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Equity LifeStyle Properties Inc. (NYSE:ELS) is a real estate investment trust owning and operating manufactured home communities, RV resorts and campgrounds in North America.

The company’s stock traded at approximately $27.63 per share 10 years ago. If you had invested $10,000, you could have bought roughly 362 shares. Currently, shares trade at $63.07, meaning your investment’s value could have grown to $22,827 from stock price appreciation alone. However, Equity LifeStyle also paid dividends during these 10 years.

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Equity LifeStyle’s dividend yield is currently 3.29%. Over the last 10 years, it has paid about $13.08 in dividends per share, which means you could have made $4,734 from dividends alone.

Summing up $22,827 and $4,734, we end up with the final value of your investment, which is $27,561. This is how much you could have made if you had invested $10,000 in Equity LifeStyle stock 10 years ago. This means a total return of 175.61%. However, this figure is significantly less than the S&P 500 total return for the same period, which was 238.79%.

Equity LifeStyle has a consensus rating of “Outperform” and a price target of $73.23 based on the ratings of 13 analysts. The price target implies a more than 16% potential upside from the current stock price.

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The company on April 21 announced its Q1 2025 earnings, posting FFO of $0.83, in line with expectations, while revenues of $387.33 million missed the consensus estimate of $398.72 million, as reported by Benzinga.

For full-year 2025, the company expects net income per common share in the range of $1.97 to $2.07, and FFO per share of $3.01 to $3.11.

Check out this article by Benzinga for five analysts’ insights on Equity LifeStyle Properties.

Given the expected upside potential, growth-focused investors may find Equity LifeStyle stock attractive. Furthermore, they can benefit from the company’s solid dividend yield of 3.29%.