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AvalonBay Communities

AVB
55
REIT - Residential · Real Estate
Exchange
New York Stock Exchange
Winston Score
55
Winston is curious
A decent business — some strong pillars, some weaker.

AvalonBay Communities owns and operates apartment buildings across the United States. It builds, buys, and manages large residential communities, renting units to individuals and families who want to live in them. The company focuses on high-cost coastal markets like New York, Boston, Washington D.C., Seattle, and California, where demand for rental housing tends to stay strong.

AvalonBay makes money by collecting monthly rent from its tenants. It operates as a Real Estate Investment Trust, meaning it must pay out most of its profits as dividends to shareholders. With roughly 90,000 apartment homes across about 300 communities, it is one of the largest apartment landlords in the country, giving it scale advantages in construction and property management. The main risk the company faces is that rising interest rates increase its borrowing costs, which can squeeze profits and make it harder to fund new development projects.

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Growth Profile

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Revenue Growth

+3.3% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

Slow revenue growth

EPS Growth

+40.4% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

EPS growth accelerating

Insider Activity

8.1%ownership

→ Flat

Insiders holding steady — not selling despite ability to

Cash Position

Cash flow positive

$121M cash & investments

Quarterly Free Cash Flow

→ Burn rate stable

Company generates more cash than it spends — no dilution risk from fundraising

Growth context

AvalonBay Communities is growing revenue at 3% year-over-year. The Winston Score measures business quality today — these growth metrics show what could matter tomorrow.

The Winston Score above measures business quality today. Growth stocks often score lower because they invest in the future rather than maximising current profits. These metrics show what matters most for evaluating that future.

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Quality

Gross Margin
67.7%
Premium pricing power — 67.7% gross margin
Operating Margin
28.4%
Excellent — 28.4% operating margin
ROCE
1.0%
Weak — 1.0% return on capital

ROIC between 0% and 5%. They earn a few cents back per dollar invested in the business.

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Growth

Sales YoY
+4.0%
Slow sales growth (4.0% YoY)
EPS YoY
+0.4%
Flat earnings

Single-digit earnings growth — steady but not exciting.

EPS Consistency
6/8 quarters
Earnings grew in most of the last 8 quarters

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Cash Flow

Cash Conversion
146%
Turns 146% of profit into real cash
FCF Margin
42.1%
Converts sales into free cash efficiently (42.1%)

Free cash flow margin above 20%. Out of every $100 in sales, more than $20 is real cash they keep.

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Stability

Debt / Equity
0.80
Moderate — manageable debt (0.80)
Interest Cover
3.30x
Tight — interest eats into profit (3.3x)

Interest coverage between 3 and 8. Profits cover interest several times over.

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Valuation

P/E Ratio (TTM)
24.1x
no trend
Growth-priced — P/E 24.1

P/E above the market average. People are paying up for expected growth.

P/E vs Forward
-8.0
SLOWING
Earnings expected to fall — forward P/E higher than today

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Dividends

Dividend Yield
3.71%
no trend
Moderate income — 3.71% yield

Standard yield zone for stable dividend payers. A meaningful piece of total return.

Dividend Growth
+2.3%
no trend
Dividend flat

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