NYSE:VTRVentas Stock Price, Forecast & News

Ventas' stock was trading at $37.96 on March 11th, 2020 when Coronavirus (COVID-19) reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization. Since then, VTR stock has increased by 9.4% and is now trading at $41.52.
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17 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Ventas in the last year. There are currently 5 sell ratings, 10 hold ratings, 1 buy rating and 1 strong buy rating for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold."
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Ventas, Inc. (NYSE:VTR) posted its quarterly earnings results on Friday, August, 7th. The real estate investment trust reported ($0.42) earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of $0.25 by $0.67. The real estate investment trust earned $943.20 million during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $949.32 million. Ventas had a net margin of 19.80% and a return on equity of 7.26%. The business's quarterly revenue was down .8% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the prior year, the firm earned $0.58 earnings per share.
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Ventas declared a quarterly dividend on Friday, March 20th. Investors 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 annualized dividend and a yield of 7.63%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Tuesday, March 31st.
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17 brokers have issued twelve-month price targets for Ventas' shares. Their forecasts range from $23.00 to $72.00. On average, they anticipate Ventas' stock price to reach $44.81 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 7.9% from the stock's current price.
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Media stories about VTR stock have been trending very positive recently, according to InfoTrie Sentiment. The research group identifies negative and positive news coverage by monitoring more than six thousand news and blog sources. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Ventas earned a coverage optimism score of 4.0 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned media coverage about the real estate investment trust a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent news coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the next few days.
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Ventas saw a drop in short interest in the month of July. As of July 31st, there was short interest totaling 10,410,000 shares, a drop of 14.2% from the July 15th total of 12,130,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 4,040,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 2.6 days. Approximately 2.8% of the company's shares are short sold.
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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 a variety of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings Inc. (1.04%), Prudential PLC (0.54%), Russell Investments Group Ltd. (0.42%), Swiss National Bank (0.42%), Principal Financial Group Inc. (0.18%) and UBS Group AG (0.17%). 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.
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VTR stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Raymond James & Associates, Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings Inc., UBS Group AG, NN Investment Partners Holdings N.V., NN Investment Partners Holdings N.V., Victory Capital Management Inc., American Financial Group Inc., and SG Americas Securities LLC.
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VTR stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Russell Investments Group Ltd., Prudential PLC, State of Alaska Department of Revenue, Duality Advisers LP, Principal Financial Group Inc., First Trust Advisors LP, Rafferty Asset Management LLC, and Nisa Investment Advisors LLC.
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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 $41.52.

Ventas has a market capitalization of $15.49 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]