Ventas Inc (NYSE: VTR) – Time For Strategy Change?

Ventas Inc (NYSE:VTR) currently has a daily average trading volume of 3.06M but it saw 5569315 shares traded in last market. With a market cap of 31.26B USD, the company’s current market price of $69.60 came rising about 0.30 while comparing to the previous closing price of $69.39. In past 52 weeks, the stock remained buoying in the range of price level as high as $71.04 and as low as $41.19. In the recent trading on the day, stock has struck highest price mark of $69.175 while lowest mark touched by it was $71.35.

Taking a look at 20-day trading activity of Ventas Inc (VTR) gives us an average price of $67.93, while its current price level is -2.03% below from 52-week high level whereas it is 68.96% above from lowest level seen by the stock during that period. Simple moving average of 50 days or SMA-50 of the stock’s closing price is $65.66 while that of 200 days or SMA-200 reads an average of $61.25. A closer look into the stock’s movement over the week reveals that its volatility is standing at 2.03% during that period while stretching the period over a month that increases to 2.11%. It is also necessary to take a look into other indicators of a stock too, to get a better idea about its price movement. And in doing so, we find stock’s 14-day relative strength index (RSI) standing at 62.89 which implies that the stock is in neutral territory.

Robert W. Baird upgraded its recommendation for the stock as a “Outperform” from “Neutral” on January 17, 2025 while assigning a price target range of $66-$65. Wells Fargo also issued its recommendations for the stock as it upgraded the price target for the stock in the range of between $61 and $71.

Over the week, VTR’s stock price is moving 2.40% up while it is -1.23% when we observe its performance for the past one month. Year-to-date it is 18.19% up and over the past year, the stock is showing an upside performance of 63.82%.

The company is expected to be releasing its next quarterly report on 2025-Feb-11, for which analysts forecasted an EPS of 0 while estimate for next year EPS is 0.47. In next quarter, company is expected to be making quarterly sales of $1.34B as analysts are expecting the sales for current fiscal year at $5.42B and seeing the company making $5.82B in sales next year. Moreover, analysts are in estimates of $1.32B for current-quarter revenue.

Currently, Ventas Inc’s total number of outstanding shares is 437.08M with 0.57% of that held by the insiders while 99.76% of its common stock has been owned by the institutions. Company’s return on investment (ROI) stands at 0.36% and return on equity (ROE) at 0.80%. It has a price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) of 365.55 while having a 88.32 of forward P/E ratio. Stock’s beta reads 0.98. Stock has a price to book (P/B) ratio of 2.82 while price to sale or P/S ratio amounts to 6.35. Its return on asset (ROA) is 0.32% on average.