Summary Highlights for ESS

Growth rates give you something meaningful to interpret. Here we see averages for all the labeled categories calculated over the total number of years of SEC filings available to us.
Essentially giving you an average value across the entire (accessible) lifetime of the company.
Revenue and Net Income, later Profit Margin tells you how they relate.
EPS in multiple forms.
FCF Margin for those who prefer it to Net Income's Profit Margin.
Net Cash Flow as a raw dollar amount, the average section telling you if they finish most years with an excess or deficit.
Finally, the Net CF Growth Rate average, what does their Net CF usually grow by each year?
The second table provides a similar layout for stats relevant to REIT's.

Reported values to the SEC about Shareholder Equity, and how it relates to the number of shares outstanding.
Book Value growth rates give us insight into how the growth, or shrinkage, of Shareholder Equity relates to the growth, or shrinkage, or shares outstanding. It's an all-in-one package to understanding just how much of the company's assets you own with each share.

For more in-depth explanations of efficiency metrics, check out the Efficiency Highlights.
Here we're just going to look at Return on Equity and call it good. Or good enough. It's a summary. Enjoy it for what it is.
The final two columns provide a similar stat, explained more in Efficiency Highlights, for REIT's.

Dividend Highlights will have much more educational and specific information for you to digest.
Here we just want to see how dividends per share are growing or shrinking each year, on average.
The Payout Ratio Table is explained more fully in Dividend Highlights.