NYSE:VTR - Ventas Stock Price, Forecast & News

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

Ventas announced a quarterly dividend on Tuesday, December 10th. Shareholders 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 5.39%. The ex-dividend date is Tuesday, December 31st. View Ventas' Dividend History.

Ventas, Inc. (NYSE:VTR) issued its quarterly earnings results on Friday, October, 25th. The real estate investment trust reported $0.23 earnings per share for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of $0.94 by $0.71. The real estate investment trust earned $983.16 million during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $935.43 million. Ventas had a net margin of 12.73% and a return on equity of 4.59%. The firm's revenue was up 5.0% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the prior year, the company 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 12-month target prices for Ventas' stock. Their forecasts range from $50.00 to $74.00. On average, they expect Ventas' share price to reach $64.78 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 10.1% 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 coverage about VTR stock has trended extremely negative on Saturday, InfoTrie Sentiment reports. The research firm identifies positive and negative news coverage by monitoring more than six thousand news and blog sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Ventas earned a media sentiment score of -4.5 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned media stories about the real estate investment trust a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, meaning that recent news coverage is extremely likely to have an impact on the company's share price in the near term. View News Stories for Ventas.

Ventas saw a increase in short interest in the month of December. As of December 31st, there was short interest totalling 6,440,000 shares, an increase of 13.4% from the December 15th total of 5,680,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 2,310,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 2.8 days. Currently, 1.7% of the company's shares are sold short. 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 institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include New York State Teachers Retirement System (0.14%), Strs Ohio (0.12%), Gateway Investment Advisers LLC (0.08%), Zurcher Kantonalbank Zurich Cantonalbank (0.07%), Nisa Investment Advisors LLC (0.06%) and State of Alaska Department of Revenue (0.04%). 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, Strs Ohio, Gateway Investment Advisers LLC, Meag Munich Ergo Kapitalanlagegesellschaft MBH and Cypress Capital Group. 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 Jaguar Listed Property LLC, Pensionfund DSM Netherlands, Hamilton Wealth LLC, State of Alaska Department of Revenue, Resource America Inc., Johanson Financial Advisors Inc., DNB Asset Management AS and Nisa Investment Advisors LLC. 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 $58.83.

Ventas has a market capitalization of $21.93 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]