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AvalonBay Communities AVB Return on equity

Return on equity at other companies

Equity Residential logo
Equity ResidentialEQR
8.8%-0.2pp
Invitation Homes logo
Invitation HomesINVH
6.2%+1.4pp
New York Mortgage Trust logo
New York Mortgage TrustADAM
10.9%+8.2pp
Arbor Realty Trust logo
Arbor Realty TrustABR
4.3%-4.1pp
VICI Properties Inc. logo
VICI Properties Inc.VICI
11.3%+1.2pp
Realty Income logo
Realty IncomeO
2.9%+0.4pp

Other financials

Income statement

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Revenue$770.3M+3.3%
Net income$325.7M+37.7%
EPS (diluted)$2.33+40.4%

Balance sheet

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Cash & equivalents$291.1M+32.9%
Total debt$10.3B+18.3%
Total equity$11.5B-3.6%
Total assets$22.1B+4.3%

Cash flow

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Operating cash flow$418.9M+0.7%
CapEx$59.5M+22.9%
Free cash flow$359.5M-2.2%

Valuation

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Market cap$25.48B-25.1%
Enterprise value$35.49B-15.7%
P/E22.2×-7.4×
P/S8.3×-3.2×

Profitability

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Operating margin67%+0.9pp
Net margin37.4%-1.5pp

Returns & leverage

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Debt / equity0.9×+0.2×

Where this comes from

Calculated from AvalonBay Communities’s reported figures.

Based on trailing twelve months.

The official record: AvalonBay Communities’s 10-Q, filed May 7, 2026, on SEC EDGAR. View the filing →

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Questions, answered.

What is AvalonBay Communities's return on equity?
AvalonBay Communities (AVB) reported return on equity of 9.8% in Q1 2026.
How has AvalonBay Communities's return on equity changed year-over-year?
AvalonBay Communities's return on equity increased by 1.0% year-over-year, from 9.7% to 9.8%.
What is the long-term trend for AvalonBay Communities's return on equity?
Over 4 years (2021 to 2025), AvalonBay Communities's return on equity has grown at a 1.5% compound annual growth rate (CAGR), from 36% to 38.3%.
What does return on equity mean?
How much profit the company earns on the money shareholders have invested.
How do you interpret return on equity?
Higher is better, but very high ROE can be manufactured by leverage — a thin equity base inflates the ratio. Read it next to debt-to-equity and ROIC to tell genuine returns from balance-sheet engineering.
How does return on equity compare across companies?
Comparable across peers, with the leverage caveat. Negative or near-zero equity makes ROE meaningless, so it is suppressed there.