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Macerich Co: what the price is pricing in

There is no current earnings reading for Macerich Co: its latest is from December 31, 2024. Switch lens below to see the other readings and how trading the gap would have done.

No published rating for Macerich Co: only 2 valuation models apply; a rating needs 3. The readings below run our models backwards for research and show how trading the gap would have done; they are not a valuation or a rating. The valuation page shows the models and their status.

What growth in earnings is the price paying for?

No current reading. The latest is from December 31, 2024: the figures this lens needs have not been filed recently enough (or no longer apply), so there is no position this quarter.

Quarters with a position276 long, 21 short, since June 30, 2011
Beat the S&P 50018 of 2766.7% of quarters held
Strategy against the index+309.8%cumulative; worst fall -36.3%
$10,000 became$129,309S&P 500 bought and held: $28,125

Over time

The earnings growth the price-to-earnings ratio requires, against the growth our model assumes. Net income is already after interest, so it is valued at the return shareholders require, plus spare cash (none for banks and insurers, whose cash is funded by deposits and policies), with no debt subtracted.

-11%9%28%48%67% 201120132015201720192022 $5.3$33.5$61.6$89.7 Short from 2011-06-30Short from 2011-09-30Short from 2011-12-31Short from 2012-03-31Short from 2012-06-30Long from 2014-06-30Short from 2014-12-31Long from 2015-03-31Long from 2015-06-30Long from 2015-09-30Long from 2015-12-31Short from 2017-06-30Short from 2017-09-30Short from 2017-12-31Short from 2018-03-31Short from 2018-06-30Short from 2018-09-30Short from 2018-12-31Short from 2019-03-31Short from 2019-06-30Short from 2019-09-30Short from 2019-12-31Long from 2020-03-31Short from 2022-03-31Short from 2022-06-30Short from 2022-09-30Short from 2024-12-31
Growth our model assumes Growth the P/E implies Long quarter Short quarter. Lower panel: the share price at each quarter end, adjusted for later share splits and spin-offs (the table below gives the price as traded).

$10,000 trading the gap vs the S&P 500

$0$50.0k$100k$150k 201120132015201720192022 $129k$28.1k
StrategyS&P 500, buy and hold Hypothetical, before costs. The strategy holds the S&P 500 and only changes on a signal: it switches into MAC in long quarters and adds a short of MAC in short quarters. The gap between the lines is what the signal added or lost.

Skill or luck?

In plain English: Across 27 quarters with a position, this lens beat the S&P 500 in 18, by +6.8% a quarter on average. That is suggestive but could still be chance. One company is a small sample: the results across all companies are the better guide.

PositionsQuartersBeat the S&P 500Average vs S&P 500, a quarterTypical (median), a quarterA yearConfidence (t)Evidence
Longs 6 50.0% +6.4% +1.0% +22.2% 0.83 Too few quarters
Shorts 21 71.4% +6.9% +7.0% +23.5% 1.74 Some evidence
All positions 27 66.7% +6.8% +5.7% +23.2% 1.96 Some evidence

Each position is measured against the S&P 500 over the same quarter: a long earns the stock's return minus the index's, a short the index's minus the stock's. "A year" compounds the per-quarter results. Evidence: strong at a t-statistic of 2 or more, some from 1.5; "worse" when the result is that far below zero; one company's history is a small sample, so read these alongside the results across all companies.

