With 2.22 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 3.24 million shares. During the session, the REIT – Healthcare Facilities company that operates in wider Real Estate sector, reached to the highest price of $68.99 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $68.345. The 52-week range on VTR shows that it touched its highest point at $71.36 and its lowest point at $42.62 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $75.67. With its current market cap of 30.73 billion, VTR has annualized dividend of $1.48 while the current yield stands at 2.16%. VTR paid its most recent dividend on 1743379200, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1743379200. Beta for the stock currently stands at 0.97.
Price Performance and Earnings:
Stock performance is one of the indicators that investors use to determine whether they will profit from a stock. The price performance of VTR was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 1.15%, but this was up by 1.15% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 15.09% while six-month performance rose 5.78%. The stock gained 59.60% in the past year, while it has gained 16.17% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for VTR yields 0.19 with Next year EPS estimates of 0.80. For the next quarter, that number is 0.10. This implies an EPS growth rate of 200.00% for this year and 40.35% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 72.19% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of -30.13%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 437.08 million VTR shares are outstanding with a float of 435.52 million shares on hand for trading. On 2025-03-31, short shares totaled 8.0 million, which was 183.0 higher than short shares on 1740700800. In addition to Ms. Debra A. Cafaro as the firm’s Chairman & CEO, Mr. Robert F. Probst serves as its Executive VP & CFO.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.99988997 of VTR’s outstanding shares, institutional investors have minority control over the company.
An Overview of Recent Financials:
Understanding a company as a customer does not mean you will understand it as an investor. The wise investor uses quantitative research to analyze metrics such as revenue, net income, and earnings. In its fiscal quarter reported on 2024-12-31, VTR reported revenue of $1287057000.0 and operating income of $195794000.0. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was $480476000.0 and diluted EPS was $nan.
Analysts Ratings:
Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for VTR since 11 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 8 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 2 believe that the stock is worth HOLDING, 1 give it an OVERWEIGHT rating, and 0 thinks that it’s UNDERWEIGHT. In the same way, a target price assigned to a stock can also reveal much about its potential. With VTR analysts setting a high price target of 84.0 and a low target of 68.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 75.63158. Based on these targets, VTR could surge 22.79% to reach the target high and fall by -0.6% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 10.56% from current levels.
EPS: Estimates vs Actual
It is also common to use earnings estimates to evaluate a firm’s growth potential and to determine trading strategy. Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $0.10231 being high and $0.09973956 being low. For VTR, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $0.10167. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $0 and the low estimate is $0. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $0.
