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Essex Property Trust owns a portfolio of 254 apartment communities with over 62,000 units. The company focuses on owning large, high-quality properties on the West Coast in the urban and suburban submarkets of Southern California, Northern California, and Seattle.

AvalonBay Communities owns a portfolio of 286 apartment communities with over 86,000 units and is developing 19 additional properties with over 6,800 units. The company focuses on owning large, high-quality properties in major metropolitan areas of New England, New York/New Jersey, Washington D.C., California, and the Pacific Northwest.

The Vickers Top Insider Picks is a daily report that utilizes a proprietary algorithm to identify 25 companies with compelling insider purchase histories based on transactions over the past three months.

The Argus team of analysts has presented its Best Picks for 2025. Each analyst surveyed their coverage universe, reviewed forward-looking indicators for those companies, and made decisions about which seemingly have the most growth and investment promise for the year. Our team is deeply experienced, as each analyst has spent on average 25 years on Wall Street and 15 years at Argus Research. As such, they are well-versed in our proprietary fundamental six-point valuation process and have deep knowledge of the sectors they cover. They also have solid relationships with many of the management teams they cover. The Argus Investment Policy Committee, made up of our most senior staff, is comprised of Jim Kelleher, CFA, our director of research; President John Eade; Senior Fixed-Income Analyst Kevin Heal, Director of Financial Institutions Research Steve Biggar, and Chris Graja, CFA, our senior economist. The committee provides macro outlooks for the economy, interest rates, earnings, and the stock market. Here is the Argus Best Picks list for 2025.