WELLWelltower
Is it safe?
No red flags in what's measurable: insiders buying, comfortable debt (AA), and steady price behavior.
Insiders were net buyers (+$2.4M, 90 days to Oct 8, 2026). SEC Form 4 filings: officers and directors must report their own trades within two business days.
Rock-solid balance sheet, low leverage. A rule of thumb on leverage, not a credit rating.
Relatively steady, low volatility. Worst drawdown -63% · now 13% below its 52-week high.
Against the whole market›
Percentile against every name Ryufin tracks. Higher is better; the tick marks the middle of the market. Context, not one of the checks above.
Where this answer is blind. Altman sits structurally low for utilities and pipelines; Beneish runs high for fast growers, since sales growth alone lifts it; banks and REITs are excluded.
Can WELL take a bad year?
Welltower carries $13.2B of net debt at 7.01× EBITDA: a heavy load to carry through a bad year.
Net debt · as at Q1 2026 · over four years of earnings before interest, tax and depreciation, heavy
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 7.01×
Net debt / EBITDA · 5.24× a year ago · the load is going up
- Cash runway
- 0.7 years
Cash runway · burning $1.61B a quarter at the current rate
- Annualised volatility
- 23%
Annualised volatility · about as steady as the market itself
Details›
- Total debtQ1 2026
- $17.9B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $4.70B
- Net debt
- $13.2B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $1.89B
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- −$333M
- Debt / equity
- 0.41×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 9.50×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 23%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −63%
- Below its 52-week high
- 13%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
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