Essential Properties Realty Trust, Inc. key statistics and ratios

In fiscal 2025, Essential Properties Realty Trust, Inc. had return on equity of 6.5%, an operating margin of 64.1% and debt equal to 60.2% of equity. Each ratio below is calculated from the figures on its income statement, balance sheet and cash flow pages.

Financial ratios

US$ thousands unless shown otherwise. Fiscal years, plus the last twelve months (LTM) when newer.

Essential Properties Realty Trust, Inc.: financial ratios, annual
Fiscal year	2017Dec 2017	2018Dec 2018	2019Dec 2019	2020Dec 2020	2021Dec 2021	2022Dec 2022	2023Dec 2023	2024Dec 2024	2025Dec 2025	LTMSept 2026
Operating margin	11.8%	52.0%	57.3%	44.4%	58.4%	61.2%	67.5%	61.9%	64.1%	60.6%
Net margin	11.6%	16.2%	30.0%	25.8%	41.6%	46.8%	53.0%	45.2%	45.1%	41.0%
Free-cash-flow margin	41.2%	46.0%	63.6%	60.6%	72.7%	73.7%	70.8%	68.6%	67.9%	—
Return on equity	3.5%	4.2%	4.8%	3.1%	5.3%	5.9%	7.0%	6.2%	6.5%	6.0%
Return on assets	0.7%	1.3%	2.5%	1.9%	3.3%	3.7%	4.3%	3.8%	4.0%	3.6%
Asset turnover	0.06	0.08	0.08	0.07	0.08	0.08	0.08	0.09	0.09	0.09
Debt to equity	288.3%	91.6%	61.5%	52.1%	57.6%	57.5%	56.4%	59.8%	60.2%	65.9%
Interest cover (operating income ÷ interest)	0.3x	1.7x	3.0x	2.5x	4.0x	4.3x	4.6x	3.5x	3.3x	3.1x
Effective tax rate	2.5%	0.9%	0.6%	0.5%	0.2%	0.7%	0.3%	0.3%	0.3%	0.4%
Capital spending as % of revenue	0.1%	1.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	—
Free cash flow ÷ net income	356.2%	283.3%	211.7%	235.1%	174.9%	157.3%	133.5%	152.0%	150.6%	—
Dividends ÷ net income	—	90.1%	152.7%	204.6%	117.4%	105.6%	88.2%	98.4%	92.5%	100.2%
Dividends and buybacks ÷ free cash flow	—	31.8%	72.2%	87.0%	67.1%	67.1%	66.1%	64.7%	61.4%	—

US$ thousands unless shown otherwise. Fiscal quarters.

Essential Properties Realty Trust, Inc.: financial ratios, quarterly
Quarter	2024 Q4Dec 2024	2025 Q1Mar 2025	2025 Q2Jun 2025	2025 Q3Sept 2025	2025 Q4Dec 2025	2026 Q1Mar 2026	2026 Q2Jun 2026	2026 Q3Sept 2026
Operating margin	66.1%	61.6%	64.1%	64.7%	65.9%	56.5%	64.5%	56.0%
Net margin	46.3%	43.4%	46.1%	45.3%	45.4%	37.7%	45.9%	35.7%
Free-cash-flow margin	72.7%	59.7%	72.8%	68.3%	70.2%	62.8%	68.1%	70.0%
Debt to equity	59.8%	55.8%	60.8%	69.1%	60.2%	59.9%	66.5%	65.9%

Returns use average equity or assets over the year. Return on equity is left blank when equity is negative or so small that the ratio says nothing (above ±200%); interest cover is left blank above 200 times. Price-based ratios such as P/E are on the valuation page.

Moat

57 /100

Moderate moat

How hard Essential Properties Realty Trust's competitive advantage looks for rivals to wear away, judged from 9 years of its own filings: returns on capital, pricing power, profit durability, cash conversion and discipline.

Returns on capital 3 / 20

Net income has been a median 3.3% of total assets over 9 years.
Durability 14 / 20

Operating margin has been a median 60.8%; its worst year was 17.6%.
Cash conversion 20 / 20

Free cash flow was positive in 9 of 9 years, at a median 41.4% of revenue.
Discipline 9 / 20

The diluted share count rose 88.3% over five years; stock-based pay has been a median 2.8% of revenue.

AI disruption exposure: Low. In this industry, the business rests on physical assets, regulated networks or products AI itself depends on.

A rules-based reading of reported figures, not a forecast and not investment advice. How the score is built: methodology.

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Figures from Essential Properties Realty Trust, Inc.'s SEC filings (10-K and 10-Q), retrieved October 29, 2026. How we read and check them: methodology and data sources. Not investment advice. Back to Essential Properties Realty Trust, Inc.