NYSE:WELL - Welltower Stock Price, Forecast & News

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

Welltower announced a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, February 12th. Shareholders of record on Monday, February 24th will be given a dividend of $0.87 per share on Friday, February 28th. This represents a $3.48 annualized dividend and a yield of 3.97%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Friday, February 21st. View Welltower's Dividend History.

Welltower Inc (NYSE:WELL) posted its earnings results on Wednesday, February, 12th. The real estate investment trust reported $0.55 earnings per share for the quarter, beating analysts' consensus estimates of $0.30 by $0.25. The real estate investment trust earned $1.26 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $1.25 billion. Welltower had a net margin of 24.07% and a return on equity of 8.07%. The company's quarterly revenue was up 1.7% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the previous year, the business posted $0.27 EPS. View Welltower's Earnings History.

Welltower is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, May 5th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for Welltower.

Welltower updated its FY20 earnings guidance on Wednesday, February, 12th. The company provided earnings per share guidance of $4.20-4.30 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus EPS estimate of $4.29.

12 analysts have issued 1-year price targets for Welltower's stock. Their forecasts range from $71.00 to $93.00. On average, they expect Welltower's stock price to reach $85.12 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 3.0%. View Analyst Price Targets for Welltower.

12 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Welltower in the last year. There are currently 6 hold ratings and 6 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for Welltower.

Press coverage about WELL stock has trended somewhat positive on Wednesday, InfoTrie Sentiment reports. InfoTrie rates the sentiment of press coverage by reviewing more than six thousand news and blog sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of public 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 0.7 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave news coverage about the real estate investment trust a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent press coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the company's share price in the next several days. View News Stories for Welltower.

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Welltower's stock is owned by many different of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include State Street Corp (6.69%), Cohen & Steers Inc. (5.77%), FMR LLC (2.42%), Principal Financial Group Inc. (2.24%), Daiwa Securities Group Inc. (1.63%) and Charles Schwab Investment Management Inc. (1.30%). 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 State Street Corp, Cohen & Steers Inc., Prudential Financial Inc., Russell Investments Group Ltd., BNP PARIBAS ASSET MANAGEMENT Holding S.A., Hexavest Inc., Renaissance Technologies LLC and Daiwa Securities Group Inc.. 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 acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Heitman Real Estate Securities LLC, Brookfield Public Securities Group LLC, Duff & Phelps Investment Management Co., Principal Financial Group Inc., Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings Inc., California Public Employees Retirement System and Duality Advisers LP. 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 $87.74.

Welltower has a market capitalization of $36.00 billion and generates $5.12 billion in revenue each year. The real estate investment trust earns $1.23 billion in net income (profit) each year or $4.16 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]