 | 285 of 461 | VICI VICI Properties | 11.6 | $27.72B |
| 15 | 317 of 461 | DOC Healthpeak Properties | 36.7 | $14.05B |
| 16 | 324 of 461 | CPT Camden Property Trust | 34.2 | $11.95B |
| 17 | 329 of 461 | VTR Ventas | 171.4 | $47.13B |
| 18 | 346 of 461 | ESS Essex Property Trust | 50.2 | $18.64B |
| 19 | 353 of 461 | O Realty Income | 40.4 | $55.76B |
| 20 | 377 of 461 | EQR Vivmark Residential | 27.4 | $49.00B |
| 21 | 385 of 461 | AMT American Tower | 27.4 | $90.36B |
| 22 | 390 of 461 | INVH Invitation Homes | 24.0 | $15.91B |
| 23 | 401 of 461 | PSA Public Storage | 35.9 | $64.07B |
| 24 | 408 of 461 | CBRE CBRE | 30.2 | $40.58B |
| 25 | 418 of 461 | DLR Digital Realty Trust | 76.3 | $68.29B |
| 26 | 421 of 461 | BXP BXP | 19.4 | $11.72B |
| 27 | 423 of 461 | CCI Crown Castle | 36.7 | $39.95B |
| 28 | 437 of 461 | WY Weyerhaeuser | 34.3 | $15.56B |
| 29 | 447 of 461 | MAA Mid-America Apartment Communities | 36.7 | $14.41B |
| 30 | 456 of 461 | ARE Alexandria Real Estate Equities | — | $7.71B |
"—" under P/E: no positive P/E (negative trailing earnings or missing at the source). The full S&P 500 ranking →
Real Estate P/E against the index
| Median P/E | Companies with a positive P/E | |
|---|---|---|
| Real Estate | 32.7 | 29 of 30 |
| S&P 500 | 23.7 | 474 of 500 |
The median is the company in the middle: a few firms with near-zero earnings and huge P/Es do not move it, which is what happens to the average. Loss-making companies have no P/E and are left out.
Guide: P/E ratio explained · all guides
The 10 largest in the sector by market cap
| # | Company | Market cap | Weight in sector | Rank today |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | WELL Welltower | $181.23B | 14.3% | 140 |
| 2 | PLD Prologis | $124.93B | 9.9% | 218 |
| 3 | EQIX Equinix | $101.47B | 8.0% | 259 |
| 4 | AMT American Tower | $90.36B | 7.1% | 385 |
| 5 | SPG Simon Property | $86.27B | 6.8% | 82 |
| 6 | DLR Digital Realty Trust | $68.29B | 5.4% | 418 |
| 7 | PSA Public Storage | $64.07B | 5.1% | 401 |
| 8 | O Realty Income | $55.76B | 4.4% | 353 |
| 9 | EQR Vivmark Residential | $49.00B | 3.9% | 377 |
| 10 | VTR Ventas | $47.13B | 3.7% | 329 |
Total market value (price times shares outstanding), without the float adjustment S&P applies: the weight is indicative. Companies with two share classes count once.
Insider buying and selling in the last 30 days
From Oct 4, 2026 to Nov 3, 2026, 2 open-market purchases ($108k) and 4 sales ($988k), filed on SEC Form 4 by directors, officers and 10% owners of 3 companies in the sector. Counted by trade date; grants, option exercises and transfers between the same insider's accounts are left out.
| Company | Buys | Amount | Sales | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IRM Iron Mountain | 0 | — | 1 | $585k |
| AMT American Tower | 1 | $8k | 3 | $403k |
| MAA Mid-America Apartment Communities | 1 | $100k | 0 | — |
Upcoming earnings dates
Dates announced by the companies themselves, from Nasdaq's public calendar (between Nov 4, 2026 and Dec 8, 2026). They are announcements, not measured dates: each company's SEC history is on its earnings page.
| Date | Company | When |
|---|---|---|
| Nov 4, 2026 | HST Host Hotels & Resorts | after the close |
| Nov 5, 2026 | CPT Camden Property Trust | after the close |
| Nov 5, 2026 | IRM Iron Mountain | before the open |
| Nov 5, 2026 | REG Regency Centers | after the close |
| Nov 5, 2026 | SPG Simon Property | after the close |
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Dividend yields in Real Estate and across the S&P 500 →
Sources: sector classification, market cap and P/E from the market-data provider (Yahoo Finance), as of the latest close downloaded; Quant500 multi-factor ranking of Nov 3, 2026; SEC Form 4 (EDGAR); Nasdaq public calendar. P/E is trailing twelve months and the median is taken per company, not per share class. Not investment advice.