NYSE:WELLWelltower Stock Price, Forecast & News

Welltower's stock was trading at $56.49 on March 11th, 2020 when COVID-19 reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Since then, WELL stock has decreased by 10.3% and is now trading at $50.67. View which stocks have been most impacted by Coronavirus.

18 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Welltower in the last year. There are currently 2 sell ratings, 9 hold ratings and 7 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View analyst ratings for Welltower.

Welltower is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, July 29th 2020. View our earnings forecast for Welltower.

Welltower Inc (NYSE:WELL) issued its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, May, 6th. The real estate investment trust reported $1.02 EPS for the quarter, beating the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $1.01 by $0.01. The real estate investment trust earned $1.26 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $1.28 billion. Welltower had a net margin of 24.71% and a return on equity of 8.51%. The business's quarterly revenue was down 1.1% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter last year, the company earned $0.71 earnings per share. View Welltower's earnings history.

Welltower declared a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, May 6th. Shareholders of record on Tuesday, May 19th will be given a dividend of $0.61 per share on Thursday, May 28th. This represents a $2.44 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 4.82%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Monday, May 18th. View Welltower's dividend history.

18 brokerages have issued twelve-month target prices for Welltower's stock. Their forecasts range from $42.00 to $93.00. On average, they anticipate Welltower's share price to reach $62.69 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 23.7% from the stock's current price. View analysts' price targets for Welltower.

Press coverage about WELL stock has been trending extremely negative this week, InfoTrie Sentiment reports. The research group identifies positive and negative press coverage by analyzing more than six thousand blog and news 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 media sentiment score of -4.0 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned headlines about the real estate investment trust a news buzz of 1.0 out of 10, indicating that recent press coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the company's share price in the next few days. View the latest news aboutWelltower.

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

Welltower's stock is owned by a variety of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include BlackRock Inc. (10.37%), Cohen & Steers Inc. (8.25%), State Street Corp (6.50%), Geode Capital Management LLC (1.95%), Morgan Stanley (1.56%) and Principal Financial Group Inc. (1.42%). Company insiders that own Welltower stock include 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 Wells Fargo & Company MN, Principal Financial Group Inc., PGGM Investments, Invesco Ltd., Federated Hermes Inc., Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan Chase & Co., and Cbre Clarion Securities LLC. View insider buying and selling activity for Welltower.

WELL stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Cohen & Steers Inc., Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings Inc., UBS Group AG, Cullen Capital Management LLC, Deutsche Bank AG, Prudential PLC, Nuveen Asset Management LLC, and Waddell & Reed Financial Inc.. View insider buying and selling activity 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 $50.67.

Welltower has a market capitalization of $21.15 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.

The official website for Welltower is 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]