NYSE:VTRVentas Stock Price, Forecast & News

Ventas' stock was trading at $37.96 on March 11th, 2020 when COVID-19 reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Since then, VTR stock has decreased by 9.5% and is now trading at $34.35. View which stocks have been most impacted by Coronavirus.

16 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Ventas in the last year. There are currently 5 sell ratings, 9 hold ratings, 1 buy rating and 1 strong buy rating for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View analyst ratings for Ventas.

Ventas is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Friday, July 24th 2020. View our earnings forecast for Ventas.

Ventas, Inc. (NYSE:VTR) posted its quarterly earnings data on Friday, May, 8th. The real estate investment trust reported $0.97 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating analysts' consensus estimates of $0.89 by $0.08. The real estate investment trust had revenue of $1.01 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $969.85 million. Ventas had a net margin of 19.80% and a return on equity of 7.26%. The company's quarterly revenue was up 7.3% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period last year, the company earned $0.35 earnings per share. View Ventas' earnings history.

Ventas announced a quarterly dividend on Friday, March 20th. Stockholders of record on Wednesday, April 1st will be given a dividend of $0.7925 per share on Tuesday, April 14th. This represents a $3.17 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 9.23%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Tuesday, March 31st. View Ventas' dividend history.

16 brokerages have issued 1-year price targets for Ventas' stock. Their forecasts range from $23.00 to $72.00. On average, they anticipate Ventas' share price to reach $44.80 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 30.4% from the stock's current price. View analysts' price targets for Ventas.

News stories about VTR stock have been trending negative this week, InfoTrie Sentiment reports. InfoTrie identifies positive and negative news coverage by analyzing more than six thousand blog and news sources. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Ventas earned a coverage optimism score of -2.3 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave headlines about the real estate investment trust a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent news coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the near term. View the latest news about Ventas.

Ventas saw a drop in short interest in the month of June. As of June 30th, there was short interest totaling 10,800,000 shares, a drop of 23.4% from the June 15th total of 14,100,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 4,770,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 2.3 days. Currently, 2.9% of the company's shares are short sold. View Ventas' Current Options Chain.

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

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

Ventas' stock is owned by many different retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Reinhart Partners Inc. (0.15%), Envestnet Asset Management Inc. (0.09%), State of Alaska Department of Revenue (0.09%), Pensionfund DSM Netherlands (0.03%), Pensionfund Sabic (0.02%) and Thomasville National Bank (0.01%). Company insiders that own Ventas stock include Debra A Cafaro, Gregory R Liebbe, James D Shelton, John D Cobb, 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 Envestnet Asset Management Inc., Pensionfund DSM Netherlands, Pensionfund Sabic, and Carroll Financial Associates Inc.. View insider buying and selling activity for Ventas.

VTR stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including State of Alaska Department of Revenue, Reinhart Partners Inc., Thomasville National Bank, Municipal Employees Retirement System of Michigan, and Ellevest Inc.. View insider buying and selling activity 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 $34.35.

Ventas has a market capitalization of $12.82 billion and generates $3.87 billion in revenue each year. The real estate investment trust earns $433.02 million in net income (profit) each year or $3.85 on an earnings per share basis. Ventas employs 500 workers across the globe.

The official website for Ventas is 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]