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 (WHO). Since then, VTR stock has decreased by 6.8% and is now trading at $35.39. 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) released its quarterly earnings results on Friday, May, 8th. The real estate investment trust reported $0.97 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $0.89 by $0.08. The real estate investment trust earned $1.01 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations 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 quarter in the previous year, the firm posted $0.35 earnings per share. View Ventas' earnings history.

Ventas announced a quarterly dividend on Friday, March 20th. Shareholders 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 8.96%. The ex-dividend date is Tuesday, March 31st. View Ventas' dividend history.

16 equities research analysts have issued 1-year price targets for Ventas' stock. Their forecasts range from $23.00 to $72.00. On average, they anticipate Ventas' stock price to reach $44.80 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 26.6% from the stock's current price. View analysts' price targets for Ventas.

Media coverage about VTR stock has been trending negative this week, InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis reports. The research group ranks the sentiment of news coverage by monitoring more than six thousand news and blog sources. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Ventas earned a media sentiment score of -2.1 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave press 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 near term. View the latest news about Ventas.

Ventas saw a drop in short interest during 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 volume of 4,770,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 2.3 days. Currently, 2.9% of the company's stock are short sold. View Ventas' Current Options Chain.

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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 shareholders 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, and Pensionfund Sabic. View insider buying and selling activity for Ventas.

VTR stock was purchased 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 $35.39.

Ventas has a market capitalization of $13.20 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]