Welltower Stock Price, News & Analysis (NYSE:WELL)

Welltower trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "WELL."

Welltower announced a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, July 31st. Shareholders of record on Thursday, August 15th will be paid a dividend of $0.87 per share on Thursday, August 22nd. This represents a $3.48 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 3.89%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Wednesday, August 14th. View Welltower's Dividend History.

Welltower Inc (NYSE:WELL) posted its earnings results on Wednesday, July, 31st. The real estate investment trust reported $0.34 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of $1.04 by $0.70. The real estate investment trust had revenue of $1.32 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $1.30 billion. Welltower had a net margin of 11.98% and a return on equity of 4.62%. Welltower's revenue was up 17.2% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the prior year, the firm posted $1.00 earnings per share. View Welltower's Earnings History.

Welltower is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, October 29th 2019. View Earnings Estimates for Welltower.

Welltower updated its FY19 earnings guidance on Wednesday, July, 31st. The company provided earnings per share guidance of $4.10-4.20 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus EPS estimate of $4.19.

14 brokerages have issued 12 month price targets for Welltower's shares. Their predictions range from $71.00 to $95.00. On average, they anticipate Welltower's share price to reach $81.2270 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 9.3%. View Analyst Price Targets for Welltower.

14 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Welltower in the last year. There are currently 7 hold ratings and 7 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for Welltower.

Media coverage about WELL stock has been trending somewhat negative recently, according to InfoTrie Sentiment. InfoTrie scores the sentiment of news coverage by analyzing 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. Welltower earned a media sentiment score of -1.3 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave news 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 effect on the company's share price in the near future. View News Stories for Welltower.

Welltower saw a increase in short interest during the month of August. As of August 31st, there was short interest totalling 13,010,100 shares, an increase of 10.6% from the July 31st total of 11,758,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 2,110,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 6.2 days. Currently, 3.2% of the company's shares are short sold. View Welltower's Current Options Chain.

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Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Welltower investors own include Ventas (VTR), AT&T (T), Verizon Communications (VZ), Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), ANNALY CAP MGMT/SH (NLY), General Electric (GE), Cisco Systems (CSCO), Enterprise Products Partners (EPD), Pfizer (PFE) and Omega Healthcare Investors (OHI).

Welltower's stock is owned by a variety of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Vanguard Group Inc. (12.81%), BlackRock Inc. (10.17%), BlackRock Inc. (10.17%), Cohen & Steers Inc. (6.44%), Daiwa Securities Group Inc. (1.79%) and Northern Trust Corp (1.72%). Company insiders that own Welltower stock include Gary Whitelaw, Kenneth J Bacon, Mercedes Kerr, Shankh Mitra and Thomas J Derosa. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Welltower.

WELL stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Zimmer Partners LP, Renaissance Technologies LLC, Heitman Real Estate Securities LLC, Bank of America Corp DE, Janus Henderson Group PLC, Janus Henderson Group PLC, Prudential Financial Inc. and Invesco Ltd.. Company insiders that have sold Welltower company stock in the last year include Mercedes Kerr and Thomas J Derosa. View Insider Buying and Selling for Welltower.

WELL stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Nuveen Asset Management LLC, Vanguard Group Inc., BlackRock Inc., BlackRock Inc., Morgan Stanley, Northern Trust Corp, Cohen & Steers Inc. and Schafer Cullen Capital Management Inc. Company insiders that have bought Welltower stock in the last two years include Gary Whitelaw, Kenneth J Bacon and Shankh Mitra. View Insider Buying and Selling for Welltower.

Shares of WELL 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 WELL stock can currently be purchased for approximately $89.57.

Welltower has a market capitalization of $36.30 billion and generates $4.70 billion in revenue each year. The real estate investment trust earns $804.95 million in net income (profit) each year or $4.03 on an earnings per share basis. Welltower employs 384 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About Welltower.

The official website for Welltower is http://www.welltower.com/.

Welltower's mailing address is 4500 DORR STREET, TOLEDO OH, 43615. The real estate investment trust can be reached via phone at 419-247-2800 or via email at [email protected]