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Cousins Properties Incorporated (CUZ) — chart, structure and Closelooknet read

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Signals for this name

Every Closelooknet reading that exists for CUZ, from the same nightly bakes the boards use. Research diary readings, not advice.

Weather around the name 3 macro readings: Money Temperature, Factor regime, Sovereign pressure

The weather around this name

Macro readings that apply by membership — the regime, the factor tape, the sector cell, the funding backdrop.

  • Money Temperature Composite 62/100 · S&P 500 fund at 67, bullish alignedEight instruments scored on position, momentum, volume, volatility and fragility — the regime every name trades inside. Temperature lab → 2026-09-25
  • Factor regime Momentum leading — risk appetite buildingMomentum against low volatility (SPMO / SPLV): above its 50-day trend, 99th percentile of the window, +8.4% over 20 sessions. Factor regime → 2026-09-25
  • Sovereign pressure Index 0.61 · up 0.29 over 21 sessionsG7 long-end yields, 10s30s and the slope — the funding weather for every balance sheet on this site. Sovereign pressure → 2026-09-25
How it trades on rate days beta 0.46 to TLT · on the worst bond days it fell more than the market

How it trades on rate days

How CUZ has moved when long-dated Treasury yields rise — measured against TLT, the 20+ year Treasury fund.

  • Beta to long bonds, 1 year 0.46 — tends to move with bonds for every 1% move in TLT (20+ year Treasuries), Cousins Properties Incorporated moved 0.46% on average · correlation 0.17 · higher than 47% of US names
  • Beta, last 3 months 0.31 about the same as over the year
  • On the 10 worst bond days −1.23% on average against −0.74% for the S&P 500 the 10 sessions of the past year in which TLT fell most, i.e. long yields rose most
  • Latest of those days +0.85% TLT −1.29% that day 2026-09-24

Daily total returns from the adjusted price series; a TLT down day is a day long yields rose. Beta = the average move of the name for a 1% move in TLT. Past sensitivity, not a forecast. An investment diary, not a recommendation.

Who it is priced against REIT - Office · United States · 5 names with week and year-to-date

Peer group

REIT - Office · United States

This name carries no Closelooknet score, so its cohort ranks on trend state — distance to the 50- and 200-day averages — never on a score it does not have.

Compared against CUZ on the nightly bakes; the Peers tab ranks the cohort on the Closelooknet scores where it exists.

Company snapshot — Cousins Properties Incorporated

CUZ in five paragraphs: what it makes and sells, where it sits in the Closelooknet stack, who it is priced against, why we track it, what we watch. Research diary, not advice.

What it does
Cousins Properties is a real estate investment trust that owns, develops and manages office buildings concentrated in growing southern U.S. cities, often described as Sun Belt markets. It handles leasing and property management directly instead of relying on outside managers. The trust was founded in 1958 and is based in Atlanta, Georgia.
Where it sits in the stack
Cousins carries no seat in Rubin, our AI build-out index, so it sits outside that stack. It belongs to the diary's real estate sleeve, specifically the office-REIT segment of our wider universe, tracked for its exposure to corporate office demand rather than any technology layer.
Who it is priced against
The vendor profile gives no formal peer group for Cousins; the comparison the market often draws is with Highwoods Properties, another Sun Belt office landlord of similar scale.
Why Closelooknet tracks it
Cousins holds a seat in the Russell 1000 but carries no Closelooknet score and no separate peer group in our data, so the diary tracks it mainly through that index membership.
What the diary watches
The diary watches how office occupancy and rents hold up across the Sun Belt markets Cousins concentrates in, since that regional tilt shapes its results more than any single tenant.

Cousins Properties Incorporated (CUZ) trades on US exchanges.

Written from the company’s public profile and Closelooknet’s own readings, 2026-09-17. Descriptive, refreshed with the registry; corrections welcome via the imprint. closelook.net is an investment research diary — market structure, index membership and scores are our own readings, not investment advice. Related: index compare · sector dispersion · scanner.

The Street on this name 2 analyst actions on the wire · latest: price target by Evercore ISI, 2026-09-21

The Street on this name

Analyst actions and the latest print for CUZ from the Closelooknet wires — third-party opinions on the record, not our readings.