Every quarter (42)
FromPrice paidGrowth the P/E impliesGrowth our model assumesPositionMACS&P 500
December 31, 2024 $19.92 23.6% 2.0% Short −13.0% −4.3%
September 30, 2022 $7.94 20.3% 3.3% Short +43.8% +7.6%
June 30, 2022 $8.71 20.3% 6.4% Short −7.6% −4.9%
March 31, 2022 $15.64 53.2% 2.0% Short −43.6% −16.1%
September 30, 2020 $6.79 3.0% 2.0% No position +60.5% +12.1%
June 30, 2020 $8.97 -2.0% 2.0% No position −22.9% +9.0%
March 31, 2020 $5.63 -10.0% 2.0% Long +61.9% +20.2%
December 31, 2019 $26.92 20.5% 2.0% Short −78.4% −19.4%
September 30, 2019 $31.59 18.1% 2.0% Short −12.5% +9.0%
June 30, 2019 $33.49 20.5% 2.0% Short −3.2% +1.8%
March 31, 2019 $43.35 35.7% 2.0% Short −21.4% +4.2%
December 31, 2018 $43.28 29.7% 2.0% Short +1.9% +13.5%
September 30, 2018 $55.29 60.0% 2.0% Short −20.6% −13.5%
June 30, 2018 $56.83 48.0% 2.0% Short −1.4% +7.7%
March 31, 2018 $56.02 23.3% 2.0% Short +2.7% +3.5%
December 31, 2017 $65.68 25.8% 2.0% Short −13.7% −1.0%
September 30, 2017 $54.97 23.0% 4.0% Short +21.0% +6.8%
June 30, 2017 $58.06 22.0% 4.0% Short −4.1% +4.4%
March 31, 2017 $64.40 3.3% 4.0% No position −8.8% +3.1%
December 31, 2016 $70.84 -4.5% 4.0% No position −8.1% +5.9%
September 30, 2016 $80.87 -2.3% 2.0% No position −11.5% +4.0%
June 30, 2016 $85.39 -0.1% 9.3% No position −4.5% +3.8%
March 31, 2016 $79.24 9.5% 16.9% No position +8.7% +2.5%
December 31, 2015 $80.69 -9.4% 19.8% Long −0.9% +1.3%
September 30, 2015 $76.82 -10.3% 16.3% Long +11.2% +7.0%
June 30, 2015 $74.60 -10.8% 12.4% Long +3.8% −6.4%
March 31, 2015 $84.33 -9.6% 10.1% Long −10.8% +0.2%
December 31, 2014 $83.41 23.6% 10.4% Short +1.9% +0.9%
September 30, 2014 $63.83 18.4% 13.9% No position +31.9% +4.9%
June 30, 2014 $66.75 7.2% 17.4% Long −3.5% +1.1%
March 31, 2014 $62.33 6.0% 13.0% No position +8.1% +5.2%
December 31, 2013 $58.89 3.8% 11.8% No position +6.9% +1.7%
September 30, 2013 $56.44 2.7% 12.5% No position +5.5% +10.5%
June 30, 2013 $60.97 7.5% 7.1% No position −6.5% +5.2%
March 31, 2013 $64.38 10.0% 3.8% No position −4.5% +2.9%
December 31, 2012 $58.30 8.5% 2.2% No position +11.5% +10.5%
September 30, 2012 $57.23 9.7% 2.4% No position +2.9% −0.4%
June 30, 2012 $59.05 23.5% 2.0% Short −2.1% +6.3%
March 31, 2012 $57.75 21.3% 2.0% Short +3.2% −2.8%
December 31, 2011 $50.60 64.4% 2.7% Short +15.3% +12.7%
September 30, 2011 $42.63 67.3% 2.0% Short +20.0% +11.6%
June 30, 2011 $53.50 51.9% 2.0% Short −19.5% −13.8%

Price paid: the closing price that day as traded, before any later share split.

How the test works

At each quarter end since March 2010 we rebuild the models from Macerich Co's quarters ending at least 90 days earlier (and no more than 200 days before that), using the figures as later filed, including any restatement, and value them at that day's close, adjusted for later share splits and spin-offs so that price and share count are on the same basis. A wide enough gap is a long or a short for one quarter (growth 10 points; margin and return on equity 5 points; a PEG under 0.75 or over 3), measured on total return against the S&P 500. The rules were set before the test. No trading or borrowing costs; today's list of companies. Not investment advice. All companies and the results across them.

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Figures from Macerich Co's SEC filings (10-K and 10-Q), retrieved October 26, 2026. How we read and check them: methodology and data sources. Not investment advice. Back to Macerich Co.