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Best Real Estate Stocks To Follow Today - May 2nd

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Key Points

  • Blackstone (BX), Welltower (WELL) and Apollo Global Management (APO) were flagged by MarketBeat’s screener as the top real estate stocks to watch today based on the highest recent dollar trading volume, with real estate equities noted for dividend income and sensitivity to interest rates and property-market cycles.
  • Blackstone (BX) and Apollo (APO) are large alternative asset managers/private equity firms with substantial real estate, credit and diversified investment platforms that provide indirect exposure to property markets.
  • Welltower (WELL) is a healthcare-focused REIT investing in seniors housing and health-care infrastructure, partnering with operators to scale care delivery and capturing demographic-driven demand in the sector.
  • Interested in Blackstone? Here are five stocks we like better.

Blackstone, Welltower, and Apollo Global Management are the three Real Estate stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat's stock screener tool. Real estate stocks are shares of publicly traded companies whose primary business is owning, developing, managing, or financing property—this includes REITs, property developers, homebuilders, and real estate service firms. For investors, they provide exposure to rental income and property-value changes, often pay dividends, and tend to be sensitive to interest rates and broader economic and property-market cycles. These companies had the highest dollar trading volume of any Real Estate stocks within the last several days.

Blackstone (BX)

Blackstone Inc. is an alternative asset management firm specializing in real estate, private equity, hedge fund solutions, credit, secondary funds of funds, public debt and equity and multi-asset class strategies. The firm typically invests in early-stage companies. It also provide capital markets services.

Read Our Latest Research Report on BX

Welltower (WELL)

Welltower Inc. NYSE: WELL, a real estate investment trust ("REIT") and S&P 500 company headquartered in Toledo, Ohio, is driving the transformation of health care infrastructure. Welltower invests with leading seniors housing operators, post-acute providers and health systems to fund the real estate infrastructure needed to scale innovative care delivery models and improve people's wellness and overall health care experience.

Read Our Latest Research Report on WELL

Apollo Global Management (APO)

Apollo Global Management, Inc. is a private equity firm specializing in investments in credit, private equity, infrastructure, secondaries and real estate markets. The firm prefers to invest in private and public markets. The firm's private equity investments include traditional buyouts, recapitalization, distressed buyouts and debt investments in real estate, corporate partner buyouts, distressed asset, corporate carve-outs, middle market, growth, venture capital, turnaround, bridge, corporate restructuring, special situation, acquisition, and industry consolidation transactions.

Read Our Latest Research Report on APO

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