  • Price target Evercore ISI — target 33 from 35 Target cut to $33 from $35 (+16.7% to spot) 2026-09-21
  • Price target Mizuho — target 34 from 33 Target raised to $34 from $33 (+17.5% to spot) 2026-09-08

2 actions on the analyst wire since 2026-08-13: 2 target changes. Analyst wire → · Earnings wire →

Dividends and capital return trailing yield 4.47%, quarterly · last 0.32 USD on 2026-07-06

Dividends and capital return

What CUZ pays out and buys back — distributions read from the price series, money terms from the filings.

  • Trailing 12 months 1.28 USD per share · a 4.47% yield on the 2026-09-25 close 4 distributions, paid quarterly 2026-09-25
  • Change on the year 0.0% against the prior twelve months prior twelve months 1.28 USD per share
  • Last distribution 0.32 USD per share as the price series records it, within days of the ex-date 2026-07-06
  • By calendar year 2023: 0.32 USD (partial) · 2024: 1.28 USD · 2025: 1.28 USD · 2026: 0.96 USD to date first distribution recorded in the three-year window: 2023-10-03

Per-share amounts are derived from the adjusted price series in the listing currency, so dates sit within days of the ex-date; filing figures come from the fundamentals feed for the last reported fiscal year. An investment diary, not a recommendation.

FAQ · from the current data · as of 2026-09-26

Quick answers

What is Cousins Properties Incorporated (CUZ)?

Cousins Properties Incorporated trades as CUZ on the US exchange (United States) in the Closelooknet research universe, as of the registry build of 2026-09-26.

Is CUZ in a Closelooknet index?

Not currently — Cousins Properties Incorporated is tracked in the Closelooknet research universe but is not a constituent of a Closelooknet functional index as of 2026-09-26.

Where does CUZ trade against its moving averages?

Pullback inside an uptrend stack: Trades -3.6% vs the 50-day and +8.1% vs the 200-day average, 13.1% below the 52-week high and +38.2% off the 52-week low. Computed from daily closes. As of 2026-09-25 — a technical state from the nightly Closelooknet bake, not advice. The Technical tab carries the full row.

How does Cousins Properties Incorporated trade when bond yields rise?

Over the past year Cousins Properties Incorporated had a beta of 0.46 to TLT, the long-dated Treasury fund — it tends to move with bonds, higher than 47% of US names. On the 10 sessions in which long bonds fell most it moved −1.23% on average, against −0.74% for the S&P 500. The "How it trades on rate days" block on this page carries the lines.

What does Cousins Properties Incorporated do?

Cousins Properties is a real estate investment trust that owns, develops and manages office buildings concentrated in growing southern U.S. cities, often described as Sun Belt markets. It handles leasing and property management directly instead of relying on outside managers. The trust was founded in 1958 and is based in Atlanta, Georgia. The vendor profile gives no formal peer group for Cousins; the comparison the market often draws is with Highwoods Properties, another Sun Belt office landlord of similar scale.

Where does Cousins Properties Incorporated sit in the AI build-out?

Cousins carries no seat in Rubin, our AI build-out index, so it sits outside that stack. It belongs to the diary's real estate sleeve, specifically the office-REIT segment of our wider universe, tracked for its exposure to corporate office demand rather than any technology layer. Cousins holds a seat in the Russell 1000 but carries no Closelooknet score and no separate peer group in our data, so the diary tracks it mainly through that index membership.

Does Cousins Properties Incorporated pay a dividend?

Cousins Properties Incorporated has paid 1.28 USD per share over the last twelve months, paid quarterly, a trailing yield of 4.47% on the 2026-09-25 close; the last distribution recorded in the price series was 0.32 USD on 2026-07-06. The "Dividends and capital return" block on this page carries the lines.

What has Wall Street done on Cousins Properties Incorporated recently?

The most recent analyst action on Cousins Properties Incorporated on the Closelooknet wire is a price target by Evercore ISI on 2026-09-21 (target 33 from 35). 2 actions on the analyst wire since 2026-08-13: 2 target changes. Analyst actions are third-party opinions recorded by the wire, not Closelooknet readings. The “The Street on this name” block on this page lists the moves; the full feeds are the analyst wire and the earnings wire.

What does this page show?

A live price chart with SMA overlays and drawing tools for CUZ, performance metrics, index-membership context and the Closelooknet structure read — an investment research diary view, not investment advice.

Related in the Closelooknet universe

then REIT - Office, then Real Estate. Scored names rank on their Closelooknet score; names without one rank on trend state — above or below their 50- and 200-day averages — never on a score they do not carry.