NYSE:WELL - Welltower Stock Price, News & Analysis

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

Welltower declared a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, July 31st. Shareholders of record on Thursday, August 15th will be given 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 is Wednesday, August 14th. View Welltower's Dividend History.

Welltower Inc (NYSE:WELL) released its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, July, 31st. The real estate investment trust reported $0.34 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $1.04 by $0.70. The real estate investment trust earned $1.32 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate 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% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the previous year, the firm earned $1.00 EPS. 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 issued an update on its FY19 earnings guidance on Wednesday, July, 31st. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of $4.10-4.20 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus earnings per share estimate of $4.19.

13 brokers have issued 1-year price targets for Welltower's stock. Their predictions range from $71.00 to $91.00. On average, they expect Welltower's share price to reach $80.2270 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 10.3%. View Analyst Price Targets for Welltower.

13 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Welltower in the last year. There are currently 6 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 positive recently, InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis reports. The research group rates the sentiment of press 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 closest to five being the most favorable. Welltower earned a coverage optimism score of 0.8 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave news coverage about the real estate investment trust a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, indicating that recent press coverage is extremely likely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the near future. View News Stories for Welltower.

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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), Pfizer (PFE), Cisco Systems (CSCO), Realty Income (O) and Omega Healthcare Investors (OHI).

Welltower's stock is owned by a number of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include Vanguard Group Inc. (12.81%), BlackRock Inc. (10.17%), Cohen & Steers Inc. (6.44%), Daiwa Securities Group Inc. (1.79%), Northern Trust Corp (1.72%) and Wells Fargo & Company MN (1.56%). 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 purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Nuveen Asset Management LLC, Vanguard Group Inc., BlackRock Inc., Morgan Stanley, Northern Trust Corp, Cohen & Steers Inc., Schafer Cullen Capital Management Inc and California Public Employees Retirement System. 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, Scottrade, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of WELL stock can currently be purchased for approximately $89.42.

Welltower has a market capitalization of $36.24 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]