GuruFocus - On June 4, 2024, Kenneth Bacon, a Director at Welltower Inc (NYSE:WELL), executed a sale of 1,800 shares of the company at a price of $103.91 per share. This transaction was documented in an SEC Filing. Following this transaction, the insider now owns 14,579 shares of Welltower Inc.
Welltower Inc operates as a real estate investment trust (REIT) that primarily invests in healthcare infrastructure. The company's portfolio includes a range of properties such as senior housing, post-acute communities, and outpatient medical properties.
Over the past year, the insider transaction history at Welltower Inc shows a total of 0 insider buys and 1 insider sell, including the recent transaction by the insider.
Shares of Welltower Inc were trading at $103.91 on the day of the transaction, giving the company a market cap of approximately $62.79 billion. The price-earnings ratio of the stock stands at 129.64, significantly above both the industry median of 16.925 and the company's historical median.
The stock's valuation according to the GF Value is set at $90.34, indicating that with a current price of $103.91, Welltower Inc is considered Modestly Overvalued with a price-to-GF-Value ratio of 1.15.
The GF Value is calculated based on historical trading multiples such as the price-earnings ratio, price-sales ratio, price-book ratio, and price-to-free cash flow, along with a GuruFocus adjustment factor based on past returns and growth, and future business performance estimates from Morningstar analysts.
This recent sale by the insider may provide investors with context on the insider's perspective of the stock's current valuation and future prospects.
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