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 1.7% of the market value of the index companies. Its median P/E is 32.0, against 23.6 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 Sep 18, 2026: the average of four factors (momentum, value, quality and growth) computed from public data, against the 466 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 | 56 of 466 | SPG Simon Property | 14.5 | $77.94B |
| 2 | 89 of 466 | HST Host Hotels & Resorts | 14.7 | $15.17B |
| 3 | 101 of 466 | FRT Federal Realty Investment Trust | 22.4 | $9.70B |
| 4 | 140 of 466 | IRM Iron Mountain | 81.7 | $34.04B |
| 5 | 150 of 466 | WELL Welltower | 103.1 | $164.92B |
| 6 | 151 of 466 | REG Regency Centers | 24.6 | $13.64B |
| 7 | 169 of 466 | PLD Prologis | 30.0 | $131.08B |
| 8 | 188 of 466 | VTR Ventas | 163.6 | $44.47B |
| 9 | 200 of 466 | EQIX Equinix | 65.8 | $100.78B |
| 10 | 207 of 466 | VICI VICI Properties | 9.2 | $26.12B |
| 11 | 211 of 466 | KIM Kimco Realty | 26.2 | $15.11B |
| 12 | 227 of 466 | SBAC SBA Communications | 19.2 | $18.95B |
| 13 | 228 of 466 | UDR UDR | 21.5 | $12.45B |
| 14 | 273 of 466 | O Realty Income | 41.1 | $53.61B |
| 15 | 296 of 466 | AMT American Tower | 23.9 | $81.07B |
| 16 | 303 of 466 | EXR Extra Space Storage | 30.2 | $30.17B |
| 17 | 305 of 466 | DOC Healthpeak Properties | 58.1 | $14.41B |
| 18 | 317 of 466 | CPT Camden Property Trust | 32.8 | $11.47B |
| 19 | 342 of 466 | PSA Public Storage | 28.3 | $55.37B |
| 20 | 351 of 466 | INVH Invitation Homes | 24.7 | $15.89B |
| 21 | 377 of 466 | ESS Essex Property Trust | 42.0 | $18.62B |
| 22 | 396 of 466 | WY Weyerhaeuser | 32.2 | $15.29B |
| 23 | 399 of 466 | CBRE CBRE | 32.0 | $40.40B |
| 24 | 407 of 466 | DLR Digital Realty Trust | 88.4 | $68.78B |
| 25 | 408 of 466 | EQR Vivmark Residential | 26.5 | $47.37B |
| 26 | 432 of 466 | BXP BXP | 34.0 | $11.43B |
| 27 | 440 of 466 | CCI Crown Castle | 37.1 | $31.93B |
| 28 | 442 of 466 | CSGP CoStar | 153.1 | $11.79B |
| 29 | 455 of 466 | MAA Mid-America Apartment Communities | 34.7 | $14.15B |
| 30 | 463 of 466 | ARE Alexandria Real Estate Equities | — | $9.17B |
"—" 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 | 32.0 | 29 of 30 |
| S&P 500 | 23.6 | 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 | $164.92B | 13.8% | 150 |
| 2 | PLD Prologis | $131.08B | 11.0% | 169 |
| 3 | EQIX Equinix | $100.78B | 8.4% | 200 |
| 4 | AMT American Tower | $81.07B | 6.8% | 296 |
| 5 | SPG Simon Property | $77.94B | 6.5% | 56 |
| 6 | DLR Digital Realty Trust | $68.78B | 5.8% | 407 |
| 7 | PSA Public Storage | $55.37B | 4.6% | 342 |
| 8 | O Realty Income | $53.61B | 4.5% | 273 |
| 9 | EQR Vivmark Residential | $47.37B | 4.0% | 408 |
| 10 | VTR Ventas | $44.47B | 3.7% | 188 |
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 Aug 19, 2026 to Sep 18, 2026, 4 open-market purchases ($3.2M) and 15 sales ($10.8M), filed on SEC Form 4 by directors, officers and 10% owners of 9 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 | — | 3 | $5.7M |
| HST Host Hotels & Resorts | 0 | — | 2 | $2.8M |
| WELL Welltower | 2 | $2.4M | 0 | — |
| ARE Alexandria Real Estate Equities | 1 | $248k | 2 | $1.4M |
| EQIX Equinix | 0 | — | 3 | $669k |
| AMT American Tower | 1 | $501k | 0 | — |
| O Realty Income | 0 | — | 1 | $209k |
| EQR Vivmark Residential | 0 | — | 3 | $110k |
| DLR Digital Realty Trust | 0 | — | 1 | $39k |
Upcoming earnings dates
Dates announced by the companies themselves, from Nasdaq's public calendar (between Sep 21, 2026 and Oct 23, 2026). They are announcements, not measured dates: each company's SEC history is on its earnings page.
| Date | Company | When |
|---|---|---|
| Oct 15, 2026 | PLD Prologis | before the open |
| Oct 22, 2026 | CBRE CBRE | no time announced |
| Oct 22, 2026 | DLR Digital Realty Trust | no time announced |
| Oct 22, 2026 | DOC Healthpeak Properties | no time announced |
Who reports this week across the S&P 500 →
The other S&P 500 sectors
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- Consumer Cyclical
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- Healthcare
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- Utilities
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 Sep 18, 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.