Ventas Stock Price, Forecast & Analysis (NYSE:VTR)

Ventas trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "VTR."

Ventas announced a -- dividend on Monday, September 23rd. Stockholders of record on Tuesday, October 1st will be paid a dividend of $0.7925 per share on Friday, October 11th. This represents a dividend yield of 4.4%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Monday, September 30th. View Ventas' Dividend History.

Ventas, Inc. (NYSE:VTR) released its quarterly earnings data on Friday, October, 25th. The real estate investment trust reported $0.23 earnings per share for the quarter, missing analysts' consensus estimates of $0.94 by $0.71. The real estate investment trust earned $983.16 million during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $935.43 million. Ventas had a net margin of 12.73% and a return on equity of 4.59%. The business's revenue for the quarter was up 5.0% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the prior year, the firm earned $0.99 earnings per share. View Ventas' Earnings History.

Ventas is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Friday, February 14th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for Ventas.

Ventas updated its FY19 earnings guidance on Friday, October, 25th. The company provided EPS guidance of $3.81-3.85 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus EPS estimate of $3.85.

14 brokerages have issued 12 month price targets for Ventas' shares. Their forecasts range from $55.00 to $74.00. On average, they expect Ventas' share price to reach $66.58 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 14.2% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Ventas.

14 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Ventas in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating and 13 hold ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for Ventas.

News stories about VTR stock have been trending extremely negative recently, according to InfoTrie Sentiment. The research group scores the sentiment of news coverage by analyzing more than six thousand news and blog sources. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Ventas earned a news impact score of -4.2 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave media headlines about the real estate investment trust a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, indicating that recent news coverage is extremely likely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the next few days. View News Stories for Ventas.

Ventas saw a decline in short interest in October. As of October 31st, there was short interest totalling 6,010,000 shares, a decline of 8.2% from the September 30th total of 6,550,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 2,040,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 2.9 days. Approximately 1.6% of the shares of the company are short sold. View Ventas' Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to Ventas include American Tower (AMT), Public Storage (PSA), Welltower (WELL), Weyerhaeuser (WY), HCP (HCP), Extra Space Storage (EXR), Host Hotels and Resorts (HST), Medical Properties Trust (MPW), Omega Healthcare Investors (OHI), CubeSmart (CUBE), EPR Properties (EPR), Life Storage (LSI), Ryman Hospitality Properties (RHP), Sabra Health Care REIT (SBRA) and Healthcare Realty Trust (HR).

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Ventas investors own include AT&T (T), Verizon Communications (VZ), The Coca-Cola (KO), AbbVie (ABBV), Realty Income (O), Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), Welltower (WELL), Cisco Systems (CSCO), Enterprise Products Partners (EPD) and Altria Group (MO).

Ventas' stock is owned by a number of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include California Public Employees Retirement System (0.83%), Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings Inc. (0.49%), Unigestion Holding SA (0.32%), Duff & Phelps Investment Management Co. (0.29%), Presima Inc. (0.19%) and Great West Life Assurance Co. Can (0.17%). Company insiders that own Ventas stock include Debra A Cafaro, Gregory R Liebbe, James D Shelton, John D Cobb, Melody C Barnes, Robert D Reed, Robert F Probst and T Richard Riney. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Ventas.

VTR stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Resolution Capital Ltd, SG Americas Securities LLC, Gateway Investment Advisers LLC, River Road Asset Management LLC, State of Alaska Department of Revenue, Great West Life Assurance Co. Can, Flippin Bruce & Porter Inc. and CWM LLC. Company insiders that have sold Ventas company stock in the last year include Debra A Cafaro, Gregory R Liebbe, James D Shelton, John D Cobb, Robert D Reed, Robert F Probst and T Richard Riney. View Insider Buying and Selling for Ventas.

VTR stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Presima Inc., Duff & Phelps Investment Management Co., Alberta Investment Management Corp, State of New Jersey Common Pension Fund D, Mackay Shields LLC, California Public Employees Retirement System, Robeco Institutional Asset Management B.V. and Unigestion Holding SA. View Insider Buying and Selling for Ventas.

Shares of VTR can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of VTR stock can currently be purchased for approximately $58.30.

Ventas has a market capitalization of $21.73 billion and generates $3.75 billion in revenue each year. The real estate investment trust earns $409.46 million in net income (profit) each year or $4.07 on an earnings per share basis. Ventas employs 500 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About Ventas.

The official website for Ventas is http://www.ventasreit.com/.

Ventas' mailing address is 353 N. CLARK STREET SUITE 3300, CHICAGO IL, 60654. The real estate investment trust can be reached via phone at 877-483-6827 or via email at [email protected]