NYSE:VTR - Ventas Stock Price, Forecast & News

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

Ventas declared a quarterly dividend on Tuesday, December 10th. Investors of record on Thursday, January 2nd will be paid a dividend of $0.7925 per share on Monday, January 13th. This represents a $3.17 annualized dividend and a yield of 5.42%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Tuesday, December 31st. View Ventas' Dividend History.

Ventas, Inc. (NYSE:VTR) announced its quarterly earnings results on Friday, October, 25th. The real estate investment trust reported $0.23 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing the Zacks' consensus estimate 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 return on equity of 4.59% and a net margin of 12.73%. Ventas's revenue for the quarter was up 5.0% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the previous year, the firm posted $0.99 earnings per share. View Ventas' Earnings History.

Ventas is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, February 20th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for Ventas.

Ventas will be holding an earnings conference call on Thursday, February 20th at 12:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link or dial in at Not Available.

17 brokers have issued twelve-month price targets for Ventas' shares. Their forecasts range from $50.00 to $74.00. On average, they anticipate Ventas' share price to reach $64.78 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 10.8% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Ventas.

17 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Ventas in the last year. There are currently 3 sell ratings, 12 hold ratings and 2 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for Ventas.

News headlines about VTR stock have trended extremely negative on Wednesday, InfoTrie Sentiment reports. InfoTrie rates the sentiment of news coverage by monitoring more than six thousand blog and news sources in real-time. 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 news impact score of -4.3 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave 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 impact on the stock's share price in the near term. View News Stories for Ventas.

Ventas saw a increase in short interest in the month of January. As of January 15th, there was short interest totalling 6,440,000 shares, an increase of 13.4% from the December 31st total of 5,680,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 2,290,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 2.8 days. Approximately 1.7% 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), Healthcare Realty Trust (HR), Ryman Hospitality Properties (RHP) and Sabra Health Care REIT (SBRA).

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), Altria Group (MO), Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), Exxon Mobil (XOM), Enterprise Products Partners (EPD) and Cisco Systems (CSCO).

Ventas' stock is owned by many different of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include California Public Employees Retirement System (0.83%), New York State Teachers Retirement System (0.14%), Strs Ohio (0.12%), Reinhart Partners Inc. (0.10%), Gateway Investment Advisers LLC (0.08%) and Zurcher Kantonalbank Zurich Cantonalbank (0.07%). 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 Duff & Phelps Investment Management Co., Presima Inc., Manning & Napier Group LLC, Zurcher Kantonalbank Zurich Cantonalbank, Arizona State Retirement System, Shufro Rose & Co. LLC, Strs Ohio and Gateway Investment Advisers 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 acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Reinhart Partners Inc., Jaguar Listed Property LLC, SG Americas Securities LLC, Pensionfund DSM Netherlands, Hamilton Wealth LLC, California Public Employees Retirement System, State of Alaska Department of Revenue and Resource America Inc.. 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 $58.45.

Ventas has a market capitalization of $21.79 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]