Understanding Welltower Stock Fundamentals – A Must Before Investing

By Scott Lee • Friday, July 04 10:02 • Permanent Link

Welltower logged a 1.4% change during today's morning session, and is now trading at a price of $152.77 per share. The S&P 500 index moved 1.0%. WELL's trading volume is 1,513,926 compared to the stock's average volume of 3,109,501.

Welltower trades -9.25% away from its average analyst target price of $168.35 per share. The 20 analysts following the stock have set target prices ranging from $145.0 to $240.0, and on average have given Welltower a rating of buy.

If you are considering an investment in WELL, you'll want to know the following:

Welltower's current price is 254.8% above its Graham number of $43.06, which implies that at its current valuation it does not offer a margin of safety
Welltower has moved 43.5% over the last year, and the S&P 500 logged a change of 12.8%
Based on its trailing earnings per share of 1.76, Welltower has a trailing 12 month Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio of 86.8 while the S&P 500 average is 29.3
WELL has a forward P/E ratio of 83.9 based on its forward 12 month price to earnings (EPS) of $1.82 per share
Its Price to Book (P/B) ratio is 2.93 compared to its sector average of 1.94
Welltower Inc. (NYSE: WELL), an S&P 500 company, is one of the world's preeminent residential wellness and healthcare infrastructure companies.
Based in Toledo, the company has 685 full time employees and a market cap of $99.9 Billion. Welltower currently returns an annual dividend yield of 1.8%.

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